Korean Wave! Korea and Jeju Island

Whenever I say a few words in front of the parents at each entrance ceremony of the daycare center where I work, I also feel nervous. I used to forget what to say. Next year I will say a few words again in front of the parents and their children. I hope that I will be able to go through with it without feeling nervous. "Hi! I am Laura, a homeroom teacher of the Joy class. I remember this day last year, when my children first came to the daycare centre, they were unfamiliar with their new surroundings so they searched for their moms and dads. Now they attend and bow when they come in. The thought of facing the new children today made my heart flutter. I will look after them like their mothers and I will do my best for them to grow healthy and with lots of joy."

I often read picture books for children at work, a daycare center. I teach them good manners such as table manners, getting along with friends and other good things from the books. I don't think that only children should read the picture books. Although most of picture books were published for children, I was also moved byt the story. For some reason picture books touch adults as well as kids. Today I read a book called Dot. A child who doesn't like art class put a dot on a piece of paper and submitted it to his teacher during art class. He looked angry. Then his teacher said "Write your name". The next day when the child went to school, he saw his framed picture on the wall. He was very surprised. He just put a dot on the middle of paper in anger but his teacher thought it as a work of art. Since he then made various forms of dots and his school continued to display his works. What do you think about this story? If you were his teacher, what would you do? I was al...