Last Saturday, before going to Halili Cruz School of Ballet for Bela’s ballet class, we dropped by at Mind Specialist School to enroll Bela for their summer program. I initially signed up for their Phonetics, Arts, Music and Movement class but we decided to enroll her to their Reading and Writing class instead to prepare her for what she will expect this coming June. And since most of her future classmates are also enrolled at these classes, we figured that it will be a good opportunity for her to adjust to the new kids around her before classes officially begin this June.
Since it is Howell’s first time to visit the school, Miss Beth, gave us a tour of the school facilities. She showed us all the different rooms for all their class levels, their audio visual room (it would be better though if their AV room has home theatre seating) where students can watch educational show as part of their activities in class (I think they do this once a week), they even have a computer room where kids can explore the computer at an early age.
Miss Beth also showed us their worksheets and I was impressed. Their worksheets are really colorful and are full of drawings to encourage the kids to do their worksheets. They also have their own worksheets for their Chinese subject. The also have a third folder where teachers write anecdotal reports for each kid every week. These three folders are sent home every Friday so parents can see how their kids are progressing in school. Miss Beth even showed us pictures of their activity last week where they rented a speed boat and jet ski and it was parked right outside the school’s garage since their theme for that month is transportation. So it is indeed a mix progressive and traditional school which I think is the best set up for Bela’s age.
I have no plans to pay the reservation fee for this coming school year that day as I want to think about it more but after the tour and the sort of orientation that Beth gave us, I got really convince that MSS is the right school for Bela for this coming school year so we paid the reservation too that day.
So there, it will be Mind Specialist School for Bela this coming school year and we are really leaving TU. She has to go to school 5x a week already by June and it would be too much for her since TU is kind of far from us. I am glad that we finally found a school for Bela for this coming school year that we really like and we really feel will be a good training ground for her before she goes to big school either by 2010 or 2011.
Since it is Howell’s first time to visit the school, Miss Beth, gave us a tour of the school facilities. She showed us all the different rooms for all their class levels, their audio visual room (it would be better though if their AV room has home theatre seating) where students can watch educational show as part of their activities in class (I think they do this once a week), they even have a computer room where kids can explore the computer at an early age.
Miss Beth also showed us their worksheets and I was impressed. Their worksheets are really colorful and are full of drawings to encourage the kids to do their worksheets. They also have their own worksheets for their Chinese subject. The also have a third folder where teachers write anecdotal reports for each kid every week. These three folders are sent home every Friday so parents can see how their kids are progressing in school. Miss Beth even showed us pictures of their activity last week where they rented a speed boat and jet ski and it was parked right outside the school’s garage since their theme for that month is transportation. So it is indeed a mix progressive and traditional school which I think is the best set up for Bela’s age.
I have no plans to pay the reservation fee for this coming school year that day as I want to think about it more but after the tour and the sort of orientation that Beth gave us, I got really convince that MSS is the right school for Bela for this coming school year so we paid the reservation too that day.
So there, it will be Mind Specialist School for Bela this coming school year and we are really leaving TU. She has to go to school 5x a week already by June and it would be too much for her since TU is kind of far from us. I am glad that we finally found a school for Bela for this coming school year that we really like and we really feel will be a good training ground for her before she goes to big school either by 2010 or 2011.
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