Description
- Pure Mandarin immersion
- Native Mandarin-speaking teachers
- No prior knowledge of Mandarin is required
- Highly interactive and hands-on activities that emphasize on listening and speaking through Chinese language and cultural immersion
- Curriculum is theme-based and close to children’s lives, making learning a new language meaningful and easy for children.
- Curriculum content/goals covers all learning domains (in Mandarin): cognitive awareness, numeracy, language and literacy, fine and gross motor development, social-emotional development, and creative and aesthetics expression.
- Fun language activities include Chinese nursery rhymes, story telling, poems (classic and contemporary), dramatisations, songs, music and movement and language games
- Hands-on activities like art & craft, object exploration, group projects and learning through body/senses
- Body-Brain Kinesiology activities to stimulate physical and cognitive development
- Physical activities include gross motor activities (at gym/playroom) and fine-motor/pre-writing activities to promote overall physical development of child
- Classroom routines and self-help activities are designed to promote independence, confidence, self-regulation and socialization skills
- Proprietary Mandarin Phonics (Hanyu Pinyin) introduced in every class.
- No prior knowledge of Mandarin required
- No parental involvement and socks are required
- Duration: 3 hours
- Small class size
- Option to enroll for 3, 4 or 5 days per week. No prior knowledge of Mandarin is required