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Bilingual Buds introduces New York City location! -
We have been looking for a second location in various locales for the last year and have finally found the right space: 180 Riverside Blvd at West 68th Street in Manhattan. We are renting and renovating commercial office space there. Open houses are planned for this location on Saturday, July 11, and August 8 from 9-11am, and 1-3pm for fall enrollment. Please refer any colleagues and friends to our open houses or visit www.bilingualbudsnyc.com for more information. We are in the process of hiring staff for this location including a full time Director. Our current teaching staff will continue to work in Summit as before. Click here for press release.
Registration now open for Summer Camp 2009 in Summit, NJ. Click here for more information.
Registration for Day School 2009-2010: Applications are handled on a space-available basis. Click here for more information.
Registration for After School 2009-2010: Click here for more information.
Enhanced Home Support Website
We are very pleased to announce the launch of a major enhancement for our Home support site that we've been working on over the past year! Parents will now have access to our proprietary audio vocabulary home support site featuring vocabulary in 10 categories such as body parts, animals, etc. There are pictures of the vocabulary, audio files with the Mandarin pronunciation, as well as stroke order animation, and sentences being read using the vocabulary. Our intention was to create a tool that non-Mandarin speaking parents could use with their children to reinforce their learning. Usage of this website is limited to current parents, however. Please click here to go to the home support site.
On-line Support for Current students
We have purchased a school license for the online versions of “My First Chinese Reader" and "My First Chinese Workbook” textbooks available to all who have the hardcopy texts. Check the parent newsletter for updated usernames and passwords.
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Our Mission |
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Bilingual Buds is a unique Mandarin Chinese immersion school for children ages 1-10. We provide children with an opportunity to develop proficiency in Chinese language and literacy, while developing the "whole child" in a child-centered environment. Our mission is to prepare our children to be global citizens who are intellectually curious, culturally aware and linguistically capable. The need for our children to be able to understand and communicate with other cultures will be ever greater in the years to come. We believe that helping a child become bilingual is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give. | ||
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Family SupportWe strive to support the parents in their efforts to help their child become bilingual. To this end we provide newsletters, parent education sessions and recommendations of home support materials. Many of our families do not speak Chinese at home and thus, find this support invaluable.Inside our Program
This video gives an overview of our unique program featuring Mommy & Me, preschool and after school students, as well as parent and teacher perspectives.
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