Hayley's First Exam and Storytelling Contest @3y11m

Hayley has been attending nursery/kindy for more than a year now. In fact she started in this kindy since May 2017, and she is now in her Nursery 2 year.

So far we are quite pleased with her progress in this school. The teachers are comparatively young, and caring. The meals smell delicious when we send her in the morning. We can see that she picks up a lot of moral values from the lessons. And there is a good balance between academic and co-curricular activities - the school organizes incursions and excursions, and the children are so excited whenever they go for outings!

Last month, Hayley had her first ever exam. A day before the exam, I enquired from the teacher about the test syllabus and did some revision with her the night before - 1) matching uppercase letters/ lowercase letters 2) tracing alphabets 3) which animals lay eggs, 4) etc. When her teacher showed us her exam papers during Parents-Teachers Day, we were amazed! Hayley scored an almost perfect score in her first exam. She answered all the questions correctly - which was really an amazing feat considering we didn't really teach her much at home. The only lacking bit was the alphabet tracing because she is still practicing to hold her pencil correctly. All praise be to God.

A few weeks later, Hayley presented the story of "The Shepherd and The Wolf" on stage during her school's storytelling competition. Again, she stunned us during our practice sessions at home. She was so confident and could understand the story so well. We took a video and sent it to our relatives and friends, all of them were amazed that a 4-year old could memorize such a long story and present it so well with such rich facial /tonal expressions and hand gestures! The teachers really did a good job in preparing and training her.

Our wish is for our little girl to continue growing and learning happily, and at the same time enjoying her school life. Papa Mama loves you. :-)