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Dear Teachers:

There is no school on 10/11/2015 due to Clumbus Day, hope everybody have a relax weekend. The School will resum on 10/18/2015.

-Fire Drill

This past Sunday, we successfully finished our annual fire drill. Thanks a lot for all  teaches/TAs  for all of your hard work, led your classes out of the building quickly and orderly. The whole building was emptied less than five minutes which meets the requirements of Newton fire department. However, there are a couple of  important things that need to be improved:

1. After all people exited the building, there are still a lot of people stood near the building doors instead of walking far away from building as quickly as possible, made the other people difficult to move out quickly.

2. The main entrance driveway is not clear. The majority of parents just stood on the main entrance (driveway) that will make other people difficult to move forward, and even worse, the fire trucks will be difficult to drive in.

The purpose of the fire drill is let everybody get familiar with the general emergence exit process, strengthen the urgent feeling, know where to go if something happens in the building. The safety of our community is always the school’s top priority.

-Writing Contest

The registration for the 4th ‘Qiao Bao’ Chinese assay contest already started and the dead line is 11/15, please encourage your students to participate. The main contact is  Sara Liu:  sarahliu08@gmail.com , She will be in library from 2:00 – 3:30 pm during school time.

2015 第四届”侨报”青少年作文大赛已开始接受报名，截至日期是11月15日。请鼓励你的班级踊跃参与。有兴趣报名参赛的同学或同学家长请在2：00 – 3：30期间到二楼图书馆找宣传部刘玲老师报名或咨询：sarahliu08@gmail.com

-Stipend code

The Sept pay check was mailed to everybody a couple of days ago, and we received some questions about the code.  The code in the memo field stands for:

代课费-a, 教师大会补贴-b, 校行政值班-c, 暑期教师培训    侨教中心+UMASS-d, 暑期马立平老师会议-e, 暑期年纪组长会议-f, 暑期校行政会议-g, 暑期校行政工资-h, 教师培训-i, 其他-j, 级长/组长奖-k, 春季学期奖-l, 超额学生奖-m, 无停车证奖-n

If you have any questions regarding to your check, please let me know.

Here is the link to parents weekly newsletter: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Thanks

Li and Ming

Dear Teachers:

School just passed the 1st month, and everything seems running smoothly, this is reflected by no complaints received from Day school so far, thanks a lot for your hard work and cooperation. Only one thing brought us attention, more reports were received regarding the students forgot and left personal stuff here and there, please remind your class this issue. There are a few important things that will be happening in the following weeks:

-Fire Drill

This coming Sunday 10/4, we will have annual fire drill. For the school which has more than 2000 students, this is a very important safety practice for NCLS students and parents.  We need to make sure that all safety requirements are met during this practice.

The fire drill will be around 2:30 pm. Therefore, all the teachers, especially for the 2nd class teachers and TAs, please read the School Emergency Procedure carefully and find the exit that your classroom is using.  Here is the link to the evacuation map.

https://www.newtonchineseschool.org/evacation.php

Please organize your class and evacuate immediately once the alarm goes off, follow the instruction of PCC and admin staff.  The Emergency Procedure link shows the gathering places for different exits.  Please stay there and wait for returning instruction.

During the fire drill, please stay with your class all the time, count the numbers of your class before and after the fire drill.

-Registration

The registration is on and will be extended to 10/12/2015, please count the class list due to student switch class or new registered student.

-Class description update

From the current course list in school website, there is very limited information posted there. It is very hard for parents to make decision, which course should be selected for their children. In order to make the school website more informative, We request all teachers write a brief introduction of your course, this introduction will include the following main points: what kind of textbook is used of your class, what is the general teaching outline, what level (or age) of students will be good to register your class, what is the teaching goal at the end of school year, etc. We expect the class description short but informative. After you finish your class description, please send it to school web specialist Sara Liu: sarahliu08@gmail.com. Thanks a lot for your support.

