Kids In Charge 4th Meeting - Finale, at Thistle Hotel, Port Dickson 14 December 2013

I am one proud mom, watching her spoke confidently and being at ease on stage. 

It was the last meeting and the finale of the programme where each child would need to present their idea to the hotel, media and fellow parents in 7 minutes.

The whole presentation was written down painstakingly for almost 4 weeks. It involved researching, planning, designing, drawing, writing, costing, sourcing for material and etc. After the hard work, she found out how much easier it is working with Ms Powerpont. 

She didn't win. It was a good mixture of feelings of sadness, bitter, happy, exhausted, etc and etc. She is happy for her friend who won. And bitter to know that at times, despite working hard, one may also fail. 

She didn't bag the prize (a London trip for a family of 4) and fly to London to visit Greenwich. 

It doesn't take her long to get up and said she will try again.

Some of her masterpiece below. 

 A treasure hunt booklet will be given in a welcome bag for children. The welcome bag will be a plain recyclable cotton bag that comes with Sharpie markers for children to design their own bag.
The main character in the treasure hunt booklet is Sir John Frederick, the founder of Port Dickson.

This is one of the presentation poster. 

She called it the "Thistle Kids Check-In". Kids check-in inside a tent. being served with a welcome drink and mini cupcake, decorated by themselves with simple topping while their parents do the  actual check-in. What a treat !

She is a proud owner of a mini Ipad,  4 tickets to Legoland themepark and Legoland Water Park  and other goodies for getting into "Kids In Charge". Also thanks to her, we stayed at Thistle hotel, 3 days 2 nights full board for four times. 

Read the 3rd Meeting here. 

Kids In Charge 3rd meeting at Thistle Hotel, Port Dickson November 2013

At the third meeting, the children selected three areas out of a list given.  There are "Arrival, Pool, Dining/Food, Outdoor Fun, Evening/Night, Family, Activities/Sport, Educational and Health/Safety" and write ideas on how to improve the area within an hour.

At 9 years old, writing and spelling is not En 's forte yet.

There is no drilling on writing and spelling at home. She writes when there is a reason or a purpose to do so. For an example, write a shopping list, reply a letter or email, send a "SMS" (short messaging), write a story ectera. It is not as much as compare to school work.

Hence, producing words,sentences and paragraphs in such a short one hour is a real challenge to her. From this experience, she saw the purpose of writing in another form and her writing improved tremendously with another sense of purpose.  

This is the poster that shows the workshop created by En. It was done at home. 

She would need to present the workshop at the next meeting. 

The part that I like the most, is "Free For Special Needs Children" and "Your Kids Must Agree To Come". What a thoughtful thinking!    

Read the 2nd meeting here. 

Kids in charge, 2nd meeting at Thistle Hotel, Port Dickson 25 October 2013

The kids took turn to interview staffs of various department of the hotel and learnt what their jobs scope are, what are their likes and dislikes etc. Thereafter, they created an idea for a children workshop for a department of their choice.  

The huge pool provides endless fun for the children. They can even get free ice cream from the pool bar. At Thistle Hotel, my children spent more time at the pool than the beach. 

1st meeting here.