Trial lesson @ Bibinogs
Saturday, October 29, 2011Two Saturdays ago, Seth had a trial Mandarin enrichment @ Bibinogs located at Serene Centre. I was enticed by the fact that Bibinogs incorporated Hanyu Pinyin in their Mandarin class as young as 1yo.
It was a 1.5hr session and we were slightly late but the kids were still doing free play. The free play lasted for about 15-20mins before the proper lesson start. The lesson started with intro and Seth was able to pronounce his Chinese name (with some prompting from me of cos!) and pasted his name against his preferred car. They went on to do a few rhymes and story time before proceeding to the table to do some art & craft.
Followed after the craft work was snack time. I remembered reading the web that the kids would be given organic snacks but they were given Honey Stars. Not that i mind but it's 货不对版.
After snacks, they had some playtime before ending class with the reciting of hanyu pinyin and collecting stickers. Without saying, Seth and some other kids couldn't really understand and rattle along.
The teacher blowing bubbles
Behind Seth was the nicely pasted Hanyu Pinyin
I was not very impressed with the programme as it seems a lot of the items are "touch and go". What made it worse was that there was simply no staff to entertain your queries and after waiting a while, I just walked off. Seth is spared from other enrichment till further notice :)
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