–NCLS Support Education Program Announcement

As we start the new school year of 2015 – 2016, the NCLS Support China Education Program has kicked-off its planning phase. This marks the 10th year of the Program. We will be providing support to students at Chongren Yi Zhong, Jiangxi province (江西省抚州地区崇仁县一中). More information about this school and the students will be made available on the NCLS web site. To keep this year’s program successful, we are recruiting new working group members. The number of working group members is not limited.  Any parent, teacher or staff who is interested in supporting and contributing is welcome to join. The working group members are all volunteers, but we would like you to take a look at your schedule before you apply, as we do need certain amount of commitment to the program as a team member. We will run fund-raising activities, have meetings and organize the students’ trip to China. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to supporteducation@newtonchineseschool.org before Friday October 2nd, 2015. If your kids will sign up for the student volunteer team, please sign up with your kids online by click the https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bxy2MjLJVU619PbT9s6-Rj39B_w_dyp6e_FEiTqFGbc/edit

– 黄河大河唱：为了支持纪念抗日战争70周年在波士顿所举行的千人大合唱活动，经学校董事会讨论通过，如有老师想购票观看黄河大合唱，学校将会给与$10补贴。希望有兴趣购票的老师 到田毅老师处报名和咨询。

The parents weekly newsletter link: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Thanks and see you all on Sunday.

Li and Ming

Dear Teachers:

中 秋 节 快 乐！

School passed two weeks smoothly and successfully, thanks a lot for all of teachers support and cooperation. Thanks!

There are a few things that needs to be addressed:

-Registration

The registration is still on and will be closed on 10/12/2015. Due to student change class or new student registration, the students in your class may have change, please check your class list. Any student without registration is not allowed to stay in classroom.

-Teacher Contract

If you haven’t signed your contract, please come to library do it as early as possible.

-Classroom

Please repeat school and class rule to your class, and count the class list till the registration is over.  Please check if everything is ok after the class, especially for the 3rd class teacher.

-Parking

Please hang  your parking tag in front of your car, on-duty parent will easily see it. There are two parking spots in front of the building that are reserved for teacher Wang and teacher Tan, please don’t take it if you come early.

-First aid: The school just bought new first aid package, if you have student who needs it, please come to library ask for Peng Lao shi

–NCLS Support Education Program Announcement

As we start the new school year of 2015 – 2016, the NCLS Support China Education Program has kicked-off its planning phase. This marks the 10th year of the Program. We will be providing support to students at Chongren Yi Zhong, Jiangxi province (江西省抚州地区崇仁县一中). More information about this school and the students will be made available on the NCLS web site. To keep this year’s program successful, we are recruiting new working group members. The number of working group members is not limited.  Any parent, teacher or staff who is interested in supporting and contributing is welcome to join. The working group members are all volunteers, but we would like you to take a look at your schedule before you apply, as we do need certain amount of commitment to the program as a team member. We will run fund-raising activities, have meetings and organize the students’ trip to China. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to supporteducation@newtonchineseschool.org before Friday October 2nd, 2015. If your kids will sign up for the student volunteer team, please sign up with your kids online by click the https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bxy2MjLJVU619PbT9s6-Rj39B_w_dyp6e_FEiTqFGbc/edit

– 黄河大河唱：为了支持纪念抗日战争70周年在波士顿所举行的千人大合唱活动，经学校董事会讨论通过，如有老师想购票观看黄河大合唱，学校将会给与$10补贴。希望有兴趣购票的老师 到田毅老师处报名和咨询。

The parents weekly newsletter link: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Thanks and see you all on Sunday.

Li and Ming

Dear Teachers:

Thanks a lot for all your hard work, we passed the 1st school day smoothly and successfully! Great Job! We wish this be a good start for 2015 – 2016 school year.

Attention: The registration is on and extended to 10/12/2015. 

1. Teacher contract: If you haven’t sign 2015-2016 teacher contract, please come to library this coming Sunday and pick up a copy, sign your signature and return to school Dean, Xiaoyan by the end of 9/27. If we haven’t receive your signed contract by that date, you will take your own responsibility for stipend delay.

