Last year, Tee attended Mandarin classes after school twice a week for 2 hours each and complained towards the later part of the year for attending. This year, we decided that we’d take it easy and enrolled her for 2 hour Saturday morning Mandarin classes instead. She has not once complained and in fact, attends with a bounce, so we deduced that she was probably dead tired in the afternoons and early mornings worked much better.

Although her Mandarin exposure is now halved, her principal claims she is actually picking up more because she is generally happier than before and when happy, a child grasps things faster.

Her 2 hours every Saturday encompasses half an hour of circle time where they sing songs, play and revise the previous weeks learnings, half an hour of structured music and movement in Mandarin (this is essentially a music class conducted by a trained music teacher in Mandarin although Tee has claimed that sometimes, even the music teacher doesn’t know what an instrument is called in Mandarin, haha), half an hour of snack time where the kids are forced to converse in Mandarin to decide which snack they prefer and a new lesson in vocabulary and grammar. Her final half hour is a private one-to-one lesson with the principal (which we pay extra for) on reading and I don’t know what else they do.

After 4 months of weekly Mandarin, Tee has now been promoted into a big kid class. My poor girl, everywhere she goes, she has to hang with bigger kids, something her paediatrician strongly advices against! *sigh* She seems to be very proud of it though. She told us that her teachers want her to be with the big kid class now because she is so smart. *roll eyeballs*

The teacher told the Hubs that we now have to change her Mandarin class timing slightly so she can join the big kid class because they feel she is ready. I wonder what they do different at the big kid class……

Anyway, we bought a set of Mandarin flash cards for Tee recently for practise (although there isn’t any real time for me to practise with her) but Tee seems to have taken an interest in it herself. She plays with the cards and now almost knows all the fruit names in Mandarin (lemon, pineapple, papaya, watermelon, kiwi, apple, pear, grapes, cherries, strawberries, banana, oranges, mango) and quite a few vegetables. She also knows a string of day to day action words, colours and numbers, but is still having problems constructing proper sentences herself. If only the Hubs and I knew Mandarin…..

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