In July 2015, Baby CP joined the Sun Classroom at Little Footprints, a Mandarin immersion preschool. I was worried that the transition from an English speaking preschool to a 100% Mandarin speaking preschool would be tough on him. I feared potential clinging and crying in the mornings before being driven to school and drawn out tantrums, but Baby CP surprised me. He went to school everyday without any drama. We were told that he rarely ever spoke his first two weeks here. This was because he had pretty much forgotten how to speak most of the Chinese that he used to know and he was a bit shy, particularly around the 5 year olds who were very fluent. After those two weeks, many of the 5 year olds graduated and Baby CP started to find all his Chinese words and he even started to raise his hand and volunteer in class.
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| Comforting a friend |
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| Interviewing people at a local business |
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| Making a symmetrical butterfly print |
