2005年學之園PN班

LydiaWong

meowmeow,
Don't worry, it's very easy and you don't even feel like an interview at all. Moms can stay with their kids throughout the whole time. Everyone go in to a classroom and let the kids play the toys, then the teachers will walk to each table and talk to the kids and mom, that's it.

DorisTSL

DorisTSL

ljsze and Lydia,

I chose to buy books for Brian, simply because there is no library nearby and it's more convenient to get books from bookstores.  Brian didn't like reading books much until a few weeks ago.  LH started the reading scheme at Brian's right time!

Lydia, how do you find the whole set of World family?  I borrowed a few VCDs from my colleague and let Brian watch them about a year ago.  However, he showed no interest and I decided not to buy it.

Brian also learnt some bad things in school.  However, I think it's acceptable as this is also a kind of 'learning' and I can correct him by explanation.

By the way, have your kids started learning some words and characters?  Brian can only recognize capital letters and numbers.  I am thinking of teaching him simple English words and Chinese characters.  Do you have any experience on it?  Can you share it with me?

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Preston got sick easily after going to school, maybe he started going to school too early (exactly at 2 yrs old). He got sick every month bascially. He was a medium to big size baby, then after 1 yr old (he started walking), he became a medium size and after 2 yrs old (going to school), he is now a small size. He only weighs ~30lbs with clothes on.

Doris,
I bought the whole set of disney (quite expensive, I thought of it when i was 8months pregnant and bought it when he was 3 months old). So he started listening to englsih songs and stories since 3 months.
He loves english so much and i think he knows too much I'm worried he finds school boring and doesn't pay attention. He knew A-Z when 18 months and a-z at 2 yrs old ( all taught by maid) and now he know A for apple, aeroplane.... until z. Every letter he knows at least 5 words. Every time he heard a new word, he will ask 'what letter?' sometimes a new chinese phrase he wants to know what letter   Sometimes he will say "Mama, sit on this chair, s for sit, c for chair' and sometimes it's too much every sentence he'll explain and tell you what letter for each word. Also, they learn letterland ( a kind of phonics and it's very good) at school. My friend gave me a letterland book half yr ago and now he knows all the letterland characters, e.g  A for annie apple, B for bouncy ben,etc. He just love letters so much. However, for chinese he is not too good, he knows 大,小,人,魚,水,果,沙,上,下,月,手,в,心,了,紅,水,天. Most of them he learned from school last yr in the 2nd term, that is they will learn soon. I think the more they read the books, the more they want to learn how to read.

ljsze

it's not the first time that my message sent out could not be displayed.  anyway..

Lydia, kid at this age weighing some 30 lbs should be fine.  Same as my son.  I do notice that many kids get sick during these few weeks.  My son also gets sick (fever at first, coughing & running nose later, coughing now) & not fully recovered yet.  I also see that quite some kids get running nose & coughing.  I really don't know what to do as we have visited the doctor 4 times already.

It's amazing that your son has picked up a lot in letter & word association.  The progress of my son is more or than the same as Doris'.  So, I guess I have to start doing something.

Patbee

I'm interest in this school also. I'll go to their open on March 11, in Hung Hom branch.
Can anyone share about this school's program, school life and the teachers?

DorisTSL

Lydia and ljsze,

Brian also weighs 30lb.  All my relatives said he's too thin.  However, so long as he is healthy, I think it will be okay.

Lydia,
Preston's performance in letters and words should be above average.  How nice!  Brian didn't learnt much English at home.  I didn't hire any maid and my parents do not speak to Brian in Cantonese.  It's good that Brian learnt much English in LH.  I was so happy to hear him saying things like, 'Let's start', 'Where are you?' and some other single words.  I am sure he will learn more and more in LH.

ljsze,
I also had the experience that my sent message couldn't be displayed.  It always happened when I typed long messages.

My mom also told me that some PNB students got running nose.  I give Brian fresh orange juice everyday, hoping to fight the infection.  Brian started to take some 'fish liver oil' tablets two months ago.  I found that he would recover from sickness more quickly.  I don't know if they are related but you may consider giving your son a try.

DorisTSL

Patbee,

My son is in PN class in LH.  

It's a bilingual school.  Besides normal teaching, the school also provides many ECAs, like monthly birthday parties, celebration of some festivals, etc.  The school also encourages parents' participation.

You can get more info from their Open Day.  :)

meowmeow

Hi LydiaWong:

May thanks and I feel better!!

Hope he would be able to enter into this PN because we live in Hunghom.

cheers
meowmeow

LydiaWong 寫道:
meowmeow,
Don't worry, it's very easy and you don't even feel like an interview at all. Moms can stay with their kids throughout the whole time. Everyone go in to a classroom and let the kids play the toys, then the teachers will walk to each table and talk to the kids and mom, that's it.

Patbee

Thanks Doristst!
Is their program hard or easy compare to those in Kln Tong like Keenmind, Funful etc? I'm thinking about these few school also.