（ 教师聘书：请还未签2015-2016学年教师聘书的各位老师，请在九月二十七日前到图书馆领取 教师聘书，签完字后交给教务主任林晓燕老师。如不能及时交聘书，将会影响九月份的酬金发放）。

1.  Student List:  Please check your class student list in the system again before this Sunday’s class.  On the first school day, we had quite a few parents coming in to register or change the classes.  Please make sure the updated list in the system matches your class student names. If you notice any student sitting in your class who is not on the list, please ask for the student’s name, parent name and phone number, after class, give these information to Principals.

(花名册：请在上课前点名， 如有学生不在你班级的花名册上，请下课后让学生和家长来见校长）

2.  School and Classroom Management:   The establishment of long term friendly partnership with Day middle school is very critical for NCLS healthy development. The good school and classroom management become very important task for all admin staff and teachers in 2015 – 2016 school year. Without your effort, we can’t achieve this goal.

Please repeat the school and classroom  rule to your students at the beginning of class. Let all students be aware of how important it is.  The newly drafted Newton Chinese Language School Conduct and Discipline Form will be distributed to each class, all teachers need to take a couple of mins go through the form with your class, and ask students take home to get the parent signature, bring back to school the following week

(学校和教室管理：建立良好的校风和班风对中文学校的健康发展起到举足轻重的作用，希望各位老师密切配合校行政，把这项工作做的更好。新的牛顿中文学校行为准则条例也会在下面几周发到各个班级，希望各位老师花几分钟给学生讲解一下，带回家，让父母签字，再带回学校，收齐以后，交给校行政）

3.  Classroom Arriving:  Please make sure to arrive the classroom 10-15 mins early to make sure everything ok.  If for any reason you cannot arrive on time, please have your TA to cover the classroom.  No students are allowed to stay in classroom without teacher/TA in classroom.

4. Parking Tag: Please put your parking tag in front of car Window and on duty parent will see easily.

5. First aid: The school just bought new first aid package, if you have student who needs it, please come to library ask for Peng Lao shi

6. NCLS Support Education Program Announcement

As we start the new school year of 2015 – 2016, the NCLS Support China Education Program has kicked-off its planning phase. This marks the 10th year of the Program. We will be providing support to students at Chongren Yi Zhong, Jiangxi province (江西省抚州地区崇仁县一中). More information about this school and the students will be made available on the NCLS web site. To keep this year’s program successful, we are recruiting new working group members. The number of working group members is not limited.  Any parent, teacher or staff who is interested in supporting and contributing is welcome to join. The working group members are all volunteers, but we would like you to take a look at your schedule before you apply, as we do need certain amount of commitment to the program as a team member. We will run fund-raising activities, have meetings and organize the students’ trip to China. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to supporteducation@newtonchineseschool.org before Friday October 2nd, 2015. If your kids will sign up for the student volunteer team, please sign up with your kids online by click the https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Bxy2MjLJVU619PbT9s6-Rj39B_w_dyp6e_FEiTqFGbc/edit

7. 黄河大河唱：为了支持纪念抗日战争70周年在波士顿所举行的千人大合唱活动，经学校董事会讨论通过，如有老师想购票观看黄河大合唱，学校将会给与$10补贴。希望有兴趣购票的老师 到田毅老师处报名和咨询。

2015年十月十一日波士顿千人黄河大合唱

今年是中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年。为纪念这一重大历史性的胜利，纪念正义战胜邪恶，光明驱散黑暗，全世界各地的华人同胞和团体纷纷举行各种庆祝活动和音乐会，中国政府更于9月3日在北京举行了声势浩大，世人瞩目的阅兵仪式，昭示自由正义于天下，捍卫来之不易的和平与发展。

我们波士顿的华人当然不会落后。乔万钧领导的北美合唱协会隆重推出北美史无前例的千人黄河大合唱（10月11日晚7：30，波士顿大学体育馆Boston University Agganis Arena）！1000余演员来自美国和加拿大的20个华人合唱团和其它艺术团体及个人，届时有200人交响乐团伴奏，6000名观众到场观看助威！我们要用歌声缅怀先烈，弘扬正义，讴歌世界和平！

