6yo Nigel Png says

Nigel Png's request, he has a very organized personality.

"Teacher Esther, pls put you chilli chop chop here!"
Hmm, I think my student is very serious about how much credit I give him ;p

Here's our MARK!

Abbi Thio 10yo, originally uploaded by xterlim.

Finally I'd submitted 82 pieces of artwork created by my students including ourselves! Too bad James and Augustine were absent as they couldn't meet the dateline. Nevertheless, I will try to get more fun art activities and projects for my little artists! Once again, I want to thank YOLO - Edna and Kevin Thio for rewarding each artist a free T-Shit for their contribution! Here's our participation! We'd lots of fun working on these dots! ;p I'd even recorded the sound of their working markers! I'm sure the children were enjoying themselves during the dotting session!

12yo Evangelyne "nags"...

After a week from PSLE, Evangelyn came back to do her dots work... during her working process, she was full of complains! The funny thing was, Siaosiang stopped "humming" when she was nagging... and Claire was doing her work quietly as usual... Well, we just let her nagged... probably, it's the only time to release her stress from her PSLE exam ;)

4yo Shayna says...

4yo Shayna refused to colour the gaps that she told me she was going to, then I put my hands on my waists and looked at her, and she went, " Teacher Esther, are you pretending to be angry??!!" Gosh, I didn't expect she would said that! I told her, " Yes, Teacher is very angry if you don't do your work properly," "Oh yes Teacher Esther, you are pretending to be angry! Hehehe!" When I show her how others did their work, there she followed :) Oh Shayna ah Shayna :s

Keep The Dream Alive Prize Prsentation 11 July 2009

An exciting and a very happy day for all my students who had won awards for the YOLO Keep The Dream Alive Art Competition. I purposely took a day off from my regular art classes just for this very important event. I was there to support and hearty congrats my students as well as Joeel and Janice who had won themselves Merit Awards for their category. On Aimee and Agasthya's behalf, I also represented them to collect Aimee's 3rd prize and Agasthya's Merit Award as they're both away for Summer Holidays and they're not in Singapore. Alternatively, I saw many happy faces of my winning entries students and smiles from their parents and thankful congrats from the organizers who had made this a meaningful charity and exciting art competition a dream come true for all ages artists and donors! Always Keep the Dream Alive! You Only Live Once! I find this theme very meaningful too ;) Cheers!

P.S. : For those who didn't win any prize from this art competition, do not give up, have faith in yourselves in whatever things you do children! It is part of growing up! Cheers! T.Esther

Joeel and Janice won merit awards for their category too!!!

CONGRATULATION Maplewoods!
Merit award: Shankar Agasthya for Children Category 1
3rd Prize: Aimee Ericha Scheurmann for Children Category 2
Teacher Esther represented Aimee and Agasthya for their prize receiving as they were both not in Singapore.

CONGRATULATION Calrose!
Merit Award: Ethan Chan, Dylan Ng and Prudence Chan for Children Category 1

CONGRATULATION Lakeview!
Merit Award: Looi SiaoSi and Wong Tein Foong
for Children Category 2
Though Looi SiaoSiang, Kenny Tan and Wu Jianli didn't win any award for this competition but I'm happy for their result already because they'd participating and contributing their love for art!

CONGRATULATION Crestar!
Winners of Children Category 1:
1st Prize: Wong Yew Ki
3rd Prize: Samantha Teo Xing Yee
Merit Award: Ashley Khoo Li-Ann, Darren Marcus Loo, Joel Preston Gn Yong Grn, Melody Lin
Winners of Children Category 2:
2nd Prize: James Sng Jia Hong
Merit Award: Chan Yi Bin, Goh Sher Hwyn Rebacca, Racheal Butt Jia En

Channel U interview Teacher Esther Today!

Channel U came and interviewed Teacher Esther today! I was pretty nervous at first but I realised I was not!? Because my mind was with my students' art making in the class! They came in when my class just started, so it was kind of multi- tasking for me. Mr Chew (TCS actor) came and interviewed me, he's the host or producer of the show. He helped me a lot in Mandarin speaking program, and interpret my meanings in more proper sentences... thanks to him else I would rather be speaking English instead! ;p Well, lots of NG, but luckily Mr. Chew and his cameramen were very patience :p Hee... My lucky students are going to be in the show too! Catch them on 6th Nov08 @ Channel U 9.30pm program called Xiao Xiao Yi Shu Jia!

Bedroom Lamp 2008

A dreamy and magical lamp for their bedroom, this artwork allow them to express their imagination on the lamp and something to de-stress from hectic school and homework when it is bedtime. They took 3 lessons to complete this lamp making from sketching, tracing and makers-rendering :) Thanks to Uncle Joeel for help to assemble the bulbs and switches for the students :) Too bad, Yong Rui was absent on that day, else he will be in the photo! ;p

Art Chair 2008

A major project for this advance level class. They took estimated about 2 months in a length to complete a chair making (minus the days which I took MC and their absent for the lessons). They did a great job with just using old newspapers (only) to build their art chairs. I remember how Rachel brought the old newspapers by a pulling luggage bag and how Yanping stained his favorite dolphine printed T-shirt when he was painting his Thinking Chair...We really had a great time making these chairs :)