LydiaWong

Doris and ljsze,
Preston is still sick and has been off from school for 3 days. The doctor said he got bronchitis and needs to take antibiotics. He had fever 104C once and at least 101C. Today he has no more fever but a lot of coughing.
Preston lost 2 lbs in 3 days and now he weighs 28 only. So difficult for him to gain 2 lbs for the whole year despite he eats quite a lot and is all gone now. Wait till he has appetite, I need to push him eat more. Actually he started taking cod liver oil for more than half a year but things more or less the same. I think the virus nowadays are getting worse, it usually takes longer to recover and the symptoms are worse. Hope he can go to school next Monday.

meowmeow

Dear moms,

My son had an interview this morning, in fact, it was quite okay.

During the interview, he's quite enjoy to play at school, probably because Thomas (books & trains) available in the classroom!  The interview was just like a kind a general briefing by principal.  Only 2 kids was interviewed at the same time.

When we back home, just found out that another 2 schools accept my son's application..  now 15/16, not sure where to go...

May I know normally which primary schools will be entered after graduated from LH??

thanks vm.
    

DorisTSL

Lydia,

I am sorry to know that Preston got bronchitis.  How's he today?  Brian got bronchitis months ago.  He coughed so seriously that he could vomit all the stuff taken.  It took him over a week to recover.  Good luck to Preston.

Brian started to have running nose this morning and his situation became a bit worse in the afternoon.  I guess he has aught a cold again.  See if his situation improved after napping.

DorisTSL

Hi meowmeow,

Actually, LH(Laguna Verde branch) is a pretty new kinder (about 2 yrs) and there is no graduate so far.

However, LH is welcomed by parents in Hung Hom area.  The 4th PN class was just started in Feb.

You may get more info from the parents of the other two kinder before making a decision.

meowmeow

Hi Doris,

Thank you so much!  I am now thinking to let my son enrol LH in Aug instead.  Just want to get more info. first.

Hope other mama can help to provide more info.

cheers

DorisTSL

meowmeow,

You may go to LH at around 9am to look at their morning exercise in the playground.  You can then have a basic idea of how caring the teachers are and how the students behave.

Glad to know that you've chosen LH.  :)

ljsze

Lydia

no need to worry too much about the weight of your son.  as brian said, the first thing you have to do is to get him in good health condition.  is preston getting better now ?  104C was really high.

after consultation of another doctor (a total of 5 clinical visits), my son is getting better & coughs a lot less.

by the way, Lydia & Doris, can give me the brand name of the cod liver oil for my reference.  i haven't let my son try this yet.  only let him have the lingzhi honey but stopped during this period when he's sick as honey can arouse coughing.

Patbee, I guess the school starts to get more popular since it has just started a new PN class.  The teachers there (local & native-English speaking teachers are good). They do take good care of the kids & will give you comments about your kid.

In addition, I don't know if Doris & Lydia went to the seminar about their kinder course, the approach is pretty much the same as St Catherine's.

LydiaWong

ljsze,
Preston is having Scott's cod liver oil (orange).

Doris,
I was off today and I went to school this morning (I did not take him to school coz he would not let me go b4). I saw them doing exercise but Preston not quite in the mood, maybe after a few days of rest he need time to warm up again Anyway, I saw Brian doing the exerise and he was so excitied, he stood in the middle of the circle of the class. He also likes to play the slide and balls during playtime. I think he likes school and more active than b4. Preston saw me behind the glass and he told one of his classmates 'this is my mama'. It's good to see them improve.

Doris and ljsze,
Preston is a lot better and went back to school today, with a little bit cough only. I'm not too worry about his weight as long as he's healthy. Maybe he's pretty chubby when he's a baby and I miss that fat little boy, so I hope he can gain a lttle more weight.
BTW, Preston will study CE class in K1 instead of PE. I talked to Miss Hung and she recommend Cantonese for Preston coz his Cantonese is not too good and he has more confidence to talk now and should continue to build up his confidence instead of learing another new language and start over again. So next year our kids will be classmates.

ljsze

Lydia & Doris, glad to learn that our kids will be in the same class next year.  Actually, I like the teachers in K1 PE more.  Yet, I do think it's better to grab Cantonese well first.  I do think we can master Mandarin, as a Chinese.

BTW, Open Day will come soon again.  I just wonder what the kids will perform this time.

DorisTSL

ljsze,

I give Brian '日本肝油丸 C200' as a supplement of Vitamin A, C and D.  Brian loves it so much and he used to get one himself after dinner.

Brian missed the Open Day last time.  He probably will join the coming Open Day.  Do you know what PN kids do last time?

Lydia,

It's good to know that Preston could resume schooling.  From the videos that my Mom took for Brian about a week ago, I could see that Preston used to stand next to Ms. Angelika during morning exercise and he didn't participate much.  However, he was always one of the first few kids to run into the classroom after morning exercise.  He would get ready after the last song and wait for Ms. Hung's command.  So cute!

Actually, Brian also didn't join morning exercise until last month.  He liked to dance on his own and he seldom hold hands with others.  He was so excited that he would be stopped by Ms Hung or Ms Angelika all the time.  Ha!

It's good to know that Preston and Brian will be classmates again next year.