以团长刘希纯为首的波士顿东方之声合唱团（即牛顿中文学校合唱团）和吴晔率领的牛顿中文学校成人交谊舞班全力加盟此次千人黄河合唱盛会，倾情贡献我们的一份力量和热情！

牛顿中文学校是一个华人社区大家庭，也是我们中文学校合唱团的大本营，黄河大合唱需要社区每一个成员的全力支持和参与！如果你对下述事项感兴趣，请联系东方之声合唱团（即牛顿中文学校合唱团）团长刘希纯：charliexliu@gmail.com，合唱团网站：http://www.behc-chorus.org/

1）    捐助 – 大合唱组委会需要财政支援！这次千人黄河大合唱完全是民间发起的爱国演出活动，没有任何商业目的，所有募捐和门票收入全部用于支付BU体育馆租金。在此恳请并呼吁各界人士解囊相助，慷慨支援！几百不多，几元不少，票价$20，朋友们量力而行。当年抗战那样的艰苦卓绝都过来了，还有什么困难我们不能共同克服的呢？！

2）    参与 – 朋友，只要你能发声，只要你爱中华民族，爱和平，你就够格参加本次千人黄河大合唱！或许你善长弦乐，铜管乐，你可以来加入黄河交响乐团，演奏出最动人的旋律，为世界和平做出一份贡献！

3）    宣传 – 是到总动员的时刻了！七十年前中华儿女浴血奋战，谱写了中华民族历史上不朽的乐章 – 黄河大合唱！没有什么比支持，参与，宣扬黄河大合唱更光荣，更激动人心了！朋友们，请告诉你的家人，亲戚，朋友，同学，让他们加入到我们的行列中来！

Here is this week parent weekly newsletter: https://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3057&action=edit

Thanks

Li and Ming

Dear Teachers:

The 2014-2015 school year will be over this coming Sunday, 6/14. We had a terrific school year and thanks to all for your hard work and dedication.  We hope you and your family have a great summer.  This Sunday we will have parent assembly, graduation ceremony and award ceremony.  Please see the following agenda:

牛顿中文学校 2014 – 2015 学年全校家长大会

Sunday, June 14, 2015, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm， 学校大礼堂

大会主持： 郭虹            会议协调： 高磊， 顾建桥           音响： 王鹞， 陈刚

灯光： 李光华，卢涛          照相/摄像：刘玲             会场布置：家长会

会场秩序：值班家长和家长会

Part 1: 年度总结   Year End Report 2:00-2:50pm

1. 董事会工作总结－邓永奇

2. 介绍新董事会成员、为卸任董事发纪念品－邓永奇

3. 年度学校工作总结－ 郑凌

4. 介绍新学年校长－邓永奇

5. 新任校长讲话及介绍新副校长－赖力

6. 家长会工作总结－高磊

7. 介绍新任家长会会长－高磊

8. 新任家长会会长讲话及介绍新一届家长会成员－顾建桥

9. 对学校工作问答－邓永奇，郑凌，高磊

Part 2: 毕业典礼   Graduation Ceremony   2:55-3:40pm

10. 颁发2015届毕业证书－ 郑凌，林晓燕

11. 毕业班教师代表讲话－夏铭

12. 毕业班学生代表讲话

Part 3: 颁奖及年度汇报演出   Award Ceremony and Performance 3:50- 5:00pm

13.舞蹈组合 吹泡泡+Lollipop（儿童舞蹈班， 指导老师：曹景雁，陈锐)

14. 支教活动汇报及颁奖－梁楠

15. 优秀TA颁奖－田毅

16. 演讲比赛优胜者汇报表演及颁奖仪式－林晓燕

17. 配乐诗朗诵《告别》（演讲和主持人培训班，指导老师：狄晓慧，赵咏梅。钢

琴伴奏：张心源）

18. 美东作文比赛优胜者颁奖—刘琳, 许华

19. 数学竟赛汇报及颁奖－赵一兵，林晓燕

20. 舞蹈 下雨大，花季，渔家女娃（黄语红老师民族舞蹈班）及颁奖仪式－郑凌

– Summer Homework for JiNan Zhongwen classes

We will email the summer homework to all parents soon.

