Great lessons at Penang Bowl

Young happy bowlers

This is one moment that children are away from the comfort of their parents. Here they learnt how to wash themselves after passing motion at the toilet and buckled their belts properly. Some learnt to order their own meals at the cafeteria, pay the money and receive the change. One even learnt how to borrow money to buy his food! A few shared their food with others because they didn't bring any money. A few got light scolding from the caretaker for munching food at the bowling alley and carrying the balls around before their turn to play, without the protection of the teachers. A few fell humpty dumpty for disobeying orders by over stepping onto the slippery bowling alley.

First time for Gabrel

They learnt determination, to out beat their friends at the bowl. They learnt discipline, to wait for their turn They imitated the steps and styles from adult players in other lanes. They are curious of the automation in arranging the pins back after been knocked down. The are fascinated on how the bowling balls could be returned to them so quickly after being thrown.It was a whole new experience for the children and a great lesson indeed.

Not bad, on the way to the pins

Strong boy Yee Sheng first experience

Yogan having  a fun time

Khoo Si Dan showing his skill

7kg ball, ah very heavy

Successful attempt

Catching up the scores

Good style for first timer

Full of actions

Hui Qin's second year at the Bowl

Birthday boy Brian Lee hit a strike!

Over step onto the bowl lane! Lucky didn't fall down.

Bowling coach

Wow, what a style, he has definitely grown up

Learning the skills at an early age

Let me show you how to bowl

A fun day at Youth Park

Crossing a bridge on arrival

Swinging

Bryan and Conie

Mei Hong sliding

Happy on the swing

Su Ming sliding down

Benjamin on slide

Adrian and Bryan

Swinging high

Mun Kit helping out

Lovely Connie

Brave Benjamin climbing up

Please push me high up

Lovely teacher

Bryan and Yi Sheng

Surya sliding

Sin Yi getting ready to slide

Here I go...

Danish climbing high

Yi Sheng sliding down

Chia Sin coming out of tunnel, teacher Kwek waiting

Children in the dome away from the wolf

Here I swing

Enjoying at baby pool

Playing in skating ring

Happy Sin Yi

Visiting places in the park

Happy children

Students and teachers 

Sing to be happy, happy to sing

Rachael with brother and close friends

When we are happy, we hum and sing. At times when we are moody, we may sing to change our mood and be happy. At our centre, we coax and encourage children to sing and repeat familiar dance move and music to change their morning mood. Not all children arrived at our centre with smiling faces. Some cried, out of lack of sleep and some may need a longer time to warm up. Music, songs and dances are very important to growing up children. They do not mind to listen to the same songs or music many times. They do not mind to sing many times especially birthday songs,  in fact they enjoy very much each time the same tune are repeated.

Happy children celebrating Rachael's birthday

 It is important to keep children happy in order to maintain a happy frame of mind for the children to learn. At times children are faced with a lot of unfinished homework, our teachers will have to be sensitive to their mood and avoid giving pressure instead giving mountains of encouragement and praises to them. If teachers were to use cane or force children by scolding, to accomplish their objectives,the children will not learn much even though the tasks are completed, because the children do not have a happy mind to learn; instead they have fear and anger in their minds.
Children know who loves them and who doesn't. It is easier to guide children when their hearts are with

Children always happy to sing birthday song

the teachers.

Rachael does not want help to cut her cake; boss of the day

Busy at work; eating

Yee Sheng stealing the show

Lets play with birthday girl

Yogan got a golden bull from a friend

Yummy, 2 kg. cake finished by the children

Getting ready to school

New looked centre

Cute happy children

A colouring lesson

Potatoes, sausages, chicken meat and prawns

Chicken and prawns wanton

It will be a mistake and reflects ignorance to assume that there are only two things to remind children before going to school; school bags and water tumblers. Teachers need to ensure they are properly bathed, bodies and hairs dried, hair combed, dressed with shirt buttons at the right holes or properly zipped and neatly dressed. Next helping them to find their socks and the right pair of shoes. Children may mix up the right or left side their shoes in their haste to wear it especially when almost all the shoes are new and similar and the children are new to their own shoes. During meal time, our teachers have to shuttle many trips between the kitchen and the meal tables in serving rice, dishes and soups as they are too young for self service and at the same time, we prevent the children from entering the kitchen. Prior to this the same teachers are subjected to mental challenges in guiding students in their school homework and keeping them happy and occupied to prevent the house from being disorder. To prevent students from falling down while walking to school, teachers volunteered to send them to school in their own cars, making many trips in a short period of time.At times some items are left behind by the children, such as pencil box, water tumbler, PJ tee shirts, exercise books and craft work. These were quickly rushed to the children at the school unless the items are hidden in corners of tuition rooms or among clothing and overlooked by our teachers. All these uses tremendous amount of physical and mental energy on the part of our teachers while they are subjected to daily scrutiny by parents. There are no short cuts to these processes, as the situations are different every day.