Soka Kindergarten

[daddy2007]

fernvale:

registered my boy for K1 next year. Fingers crossed it will be a good match for him. :xedfingers:

Their open house was on that Friday?

[fernvale]

daddy2007:

fernvale:

registered my boy for K1 next year. Fingers crossed it will be a good match for him. :xedfingers:

Their open house was on that Friday?

It was held on 15th Mar (Sat)

[rhyolite]

My child has got a place at Soka for next year. He went for the interview, which was actually more like a ‘get-to-know-you’ session for the child. The VP was patient and waited for him to warm-up before asking him questions. Looking forward to starting school!

[lchunleo]

can ask, for those parents who are or have sent their children to the kindergarten, how do you manage? are parents stay at home or working part-time/freelance? given that the school is for a few hours and do not operate in jun and dec. or child can’t go to school when sick or no helper (no family help), how do you all manage? thanks

[daddy2007]

lchunleo:

can ask, for those parents who are or have sent their children to the kindergarten, how do you manage? are parents stay at home or working part-time/freelance? given that the school is for a few hours and do not operate in jun and dec. or child can't go to school when sick or no helper (no family help), how do you all manage? thanks

For my case, my spouse is stays at home. Thus it is easier for us. My girl takes school bus from 10.30am and reach back home around 4.30pm. It is sort of a half-day childcare to my spouse in time of free time for her.

Typically for kindergarten approach, you will need someone (e.g. parents or parent-in-law) to help to fetch the child since it is only a 3 hours study

[lchunleo]

daddy2007:

lchunleo:

can ask, for those parents who are or have sent their children to the kindergarten, how do you manage? are parents stay at home or working part-time/freelance? given that the school is for a few hours and do not operate in jun and dec. or child can't go to school when sick or no helper (no family help), how do you all manage? thanks

For my case, my spouse is stays at home. Thus it is easier for us. My girl takes school bus from 10.30am and reach back home around 4.30pm. It is sort of a half-day childcare to my spouse in time of free time for her.

Typically for kindergarten approach, you will need someone (e.g. parents or parent-in-law) to help to fetch the child since it is only a 3 hours study

thank you for your response. We will be enrolling our children into despite the higher price tag and logistic challenges as we believe in the importance of moulding the right character. Do you see changes in your child since attended the school? Understand that there is no spelling test, HYPY, am concerned how they can cope with the expectation that these will be the regular staples in pri school...

[daddy2007]

lchunleo:

We will be enrolling our children into despite the higher price tag and logistic challenges as we believe in the importance of moulding the right character. Do you see changes in your child since attended the school? Understand that there is no spelling test, HYPY, am concerned how they can cope with the expectation that these will be the regular staples in pri school...

Personally I enroll my child to SK due to social interaction skill and values that the school imparts on the children. Not so concern about academic like heavy homework & drilling to do each weekend. This is something we can teach during evenings and weekends. I like SK project-based approach (esp in K1 and K2).

Each term they will have a project. Through the projects, the teacher will conduct observation on response, social interaction & behaviour at learning centres & in classroom activities. When we visit our child's class during the open house, we can see the charts for the project discussion outcome. Each chart is sort of mind-map type where the teacher will list down (like a tree with various \"branches\") of what are the answers the children has voiced out for the topic and sub-topics and each answer listed the child name. So we can see that the children really participated in all these discussion.

For Chinese programme, they will learn chinese strokes, numbers, chinese qantifier, A radical on one side of character, writing simple words. But no \"Ting Xie\" and not alot on Han Yu Pin Ying. What they explain that we should leave something new for P1 to learn or else the child will get bored in P1. Likewise the children will be given graded reader books. In addition, they will do role play, show & tell, discussion & sharing. To prep my gal for P1, we sent her to Chinese classes (berries).

My girl mentioned that she liked her nursery class the best due to the types of activities then. When came to K1, there were more serious stuff to learn which I think is good as the school slowly prep them the life in primary school. One consistent observation I had was that every year she likes her teachers in the class which I think it say something about the teachers/staff there.

My gal now still talking about that she misses her sk school life as the pace of primary school life is indeed fast. Every week got spelling and ting xie. But thankfully, she is coping well with her weekly Ting Xie and I am surprised that her chinese language picked up exponentially fast. So the worry that I had during her pre-school days of not knowing chinese much is unfound.

With her studied in SK, at least we feel that she did enjoy her pre-school life where the school taught them the love of learning and she is now carrying this skill to her primary school.

I can only share based on my experience as each child is different and will respond ans adapt differently

Cheer!

[lchunleo]

:thankyou: thank you for your detailed response daddy2007.

[lchunleo]

can i ask for those parents whose children in the afternoon session, how do your child spend the day in the morning? my child tends to wake up early (7am) and i think it is a tiring for him to have to take the school bus at 10.30 am. Due to logistic, we unable to let him go for the morning session. Thank you for your responses.

[vernice80]

lchunleo:

can i ask for those parents whose children in the afternoon session, how do your child spend the day in the morning? my child tends to wake up early (7am) and i think it is a tiring for him to have to take the school bus at 10.30 am. Due to logistic, we unable to let him go for the morning session. Thank you for your responses.

Hi both my kids are in Soka now - N2 and K2. They are in noon session. Usually in the morning they just play or watch tv then brunch before boarding their school bus by 1030. Not much time actually.