Enrichment Class

Chinese drama often contains rich cultural elements, such as traditional values, historical stories, idioms, and folk tales. During rehearsals and performances, students need to accurately understand and express Chinese lines, which helps improve their speaking skills, vocabulary, and language intuition. By portraying different characters’ language styles and emotional expressions, students can gain a deeper understanding of the diversity and flexibility of the Chinese language. Additionally, drama performance requires teamwork, which fosters communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. Performing on stage also boosts confidence and courage, helping students overcome nervousness and enhancing their self-expression. In short, learning Chinese drama not only improves language skills and preserves culture, but also promotes personal growth and cultivates artistic literacy, making it a highly valuable learning activity.

Public speaking is an important medium for enhancing students' comprehensive expression skills. In public speaking, students need to integrate vocabulary and sentence structures, expanding their vocabulary and making their language more varied. By improving pronunciation and intonation, students can make their speeches more lively, and by incorporating literary materials such as poems, idioms, famous quotes, etc., they can add emotional depth and resonance to their speech. Public speaking also cultivates critical thinking, encouraging students to think deeply and analyze issues, as well as select valuable content. This skill not only plays an important role in speeches but also provides a significant advantage in daily writing and communication.

Hard pen calligraphy helps improve elementary students' Chinese writing skills. Writing is an important part of language learning, and through practicing hard pen calligraphy, children can master the correct stroke order, character structure, and layout. Proper writing techniques can also help students improve writing speed. Additionally, hard pen calligraphy cultivates focus and patience in children. During practice, students need to concentrate on observing the shape of each character and write carefully, stroke by stroke. This process requires them to calm their minds and overcome impatience. Over time, their focus and patience will greatly improve, which positively impacts their learning in other subjects and daily life.

For elementary students, learning enhanced writing is of great significance. On one hand, during their critical language learning stage, writing helps them master vocabulary, grammar rules, and sentence structure, thus improving both oral and written expression and allowing them to accurately and vividly express their thoughts and feelings. On the other hand, writing cultivates their thinking skills, as they need to determine writing goals, choose materials, and organize structure, thus exercising their logical thinking, creativity, and critical thinking. For example, writing narrative essays requires describing events and character traits, while writing argumentative essays involves presenting and supporting a viewpoint. Strong writing skills are essential for learning in all subjects and are also crucial communication tools in future careers and social interactions. Starting early with enhanced writing provides a solid foundation for students’ future development.