Bela had her trial class at Early Achievers Learning Center in Sgt. River Quezon City last January 19. We checked out EALC when we were school hunting last year but we did not have a trial class as they don’t have a 3x a week schedule for Bela’s age group. And that time, we only want a 3x a week schedule for Bela as she is just 2.6 years old then.
I checked out their brochure again and I like their curriculum. They are a purely progressive school and they have the same set of activities as Toddlers Unlimited – free play, circle time, snack time, story time, and art time. The only difference is that, EALC have a Chinese class. It is a one hour class where all the topics and activities done during the English period will be repeated again but this time, the medium of communication that will be use is the Chinese language and they have a separate Chinese teacher for this. This means that there will just be a total of two hours for the whole class since the Chinese class is just a repetition of the English class. And I think for Bela’s age, a two hour class is not enough and even though learning Chinese would be an advantage for Bela, I still did not like how they divide the 3 hours class for their English and Chinese lessons. I think for parents who will enroll their kids to a Chinese school, this will be a benefit since as early as pre-school, the kids already have a start with the Chinese language. But since we are not Chinese, we will not enroll Bela in a Chinese school when she is ready for big school so I think EALC Chinese curriculum will not benefit her that much.
Bela actually enjoyed the trial class (They only allowed us for a 1 hour trial class). When she was introduced by Teacher Carol (EALC Program Coordinator) to the Senior Nursery Class, she waved her hands to say hi and she told them her name. Then she immediately participated in the class activity which is their story time.
But even if it looks like Bela will not have a hard time adjusting at EALC, I am still not convince and after the trial, I realized that I did not like their curriculum even if they are a progressive school like Toddlers Unlimited. So we decided that we still have to look for another school for Bela.
After visiting EALC, we visited Child Preschool in Tomas Morato. I will make a separate post about that soon as I still have a lot of tasks to finish and it is already 12 AM. (Thank goodness we receive a number of coffee makers during our wedding that we always have coffee ready to keep me awake until the wee hours of the morning.)
I checked out their brochure again and I like their curriculum. They are a purely progressive school and they have the same set of activities as Toddlers Unlimited – free play, circle time, snack time, story time, and art time. The only difference is that, EALC have a Chinese class. It is a one hour class where all the topics and activities done during the English period will be repeated again but this time, the medium of communication that will be use is the Chinese language and they have a separate Chinese teacher for this. This means that there will just be a total of two hours for the whole class since the Chinese class is just a repetition of the English class. And I think for Bela’s age, a two hour class is not enough and even though learning Chinese would be an advantage for Bela, I still did not like how they divide the 3 hours class for their English and Chinese lessons. I think for parents who will enroll their kids to a Chinese school, this will be a benefit since as early as pre-school, the kids already have a start with the Chinese language. But since we are not Chinese, we will not enroll Bela in a Chinese school when she is ready for big school so I think EALC Chinese curriculum will not benefit her that much.
Bela actually enjoyed the trial class (They only allowed us for a 1 hour trial class). When she was introduced by Teacher Carol (EALC Program Coordinator) to the Senior Nursery Class, she waved her hands to say hi and she told them her name. Then she immediately participated in the class activity which is their story time.
But even if it looks like Bela will not have a hard time adjusting at EALC, I am still not convince and after the trial, I realized that I did not like their curriculum even if they are a progressive school like Toddlers Unlimited. So we decided that we still have to look for another school for Bela.
After visiting EALC, we visited Child Preschool in Tomas Morato. I will make a separate post about that soon as I still have a lot of tasks to finish and it is already 12 AM. (Thank goodness we receive a number of coffee makers during our wedding that we always have coffee ready to keep me awake until the wee hours of the morning.)
1 comments:
Just wondering how come you kept on referring to Toddler's Unlimited... Bela tried it before?
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