Eya's 2nd Day at Summer School

Eya's second day at summer playschool was definitely better. I saw several improvements.

START OF CLASS

Eya properly fell in line with the other kids and followed Teacher Owen. I thought she would no longer look for me. Once inside the classroom though, she started crying and calling for me. Oh dear, so I sat in again.

MAKING MONKEY MASK

Eya was able to sit longer at the table with the kids this time. The time that she gets up was lessened. She did not want to touch the glue though, so I had to glue the mask for her. Once glued, she was game at 'designing' the mask, meaning writing on it, and I had to stop her because it would no longer look like a monkey with too much strokes on it.

SNACK TIME

As with the previous activity, Eya was able to sit longer at the table during snack time. She was also able to eat and drink more. She did not finish her snacks, again, because as with the previous day, she again got distracted with toys and crayons. So she went off with the 'toddlers gang' to explore.

STORYTELLING TIME

Eya paid more attention to the story told today. It was about animals and it was more colorful than the book read yesterday. Whenever the teacher would as, "Where's the giraffe?" or "Where's the panda?" Eya would go near to 'investigate.' She was attracted by the colorful and big pictures. I hope they continue to tell such stories to encourage the toddlers to pay more attention.

NAP TIME

Nap time was a riot for the 'toddlers gang' again. Eya did not even go near the rubber mats this time. She spent the whole of nap time doing the following: jumping, walking around the room, chatting with Angelica in their own toddlers' 'slang,' doodling with colored pentel pens on paper, browsing through books, shrieking with laugher, whirling around and round, laughing and bonding with the teachers, eating biscuits and drinking milk, trying to sneak out to the playground, trying to open the door, 'picking' at the doorknob, attempting to do somersaults, lying face-down on the floor when nobody's looking (or so she thought hehehe), looking for daddy and saying, "hug daddy," and drinking water. What a nap time! Even Angelica was impatient for the others to wake up. She thought the others had slept for too long.

When the lights came on, the toddlers shrieked with delight. Eya was repeatedly saying, "dance tayo!" (Let's dance!)

PASS THE BALL

I thought Eya would be disappointed because they did not do the action songs that they did yesterday. She was so looking forward to dancing, and she knew that this was supposed to happen after napping.

But she so enjoyed the Pass-the-Ball activity! She stayed within the circle the whole activity, and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought she'd ran off again to do other things. There were times though that she'd rather hug the ball than pass it to the next one. But she did not complain when it was taken from her by the one sitting next to her. She could not understand yet that when the music stops and she has the ball, she has to do the consequence like jumping or shaking her body several times, so a teacher had to assist her. But all in all, she was able to adjust well to the activity. She even clapped when it was finished, like what she did after they did the action songs yesterday.

PLAY TIME!

It was time to line up for playground time, and Eya was all fidgety in her excitement. She jumped and shrieked with joy the moment they went out the door. As with yesterday, she enjoyed herself very much. She was all dusty, but very happy. After playing with her favorites, the slide and swing, several times, she discovered the mini tunnel under the slide and she enjoyed crawling on fours and getting dirty inside it. One of the teachers said that she was the first in the group to discover that mini tunnel. And I guess she'd be the only one to fit in there as well. The area was pretty much 'hers.'

TIME TO GO

And then it was time to go home. After washing and changing clothes, Eya was impatient to see her dad. She was repeatedly asking me where her daddy was and I had to explain several times that he was on his way to fetch us.

Well, second day went well. And I hope the next days are even better.