Moment of the Day

Today Teacher Hiew was not able to be at school. She usually gives me a ride home, so today one of the other teachers did instead. This teacher (I am blanking on her name... horrible I know) is the mother of my favorite student, Vincent, who is in one of my five year old classes.

Vincent is my favorite student because he is very well behaved and eager to learn... always. This is pretty impressive considering I always teach his class at the end of the school day. So by that time the attention span of most of the children is pretty low. However, I can always count on Vincent to set a good example. He is always sitting quietly and is very attentive. Although

he may not be the smartest kid in the class he catches on pretty quickly and works hard to learn. His English is pretty limited (as is his mom's) but we make do and do a pretty good job of understanding each other, even if it requires gestures and pointing sometimes. Since his mom is a teacher at the school he always stays late after school and if I'm not too busy grading assignments or preparing for the next day, I will play games

or read stories to him and the other children still waiting to be picked up. During my first week at the school I taught him and a few other children a high five game: Up high, to the side, down low....(pull your hand) too slow!! Vincent has worked very hard to learn how to do this... of course it was easy for him to pick up the hand movements but it took some practice for him to learn the right words to say.

Today he gave me another reason as to why he's my favorite student... I was walking out to his mom's car to go home and he put his backpack in the back seat and then hurried to open the front door of the car for me. A five year old opened a car door for me!! I definitely haven't ever had that happen before and was pretty impressed. His mom was getting into the car at the time so as far as I know she did not tell him to do this. Even though it is only 2 pm here, this most certainly made my day. How could it not?!

The pictures were taken a few weeks ago on Children's Day. All of the children decorated their own mask to wear for fun!