Comparing Chinese Enrichment (Primary/Preschool)

[catddy2002]

Oops! Just realised there’s a link for purchasing the story books!

[tamarind]

catddy2002,

dangdang has a huge collection of excellent Chinese books for children, much better than any bookshop in Singapore, and cheaper even including shipping from China. Note that only Citibank Credit Cards and Amex cards are accepted.

[tamarind]

Dear all,

More information about Berries standard at the K1 and K2 :
http://tamarindvillage.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

[tamarind]

titank:

Hi All,


Is Tien Hsia able to fight with Berries? Anyone can share training materials of Tien Hsia?

If you visit Tien Hsia, they will show you their teaching materials.

[Busymom]

titank:

Hi All,


Is Tien Hsia able to fight with Berries? Anyone can share training materials of Tien Hsia?

Hi titank

If you are interested, visiting them is probably the best. I would be concerned to post any of their teaching materials here for fear of any copyright infringement.

[tamarind]

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My blog serves as a review of the classes and resources which I have used for my kids. I don't expect other parents to be so free to do the same lah.

[maisy]

Hi tamarind,

Really hats off to you lei - I m really impressed... u r not only very instrumental in nurturing your children...you seem very well-informed in many other issues too... you are slowly becoming my \"role model\"..hahaha... so are you a teacher? just curious

[tamarind]

maisy,

I am also learning for all the parents in this forum I am teaching young adults now

[blueblue]

Can anyone advise me? My son is attending Berries N2 this year. His kindergarten offers Speech & Drama Chinese and I am not sure if I should let him join.


Is attending Berries enough for him? or Speech & Drama is a diff thing? Plus he also has other enrichments and I don’t want to tire him.

[hquek]

hi blueblue,


depends on your needs. My kids (K2 and N2) attend chinese speech & drama, and chinese enrichment classes at hokkien huay kuan. It’s tiring (both classes on the same day) but I find it necessary cos DS1 doesn’t like chinese. Figured since he won’t speak in chinese to us, we will get him more classes related to that. I feel it’s useful and so we’re continuing with this approach.

To me, chinese enrichment has writing, word recognition (plus others); S&D is more of bringing out the drama and story telling/lang song aspect.

I did contemplate on dropping chinese S&D but when I peek into the classroom, the activities they do seem very fun and I do like the teachers. So ended up didn’t drop any.