THANKS FOR THE SWEET MEMORIES 1I

1I, sorry for the late posting =(

Anyway, just want to say thanks for

the sweet memories in teaching your class!

All the best for the coming exams!

Remember that it is not the result that matters at times

but whether you have given your best!

Give your best in all that you do so that you can fulfill your true potential!

God bless U!

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1A THUMBS UP

1A THUMBS UP

Here are some of the creative Thumb art designs done up by 1A

Sorry I could not add in very one of your design. =)

Just want to encourage each of you that you have a creative spirit in you.

I am truly blessed by your wonderful art pieces!

Therefore, continue to bless others with your creativeness!

I need help!

I NEED HELP!!!!

In our lessons on cyber-wellness, we will teach the youths to be careful when they chat with people online. Do not be sweet-talked by their online "friends" and make themselves vulnerable physcially and emotionally.

Personally, I find that when we are in our teenage years, we are in a period of discovering who we are: our identify, talents, strengths and weaknesses. During this period of seeking, we are receptive to new ideas and people.

Friends to us are important as we feel that they are an important part of our identify. More friends you have means you are popular. Peer acceptance is very important. Yet out of it will come negative peer pressure when we just blindly follow the crowd.

At the same time, we no longer just take and accept whole-sale the values that our parents or teachers have taught us.

We are testing them out and at times may even "discard" the values taught as we feel that they are no longer relevant to us in this new generation. We want to have the freedom to make our own decisions and to run our own lives. Conflicts with authourity figures (parents and teachers) become common.

I think it is always good to be balance during this roller-coaster ride of self-discovery . During the HIGHS, we may feel ourselves going overboard and enjoying the freedom and forgetting the responsibility.

During the LOWS, we may feel confused, insecure or vulnerable. Mistakes are made and failures are encountered.

A wonderful way to help us strike balance is to have MENTORS around us to guide us.

MENTORS are more than friends! They are our coaches!

Like friends, mentors encourage us when we are down and appreciate us for just being who we are.

Yet they are more than friends. They are willingly to speak the truth into our lives and point out the weaknesses we have even though this may make us unpopular with us. Yet they do not criticize us to cut us down. They speak the truth in love in the hope that we will be build up through our failures to become the man or woman we should be and achieve our full potential.

MENTORS understand us ! They have been through it before!
In fact, they understand what we are going through because

they have walked the same journey before us. They are our pace-setter. They will share their secrets of their success so that we will be more successful! They will also share their past failures with us openly so that we can learn from their mistakes and avoid making the same ones.

Guess what. We do not just need mentors during the teenage years. We need them for life : to guide us through our JC, poly or university days, army daze, love of our life, career, wedding, marriage and father-hood or mother-hood.

What to do?

Are you encouraged by me and you want to find a mentor? Let me teach you 2 simple steps:

Step 1: I want to be help!

We cannot be helped until we want to be help.

Therefore, the 1st step to admit that we need help.

Step 2: I want U!

Go and look for a mentor. Start a Treasure hunt around your life now.

There are people around you that will make wonderful mentors.

Eg.. Parents, teachers, CCA seniors and the list go on.

Hope you take these 2 simple steps and

enter into a wonderful time of discovering who U R

together with your mentors!

OLE! OLE! OLE! 1A

OLE! OLE! OLE! 1A
Long overdue thanksgiving to 1A!
Thanks for your joy and love during the lessons!
Always look forward to teaching your class.
Remember 3b message : U R Precious!
Know that each of U are unique & special!
Work with your parents and teachers to discover who u R!

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Treasure Hunt!

TREASURE HUNT

Life can have its unexpected ups and downs.
We must treasure every moment of our lives as if it is the last.
We must treasure people in our lives for we may not know what tommorow may hold.

I just came back from a company camp and got a shocking news. One of my Sec 1 students died suddenly last Thursday. This got me into thinking about treasuring people around us. We may complain about them or take them for granted.

Recently, I heard someone asks me this question :How do I treat the people around me? Do I treat them as

1. Background people

We do not know them and they are faces in the crowd

2. Function people

We only talk to them when they have perform a function on us. Eg. bus driver or teacher.

3. Relation people

We are interested to know them and want to build meaningful relationship with them.

Honestly, I find that I can be a very functional person and has a tendacy to relate to people because there is a task or job to do. There are also times when I get so focused on the task at hand that I do not consider the feelings of people. Though the job may be completed successfully, the people around me may not feel appreciated.

Therefore, it will be good for me to constantly remind myself to see every person that I come across as unique & special and learn to relate to them as a person rather than ignore them or treat them as tools to be used.

Let go on a TREASURE HUNT for the whole of next week!

=> Think of a person we are always in contact with. Eg Parents, teachers or classmates, colleagues.

=> Make effort to get to know him or her beyond just a face you see daily or beyond the role he or she play in our lives.

=> Discover and be enriched by the hidden treasures that are in his or her life!

GIFTS FOR TEACHERS ON TEACHERS' DAY

Today is 1 September and we celebrate it as Teachers' Day! Therefore, here wishing all the teachers out there a Happy Teachers' Day!

What was the gift you gave to your teachers?

In the morning, I attended a National Christian Teachers' Conference and the speakers was really inspiring! One of them shared that as teachers, we are to be CARING PEOPLE and if he could give gifts to the teachers at the conference, he will give these :

Teachers use a band-aid to heal the hurts and pain of their students so that they can stand up once again in confidence and trust.

Teachers can also use the tissues to wipe the tears and provide comfort to the students whenever they are overwhelmed by adverse situations.

Teachers can use the eraser to "erase" our students' mistakes from the records in our hearts and forgive them readily. Love is patient and keeps no record of wrong.

Teachers can use this to add colours to our students' lives and work together with them to paint a master-piece out of their lives!

Think of a teacher or mentor who has impacted your life.

What gift would you bless him or her with as a thanksgiving for his or her impact in your life?

Share your thanksgiving to them in by

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