Bilingual Preschool Options?

[SwissMissMama]

I am looking for a Bilingual preschool for my almost 3 year old. Preferably a preschool that is a feeder school to a larger location.... Is bilingual common at the preschool level? My daughter is in a bilingual kinder/preschool and picked up Swiss German within 3 weeks of being integrated and I feel the younger I get her acclimated the easier it will be to learn Mandarin.

Thanks!

[wannamove]

Most of the preschools have 1 or 2 hours of Mandarin every day. It should pretty easy for you to find a bilingual preschool if you are looking at Mandarin as the 2nd language.

[cw1483]

What bilingual languages were you referring to?

Here's a helpful guide to find child care centers(montessori/preschool/kindergarten) and when you do advance search on the right, to search for child care center (you can select mother tongue as Chinese, Malay, Tamil, or Others).

http://www.childcarelink.gov.sg/ccls/home/CCLS_Home.jsp

[SwissMissMama]

Yes, the second language would be Mandarin. The way it currently works at my daughter's preschool is there are 2 teachers in each classroom. One only speaks English and the other German... it's like this everyday. This is the set-up I am looking for. Is this common in Singapore?

[wannamove]

Yes, the second language would be Mandarin. The way it currently works at my daughter's preschool is there are 2 teachers in each classroom. One only speaks English and the other German... it's like this everyday. This is the set-up I am looking for. Is this common in Singapore?

From the daycares/preschools I have visited/contacted - Mandarin is offered 1 hour a day or 1/2 a day (Odyssey was the only place with 1/2 day Mandarin). There is a teacher who interacts with them in Mandarin and helps them.

My almost 3 year old daughter has been in a Singapore preschool with 1 hr of Mandarin for the past 7 months and sings Mandarin songs and uses Mandarin words which I do not understand