5yo Justine says...

A new trail student 5yo Justine said, "Teacher Esther, I dream all the times!" I was like Oooh in my mind and asked, "What do you dream about? Cartoon?" He said, " I dream about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING!" Then I continued, "Do you dream during the day?" He replied, "Yes!" I reminded him, "Ok, please do not dream during my lesson ok!" Then he followed and agreed, "OK!" I'm thinking this child must have a BIG dream when he grows up ;)

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

Sonia Hanke says...

10yo Sonia Hanke asked, "Why are we having art class today?" I asked her why? Because your mum requested to have  art class today, that's why... She complaint, "I'm so tired today, I had another art class earlier..." I asked her where was she learning, she said, "At home!" I was giving my brother an art lesson..." I was amazed, Sonia teaches her brother ART! I asked her what did she teach him today, she replied happily, "I taught him how to draw hamsters!" in my mind, Sonia has grown up! :)

A familiar face...

Today, I saw a familiar  person who was sitting at the bench outside the public toliet where I bought my art students for outdoor drawing, we were drawing the laundry shop which located just beside the toliet. Yes, it was Uncle Henry, I observed him a little moment while my students were still drawing. He was caring for himself applying cream on his arms... I was wondering the walking stick belonged to him or the other elderly who was sitting next to him... Next few mintues, my students exclaimed they'd finished their drawings and I was goging to walk them around with their  handmade lanterns, as promise. I decided to walk to the toliet direction and greet a long time no see Uncle Henry!

"Uncle Henry! How are you??" He saw me and started to recognize me and responded me back by another "Hello!"

Then I introduced him my students and adsked them to greet him and told him about I was having holiday workshop with my students here and he was just smiling, I said goodbye to himas I had work to do... Then i carried on my walk with my little students and one of them (Regan) asked, "Teacher Esther, who is him???" I told him, "He is a friend, a very nice person..."

From the distance, I saw him looking at our direction, I was thinking, will I see Uncle Henry again? Did he really recognize me when I greeted him? He looked like he had been retired from his security guard job. I hope everything goes well on his side :)

I never know I would meet him again but I know this man helped me and my students at the Maplewoods condo before with his kind heart :)

For Melody Lin

For Melody Lin, originally uploaded by xterlim.

Melody has been a great little helper to the little ones and me Teacher Esther when it come to my kinderart class (which is her little sister Marissa's art class), now they have advance to Picasso level and Melody has also playing a good role as a Little Art Teacher too! I wanted to make this little gift just for her! HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY to my Little Art Teacher! :D

KtDA Showcase Wining Entries At The Art House!

Hi all, don't miss this exhibition!

F1 Babies! 26.09.2009

(My 6pm to 7pm Kinderart class!) This is the cutest moment I ever experienced with my little tots! They drew F1 cars with speeding background! I showed them how to paint the strippy background by introducing sound effect of the racing car when I was painting... they gave me BIG EYES looking with astonishing expression with mouth opening which I found them amazingly CUTE! They were so happy what they were going to do after my demo, they made sound effect when they were painting which made them feel excited and by doing this piece of work is really ACTION! Too bad I didn't video their "Wowing" reaction and when they were working on the paper... I was too busy paying attention on them! They are brunch of innocent little tots... a truly interesting memory to keep...

Goodbye my little friends!

This photo was taken on 29th Aug 2009. I was a relief art teacher at Chua Chu Kang Crestar for these little tots, after 4 lessons with them, I started to miss these little people already...

Agasthya's Pool Party

Agasthya couldn't wait to finish his artwork because his parents were organising a pool party just for him! It was his 8th birthday on 11th Sep 2009! Teacher Esther was invited too! Sonia and Aimee were too shy to join the fun! I must say, Raji had baked an awesome birthday cake that is very creative and delicious!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGASTHYA!

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY TO YOU!

On Monday, Prudence and Ethan's Dad bought us delicious Herbal Duck all the way from JB! Thanks for the delicious treat Mr.Chan! :D

On the actual Teacher's Day, my art students at Calrose gave me a surprise right after the art class! They sang "Happy Teacher's Day To You" in the Happy Birthday Song melody with a cute Hello Kitty Butter Cream Chocolate cake ;p I wanted to thank Li Lyn (Prudence and Ethan's Mum) for such a wonderful thought and gift for Teacher Esther ;p Thank You Very Much Children!

Dylan and Sammi made this bookmark for me ;p Guess what, it was raining cats and dogs on Teacher's Day ;p

Congrats 3rd Prize Winner Aimee and Merit Award Agasthya!

Finally the prizes had handed to the original winners, Aimee who won 3rd prize and Agasthya who won merit award for their KtDA Art Competition! Look, their friends are smiling happily for them :D Cheers!

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

OUTBACK DRAWING COMPETITION 2009

Draw your favourite Australian animal in the Singapore Zoo and stand to win $900 total worth of cash and prizes!

