School Tales

My daughter has officially started going to a playschool from June 11, 2012. Here are some updates from her school front during the past one month:
--She is enthusiastic about her school, right from Day One. The enthusiasm is to such an extent that if I want to briber her to get something done from her, I say "If <>, no school tomorrow", and she does the job most of the times.

--Met her teacher one day. And she seems to be very caring and patient enough with kids. And patient enough with me also, that she replies all of even my smallest queries in my daughter's diary.

--My daughter is very eager to go by her school's mini-bus. It is a great pleasure to see the way she climbs actively on to the bus and say good-bye to me.

--Her school gives fortnightly report listing out what has been taught in school in the past 2 weeks and what is planned for the next two weeks. They also send the activity sheets done by the kids.
1st Fortnight report feedback: She is very cheerful. And enthusiastic about all the activities. Please converse with her in English.
2nd Fortnight report feedback: Excellent coloring.

And they have given around 7 activity sheets in the past two fortnights. The assistance level rating marked in all the sheets is "Nil". Those are moments of pride to see such results/feedback. Touch wood, God bless her !!!

--Her school van comes at 7.30 AM. I have to wake her up by 6.45 AM to get her ready to go the van on time. Sometimes, she feels so sleepy at that time and acts cranky for either - wearing her dress, brushing her teeth, drinking milk or taking bath. Sometimes, she demands all "Ramarajan" colours for her dress -- Green color t-shirt with green color pant...Whatever I say will not enter her mind in that cranky moment...Somehow, those days, I need to manage to get her ready and send her to school :-) Thinking of those now makes me smile, but in the mornings, it is a full-of-tension period :-)

--I put a cap on her head and asked her what is on your head? She replied "Hair". Is she right or wrong? Now, I am confused :-)

--I made her noodles for school today, and told her so. After sometime, I asked her "What will you do in school today?" for which she replied "School-a eat noodles"...As if she is going to school only to eat noodles...LOL

Will upload some photos of her craft activities at school...

The talks

A small note before we start this blog post...
My toddler has been talking complete sentences - in Telugu, in English and in Tinglish (Telugu+English), for the past few months. And, day-by-day, her talking skills seem to be increasing with her making analyses before talking something...Or in short, she has started comprehending better each day. So, on that note, here is a  list of sentences heard from my toddler in the past few days:

--Latest: Yesterday night...
Me: You should go to school tomorrow, right? It is time to sleep now.
She (after sometime when I assumed she is in the process of sleeping): Go to office amma, time to sleep.
Her Highness is instructing me that it is time to go to sleep, as I have office tomorrow :-)

--She, to her great grand-mother: "No TV now", and switches off the TV coolly.

--Me: What did you do in school today?
She: Friends-ni push-push chesthini. Teacher aunty Bad girl cheppindi (I pushed my friends and hence my Teacher aunty told that I am bad girl)
(On a positive note, I confirmed with her teacher whether she (my kid) pushes her friends. To my satisfaction, the teacher told that she does not do all that. I wonder where these kids get imagination to answer questions)

--Once, when she had temperature and puking, I had given her medicines for both (at around 11 PM). She went and told her grandparents, "Naaku neck-la hot hot undi. Mandu thaagithini" (I am having hot-hot in my neck. I drank medicine)..

--Another latest: Day-before-yesterday...
Me: Its raining...Do not go outside kanna.
She: Rain rain undi...Umbrella kaala naaku...Walk-walk go...(Rain is there. I want umbrella. Want to go walking)
She wants to implement the usage of umbrella and still go walking in the rain.

--My mom's place is duplex house. There are 2 TVs- One in the ground floor and one in the first floor. Since she was very naughty, my mom switched off the TV in the ground floor and told her that power is off and hence she cannot see TV. She replied, "Up-la current undi. Thatha on chesi" (TV is there "up" -- ie. in first floor. Thatha will switch it on). My mother could not reply anything for this answer of my daughter :-)

--My daughter was doing some activity when my grandmother had a cough while eating. The little one stopped her activity, came to her great grandmother and told "Appa thaagu, appa thaagu" (Drink water, Drink water). Sometimes, kids and elders change roles, I think :-)

Planning to update this post with more of her talks as they come by...