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momo_cheung

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bennyeva

原帖由 torunpoland 於 15-03-27 發表
我兒上一間只說英文的幼兒園及幼稚園，一切都是英文，包括上課, 家長通訊, 電話查詢. 也有普通話的, 每天30 ...

I do share your views . No playgroup , no English speaking at home, no English DVD , no TV/ iPad  .  We believe mother language is the best medium language to communicate with our child. We believe in 家校各一語

What we do is simply let our child play with the nature, play with kids who are english speaking at the playground and put our little one into International pre-nursery so that we are able to get a K1 seat. ( you might need to apply PN earlier as the seats is limited in most case)

For mandarin , though my helper can speak excellent mandarin but we ask her to speak in cantonese at home. Mandarin can do later after my little one can communicate with good cantonese I think . Songs in all languages are welcome btw.

Parent - child reading in Chinese books started before 1 yr-old as part of our parent - child daily activities . English books reading starts by 2 when she shows her interests after she joined the pre-nursery.

Hope it helps.

elizatyy

雙語幼稚園再升上雙語小學(全英，普中)

sammypsng

I am father of a 10-month old girl. I have been surfing EK before my girl was born. As a survivor of the harsh education system I fully understand the pressure imposed on students attending local mainstream schools. What happened in the past year has reinforced my decision to prepare my girl to study abroad after she finishes junior secondary school. Thanks everyone who has shared his / her views on bilingual education and IS application in this thread. I have started applying to PGs right after my girl got her birth certificate eg Vic, Artplus etc and even a kindergarten (KCIS). Frankly speaking I am not sure if attending PGs would help, especially when my targets are CIS and ESF.

imconfusing

原帖由 minirat 於 15-03-31 發表
My boy attended Bambino for 6 months or so.  That lady you mentioned shall be Ellen (if I remember c ...

Ic. Thx for your info . Yes I think we are referring to the same lady! I still can't tell which school is better as both are having very high reputation . And they are having a long wait list. Indeed my baby is only 8 months old and I am advised to apply now.

I am walking after u . I will apply Anfield for my baby too:)

minirat

imconfusing 發表於 15-3-30 17:09
in regards to Montesorri school, please forgive my absent-mindness. It should be Bambino in TST and  ...

My boy attended Bambino for 6 months or so.  That lady you mentioned shall be Ellen (if I remember correctly) who taught in Best Concept before she set up Bambino on her own.  She taught so well in Best Concept that most parents attended Best Concept for her.  You can search the old threads on "Best Concept", there are lots of information about her.  From our short experiences with her, I would say she is a very caring, soft spoken lady who is extremely patient with kids.  The school was very cozy and clean, and there was a monitor outside the classrooms for parents to watch their kids in the classrooms.  The administration was very flexible too, as in they allow makeup classes for absence without having to see medical certificates, etc.  We quit simply becoz I do not want my boy to attend am class at Anfield and another PM class at Bambino, too much for that age in my opinion.

koala_xin

Attended Kellet Kowloon Bay open day last year. It seems most studens are with blonde hair, similiar to what I had seen in HK academy open day. I myself feel like a minority among the expat parents too.
So I guess their major 'customer' don't actually have the need to learn Chinese.

964000

bigbighei 發表於 15-3-30 16:24
相反, 我小朋友既學校就越來越注重中文.

May I know which school is it?

jolalee

imconfusing 發表於 15-3-30 17:09
in regards to Montesorri school, please forgive my absent-mindness. It should be Bambino in TST and  ...

Wouldn't be surprised about Best Concept's long wait list.

Haven't heard of Bamino in TST. Sorry to say, not a lot of good Montessori school on the Kowloon side. Best to check with expat websites / FB for the school. Sorry, no info from my side. Can't help.

imconfusing

jolalee 發表於 15-3-28 18:28
Casa de Bambini starts at 6 months of age. Are you sure you are looking at the right one? It's the o ...

in regards to Montesorri school, please forgive my absent-mindness. It should be Bambino in TST and Best concept ( not New concept)

have u heard of those learning school? I see there is a long line up for BC. But I don't have much info on Bambino, only that it's run by a experienced lady who were working at a famous Montesorri organization.

imconfusing

jolalee 發表於 15-3-28 18:28
Casa de Bambini starts at 6 months of age. Are you sure you are looking at the right one? It's the o ...

thanks for your comment. I left 3 different replies in this post and yet they don't show

I surfed on Kellett website regarding its admission policy. my draw dropped off from my mouth when I saw the debunture plan in 11-page admission policy, 7 pages of the material is the explanation of debunate system

bennyeva

原帖由 torunpoland 於 15-03-27 發表
我兒上一間只說英文的幼兒園及幼稚園，一切都是英文，包括上課, 家長通訊, 電話查詢. 也有普通話的, 每天30 ...

