Dear Teachers and Teaching Assistants,
As the last school day of the year approaches, the Principal and the administration team sincerely thank you for your contribution and support to the school. We wish you and your family a very happy and enjoyable holiday season. For those who celebrate Christmas, we wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful and safe vacation for all!
Please remind your students that our school will resume on January 8, 2012. It would be nice if you give students some extra exercises, or 儿歌/诗歌背诵 assignments to help them keep learning Chinese. Grade Leaders, you are encouraged to make the assignments for each grade.
One of our classrooms had an accident last Sunday with some craft works broken. We have been communicating with Day School to find out what has happened. Meanwhile, whenever you find any broken items and/or issues in the classroom you teach, please immediately write a note to the related Day School teacher of the classroom, to explain the situation and leave your contact information in case the teacher needs our help. Let’s take a proactive role on resolving classroom issues from now on.
A holiday greetings card will be sent to each classroom this Sunday during the first class period; language teachers, please write on the cards holiday greetings like: “Dear teacher at room ###: Happy holidays to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your classroom with us! – From the Chinese School teacher XXX” and have your students sign it with you if possible. Please leave the cards on the teachers’ desks. Thank you very much for doing this to express our appreciation.
Last Saturday’s teachers’ party brought us so much fun. Thanks to PCC members, NCLS administration team, and all performers and participants, the combined effort has made the party a cheerful and memorable event. We have been working hard, and so we can play hard!
Together we have made another successful year for the NCLS community. And we are looking forward to continued success in the new year with the effort from us all! Thank you. See you on Sunday.
Best wishes,
NCLS Administration Team
1. Introducing a new book:
一位牛顿中文学校的前家长和文学城子女教育论坛的朋友们一起出了一本关于子女教育的电子书【子女上名校，父母谈心得】,12月2日已经开始发售,仅几天,已经卖出近700本, 受到了读者的极大欢迎。这是这本书的有关介绍
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201110&postID=25871
目录 http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=201110&postID=25873
买书的LINK http://groups.wenxuecity.com/groupview.php?gid=1515 售书所得将全部捐给海外中国教育基金会(OCEF),用来帮助国内贫困学生。
2. 2012 NCLS Chinese New Year Celebration Announcement
Dear NCLS parents, teachers and students:
Happy holiday season!
New Year is around the corner. Newton Chinese School Event Committee invites all NCLS teachers, students and parents to join the preparation of the biggest annual event of our school– Chinese New Year Celebration. To celebrate the year of dragon, the event committee will organize two performances: an in-school celebration will take place on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 during the school hour; an out-school celebration performance will take place at the newly built Newton North High School from 7:00 to 9:30 pm on Saturday, February 11th, 2012.
All interested groups please submit your favorite program to the NCLS events committee (eventcommittee@newtonchineseschool.org). We start collecting program as early as today and the deadline of submitting the program is 12/30/2011. Please submit as early as your convenience.
Following is the required information when submitting a program:
Program type (节目 类型)
Duration ( 时间长度)
Performers (表演者)
Director (指导老师)
Program description (节目介绍)
Contact person name, email and phone number （联系人姓名，电话和电子邮件）
All the programs should be shorter than 5 minutes; some Chinese traditional program like 相声，小话剧，小表演 may allow longer duration. All submitted programs will be audited by NCLS event committee. The committee will decide on the acceptance and which celebration event the submitted program is accepted based on its quality and overall arrangement of the two performances. The final decision will be sent out on January 15, 2012.
To assist the audition of the submitted programs, you may choose to send us a CD, DVD, a link to the performance of your group, or arrange an audition with our committee members. All related materials should be received before January 8th, 2012.
Thank you for your support!
Event Committee