Mandarin for toddlers | ELFA Preschool

We know your precious little ones deserve only the best care in their early years.

ELFA Preschool @ Hougang, Jurong East, and Tampines provide infants and toddlers aged 2 to below 18 months with a conducive environment suited for learning and growing. Your child will be well-cared for by highly qualified and experienced educators who offer responsive and tender loving care, which is crucial for healthy development. With proper and intentional care and learning, your newborn will maximise their development holistically.

This is accomplished in an environment designed with the highest possible level of safety in mind and providing ample opportunities for sensory, cognitive, creative, social, and emotional stimulation during crucial growing months. Your baby is nurtured in a comfortable setting conducive to total development.

Besides meeting the basic needs of the growing infant, the programmes are specially designed to provide individualised, responsive care and affection for every child to allow them to explore their own capabilities.

Our Infant & Toddler Activities

Toddler climbing in tunnel

Sensory-Motor Development

ELFA’s programme provides a safe and stimulating environment for infants to explore their five senses while developing their gross and fine motor skills. Our story-based curriculum offers age-appropriate piquant lessons, activities, and resources to encourage exploration, experimentation, and discovery. Infants can perfect their fundamental motor skills during interactive lessons while gaining self-confidence.

Teacher teaching mandarin to a toddler

Language and Cognitive Growth

Cognition is the ability to think, learn and remember. Children build the foundation for speech and language through listening and absorbing the basic and distinct sounds of the words. Your newborn’s brain rapidly makes sense of the world through interacting with our sensitive educators. That is why at ELFA, we proactively expose our infants to bilingualism from a young age.

Preschool teacher building blocks with toddler

Creative Stimulation through the Senses

Your newborn’s five senses will actively be engaged in ELFA’s specially-designed environment that utilises colours, play tools, textures and sounds. By discovering cause-and-effect through play, your curious child develops a sense of creativity, inquisitiveness and exploration.

Toddler learning through sensory play

Social and Emotional Connection

ELFA’s educators respond to infants in ways that foster healthy development, both socially and emotionally. Through responsive and interactive communication, infants learn about various moods, gestures and emotions as their personality develops.

Importance of Learning Mandarin for Infants and Toddlers

Bilingual Development & Cognitive Growth
Enrolling your child in ELFA’s Infant and Toddler Care offers the advantage of early language immersion during the most critical years of brain development. Exposure to both Mandarin and English from a young age supports stronger bilingual proficiency, while also boosting cognitive skills such as problem-solving, memory, mental flexibility, and concentration.

Cultural Awareness & Empathy
Infants and toddlers at ELFA are introduced to Chinese culture through age-appropriate activities, stories, songs, and festive celebrations. These experiences help nurture cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness—important traits in our multicultural society.

Professional, Nurturing Care
At ELFA, your child will be cared for by a team of qualified and dedicated Chinese and English-speaking infant educators. Trained in early childhood development, our educators design meaningful, age-appropriate experiences to support your child’s holistic growth. With daily exposure to both English and Chinese learning materials, your baby will be gently guided through their developmental milestones in a warm and supportive environment.

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Enrolment process

Fill out your interest in the online contact form and our customer service officer would reach out to you to provide more information about our curriculum and programmes, fees details or schedule a centre tour.

ELFA Infant & Toddler Care is available at:

Book an appointment today to visit our centres and understand how your newborn can gain the most in the first three years of their life. If you would like to arrange for a centre visit or have our Customer Service Officer answer your queries, please click ‘Register Now’ below and we will contact you shortly.

FAQs On Our Infant & Toddler Care Curriculum

At ELFA, every day is thoughtfully designed to make learning meaningful and joyful. Toddlers participate in purposeful play, music and movement, and sensory-based exploration that supports both cognitive and motor development. These activities are carefully planned to help children grow socially and emotionally while gently introducing them to bilingual language learning.

Our infant and toddler curriculum integrates Mandarin through stories, songs, rhymes, and daily routines. At this early age, children are most receptive to language exposure. That’s why we make learning Mandarin a natural part of the day—helping children learn Mandarin and appreciate the Chinese language from as young as 18 months old.

Yes. ELFA’s experienced educators are trained in early childhood education and bilingual teaching approaches. With a strong foundation in both care and curriculum, our teachers nurture each infant and toddler’s development while creating a safe and engaging environment that enables them to meet developmental milestones, learn English and Mandarin and explore the world around them.

We maintain a clean, secure, and well-supervised setting designed specifically for young learners. Infants and toddlers are given personalised attention for feeding, naps, and playtime. Our educators support language learning and emotional development while ensuring that every child feels safe, loved, and ready to learn English and Mandarin with confidence.