{"id":1882,"date":"2015-02-05T20:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2015-02-05T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T02:12:35","slug":"letter-to-ncls-teachers-5-feb-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/2015\/02\/05\/letter-to-ncls-teachers-5-feb-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to NCLS Teachers 5-Feb-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Teachers:<\/p>\n

This coming Sunday (2\/8) will be the last school day\u00a0in February. Due to winter break, NCLS won’t have school on 2\/15 and 2\/22. The school will resume on 3\/1.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, 1\/31, NCLS had a very successful Chinese New Year Gala at Regis College, many thanks to school Event Committee (led by Jianhua Huang and Rui Chen), PCC (led by Lei Gao and Hong Guo), admin staff, teachers, MCs, all performing units and parents for their tireless hard work and contribution, which brought us such a memorable night. Thanks again.<\/p>\n

– Grade Leaders Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Sunday, the grade leaders\u00a0for Chinese classes\u00a0had a meeting and discussed\u00a0topics such as classroom management, parent teacher communication, training, speech contest and how to enrich the current teaching materials, etc. The grade leaders will deliver the detailed information to their respective groups.<\/p>\n

– Class Enrollment<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have found that some students are still not registered for spring semester but continue sitting in the classroom.\u00a0 Please check the class list from the school system, make sure all students in your classroom are on the list.\u00a0 Please let us know immediately if any student sits in the classroom but not on the class list.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0This Sat. 2\/7 Chinese New Year Celebration at Newton City Hall<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Newton Cultural Affairs Offices and Newton Chinese Language School will host the first city wide Chinese New Year celebration at Newton City Hall on this Saturday, February 7, 2015. We sincerely invite you and your family to join this celebration. Following please find the detail information:<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 7, 10am – 3pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Free Admission<\/p>\n

Newton\u00a0City Hall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1000 Commonwealth Av. Newton<\/p>\n

10am – 1pm Chinese painting and art exhibition<\/p>\n

10am – 1pm Kids’ crafts and games<\/p>\n

11am – 2pm\u00a0 Chinese Dim sum for sale*<\/p>\n

11am- 12 pm Chinese painting demo<\/p>\n

12pm – 1pm\u00a0 Chinese instrument demo<\/p>\n

1pm- 3pm Performance<\/p>\n

*Dim sum box ($12\/box) will be available to buy at the event.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/2015CNY-Celebration.php<\/p>\n

If you are a Newton resident, please spread the words as\u00a0we would be very happy to see many people\u00a0join our celebration and experience the Chinese culture.<\/p>\n

– In School Chinese New Year Performance this Sunday 2\/8<\/strong><\/p>\n

NCLS EC and PCC will host Chinese New Year Performance at Day school auditorium\u00a0 starting from 1:30 pm this Sunday. If your class is going to perform, please coordinate with PCC and lead\u00a0your class\u00a0to\u00a0the auditorium on time.<\/p>\n

–Classroom Maintenance <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a repeated topic, but it\u00a0seems\u00a0never ending. Here is\u00a0an email we just received from\u00a0 the Day school room teacher to complain what happened in her classroom. Please read the\u00a0email carefully for things that we should pay more attention.<\/p>\n

Recently, I have been disappointed in the condition of my classroom after Chinese School. Each Monday, I have to spend an extra 15 minutes cleaning up from Chinese School. As you can imagine, this is very frustrating, as I have to spend valuable school time redoing what I had already set up. This past weekend, for example, I found all of my drawers and cabinets open, all of my desks and chairs were in disarray, my white boards had been erased, my lab table had been tampered with, and there was graffiti on my desks. \u00a0Moving forward, I would greatly appreciate it if you spoke to the classroom teacher about my concerns, and gently ask him\/her to:<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n