– Book distribution

This past Sunday, thanks to PCC members who worked very hard to organize the books distribution for all school and delivered majority textbooks to the classes.  Uunfortunately, due to heavy workload, there are still a few classes didn’t get the textbooks, including some math classes. All these classes will get the text books on the 1st day of new school year.

– Storage room in the libary

The Sunday will be the last school day. If you have anything in the storage room, please take it with you after school. The Day school is going to clean the room during summer time.

-Math teacher recruiting 

牛顿中文学校数学教师招聘通知:

随着数学教学项目的增加以及数学教师的流动， 牛顿中文学校数学组需要新鲜血液以补充教师队伍和加强教师后备力量。特别是在与家长们的对话之后，我们也感受到家长们对一些新课程的要求。这也推动我们考虑扩大数学组的教师规模。希望有能力有意愿为中文学校做贡献的家长或校外人士，来参加数学教师的应聘。也欢迎家长们向学校推荐优秀的教师人才。

应聘的基本条件是:

• 有扎实的数学基础（低年级到高年级均可），有一定的教学经验。如无教学经验，也可从助教或代课老师做起。
• 能用清晰，流利的英语教学。
• 有热情和热爱教学，并能基本保证教学的出勤和教学任务的完成。

我们热切希望有志， 有识的人士加入到中文学校数学教学队伍，为提高学校数学教学的规模和质量，为社区的孩子们提供更好的服务贡献力量。

有意愿者请到校务处报名， 也可到校长处报名。如有具体问题， 可与数学组长赵一兵老师联系(Email：yz32@yahoo.com)

-Independent school board member opening

牛顿中文学校2015-2017年度董事会董事征聘启事

      由于董事会成员的变动，董事会决定从即日起到2015年6月30日开始接受2015-2017 学年董事会董事的申请。根据牛顿中文学校章程对董事会成员组成的搭配的要求，此次的征聘主要针对非教职人员。

牛顿中文学校校章规定学校实行董事会董事两年为一任期,连任期限最多为六年的制度。今年部分董事会成员将于本董事会年度结束时（7月31日）完成任期。这些位置都将公开招聘，到任两年但不满六年的董事会成员有资格申请连任。本着公正、透明、及人均享有为学校服务的权利和义务的原则，董事会在此通告全校家长、职教人员，并真诚希望有意为学校服务的人士提出加入董事会的申请。新选出的董事会成员将成为牛顿中文学校2015–2017 年度的董事会董事。

有关申请事宜及问题请与董事会联系 – Email: board@newtonchineseschool.org 或与任何一位董事会成员联系（联系方式请查询: http://www.newtonchineseschool.org。）申请人应提交书面申请书及个人简历。申请截止日期为2015年6月30日。

-TA position

If you or your child is interested in NCLS teaching assistant work for 2015-2016 school year, please complete the application form (see link below) and submit it to Tian Yi laoshi at the libary.   For current adult TAs and student TAs, please complete the form as well, since  we need to know if you would continue with the TA work and stay at the same class.

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/AdultTeachingAssistantApplication2015.pdf

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/principal/StudentTeachingAssistantApplication2015.pdf

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:  http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

See you this Sunday.

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers:

We have two school days left for the Spring 2015, 6/7 and 6/14.  This Sunday 6/7  we will have a few important things –  book distribution from 1:50 pm, Chinese exam and teachers meeting (from 2:30 pm). All TAs and teachers, please come to school 10 – 15 mins early.

 1. Book Distribution

On 6/7, Peng Laoshi and PCC will deliver textbooks to the students who have paid on or before 6/4. The text books will be delivered to classroom at 1:50 pm. Please distribute the books based on the student list. Please do not give books to students not on the list.  All students who receive the books have to sign on the release form.  After that, the room teacher has to give back the left books and the signed paper sheet to Peng laoshi.  If any parents have questions regarding the book, please send them to the libary.

2. Year End All Teachers Meeting  2:30pm       Room 222

On 6/7, School will have all teachers meeting at 2:30 pm at room 222.   Please be on time, the meeting will be finished at 3:10 pm. After the meeting, all teachers will back to your class.

