English Language

Kaelyn started using English as her preferred language during the early years so Daddy had to speak to her in Mandarin so as to encourage her to speak more Mandarin.  Her Mandarin has improved tremendously... kudos to Daddy and also My First Skool Teacher 彭老师 who has a lot of influence in her Mandarin proficency as well. 

As Kiasu parents, we feel English is one that should not be neglected and she needs to get started on Phonics so that would help her in her reading skills.  Also knowing Phonics well will also help in her spelling.  She went through an assessment at LCentral and she is classed between "LaunchPad" and "Lift-Off".  Mummy made the call to start her with, lower level, LaunchPad instead.  She started to attend her evening lessons on every Thurs by Teacher Sharin who is a Londoner.  Kaelyn enjoys her lessons very much and always tells us how much she like her teacher.


There comes a point when Kaelyn's dance teacher 梁永心老师 decided to go overseas to further her dancing passion.  Her new dance teacher is a male teacher which mummy is a bit uncomfortable with.  Mummy felt that we should switch her Sunday dance lesson to Saturday so that she gets a female dance teacher and she could join 姐姐 & 妹妹 's swimming lesson which is Sun morning.  If she have dance on Sun afternoon, it will be too tiring so we activated the change to Sat about 2 months prior to her dance exams.  She had difficulty adjusting to new teacher and new friends.. quite slowly & painfully she manage to merge in and accepted the change.

Separately some Sundays, we bring her to join in the swimming but she didn't seem to enjoy the water.  She and 妹妹 were just playing by themselves in the baby pool and most of the time, only her lower body is wet. Sometimes she would prefer to stay at home than to go swimming so we just let her be.

The phonics & dance lessons run concurrently for a few months  until  January when LCentral said Kaelyn is ready to go to the Lift-off level.  However, the Lift-Off classes are only available on Sat at 9 am.  Oh my goodness, we have changed her dance to Sat so that all the activites can be separated out.  Sigh.. so much planning has gone to waste.  So now the phonics & dance lessons are taking place on Sat at 9 am and 2 pm respectively.  Sometimes, she'll fall asleep in between but it has been a few months now so she's more or less got use to the routine.  Let's bear with it a little while more when you complete your Lift Off level then we'll stop the lessons ok.