Ha loves his teacher

Last night, ha told me that he wished he could still be in the first grade class next year, so he could still be in his teacher, Mrs. Bartlett's class.

It was his teacher's first year of teaching life, and she is a very caring and creative teacher. Ha was a shy person and was slow at doing his work. For open ended question or projects, he could sit there for very long and didn't know how to start it because he didn't want to give the wrong answer even though we told him that there's no wrong answer. However, he did good at spelling test or math test when there are exact answers. He was not sharp at writing because he didn't know what to write about. He's different, but he is not a troublemaker at all. In kindergarten, he seldomly spoke to other kids, but fortunately, he had a good teacher, Mr. Watson, and she helped him to go through the kindergarten, and the school did a great job in terms of arranging the teacher for his first grade class.

The first day of first grade class, Ha went home happily because he told me that he knew his teacher. Mrs. Bartlett was helping out in his kindergarten class before. Ha was happy to go to the school every day and never complained anything at school even though it was not easy to get him to do his homework at home. Mrs. Bartlett noticed that Ha was happy when he was with Ben at the beginning of the semester, so she arranged for them to sit together, and they became good friends. They and the other 2 boys usually played together during recess time, and they cared for each other, too. Ha told me that Ben went to Mrs. Bartlett when Ha's second tooth waggled hard, and Ha went to Mrs. Bartlett when that tooth was pulled out.

His teacher has a high-tech background, and she had worked for Apple and HP before she became a teacher, so she was good at science projects or experiments, and Ha liked those, too. He really enjoyed his school days. His teacher also made good use of all the resources to help the kids being successful. Ha was not reading well at the beginning of the semester, and he needed to sound out every word before he could say them. Mrs. Bartlett let him go to the reading club, and now, his reading speed had improved a lot since then. I was surprised that a kid can change so big in a year. She also recommends Ha to go to the summer session for a month, so he can have a better foundation for the second grade. I prayed that God will prepare a good teacher for Ha in second grade!