3. Storage Room in the library 

For the storage room in the library,  there are a lot of stuff that belong to our teachers. As the school will be over soon, we are going to re-organize the space of the small room and may trash something that won’t be useful. If you store something there, please take it with you before 6/7,  we will use the room to store the textbooks.

4. Annual School Year-End Meeting

The annual year end meeting is on 6/14, the last day of school.  PCC chairs already started the preparations, if you have anything to be presented during meeting, such as awards, etc, please talk with PCC chairs (Lei and Hong) as early as possible.

5. Excellent TA Awards

Last Sunday was the deadline to submit the form for Excellent TA Awards.  However, we noticed a few teachers stimay have forms need to hand in. Please do so no later than this Sunday as we cannot accomodate any more submission after.

6. Reimbursement

As the school year end is getting close, please submit all reimbursement before 6/14.

6. School Calendar

For your next year planning, here is the link for 2015-2016 school calendar:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/calendar.php

7. Math teacher recruiting 

牛顿中文学校数学教师招聘通知:

随着数学教学项目的增加以及数学教师的流动， 牛顿中文学校数学组需要新鲜血液以补充教师队伍和加强教师后备力量。特别是在与家长们的对话之后，我们也感受到家长们对一些新课程的要求。这也推动我们考虑扩大数学组的教师规模。希望有能力有意愿为中文学校做贡献的家长或校外人士，来参加数学教师的应聘。也欢迎家长们向学校推荐优秀的教师人才。

应聘的基本条件是:

• 有扎实的数学基础（低年级到高年级均可），有一定的教学经验。如无教学经验，也可从助教或代课老师做起。
• 能用清晰，流利的英语教学。
• 有热情和热爱教学，并能基本保证教学的出勤和教学任务的完成。

我们热切希望有志， 有识的人士加入到中文学校数学教学队伍，为提高学校数学教学的规模和质量，为社区的孩子们提供更好的服务贡献力量。

有意愿者请到校务处报名， 也可到校长处报名。如有具体问题， 可与数学组长赵一兵老师联系(Email：yz32@yahoo.com)

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:   http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

See you all this Sunday.

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers:

-The School will resume on 5/31/2015

Hope everybody had a relaxed long weekend. The school will resume on 5/31/2015.  During the following school days, there are a few important things: 

 1. book distribution

On 6/7, Peng Laoshi and PCC will deliver textbooks to the students who have paid before 6/4. All students who will receive the books have to sign on the release form. After that, the room teacher will give back the left books and the signed paper sheet to Peng laoshi. If you have any questions, please feel free to talk with principals or Peng Lao Shi this coming Sunday.

2. school teachers meeting

On 6/7, School will have all teachers meeting, the time and classroom will be announced in next weekly newsletter

3. Storage Room in the library 

For the storage room in the library,  there are a lot of stuff that belong to our teachers. As the school will be over soon, we are going to re-organize the space of the small room and may trash something that won’t be useful. If you store something there, please take it with you before 6/7,  we will use the room to store the textbooks.

4. Annual School Year-End Meeting

The school annual meeting is on 6/14, the last day of school. The PCC chairs already started the preparations, if you have anything to be presented during meeting, such as awards, etc, please talk with PCC chairs (Lei and Hong) as early as possible.

– President Volunteer Service Award

We have just received a notification that NCLS has been approved to be an official certifying organization for President Volunteer Service Award.  It is a tremendous honor for our school to be able to bestow President recognition to our volunteers.  Currently, we are working on a guideline about how NCLS should certify our volunteer’s service hours for the president award.  Once we finalize the guideline, we will inform the community.  We would love to see more students and families join our volunteer work.

-Training Summary

Thanks to the teachers and adult TAs who attended the trainings in April and May.  We appreciate that a lot of teachers attended multiple trainings.  We had great discussions in the training and learned a lot from each other.  Since this is the first year we use this kind of training format, please send your feedback to us and let us know your thoughts and suggestions, so we can do better next year!

-Reimbursement

As the school year end is getting close, please submit all reimbursement before 6/14.

-School Calendar

For your next year planning, here is the link for 2015-2016 school calendar:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/calendar.php

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:  http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

See you on Sunday!

