January 20, I scheduled a trial class at Mind Specialist School in D. Tuazon, Quezon City. We checked out this school also when we went school hunting last year. We like their program but Bela did not like it there when she had her trial class. She would not even go inside the room. The rooms there are a little enclose and when Bela was still 2.6, she doesn’t like being inside an enclose room. (You can read the whole story of her trial class at Mind Specialist School last year, here).
But things are different this time. She did not hesitate to go inside the room and she immediately greeted the students of the cocoon class as she entered the room. They are having their free play and she joined a group of girls playing with the blocks. While the kids are having their free play, the two teachers are doing an II (Individual Instruction) for each student. One teacher was calling the students one by one to help them with their worksheet (I think she spends 15 minutes per student) while the other teacher is doing a one on one art work with each student. I like this style as they are really giving each student individual attention especially when it comes with the worksheets.
When all the kids have finished doing their worksheets and art work with the teachers, they now have circle time. They started first with a number of songs. Bela got scared when all the kids sang at the same time. She ran towards us and she kept on saying “They’re so loud” while she cover her ears. But with a little convincing we are able to ask her to go back with her other classmates.
Their topic that day was modes of transportation and the teacher is showing the kids pictures of the different modes of transportation while the kids identify each of them and they will tell the teacher if it runs on land, air or water. Bela excitedly participated again but got scared again and ran towards us when the kids answered the teacher all at the same time and it was too noisy again for Bela.
After circle time, they now have a lecture about the middle sound and I was impressed as kids can now read three letter words and can identify which middle sound to use for the missing letter. After almost an hour and a half of activity, Bela got bored and she wants to go out.
Overall, I think her trial at Mind Specialist School went well. After our trial, I got confused on what type of school now will we enroll Bela. We initially want a progressive school for her and Mind School is a mix progressive and traditional school but then we are starting to think if we should expose her to that kind of environment to prepare her for the big school. We notice how she got scared if her surroundings got a bit noisy since she is not use to that kind of setting since they only have a small class in TU (8 kids). So we’re thinking now that Mind Specialist will be a good training for her to prepare her for the big school setup. Plus my mom and I were impressed at how behave the kids are and how advance they are academically since they are only 3.5 years old and they are already doing three letter sounds. But my worry now is if Bela will not be stress out if we expose her to this kind of new environment. We talked to the school director and she said that there will always be an adjustment period for all the kids and assured me that Bela will be able to adapt if we will just give her time.
We will check out one more school next week (Child School) and we will decide after that.
But things are different this time. She did not hesitate to go inside the room and she immediately greeted the students of the cocoon class as she entered the room. They are having their free play and she joined a group of girls playing with the blocks. While the kids are having their free play, the two teachers are doing an II (Individual Instruction) for each student. One teacher was calling the students one by one to help them with their worksheet (I think she spends 15 minutes per student) while the other teacher is doing a one on one art work with each student. I like this style as they are really giving each student individual attention especially when it comes with the worksheets.
When all the kids have finished doing their worksheets and art work with the teachers, they now have circle time. They started first with a number of songs. Bela got scared when all the kids sang at the same time. She ran towards us and she kept on saying “They’re so loud” while she cover her ears. But with a little convincing we are able to ask her to go back with her other classmates.
Their topic that day was modes of transportation and the teacher is showing the kids pictures of the different modes of transportation while the kids identify each of them and they will tell the teacher if it runs on land, air or water. Bela excitedly participated again but got scared again and ran towards us when the kids answered the teacher all at the same time and it was too noisy again for Bela.
After circle time, they now have a lecture about the middle sound and I was impressed as kids can now read three letter words and can identify which middle sound to use for the missing letter. After almost an hour and a half of activity, Bela got bored and she wants to go out.
Overall, I think her trial at Mind Specialist School went well. After our trial, I got confused on what type of school now will we enroll Bela. We initially want a progressive school for her and Mind School is a mix progressive and traditional school but then we are starting to think if we should expose her to that kind of environment to prepare her for the big school. We notice how she got scared if her surroundings got a bit noisy since she is not use to that kind of setting since they only have a small class in TU (8 kids). So we’re thinking now that Mind Specialist will be a good training for her to prepare her for the big school setup. Plus my mom and I were impressed at how behave the kids are and how advance they are academically since they are only 3.5 years old and they are already doing three letter sounds. But my worry now is if Bela will not be stress out if we expose her to this kind of new environment. We talked to the school director and she said that there will always be an adjustment period for all the kids and assured me that Bela will be able to adapt if we will just give her time.
We will check out one more school next week (Child School) and we will decide after that.
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