The classes are predominately in Chinese, and seeing how Noah speaks almost NO Chinese at all I'm sure it will be a little problematic.....at first. We have been told that he will be able to pick up the language fairly quickly. If the truth be told, I'm sure his Chinese will be better than mine in a couple of months.
Today when we went to the school we carried Noah along with us; just so we could get his take on it. He seemed to love the fact that they had lots of toys to play with: slides, swings, jungle gyms, and more. But we kept reminding him that school isn't all play, you also have to sit down and do whatever it is your teacher tells you to do. We have no idea if he will really like it or not, maybe it's just the idea of playing with other kids all day that he loves and when expectation doesn't meet reality he may decide that playing with his brother all day isn't so bad after all. Who knows, if he does stick with it, rather than going to Ma Bin or Yang Yi Fan, I might just be going to him for help with my homework.
7:30 - 800 入园 - Arrival
8:00-8:30 早餐 - Breakfast
8:30-:900 活动 - Exercises
9:00-10:20 教学活动 - Class Time
10:20-11:20 户外 - Recess
11:20-11:30 餐前准备 - Prepare for Lunch
11:30-12:15 午餐 - Lunch
12:15-14:15 午休 - Nap Time
14:15-14:40 起床， 午点 - Wake up, Snacks
14:40-15:20 教学活动 - Class Time
15:20-16:20 户外活动 - Recess
The schedule we received actually has the children eating supper at the school from 5:00-5:30, but we will be picking him up probably around 3:00 since this is when Jenni gets off of work, and we want to see him for more than a couple of hours each day.
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Ok, so I skipped the Chinese in the schedule initially, and then I went back and read it. Could there be a more literal language?
餐前准备: "meal before preparation" Makes me laugh.
I hope the transition into school goes well for you guys (and Noah). I can't imagine it'll be easy to drop him off that first day.
for real! Every time I learn something new I just laugh at how literal it is.
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