Welcome to Our Program!

May’s Chinese School is a high-quality child development program.  We not only provide immersion Chinese language teaching, but also provide age and developmentally appropriate curriculums and best opportunities for your child’s physical, social, and emotional development.  

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What Makes Us Unique?

• We provide immersion Chinese language teaching as a big plus service without extra charges
• Although Chinese language learning is one of the focuses of the program, we offer a developmentally age-appropriate balanced curriculum (approved by EMU professors), which incorporates speaking, reading, mathematical, and critical thinking skills. The character building activities enhance your child's self-esteem and encourage good moral habits. By providing high-quality child care, May and her assistant teachers will well prepare your child for entering kindergarten and future successes.  As a matter of fact, one of our daycare children, Lorraine Smith, was admitted to Emerson School of Ann Arbor with full scholarship in September, 2012!
• Our program has been observed and approved by college professors and the experts from Council for Professional Recognition (http://www.cdacouncil.org/)
• Highly qualified teachers with degrees in early childhood
• Small group size and low teacher-child ratios mean lots of individual attention for your child’s safety and education.  Our teacher-child ratios 1:2-1:6, while big centers’ 1:4-1:15!
• Our environment is home-like rather than institutional.  The comfortable household furniture and equipment give the children homey feeling and reduce their stress and separation anxiety. 
• Our location is perfect for outdoor exploration.  Mallets Creek Public Library, Cobble Stone Farm, Buhr Park, Rose Park, and County Farm Park are all within 5 minutes walking distance. When the weather is good, we often go to attend the library’s preschool events, visit the famous farm, and have field trips in the parks. We bought a 6-seat stroller just for this purpose.
• We use educational new technologies in our classroom.  For example, we use iPad to teach abstract concepts, show images/cartoons, learn music, recognize letters/numbers, etc.
  
• We often clean our toys, carpets, and equipment to prevent diseases. 

So give us a call or send us an email (maydelosh@gmail.com).  We are confident that we can make a big positive difference in your child’s future. 

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Why Chinese?

Mastering multiple languages is becoming more and more important in this very competitive and ever-globalizing world. Chinese langauge becomes more and more useful, because China's economy is huge and expanding rapidly (In 2010, China’s GDP growth was 10.456 percent, totaling US$ 5,745.13 billion, and is expected to increase 11.79 percent in 2011 to US$ 6,422.28 Billion. Forecasts for 2015 predict China’s GDP to reach US$ 9,982.08 billion, growing 10-12 percent per year between 2010 and 2015. http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/china/)

Learning a new language is much easier for kids than it is for adults, because children hold a unique ability to master a second language. At about 7 months, a baby's brain starts long-term memory development. This is the beginning of what scientists and linguists call a child's critical period. From this stage until around age 12 or 13, when the brain begins losing its plasticity, children have their greatest potential to absorb and retain language skills.

Here are some facts about children’s language learning: An 18-month-old might say about 25 words. By the age of 24 months, this baby might say 300 words. At age of 3, she could use 900 words to conduct complex communication. When she is 12 years old, her reading vocabulary could be near 50,000 words!

What are the important findings of some scientifically based researches?

"Studies conducted with middle-class balanced bilinguals in "additive" environments, where both languages are prestigious, have generally reported that bilinguals showed a higher level of cognitive performance than monolinguals. In these studies, bilinguals showed higher levels of general intellectual skills, higher levels of divergent thinking, a more analytic orientation to language and greater sensitivity to feedback cues." (Cummins, J. (1977). The cognitive development of bilingual children: A review of recent research Retrieved. P.56)

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At May’s Chinese School, we use immersion style to teach the children Chinese language. That means children learn by doing and playing with interpersonal language contexts. Over the years, May has taught hundreds of school language children and tutored dozens of learners (from toddlers to seniors who are in their 70s) and has found out that immersion style is the best method for second language learning and younger brains are easier to learn that.

So, it would be really sad if you, as a parent, were to let your child's prime time for learning a new language slip away! Parents, let’s work together as a team in our program to help your children master a second language and build brighter futures.