School In Singapore

One of the benefits of home schooling is that it really allows for continuity in education no matter where you are located.

 We sent our books on ahead of us which meant that the boys had about two weeks off in WI before we moved.  This time off allowed for some visiting with family and friends before our departure and sending the books ahead of us allowed us to start school back up the second week we were here.

The first month has been a bit tricky with getting all of our schooling done as we are learning how to get our groceries and exploring the city around us.  We seem to be in a great mode at the moment with accomplishing a lot of school work in the day and the boys have settled into a routine with their books.

I have not been able to find any home school groups here yet, I am sure they are around so I am keeping an ear out for a connection.  We also are having difficulty finding violin lessons that we can possibly afford!  In the states we paid about $14.00 per lesson per child here in Singapore the going rate is $120.00 per lesson per child!!!  Um, NO.  So we are checking into a lead with a 22 year old boy who will come to our house but I still do not know what his rate will be.

We get Mandarin lessons while we are here so we have been doing Rosetta Stone Chinese until our lessons start in January.  The boys will both get high school foreign language credit for the Mandarin and there is a place in Milwaukee that we can continue what we start here when we get home. 

Both Scott and the boys would like to take up Martial Arts while we are here so this next week we will be exploring our options with the lessons.  In the mean time we are doing a lot of reading and enjoying every moment in our days as each day comes with a new lesson and each lesson betters us as a person.