Monday, December 01, 2008

Play school in ramavaram (closer to Mugaliwakkam also)

After a long search finaly I found a good play school for my son tejas. It is The blue bells, ramapuram. They have branches in 3 other places also. A friend of mine suggested I should take a look at this place. I did and I was super impressed. Though it is a bit far from mugalliwakkam, it is definitely worth the time and travel. A very nice thoughtful play school. I can see that they have a in depth knowledge in handling toddlers. Right from things like dress code 'no zipper shorts for boys', 'tissue papers instead of towels simply because kids will want to own another kids towel if it has Dora cartoon :)'. They have a very nice process to get the kid used to the school. Diwali celebration, children's day. Nice play school for enthusiastic moms like me :).
I actually did a puppet show for the kids on childern's day. 2 very good teachers, enough and more attenders to take care. A very passionate couple are running this place. They think, breathe, sleep every little aspect of the play school. I do teach whatever I can at home about colors, animals, birds, etc etc (one enthusiatic mother, you ever imagine) but i was so excited the day he drew a sun for me which the school had taught... it goes like this 'BIGGGGGGGG circle - small line... big line...small line... big line. and there is it. The most beautiful sun I have ever seen.
I strongly recommend The Blue Bells.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Had this funny experience this morning after a longtime. I ensured I spend some time to blog about it.

I'm on a look out for a play school for my son. We reside in mugaliwakkam, porur there aren't any good recognized playschools. There are some that operate out of small houses. So I decided to give it a shot and this morning i visisted one of the playschools (???) playhall may be. There was this instructor who stepped out to give me details. So i started my conversation with her.. I was sounding more like a concerned parent and she was very straightforward and business oriented. I asked her so do you have a play area... she said "playarea??? (more like for what) this is all we have" and showed a hall. I asked her if i can step in and take a look... she instantly said "step in??? for what. it is just a hall"... at this point i was not sure if i should continue to talk.. then decided to dig her more about the school... I asked her so what do the children do here... she told me in very seriuos note "I have a defined curriculum. I will complete all the syllabus thats is required to equiq them to get into LKG...", Curriculum??? syllabus??? she sounded like some IAS training center. And my last question was so how many kids do you teach... "45" at this point i was shocked, i peeped in a bit and noticed a hall full of toddlers sitting with their lunch bags typically like a crowd which you would see in these political meetings. I forgot to ask her what was the fees. probably will stop to check that 2morow :)

I told to myself NO. This is not the place for my son. and drove to work. I might stop to visit another one probably in the evening today.