First of its kind Mandarin Clubhouse for
Why The Early Chapter?
Language fluency requires learners to fully embrace a language as a communication tool. Language is best learned by using it in our daily lives and activities, rather than through a traditional classroom approach.
Mandarin Chinese fluency can open many opportunities and the language is now widely taught in schools. But few school learners can articulate in Mandarin like a native speaker.
The Early Chapter is a clubhouse / playgroup that immerses children in Mandarin as they embark on a world of exploration, creativity and camaraderie. Children learn and use the language during play and a host of fun activities. We aim to create an enjoyable and effective learning environment. One of the favourite place at the club is our Happy Kitchen where children learn Mandarin through cooking their favourite dish.
Why The Early Chapter?
Fun Activities
- Sensory Play – (1-3 years old)
7 to a class – specially designed for toddlers. - Jr Explorer – (1-8 years old)
10 to a class - Jr Chef – (1-8 years old)
12 to a class - *Use tokens to book classes
- *Buy 1 token for 45 minutes of fun activity and 30 minutes after class play (first come first serve basis)
- *New theme and content every week.
Chinese Enrichment Classes
Show & Tell
- A toastmaster-inspired Mandarin public speaking programme for 5-8 yrs where children discuss and speak on different topics each week.
- K1/K2 – $360/term, P1/P2 – $480/term
- 6 to 12 per class
- 8 lessons per term
Birthday Parties
- Celebrate your child’s birthday at The Early Chapter!
- We can host up to 80pax, with many add-on options available for your customisation.
- Enjoy a flexible and easy planning experience with us today!
Pre-School Excursions
- We provide engaging activities (bilingual) at an affordable price of $25-$35 per child, FOC for teachers!
- Choose us as the destination for your next excursion.
- No GST!
- Minimum 12 children to start and Maximum 72 children per trip
Testimonials
Arissa and Ashlyn Goh
“It is a place my children look forward to going every week”Love Chia
“TEC has a successful formula – learn through play. Children are more at ease and feel more comfortable when they got to play with their peers and through the process, communicate more in Mandarin”Paige Soh
“Page is able string 4-6 mandarin words sentences with improved articulation, all in the span of 2.6 months, all through play learning.
She looks forward to her “Fei Fei class” every week!”
Gao Zaiyi
“Since the first session of the show-and-tell class, that has become my boy’s favorite. He gets exposure to various topics in each session, practicing new vocabularies, expressing them with organized sentences, with enforcement from interesting art projects. I especially like that the learning takes place with a playful and encouraging environment that suits his age and active nature.”Claire
“I am grateful the TEC has such a program like the Show & Tell class as it is different from the usual enrichment classes. TEC’s Show & Tell class hones my child’s oral skills while helping to build her confidence and does so in a fun and engaging with speaking mandarin and resists traditional enrichment classes. As the class size is small, my child feels less intimidated and is more willing to participate.
I’d also like to give special mention to Ziling Laoshi who is ever so patient with my daughter despite my daughter’s weaker command in the language. I appereciate Ziling Laoshi’s regular feedback and advice on how to help her improve. Even on days when my daughter is not keen to participate, Ziling Laoshi never gives up on her and will guide her step-by-step.
Thank you TEC!
”Vicotoria Thng
“I like that the program is interactive with different topic each week which the kid can relate to & train their confidence in using Chinese to presend and describe. Its a blend of speech & drama as well as academic with writing practices to build their vocabulary most important Victoria likes going to the classes and she has become more interested in speaking in Chinese. It makes it a fun environment to increase their interest in the language”
The lessons offered are interactive, well-structured and interesting. It helps the children to enhance their appreciation of the Mandarin language by making the experience fun and enjoyable. The 姐姐 facilitating the cooking class is very patient and sweet. The support team is also extremely approachable and friendly. Overall, this place is recommended to parents seeking a place for children to learn the Mandarin language and at the same time to have fun!
A very warm and welcoming team. They also provide interesting way of learning mandarin. My daughter enjoys her lessons here.
Attended my niece, Hailey's 4th birthday celebration held here, which included kids cooking class.Overall a nice place with a play area as well.
Comprehensive programme. Children were engaged all the time and had lots of varied experiences. Moreover, it’s conducted in Mandarin, giving children a language rich environment to practice their Mandarin. Highly recommended.
Activities are well planned and executed. Our 3-6 year old children had a great time with cookery and music and movement. The staff are friendly and approachable. We'll definitely plan another learning journey to The Early Chapter. Highly recommended!
The cooking session not only has sparked my children interest in conversing in Chinese, it also helps in their character building. They are independent now, able to take instructions and wanting to do everything by themselves. I’m grateful that their Chinese conversation skills has improved tremendously.
My son has attended since it's opening and from a non-speaking mandarin child, he started to slowly converse and even can argue with me now in mandarin! Even his preschool teacher said he has improved in both his vocabulary and confidence in answering in mandarin. Now, he enjoys his regular visits to the clubhouse and especially loves Jr. Chef.
This is my 4th month of subscription to The Early Chapter. I am really glad to find such an immersive Chinese learning club for my child.I stumbled upon this on Instagram and decided to give it a try. My child felt in love with this club after only two trial classes and even sings the welcome songs at home. This surprised me and showed me that the innovative learning approach of The Early Chapter is effective - through learning with arts, games and story telling, they came to possession of basic Chinese sentences and words in a joyful process. This is what I believe the best part of this club.What I recommend the most among all the club activities is the “Jr explorers”. Every week, the children are lead to do different scientific experiments, these fun little experiments teach them fundamental physics and enriched their knowledge. Such innovative learning process is so much different compared to the average tutoring. This made me further believe that The Early Chapter is a innovative and creative Chinese-learning club, it indeed make learning as fun as playing and is able to teach through fun. Now every Saturday, my son asks me when will I bring him to the club. Hope The Early Chapter continues to thrive and shine with more and more fun activities!
