Amuktha is going to turn 5 in August. I just can not believe it. I still vividly remember the day when I got to know I conceived and the day she was born. I have often heard people say that they grow up before you know but boy is it true!!
My baby is ready to start school and after all the stories and talks about Kindergarten at her class she thinks it's some magical place and wants to be there.
She so badly wants to go there that I can easily get her to do things she often refuses by saying the magic words "Kindergarten".
Next came the big issue - where is she going to go to? Public school or private? After a lot of debate about our home school, which I do nto have a great opinion about and which does not have great ratings either, we decided to send her to the reputed private school Stratford. Challenger would be too academic and we thought we did not want her to get burnt out too soon.
Now the challenge, startford has an Interview for the child. What? An interview for a 4 year old? Really? Ok... so off we went, telling her she needed to talk to her new teacher at the school. She had an interview for 20 minutes the details of which I know not because she is not the kind who shares details. Pawan and I threatened her, bribed her, coaxed and cajoled but she would only say a part.
Well, the teacher said she was so cute after the interview - what does that mean? Cute? Does not give any insight into what happened or how she did, now does it?
Well, the school called after 2 days, she had to go back for the next round of interview for vocab .. and they said this was common practice.. this time we armed her with all the knowledge of vowels and sounds and reading and all...
This time the teacher said she did excellent and that was what we wanted to hear....
And then the Principal talked to us and congratulated and blah blah...
The result - Amuktha MADE IT. Pawan says he is happier than when he got in Berkeley..LOL!!!
My baby is ready to start school and after all the stories and talks about Kindergarten at her class she thinks it's some magical place and wants to be there.
She so badly wants to go there that I can easily get her to do things she often refuses by saying the magic words "Kindergarten".
Next came the big issue - where is she going to go to? Public school or private? After a lot of debate about our home school, which I do nto have a great opinion about and which does not have great ratings either, we decided to send her to the reputed private school Stratford. Challenger would be too academic and we thought we did not want her to get burnt out too soon.
Now the challenge, startford has an Interview for the child. What? An interview for a 4 year old? Really? Ok... so off we went, telling her she needed to talk to her new teacher at the school. She had an interview for 20 minutes the details of which I know not because she is not the kind who shares details. Pawan and I threatened her, bribed her, coaxed and cajoled but she would only say a part.
Well, the teacher said she was so cute after the interview - what does that mean? Cute? Does not give any insight into what happened or how she did, now does it?
Well, the school called after 2 days, she had to go back for the next round of interview for vocab .. and they said this was common practice.. this time we armed her with all the knowledge of vowels and sounds and reading and all...
This time the teacher said she did excellent and that was what we wanted to hear....
And then the Principal talked to us and congratulated and blah blah...
The result - Amuktha MADE IT. Pawan says he is happier than when he got in Berkeley..LOL!!!