Totally agree! My approach is exactly the same as yours!!!

bigbighei

相反, 我小朋友既學校就越來越注重中文.

964000

原帖由 happyhealthymin 於 15-03-30 發表
真系好奇想知道邊間國際學校一D中文都唔教，甘唔緊貼市場？介意分享嗎？我只係好奇，無其他意思。



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吾會一D都冇，但例如GSIS好遲先開始教，就是這個原因我不會考慮這間（其實都難考入）。

happyhealthymin

原帖由 torunpoland 於 15-03-30 發表
回覆 momo_cheung 的帖子

是，我的小朋友在一間只有英文的學校讀書，從幼兒園到幼稚園都是，相信將來小學 ...

真系好奇想知道邊間國際學校一D中文都唔教，甘唔緊貼市場？介意分享嗎？我只係好奇，無其他意思。

torunpoland

回覆 momo_cheung 的帖子

是，我的小朋友在一間只有英文的學校讀書，從幼兒園到幼稚園都是，相信將來小學都是。因為我希望小朋友做到中英並重。學校沒有中文，孩子便自然只能說英文。而中文，我相信自己也得得來。是，要是小朋友讀得上，我會送他去外國讀書。

momo_cheung

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torunpoland

我會說足以應付日常生活的普通話，但雄辯滔滔，就只有粵語才做得到。所以，我認為，用粵語學中文，學得好，十歲前再學普通話未晚。一旦好正經學普通話，就要波pual 摩科，焦點轉去玩拼音記拼音符號，咁樣呢，我認為是本末倒置，中文句式用字已經了然於胸，只要聽得多，唔使拼音都講得出用得到，舉例：信心呢兩個字，唔使識xin4 xin1, 都可以用到讀得出，在我心中已算是識普通話。我唔係話唔使識普通話，只係唔需要咁早學。講到尾都係呢句，人人要求唔同。

孩子現偏向講英文。或者這樣說，與學校有關的，例如學校教easter bunny，santa claus，諸如此類。昨日，他發現大門有復活蛋，好出奇，說：Look! Easter bunny come last night. he put some easter eggs in the basket! 聽得出他是很自然跟我們分享這項發現。這些東西，我們在家沒談過，但學校有教，所以自然用英文。過年，他說學校弄tang1 wan2，原來是湯丸，這些我們便要執一執。久而久之，你會想像到他從學校學的東西越多，自然傾向說英文。這是正常的。

所以，為了平衡，我都是繼續在家說中文，教中文，寫中文。路漫漫其修遠兮，吾將上下而求索。

而最重要的一點，是令他覺得學中文有用。今日學個用字，第二天在地鐵見到用字，問他懂不懂，日子有功，他便知道早兩日學的字，唔係練習簿上的符號，而係平日見到用到的工具。這是很重要的，日日記日日寫，為咩先？好難解到佢聽，唯有從日常生活中入手。

實際而言，我每天都跟他一起生活，出出入入接接送送，好容易創造到使用中文的環境俾佢，同埋，make it fun，教個升字，亂咁作句，我升去月亮度，你升去太陽度..... 哈哈大笑，咁又識左個升字，到電梯，搵到呢個字，問佢咩字，又認到。日日如是..... 方法都係咁上下。寫字就要惡少少，一定要佢完成一頁（25個左右），利誘呀威迫呀，都要佢完成，但所寫的字是他有興趣的。我又唔會話一星期七日，日日都要寫，睇佢精神，睇我心情，有時我都會忙。但一星期點都寫返3-5個中文字，內容要佢明白的。

另外，我主張背詩，當唱歌，得閒背一首，一星期便背得出來。不用急於下星期三背好呢首，大家都好自在咁背。今日唔背，咪聽日囉。順便應下節，就快清明，可以教杜牧的清明（如果未教，可以試下）。

jolalee

imconfusing 發表於 15-3-28 23:58
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Happened to me before too. Sorry, EK browser problem. You'll have to re type. I hate it when that happens too. Always copy your text as a backup before you press <send>.

imconfusing

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