Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Wan Qi learns how to write her chinese name

Today, my colleague Ru Fang was complaining to me about her students not being able to write their own name at the age of seven. So the kiasu mummy decided to do something before any teacher made such a complain to me about Wan Qi.
Hence, I made a copy of Wan Qi chinese name using word document and printed 5 copies so that I can practise with her.
When I got home today, the first thing I did was to teach Wan Qi how to write her chinese name. She is very good in the sense that she can follow my instructions very well. All the heng, pieh, dian etc etc. After finishing the first name, she then proceeded to the second one. However, when she started writing the chinese character "wan", the sequence of the stroke was wrong so I ask her to write another one but she insisted on continuing the chinese character"qi" which made me very angry. I spanked her on her hand and scolded her for not listening to instruction. She was kind of shock and started to cry and she tried to say something but couldnt as she was crying. When she finally settled down, she said she was sorry.
Then I made her write another time and she followed my instruction this time and obediently wrote two more times before I rewarded with Smaties chocolate, she was overjoyed and kissed me all over.
Actually, it was quite heartbreaking to see her crying like that but I told myself that I must be stern as I wanted her to follow instructions and not to do the way she likes as I feel that in order to master the chinese language the writing sequence is also very important so that she can remember the chinese character easily. When she is bigger, she will not have much problem remembering the characters just like me.( Haha my friends used to call me a walking dictionary during my jc time.)Indeed, after listening and observing me write her name, she is able to write two times witout any mistake. Good job Wan Qi. Sorry I have to let you learn the hard way. But thats because I love you ok sweetie.

1 comment:

kkf said...

hey, i gave up liao...haha, i think i must persist on like u. good job.