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers:

-No School on 5/24/2015

There is no school this coming Sunday due to holiday. The school will resume on 5/31/2015.  We only have three school days left – 5/31, 6/7 and 6/14. 

-Training Summary

Thanks to the teachers and adult TAs who attended the trainings in April and May.  We appreciate that a lot of teachers attended multiple trainings.  We had great discussions in the training and learned a lot from each other.  Since this is the first year we use this kind of training format, please send your feedback to us and let us know your thoughts and suggestions, so we can do better next year!

Here is the recording website that we mentioned in the training: http://vocaroo.com/

Some teachers use this site to ask students record their reading and then email to teachers.  This is a really good way to have students practice their speaking at home.

Here are two Youtube series that Sheng Lanlan (盛兰兰) laoshi recommended for higher grade students to watch at home and practice their daily conversation. You can send to your class parents if you thinks it’s suitable to your curriculum.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=happy+chinese+episode+1

If you have other useful learning tool, please let us know so we can share with all teachers.  We believe that by learning from each other and working together as a team, we can all improve our teaching and provid quality learning environment to our families.

– Reimbursement

As the school year end is getting close, please submit all reimbursement before 6/14.

-School Calendar

Here is the link for 2015-2016 school calendar:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/calendar.php

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents: http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Have a great holiday weekend!

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers:

-Teachers Training

This coming Sunday’s training is the last one of our five teachers group trainings in April and May.  We had many teachers joined past four trainings and we had great discussion on different topics.  This week, our training will be for 马立平高年级组（五年级, 六年级，七年级，八年级，十年级). We welcome teachers to join this training.  The training topic is: 

重点：写作技巧的教学，学生词汇量的扩大增长，常用句型的练习

1. 如何在教学过程中融入写作的教学，帮助学生掌握中文写作的技巧；
2. 在现有的基础上，如何增长扩大高年级学生的词汇量，帮助他们正确理解所学的词汇并使用到写作中;
3. 如何在课堂上生动有趣地做常用句型的练习，以帮助学生运用到写作中。

-New School Year calendar

Please see this link for 2015-2016 school year calendar:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/calendar.php

– Support Education China Trip

Led by NCLS teachers, Nan Liang and Weidong Li, the group of 15 students went to Cuozhen, Hefei, Anhui province during this spring break. They had very successful one week exchange activities there.

The student volunteer group formed in September last year. Students participated a series of fund-raising activities which organized by NCLS Support China Education Working Group. With the support of the whole school, parents, Tan’s Education Foundation, and the Boston community, they achieved very good results. The donations have passed to Cuozhen high school, which will help 21 economically disadvantaged students there to finish their high school education.

Please check the i-movie made by team student Helen Dong for the group activities (fundraising and student training) before the trip. The yutube link is – http://youtu.be/iMxNeipGSkU

We will hold a school wide presentation from 3:45pm – 5pm on Sunday, June 7. China trip team students will share their story with you. All parents and students are welcome.

2015年支教团队在梁楠，李卫东两位老师的带领下, 一行共十五人于四月十八日踏上了前往安徽省合肥市肥东县撮镇中学的旅程，进行了为期一周的爱心助学交流活动。

自2014年九月起, 支教工作小组安排了一系列的募捐活动, 在全校师生,家长和波士顿社区的支持下, 取得了非常好的成绩。谭氏教育基金会也对支教项目给予了强有力的支持。此行他们将所得捐款资助了21位贫困学生，帮助他们完成高中学业。

一周的活动进行的丰富多彩， 爱心传递圆满结束。以下是由团队学生董海伦制作的募捐活动和学生培训的短片。 请看Yutube 链接：http://youtu.be/iMxNeipGSkU

2015年支教团队也将在六月七日下午3:45pm – 5pm向全校汇报他们的爱心传递，助学交流之旅。敬请期待。

NCLS Support China Education Working Group

Starting from Fall 2015, our school is going to open several new classes, such as Math: Introduction to Calculus in the 1st and the 3rd class period; and some Chyten program classes in the 1st and the 3rd class period. In order for parents to understand more about these new classes, we are going to hold couple of new class Q&A sessions this Sunday:

2:00 pm:  math group teacher Q&A session at Library

3:40 pm: Chyten new classes Q&A session at room 325

-Art Show

There are two classes that will present their artwork on 5/17. Please stop by the library to see the wonderful class artworks.

