Alpha also attended nursery but it seems that he has not developed any interest in learning Chinese and up to now he only know his Chinese name and "爸爸". I have made over 500 Chinese flash cards for him and every time I want to show him the flash cards, he just run away :-( .
dorothymui,
Betsy and Alpha are in the same class and hope they will be good firiends. Are you taking the school bus and a K2 mummy who also take the same school bus advise me to buy a school bus seat belt as it would be more save if child sleep during the long bus journay.
If I were you, I will confort Betsy first and tell her that it is implolite and rough to take someone's toy and a good girl should always share toys with others. I will also teach her to tell the class teacher / EA that someone punch her tummy and the class teacher/EA will punish the naughty student. Besides, I will also tell her that a brave and good girl will not cry when she encounter problem but to solve the problem and mummy is very prond of her being a brave and good girl.
When compare with Chinese, Alpha's English is better as he can recoginize A to Z and knows may English vocabulary as we used to let him watch Englsih story books, CDs and I have also brought Disney World English.
Thank you for sharing with me how to teach my boy Chinese in interesting way and Alpha also love to eat. I will try you method starting from tomorrow.
我都唔會同佢講英文架喎, 不過陪佢番學係ESF範圍內, 我會同佢講英文, 比佢知道學校係講英文既 加上Destiny由兩歲起一直讀international school既nursery, 都係由native in charge ...
Betsy 都係讀 international school nursery 是下學期,須然是返 international school 但平時在家 Betsy 最多講的是 no , yes
所以都吾知佢重識講那些,因我的英文真是有限公司,我又怕教錯佢所以沒有同佢講英文,唉....如果我吾同佢講英文,返學聽吾明會吾會日係吾講嘢架... 寫寫吓....發覺自己好似有d神經質
Yes, Hong Kong Automobile Association is located near "廟街" and I just called them finding out that they no longer sell seat belt to individual customer as the seat belt is imported from England. But they told me that a school may place order within this week and they will call me if the order confirmed, however, they price will be increased to HK$ 850.
You can give the seat belt to the school bus caretaker in the morning and she will return it to you after school. The reason why I want to buy the seat belt is that Apha will sleep in the returning journay and it will be more save to have the extra seat belt.
If you are still interest, may be you can leave your contact phone number to me, so I can call you once I receive the call from HKAA.
Yesterday I went to ESF with Alpha and he really enjoyed himself throughout the 3 hours. Just like the trial session, Bear class teacher - Ms Annette together with the K2 big sisters / brothers welcomed 5 new K1 Bears at the school front door gate.
When back to the classroom, K2 Bears showed the K1 Bears how to hand in communication books, self register (All student's names are placed on the table and they need to pick up their name tags and put them inside a box).
During the circle time, Ms Annette invited all new K1 Bears to select their preference songs letting them have a chance to interact with others. After that, Ms Annette requested all parents to stay in the classroom and to be observers for the rest of time, and she would observe the new Bears to see if they could still enjoy the activities without their parents.
During the studio time, all K1 bears have a chance to go downstairs (about 1/2 hour) to do some outdoor activities, just like mock-up painting, ball games, slides, etc and students are free to choose joining activities they like.
After the outdoor activities, K1 Bear went upstairs for the remaining studio time (I think each week ESF will change the theme of the guided activities, such as the role play corner, hand craft corner and the water pool as I found that the themes in these areas are different from last week) .
Yesterday, all Bear class students and Frog class students joined together in downstairs for a singing session (EA of Bear class - Grace is very good piano player).
At the end of the session, Ms Annette told all the parents on Wednesday, after the circle time all the parents have to leave school for shopping or coffee at the nearby mall and if we don’t receive call from the school, we just need to pick up our kids at 11:30 am. May be we don’t need to go with our kids on Friday.
Hope both Destiny & Betsy enjoyed themselves in ESF just Alpha.
Picnic day of Bear class is on Thursday and the class teacher told us that they want the new kids to have a chance to explore more during the first week which will give them more stimulations.
Besides, I find that the educational philosophy of ESF is very different from the traditional school as after the singing session, all the bear class students went upstairs back to the classroom, but just then it started to rain heavily outside and one student found and stopped in front the big window between G/F and 1st/F and shouted loudly "It's raining outside", If this happen in a traditional school, I think the class teacher will ask that student stop shouting and keep on going back to the classroom. But the Bear class teacher - Ms Annette encouraged other students to join looking at the rains and let the student experienced what raining like.
Another instance was that I told Annette that Alpha was very naughty during the outdoor activities downstairs as he climbed up to the fences, but her reply is that "We don't have naughty kids in ESF", she remained me not to stereo-typed our kid as a naughty kid but need to let our kids distinguish between right and wrong / good and bad and parents need to be supportive.
As a parent, I think I still have many things to learn.
"she remained me not to stereo-typed our kid as a naughty kid but need to let our kids distinguish between right and wrong / good and bad and parents need to be supportive."<---- 好有意思既說話, 我要好好學習及銘記
I will ask Bear class teacher how many time per week for the outdoor activities tomorrow and let you know the answer. Besides, I will post picture of Alpha (so you can recognize him if you see him in school) and his shoes later.
I am still learning how to be a good mother and may be we can share more in future.
Are you planing to let Destiny study the ESF primary? if yes, which school is you preference as I read the September Newsletter yesterday night, K2 students need to apply the ESF primary in September 2007.