Parkside Day School is a Mandarin immersion early childhood center in South San Francisco serving children ages 24 months through transitional kindergarten.
Parkside Day School is a Mandarin immersion early childhood program for children from 24 months to transitional kindergarten. Instruction and daily interactions are conducted in Mandarin to support language acquisition alongside typical early learning activities.
The program emphasizes Mandarin proficiency through play-based learning and exploratory lessons, using story time, drama, arts and crafts, cooking activities, and outdoor play to develop language, social-emotional, cognitive, and physical skills. Classrooms incorporate children’s ideas and interests and recognize individual needs to offer nurturing, meaningful interactions.
A curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness where children are guided to be independent thinkers and problem-solvers, with emphasis on shared responsibility, individual accountability, effective communication, and more complex academic concepts using concrete materials.
Children work independently and cooperatively in developmentally appropriate activities with emphasis on social-emotional, intellectual, physical, and creative skills; language and writing are integrated across the curriculum and phonetic approaches link sounds and symbols.
Supportive play, open exploration, creative art projects and relationship development with emphasis on self-care, confidence, independence, problem-solving and social interaction skills in uplifting ways.
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