I had my first classroom visit at KR today and my girls had their first day at CIS today. I’m sure that there were several other firsts, but I wasn’t privy to all of the goings-on of their day, so I’ll have to lump them all into that one.

I enjoyed my time in Ms. T’s classroom. It feels like it’s been such a long time since I was in a classroom, so it was exciting for me to see all of the teaching and learning. The students were using desmos (!) at the teacher’s desk – sliding a k value to show how the roots of a quadratic change when a constant value in the factored form changes. Students were able to see what the relationship was between that value and the x-intercepts. I love it when students make the connections themselves.

Some of the phrases I heard from my own offspring as we went home with them on the train: “School is fun!” “I got to take off my shoes in the classroom.” “I’m going to be in the talent show with my friend. She’s going to sing a song and I’m going to dance.” “I made a friend.” “My teacher is nice.” “Drama class was funny today!” I think it was a pretty good day today.

I’m grateful that my Filipina-American (Irish/German/English/French) daughters in Singapore could attend the Canadian International School. Does it get more international that that? 🙂 Just another reminder that we are all immigrants or children of immigrants.