绘画二乙 (创意绘画, 5-6岁) Art 2B: Creative Drawing  赵嘉媛
绘画四(彩绘, 7-8岁) Art 4: Drawing/painting  赵孟瑶

Here is the weekly newsletter to parents:  http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

Thanks and see you on Sunday!

Ling and Li

Dear Teachers:

This coming Sunday 5/10 is Mother’s Day.  Best wishes to all mothers for a beautiful and happy Mother’s Day.

– All teachers and adult TAs:  Please pick up Mother’s Day gift at the libary. 

-Teachers Training

As you all know, we are having in school Chinese teachers training in April and May.  This Sunday’s training is for  马立平低年级组（一年级，二年级，三年级，四年级).   The training time is 12:30-1:45pm at room 229.

All teachers at 马立平低年级组 are required to participate this training. All other teachers and adult TA are welcome to join if you are interested.   The training topic is:     字，词教学：如何帮助学生认识，记忆，理解和正确使用

字词学习增长速度较快是马立平教材的特点，如何帮助孩子从一开始就能适应这一特点，培养他们对学习中文的兴趣。

孩子们在学习了大量词语后是否能够理解并记住，如何帮助他们通过复习，反复使用巩固所学词语，并能够正确使用。

Hope to see many teachers at the training.

-Fall registration starts on May 10th.

Registration for Fall 2015 semester will start on Sunday, May 10. Starting Fall 2015,  our class schedule will be:  1st class, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm; 2nd class, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm;  3rd class, 3:40 pm – 5:00 pm. Please include the registration link (below)  when you send communication email to your class parents.

http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/registration-procedure-for-fall-2015-2/

There will be three stages for registration:

1. “Moving Up” Period: 00:01 AM, 5/10/2015 ― 11:59 PM, 5/20/2015, Registration open only to current in-school students.

2. “Change Class” Period: 00:01 AM 5/21/2015 ― 11:59 PM of 5/30/2015. Registration only opens to current in-school students.

3. “Open Registration” Period: Start 00:01 AM 5/31/2015 – 11:59 PM of 9/12/2015, registration opens to all students

-Book Distribution

This year, we will distribute books to students in their classroom on Sunday 6/7 if the tuition is paid in full by 6/4. We encourage all families register as early as possible and pay your tuition on time, and we can order enough  textbooks. Otherwise, you will need to come to the library to pick up on the first school day, 9/13/2015.

– NewtonServe Day

Last Sunday, there were quite a few NCLS parents, teachers and students participated NewtonServe Day at Day middle school, working with day school parents in cleaning, painting and a lot of other work.  Their hard work and contribution has been recognized by the Day School principal.  NCLS appreciates everyone’s contribution and hope this community spirit continues.

– Information Session on Ma Liping Curriculum vs. JiNan Zhongwen

NCLS staff will host an information session for parents this Sunday 3:40pm at room 227, to discuss the current two Chinese curriculum that the school is using –  Ma Liping Chinese  and JiNan Zhongwen.  As Fall registration is coming, some parents are having questions on which Chinese curriculum they should choose for their kids.  Also some parents are interested in switching one curriculum to the other.   We will try to help parents with these questions.  If you want to know more about these two curriculum, please stop by room 227 on Sunday 5/10, the forum starts from 3:40 pm.

– New School Year Calendar

Please see this link for 2015-2016 school year calendar:

http://www.newtonchineseschool.org/calendar.php

-Art Show

This coming Sunday, the following two art classes will exhibit their work at school library:

绘画八(国画, 8-10岁) Art 8: Chinese Brush Painting 汪庆
成人书画研习班 Adult calligraphy and painting  方正厚, 沈亚虹

Please stop by the libary if you want to see their class art works.

Here is this week’s newsletter to parents:   http://blog.newtonchineseschool.org/

See you on Sunday.

Ling and Li