弟弟's Kindy Graduation Concert 2013

It's the second time 弟弟 is graduating from kindy :P and this time at a different kindy compared to the previous years. It's only because he'd completed the Flip-TEC program and still have another year to go before Year 1, that we got him into this Smart program (which not smart at all from our experience).

Since they charge parents RM90 per person for those going as they supply buffet lunch, only 爸爸 is going. It's at G Hotel. Good thing we didn't all go, as the performance looks pretty boring to me compared to the efforts by his previous kindy.

Here is his first dance, it's an old Chinese song from the 90's. He's just sitting around and waving his arms. I really couldn't believe the teachers had forced him and his classmates to go 30 minutes early everyday for the past 2 months just to train them to sit around and wave arms.


The next one he had a part in is the graduation ceremony. He got a consolation prize for English storytelling and the graduation trophy (seems like prizes were distributed to all the kids). He told us the ambition is selected by teacher (he said he told teacher he wanted to be engineer but teacher say cannot use that, what!!!), they seem to not give the kids a chance to be themselves.


Last dance called "Sayang". Again more sitting around and waving. Some walking around the stage towards the end. 弟弟 didn't even swing much to the music at the latter part, even though some of his classmates did.

His graduation photo folder

As for his kindy progress, seems like he is doing well. Throughout the year, there were stories in 3 languages that he had to present in class, BM pantun, English story and Mandarin story (I only video'ed the BM pantun as he is not willing to repeat the stories for us after he presented). We don't know if teacher does revision with them or how the tests/assessments were conducted. Again they were not given the books back to revise before exam. Anyway, this center tried to be advance to teach 6 years old the Year 1 syllabus for Maths and Science in Mandarin. However their teacher is not trained properly and she keep misleading the kids with wrong answers, even for test. How do we know? They took the questions directly from the workbook that 姐姐 used in school and she spotted the wrong answer right away :P I just pray they did not muddle up my boy's brains in the one year he spent here :(