Case Study: Young Bobby.

Wednesday (28/07/2010)
a) Caring qualities.
* How do we show that we are caring? At first, kids could only think of love. How do we show that we love? We did a case study and this is the summary:
- Caring is listening. Caring is helping people honestly. Caring is to be kind. Caring is able to forgive and move on. Caring is to learn from mistakes. Caring is to say thank you. Caring is sharing.

b) Case Study: Young Bobby.
* I drew pictures on the board to help at their imagination.
Bobby has a happy family, only parents and himself. Imagine that he is one of our classmates. However, his relatives live very far from Malaysia. One day, his parents got very sick. He didn’t come to school for a week. He was scared and didn’t know what to do. This 5-year old boy was very scared! Question: What can we do to help him? How can we care for him? (Everyone was seriously thinking about this situation).
Foo Soon: Call his house.
Qian Joe: Send him to the Orphanage.
Yun Xin: Send him to the hospital. Ask the nurse to give him an extra bed.
Teacher: He doesn’t pick the call because he was very scared of being alone. He is not an orphan. Hospital doesn’t accept kids and take care of them just because the kids’ parents are sick in the hospital.
Qian Joe: We can buy food for his parents.
Yun Wen: Ask a teacher to check his house. We can also go together to talk to him. Shi Jie: Let him stay in the school.
Teacher: …..but there won’t be anyone in school to take care of him.
Wee Hong: How about his soap to bathe?
Class: We can share with him.
Yun Wen: Bobby can stay in teacher’s house.
Teacher: Good idea! Teachers may allow him to stay at their houses until things got better.
• We thought for a while that such things would not happen to us. However, if anything happens to us, we do hope that we could get assistance too.

c) A gift for Aunty.
* We continued with our craft. Gee…..the heart frame is quite big and heavy for aunty…….haaa……but is is indeed special. We thought about the suitable colours. Foo Soon suggested orange and yellow for the background. The girls preferred red and pink for the heart. So, we took turns to paint the heart. The kids were amazed how I got pink. Where did I get light purple too? Haa……! Red + white = pink. Purple + white = light purple.
* Finally, 5 kids volunteered for their tiny hands to stamp on the background. It was quite pretty.
* We also captured a photo together with Aunty in the morning so that we could paste on the gift.
* Meanwhile, some kids cut the loves and stars they painted so as to continue with the class decoration. I explained to Zhe Qing that we had to stop fully decorating our class at the moment because we had to do what is important first. Aunty’s retirement were only made known last week.

d) The Heart Book
* These are the kids who returned the book: Chun Kit, Zheng Yuan, Jun Yu, Zhe Qing, Shi Jie and also Xing Tong. The other kids were reminded of their responsibility. The class is still clean except books which are not properly kept. Reminder is necessary.