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• saeko
• 2024/05/25 (Sat) 16:16
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#18 maki
I knew you got your mid-pack acceptance letter ！
All of us at the school got mid-packs one after another ！

Iolani is still the best academically, by far. Iolani is still by far the best academically, and the university they go to is more advanced than Punahou.
Congratulations on getting into the school of your choice in GE.
We are both taking the middle exam again ！ I'm glad you feel like you have a peer.

• yuri
• 2024/05/28 (Tue) 09:56
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#16 Slipper
Thanks for your comment. Sorry for the delay ！
No, I'm just an ordinary girl. I have never been to Takahashi Juku.
However, she plays outside a lot and her concentration was
high even before she entered preschool.
She liked puzzles and blocks since she was about 2 years old, and she never stopped doing puzzles
until they were completed.
I also raised him from birth with an emphasis on Japanese rather than English.
I learned this from a doctor at the hospital, who told me that a completely bilingual brain affects academic performance, and that if I wanted to raise my child in the U.S., I should immerse him in Japanese until he was 3 years old and raise him 100% in Japanese.
Now I can completely translate from Japanese to English because of that. I heard that the brain moves naturally. I was told before the birth that this would deeply affect my academic ability and judgment, so I was very thorough.
Other than that, he is just a normal kid who plays outside a lot. lol
Thank you for your kind words ♪.

• スリッパ
• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 02:21
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Thank you for your answer, yuri ！
I have an image that puzzle-oriented children are very smart. I think it is good to put Japanese words on the puzzle until 3 years old.

• M
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• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 11:07
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It's been a long time since my children graduated, so I don't know if this applies to your situation now, but just an FYI ！

I had two children graduate from Hanahauoli to Punahou, Mainland college.　My daughter started at Pre-K first and my son attended Public for a year before moving to Hanahauoli, where we still have a great relationship with very good teachers and a wonderful family atmosphere.　　　I had my son take the PUNAHOU exam in Kinder, but they recommended that he take the 4th grade exam because his English vocabulary was less than that of native English speaking children, but we both started at PUNAHOU in 7th grade.　They say that bilingual children learn the language of their parents faster, especially if they spend a lot of time together. In our case, since I was speaking Japanese, I think my Japanese was stronger than my English because I spoke a lot of Japanese when I was little. But after attending the school, my English naturally became stronger.　I know it is a tough time for parents who are going through the schooling process, but please enjoy the time you spend together now ～.

• yuri
• 2024/05/29 (Wed) 13:16
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#22 Mr. M
Thank you for your valuable experience ！
I knew that once you start going to school, English would naturally become your main language. I was a little worried even though the doctor at the hospital said so,
but just by attending （ St. Clements for the past year ） from the age of 3, my English has improved a lot.
My husband is English only, so even though I raised him in Japanese,
the environment to learn English is more than Japanese families, and even now he is about 70% Japanese and 30% English, and he is good at Japanese. lol
Without knowing it, HANAHAUOLI, Montessori Community School
I was surprised that I could pass the entrance exam for HANAHAUOLI, Montessori Community School without even knowing it. I think the English environment will become stronger and stronger, but I have no regrets about raising my child in Japanese until the age of 3. ！
I feel that the bilingual brain is well formed.
Since my children are really leaving the nest, I would like to spend a lot of the precious time I have with them now, enjoying it.