Homeschool Shanghai

People are amazed that John is learning piano as well; he is only a 4-year-old kid. Piano teachers would tell you that they’ll take kids at the age of 3. There are child protégés that play so well at age 4. But I don’t expect any of my kids to be a protégé. It’s hard [...]

Paul asked me if he could pick up Japanese. It must be because of the Japanese animation that he watched. The songs are in Japanese. The kids try to sing them but cannot get it right – they can fool anyone except the Japanese, and me, hahaha… I’ve learnt Japanese before, and had pretty good [...]

It was quite a good surprise when TC told me that the reporter who came to interview SALT many months ago had her article on homeschooling in Shanghai printed in one of the magazines that caters to the expatriate community here. It has all the contacts of SALT, SAINTS, SCS, Chinese Homeschoolers and SHARE Homeschool [...]

SG, BL and I had been planning the Christmas Party. I had invited DM and his family, MK and her family, and my two students whom I give English tuition to. I had thoughts about inviting LZ and her family too, but then she was unwell. Her family’s attendance would mean that she would be [...]

The parents had been busy meeting and planning for the coming SALT Christmas Party and Winter Recital. Paul had nearly missed the Christmas Party because of a virus attack. Praise the Lord that He had provided us with Art teachers – DC, AM and EM had volunteered to cover Art for the next trimester. CL [...]

We’ve been practising for many Sundays now, for the Sunday School’s Christmas Presentation on 2nd December. Co-teacher AK and ST had been helping the kids to practise, dressing up and giving instructions. The kids in my class (Grade K, 2pm) had not have enough rehearsal – there was only one. I could sense some of [...]

It’s been a busy time for me. Looks like I’ll have to recall the events one by one… It was a field trip to an agriculture farm in Jiading District. The kids in SALT really enjoyed themselves. Some of us thought that our kids would get to play at the big open space in the [...]