{"id":1868,"date":"2015-01-29T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T04:01:39","slug":"letter-to-ncls-teachers-29-jan-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/2015\/01\/29\/letter-to-ncls-teachers-29-jan-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to NCLS teachers 29-Jan-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Teachers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 1st week of 2015 spring semester<\/p>\n<p>The 1st week of 2015 spring semester passed smoothly.\u00a0 Since the registration is still open and quite a few students changed the classes, please check your class list from the school system to make sure all the students in your classroom are\u00a0on your list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Speech Competition:<\/p>\n<p>Attention: Chinese teachers, we have included this year&#8217;s speech competition information in this week&#8217;s newsletter to parents (link attached below). Please read the newsletter carefully regarding the competition\u00a0details as the competition format has been changed from past years.\u00a0 Parents will submit the registration form to their Chinese teachers.\u00a0 Same as last year, all candidate for school competition will be selected by class teachers.\u00a0 Each class can select four candidates for school competition this year.<\/p>\n<p>-1099 Tax Form<\/p>\n<p>If you have not picked up 1099 tax form, please stop by library this coming to pick up your tax form.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Fall semester bonus will be included in January stipend check.\u00a0 If you have any questions regarding\u00a0your January check, please stop by the library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chinese New Year Gala<\/p>\n<p>NCLS is going to host 2015 Chinese New Year Gala on 1\/31\/2015 at Regis College (235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493) from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. For the classes that are going to perform this time, teachers need to contact PCC to find the seats assigned to your classes. Please count the number of your students before and after the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chinese New Year celebration at Newton City Hall<\/p>\n<p>Many of you have already known that Newton Cultural Affairs Offices and Newton Chinese Language School will host the first city wide Chinese New Year celebration at Newton City Hall on <span style=\"color: #222222\">Saturday, February 7, 2015<\/span>.\u00a0 Many of our teachers, students and parents will host activities and perform in this event.\u00a0 We hope you and your families can join us in the celebration event as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Newton, please stop by the library and get some flyers of this event and share with your neighbors, school parents and invite them to join this activity. We sincerely hope that we can have many families join us in this wonderful celebration.\u00a0\u00a0Following please find the event\u00a0detail:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Saturday, February 7, 10am &#8211; 3pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Newton Cultural Center at City hall<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">10am &#8211; 1pm<\/span> Chinese painting and art exhibition<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">10am &#8211; 1pm<\/span> Kids&#8217; crafts and games<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">11am &#8211; 2pm<\/span>\u00a0 Chinese Dim sum for sale*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">11am- 12 pm<\/span> Chinese painting demo<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">12pm &#8211; 1pm<\/span>\u00a0 Chinese instrument demo<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">1pm- 3pm<\/span> Performance<\/p>\n<p>Free admission.<\/p>\n<p>*We recommend preordering the Dim Sum for $12\/box, as quantity is limited. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/2015CNY-Celebration.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc\">http:\/\/www.<\/span>newtonchineseschool.org\/2015CNY-Celebration.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555\">\u00a0<\/span>Here is this week&#8217;s newsletter to parents:\u00a0 http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you at the Spring Festival Gala this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Ling and Li<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Teachers: &#8211; 1st week of 2015 spring semester The 1st week of 2015 spring semester passed smoothly.\u00a0 Since the registration is still open and quite a few students changed the classes, please check your class list from the school &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/2015\/01\/29\/letter-to-ncls-teachers-29-jan-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}