Date: 6 Jun 2009

Time: 8:30am – 6:00pm

Venue: Anywhere in-park

Competition is open to children 12 years and below.

Registration Fee: $3 (Normal admission fees apply)
(Participants will get a free TNCC candy sachet, while stocks last)

1st Prize: $300 Cash + Cadbury Hamper worth $100
2nd Prize: $200 Cash + Cadbury Hamper worth $100
3rd Prize: $100 Cash + Cadbury Hamper worth $100

To participate, just come down to Singapore Zoo on 6 June 2009 and sign up at our Outback Drawing Competition Booth at the Zoo entrance. Remember to bring your own drawing supplies and to submit your drawing attached with your registration form. Hurry, hop over!

KtDA RESULTS!

I'm SO HAPPY for my lucky students who had won prizes for themselves! I'd sent 80 over entries of my students's templates to the YOLO Keep the Dream Alive Art Competition! I was so surprised that I noticed a few familiar names from the results and there were 19 winners in total!

Winners of Children Category 1:
1st Prize Wong Yew Ki T****862I
3rd Prize Samantha Teo Xing Yee T****6242
Merit Award
Ashley Khoo Li-Ann T****376A
Darren Marcus Loo T****219G
Dylan Ng Zhen Hao T****080I
Ethan Chan T****638J
Jachin Thio T****636D
Janice Tan Jing Wei T****881C
Joel Preston Gn Yong Grn T****894E
Melody Lin T****604E
Prudence Chan T****677E
Shankar Agasthya G****942T

Winners of Children Category 2:
2nd Prize James Sng Jia Hong S****268Z
3rd Prize Ai Mee Ericha Scheurmann 200/u/JS/2000
Merit Award
Chan Yi Bin S****
Goh Sher Hwyn Rebacca S****733B
Looi Siao Si T****563J
Racheal Butt Jia En S****214J
Wong Tein Foong S****596B

Also, not to mention Uncle Joeel also won Merit award in Open Category for the art competition too ;p

Cheers!

Abigil's Belated Birthday! & Their Cupcakes Making

On previous Monday, my students told me they wanted cupcakes for their snack again! I think we should have a purpose to bring nice food in class and asked, "Whose birthday fall on May???" Abigil raised up her hand, "Do you want us to celebrate for you?" She nodded her head shyly... Ok, I'll bake you cupcakes for you on next Monday! The whole class cheered "Yea!!!"

Just nice, they also make mini size cupcakes from paper clay. First of all, they visualised different kind of cupcakes they want to make from the clay. The cupcakes have to look appealing and delicious!They took 3 lessons to complete this little project ;p See their cupcakes creation!

Double Bliss

Aimee's Mum called me and asked who is Yellow Octopus and where did they come from... I told her they're the Creative and Media Company, then she said Aimee has won a 3rd prize for her YOLO Keep The Dream Alive (KtDA) Art Competition! Wow! I'm so happy for Aimee!

Follow on, another line came in, this time was Kenny's Mum! She read a letter that she received from St. Andrew Autism School... Our Kenny Tan has won a Sliver award from the Youth Challenge Art Competition for his Cherry Blossom Tree painting in oil! Well done Kenny!

It was really a double bliss for me today ;D Cheers!

"REFLECTION" A PHOTO COMPETITION/EXHIBITION

Organised by South Zone Centre of Excellence-Design, National Geographic and supported by an entire community of concerned organizations.

Winning entries will be featured on a two week exhibit from 26 May - 7 June 2009 at the National Geographic Store at Vivocity. Apply now. Download entry form at

For details:-
www.reflection.yolo.sg

sponsors:
National Geographic Store (Singapore)
Panasonic
Large Print
YOLO
Cathay Photo
The Photographic Society of Singapore

Little Tots

Let me introduce my new Little Tots from Saturday Art Class ;D They are lovely and adorable little Artists! Look at the heart shape cards they'd made specially for their Mothers!

From the left: Wei Ting, Issac, Phoena, Charmaine, WenHui, and Alicia. Gabrielle was too shy to be appeared in the camera ;p Jia Ling, Leanne and Marrisa were absent due to fever... hope they are getting better!

Sonia's 9yo Birthday

These pieces of work required 2 lessons to complete. The idea is to introduce basic 3 dimension (3D) drawing in their visual art. Well, they did a pretty good job ;)

Sonia's birthday is TODAY! We celebrated her birthday yesterday after they had finished their paintings! ;) I baked her cupcakes as promised and I hope this birthday present bring and share joy & love with her little art friends! Happy Birthday Sonia Hanke!

KtDA Annoucement

Message from Mr. Kevin Thio:

Thank you for sharing your dreams as a participant of the Keep the Dream Alive Art Competition!

We are amazed by the enthusiastic responses and great diversity of entries that poured in through our doors! Stay tuned for the announcement of the competition results on Thursday, 30 April 2009.

All winners will be notified by post.

For the latest updates, please visit our website

www.keepthedreamalive.yolo.sg