Early Years (Ages 18 Months - Kindergarten)

Nursery students will:

• Learn through and about Chinese throughout the day, happily and richly immersed in songs, stories, finger play, parallel and group play.
• By the end of the year, students will have explored their surroundings through Chinese language and will have responded to and made requests appropriate to the context.

Pre-School students will:

• Sing, recite poems and nursery rhymes, and dramatize stories in Chinese.
• Be immersed in stories and texts, and learn to express their feelings and ideas using a combination of writing, drawing, writing, crafting, and dictation methods.

Pre-Kindergarten students will:

• Learn to speak Chinese with native or near-native accent and tones.
• Understand and respond to school rules and classroom routines.
• Carry out conversations within a familiar and meaningful context.
• Understand the main idea of a new story, and repeat key elements in the story.
• Describe familiar events using words and simple sentences.

Kindergarten students will:

• Speak Chinese with native or near-native accent and tones
• Learn to understand verbal communication within semi-familiar to unfamiliar context.
• Learn to understand the key elements of a new story and retell the story with prompting and support
• Master a vocabulary of high frequency of approximately 300 to 800 words.
• Form good reading habits and enjoy reading.
• Recognize 50-100 characters and read simple phrases and texts with comprehension.
• Follow appropriate handwriting skills and stroke order when writing characters.
• Engage in inquiry-based writing projects.

Nursery students will:

• Learn to count and recognize numbers from 1 to 10.
• Learn about shapes, colors, and patterns and develop skills of sorting, sequencing, comparing and solving simple problems.

Pre-School students will:

• Develop concepts of number, quantity, shape, time and direction.
• Develop skills of sorting, comparison, one-to-one correspondence, and sequencing.

Pre-Kindergarten students will:

• Further develop their understanding of number and quantity, including but not limited to counting up and down, identifying the adjacent number and even and odd numbers.
• Using real objects and events, explore the concepts and skills related to addition and subtraction.
• Learn to identify 2-D shapes, classify objects by one and two attributes, and understand the temporal relations of daily occurrences.

Kindergarten students will:

• Read, write, count, compare and compute numbers to 50.
• Select and explain an appropriate method for solving a problem.
• Sort real objects by attributes, create graphs and tables using real events, and compare quantities and attributes of objects and events in their realm of experience.
• Sort, describe and compare 2-D and 3-D shapes, and explore the paths, regions and boundaries of their immediate environment and their position.
• Find, describe and create simple patterns in their world.

Nursery students will:

• Make various theme-related and seasonal crafts throughout the year.
• Focus on fine-motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
• Interact with surroundings and the nature in artistic and creative ways.

Pre-School students will:

• Observe and reproduce familiar images with dots, lines and shapes.
• Explore shades of colors.
• Engage in a wide variety of hands-on craft projects as an integral part of the units of inquiry.

Pre-Kindergarten students will:

• Learn about lines, shapes and colors, and the interactions of these elements.
• Learn about the basic structure of a drawing, and practice coloring.
• Explore a variety of media and tools to express their inner vision.
• Bring out their imagination and creativity through many open-ended drawings.

Kindergarten students will:

• Learn about colors and their impact and effect through appreciation, discussion and hands-on experimentation.
• Explore a wide variety of art media, including crayon, watercolor, marker, oil pastel and acrylics.
• Free to be imaginative and creative with many opportunities for open-ended drawings and art projects.
• Appreciate a thoughtful selection of artwork for aesthetics and meaning.

The learning of science and social studies are fully integrated in the units of inquiry.

In our Early Years Programs, students will:

• Develop their observational skills by using their senses to gather and record information.
• Use their observations to identify simple patterns.
• Make predictions and discuss their ideas.
• Explore the way objects and phenomena function, and recognize basic cause and effect relationships.
• Examine change over varying time periods and form the beginning knowledge that different variables and conditions may affect change.
• Become aware of different perspectives, and learn to show care and respect for themselves, other living things and the environment.

We aim to instill in students an enjoyment of and appreciation for music.

Students learn to recognize and appreciate basic elements such as rhythm, pitch, and intensity. 

The three main goals for Music Education are:

• Learn to sing.
• Appreciate music.
• Experiment with musical instruments. 

The goal of Physical Education is to help students develop confidence in their personal physicality through body awareness, balance, coordination, flexibility and strength.

The three goals of Social and Emotional Education are:

• Have students develop self-help skills towards a greater degree of independence

• Establish healthy and safe daily routines.

• Learn to live, play and work with peers with respect and in harmony.