Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

[coffee]

Hi jedamum


My son likes me to read bedtime stories to him, so I read Chinese story books to him. My in-laws speak to him in mandarin. Is it sufficient? Any suggestions on other forms of reinforcement?

Hi caroline3sg,

Thanks for your suggestion. I will check out EduPlus. Only inconvenience I thought is the distance as the nearest branch is at Bishan.

[jedamum]

coffee:

Hi jedamum


My son likes me to read bedtime stories to him, so I read Chinese story books to him. My in-laws speak to him in mandarin. Is it sufficient? Any suggestions on other forms of reinforcement?

Hi coffee,
I only read to my boy for leisure, cos he told me that he usually don't pay attention to the details of the story...cos he just want to enjoy my voice.
Reinforcement i meant revising what has been taught in berries class.
Previously when a month into berries and that I realised that my boy is still not able to read the 'small book', i decided to revised with him twice a week. I will go through the notes that the teacher distributed in class (asking him to read and i correct him etc) as well as the 'small book'. For words that he is not familiar and that I think is 'frequency words', we collate and print into a sheet of words and then reinforce with him everyday until he is familiar with them. We will replace the sheet as and when he is ready to move on to the next sheet. Those 'passed' sheet we filed it and then revised with him once in a while.
Nowadays as the emphasis is on HYPY in class and that he is better at word recognition, i only asked him to do his reading of the small book (any small book from K1 up until now) at alternate nights and go through with him the words that he had forgotten the following night until he remembered them.

[gelfish]

I sent my girl to Eduplus. Actually that was the first chinese enrichment school I know. Was only subsequently I found out about so many others like Berries, Tien Hsia, Hua and Han. The rates are about the same. Except that Eduplus is always term of 16 lessons. Each year is 3 terms. I find they are too bad too but very little coverage about them in this forum. Thats why I am curious to find out how others are since I hear so many good things about tien hsia and berries.


I am sending my second child to Eduplus so that she can attend the full course unlike my first one who cannot finish and had to attend crash course for hanyu pinyin now.

Anyone has attended Eduplus and others ? any comments on Eduplus

[lizawa]

Hi gelfish,


Eduplus is not bad. Especially the one-minute speech that they make the kids do. This really helps to build up their confidence. Especially helpful for oral exams. But, I don’t think they really do a lot of drilling. Their worksheets are also manageable, not too difficult. Good thing about them is that they cover all aspects, including compo writing. My children will not be able to sit through classes with only creative writing, so I thought this will be something they may find interesting. I like the teachers at Eduplus. So far, no complains about Eduplus from my kids.

I just wonder why they charge material fees every term. They should have just incorporated everything into the school fees.

[jedamum]

ChiefKiasu:

jedamum:

Chief,

Have you come across this centre?
http://www.busybees.com.sg/

Nope. But I remember lizawa recommending it in another thread.

Ya..found it...on Page 2 of this thread... :oops:

[ck123]

[Moderator's Note: Threads merged.]


Hi

Any parents with kids in this school? (Molin Chinese Tutorial Centre)
I would like to get some feedbacks. Enviroment , any recommended teachers and course coverage for N2 and P3 level.

Notice that their enrichment course is 2hrs instead of most school 1.5hrs. Does it means that they teach more?????????

Thanks

[ChiefKiasu]

ck123:

...Any parents with kids in this school? (Molin Chinese Tutorial Centre)...

Check out the earlier parts of this thread for more info.

Molin is the secret weapon of students from Tao Nan, Kong Hwa and Maha Bodhi, which are all SAP schools. I heard nothing but good things about it, and will likely switch my son to it after his MindChamps finishes by the end of this month. Will let you know more subsequently.

[ck123]

Hi ChiefKiasu


Thanks for your info.

[MMM]

Hi,


My kids have been with Molin. My girl only started in K2 and my boy at K1 (abit late as the recommended is nursery). It came highly recommended by my cousin who teaches chinese at my girl’s pre-school.

Saw some threads saying that Molin is academic. Yes they are but on the other hand, my kids enjoy going to Molin. They do play games in class and also for pre-school they do read those rhymes, songs,etc… and word recognition. But note that it’s not magic, only with parental support at home then can a child go further.

For my P1 girl, she is in SAP school hence doing higher chinese. Though she started Molin late (K2), she developed a liking for the language and did self-revision after the class. They had streaming during SA1 and she scored 96/100 hence she is now being streamed to the best chinese class in school. Also despite the growing demands eg composition, spelling,etc… from being in the best class, she appear to be able to cope well and I didn’t have to stand behind her back everytime to check on her homework. I am not saying that she is 100% chinese perfect as she does have her weakness eg the bi hua (just a slight stroke out, is wrong…) and also careless mistakes.

Yes, Molin has weekly spelling but it’s not as challenging as those my girl has in school. So she is usually well-prepared according to her for the spelling.

Seeing her development, I really swear by Molin and is glad that we put her there.

Probably the only disadvantage is they only have 1 centre so not so accessible like Berries,etc…

[MMM]

Just want to add that, my girl has a school mate in her Molin class. With streaming, this girl is also in the best chinese class together with my girl in school right now. Hence, I think the std appears to be pretty consistent.


Haha, I hope my dear son won’t break the good record.