----- Original Message ----- From: Betty - Astute To: sonyasong@yuquan.com.sg ; lily@yuquan.com.sg Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 3:47 PM Subject: THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT MY CHILDREN'S CLASSES Dear Ms. Song and Lily, Thank you for the arrangement of the visit into my sons' classes on 29th March. We were very amazed at the learning taking place in Ms. Li's class. The presence of momentum, motivation and liveliness gets us upbeat on learning Chinese in Singapore. Never do we have the opportunity to witness such joyful and effective learning method in any other childcare centres. To you, we say, 100% fantastic! During the class, we saw Ian's eyes sparkled. We are truly happy with Ian's progress in the language. Keep up the good work. As for King Ron, I think my compliment is old news by now. : ) He has been very expressive in Mandarin, all thanks to Ms. Peng's efforts. We knew a lot of active learning has taken place for the past months. We love it and we think that is the way to go. Nevertheless, our participation in his class is worth it to make us come to terms with our own curiosity. Let me share this with you, it is a real joy watching King Ron in a learning environment, especially together with his peers - the beautiful little girls. We have not been able to put King Ron in any other enrichment class so this was the only opportunity for us to marvel him learning. Your teachers are kind, patient and friendly. Not only do we like your teachers, I think your cook was an asset too. I made a feedback to your cook that day and told her about King Ron's problem in his home diet. On Thursday night, King Ron told me that he shall eat vegetables and he REALLY ate them. I am speechless imagining the amount of effort I have spent coaxing him to eat his vegetables. We like what we saw. We would like you to know that we are delighted with the creative work Teacher Aini has done with Ian. She convinced us that it was Ian's own efforts with, of course, positive motivation from her being the most important element needed to catalyse the process. I hope Ian would continue to get positive encouragement and motivation to excel, most importantly free from stress. Yours sincerely Betty Tsai