End of the Year Talent Show

If u r here.. u must have hopped from my own personal blog n r very curious of Hatice's school show.....:0) THank YOU for Hopping oVer... i sooo much want u to see this one entry in particular!

It is 12.08 midnight. ... though the entry will say it is 11.08... my feet hurts... both the kids r sleeping..totally exhausted... i would love to join them... but i know many of u my friends r curious of Hatice's end of the Year school show.. i will try to write at least half of the entry for now if not all...

And just imagine this.... a five star hotel... and imagine that hotel is a school... That was what i felt as i enter the Coşkun Maltepe Lisesi (Coskun Maltepe High School). ... the high school where the end of the year show for the Coskun pre school students was held... the hall was big and magnificent.. it spelled luxury all around... the students who study there r sure lucky students...!!

Believe it or not, i pressed the record/snap button of the camera 80 times... at times to snap photos..at times to record the happenings... The school also record the whole even on dvd...... we will buy that one.... particular to send a copy to my parents back home in Malaysia...

Hatice was involved in the introduction speech... the drama in English.. the drama in Turkish.. the choir.. the traditional dance... and the dance plus speech of the children of the world (in English)...with hatice dancing as a Turkish Girl..

Hatice.. she did us proud!! She did everything she was supposed to do very well... even Merve was impressed by her...she didnt get enough of the whole show even after it was over! She was happily singing n moving her hips.. !!..i am afraid..this girl of mine... when it comes to the talent part..she follows her turkish ancestors...!! When i asked her whether she was nervous on stage, she replied in Turkish, *why should i?*.....

I wont waste ur time with my words... Here r some of the photos i snapped...I will also add in some of the video clips for u to see... they may not be too good.. ..the show ended almost 10.45pm.....we were hungry n exhausted definitely...and so we managed to catch the drive in Mac Donalds (as the last customer) n g0t a bite of the menus at home....

While i was trying to upload the photos last night.. i practically fell asleep in front of the pc... so here i am again... presently u with my beautiful daughter Nur Hatice Zaim... in her End of the Year Pre School show.....Enjoy the show! (couldnt snap all photos coz i was also busy recording the show)

The girl who would perform.. MaŞaAllah.. isnt she beautiful?

The mom with her kids... (*ibu*....kenal tak tudung tu? hehehe)

The not nervous dad with the girl who would perform n the boy who ran up n down the stairs of the hall....

All the 3 classes of the pre school students on stage with their traditional dance costume

to sing the English n turkish songs

The turkish dance (cant remember which kind of dance this is)

Hatice's class dancing their traditional dance
(i think their dance was from the *ege* area dance

Anothe class presenting the kafkas dance (this one involves a lot of jumping on the boys' part)

Hatice as the rabbit in the turkish drama

(she's the tall one in white)

Again the turkish drama

The drama was reminding us to keep this earth clean..

the alien came to earth n wanted to take over the green clean earth coz their planet was too dirty

Those from the family who came...

Merve, zeynep, meşe,ilayda n halil

All the boys in the padlişah drama..

the costumes r of the ottoman empire costume type.. they were great!
all very handsome boys... may they grow up to be with the strong characters of the padlişah!

The ending of the night.. each student was given the certificate...

Now i will add in the snippets of her last night's show....u should try to play each video clip for full 3 times to get the smooth flow coz the loading of the clips may take time esp if ur internet connection is very slow ..

Video clip one:

She introduced the whole event together with another 2 of her friends..

Oyun şarkı sunacağız

şiirlar okuyacağız

hep beraber coşacağız

Okulumuza hoş geldiniz..

we will be presenting with games n songs

we will be reading u poems

let us together have fun

Welcome to our school!

second video:

All students (as a choir) and all that were present sang the Turkish National Anthem...

third video:

one of the songs sang in the choir... an english song..

hatice was the tall one next to the girl in the white dress... there was a girl hiding behind hatice hehehe

fourth video clip:

another english song..it is my favourite

fifth video clip..

The traditional dance... this one i think i record the clip badly.. but this should give u an idea of what it was... a bit at least..

Hatice was in the opposite group of the dancers (the last one).. can u spot her? she was the one swaying her hips loads heheh

sixth video:

Hatice as the turkish girl in the *we r the world* show..

*hello, my name is Nur Hatice Zaim

I am from Turkey

I 'm six years old

I love U

Nice to Meet U

Goodbye...

I was proud to that she helped her partner to say all those things... how sweet.. n that boy really deserved an applause for trying to say all those words! Bravo!

seventh video:

the drama.. she was the rabbit...:0)

PLS turn off the song in the blog (at the bottom of this blog) before u attempt to hear the videoclips in this entry...

5th of May 2007

This week, hatice's homework was with a difference.. Half of her homework concentrated on Maths. All these while, i thought that all they would be learning in Ana okula was numbers from one to ten...recognising the numbers and writing them all...How wrong I was...

They have started on the simple numbers...of addition of numbers.. for example...

3 + 2 = ?

but of course it was with pictures... 3 cats + 2cats = ?

We were coming back home from carrefour today..in the car.... verbally halil asked hatice n baddin to add and substract simple numbers...and we were both impressed at how well hatice could answer! I mean halil n i r both maths flops...we were dreading that our kids would be the same too...there is hope for them as well...

This took me back to the discussion where merih complained that ilayda's math teacher is being too advance in the teaching esp for the first grade... hatice is in the pre school... if what hatice is learning now is a continuation of the system ilayda is learning in the first grade... then everything is quite normal then... i can understand why their math learning in the first grade is quite advanced.

But the problem is... unlike hatice..not everyone came from the pre school program of that school.. some may come from other kindergarden (yuva)... their systems may be different from the pre school system in this school...but then, since this school has a pre school system n naturally all or most of the pre school students will continue studying in the same school for the first grade and above..it is only normal for the school to continue from where the students had left off in the pre school ...

I am most happy with the pre school system in this school.. halil n i so far do not regret snding hatice to this pre school program. We see a lot of development in her eversince her entry here...

We thank all the teachers for their contributions in my daughter's development... and yes.. baddin will be coming soon hehehe

by the way.. hatice is still writing her numbers 5, 6 and 9 upside down hehehehe

i will try to add in the math homework once i am in the mood...:0)