Chinese Immersion Preschool Recommendations
Debating to find a daycare/pre school situation for my 18 month old. I am not sure if it is worth to break a leg or an arm to pay for the Chinese immersion montessori school but I feel like her age is a little ackward - either do a daycare for a year then join the pre school or just attend pre school directly.
We have been talking with Guidepost Montessori (prior named as LePort) but would like to get other parents' thoughts if your kids are in Guidepost - pros and cons. Pleassssss!
Sep 18, 2020
Parent Replies
Not exactly what you're asking for but our child just graduated from Little Lamb Bilingual Preschool in Albany, http://littlelambbilingual.weebly.com/enrollment.html, and we had a wonderful experience. The curriculum is a Montessori-like approach and the monthly tuition is listed on the website for you to compare against Guidepost.
The director, Xin Dong, finds really wonderful teachers and accepts children from 18 months of age. There's a cohort of younger students and then an older cohort of slightly older students that works really well. Good luck!
I would say staying with chinese speaking daycare for a while as it is safer to not expose them to a bigger crowd of people because of Covid. Chinese immersion montessori is just too expensive for us now too since we have twins.
Alternatively you can try to get a Chinese speaking au pair.
I am personally making the choice to start their actual school til Kindergarten, and we are hoping to go to a Chinese immersion one too.