{"id":2034,"date":"2015-05-21T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2015-05-21T22:16:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T02:16:32","slug":"letter-to-ncls-teachers-21-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/2015\/05\/21\/letter-to-ncls-teachers-21-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to NCLS Teachers 21-May-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Teachers:<\/p>\n<p><strong>-No School on 5\/24\/2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">There is no school this coming Sunday due to holiday. The school will resume on 5\/31\/2015.\u00a0 We only have three school days left &#8211; 5\/31, 6\/7 and 6\/14.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>-Training Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the\u00a0teachers and\u00a0adult TAs\u00a0who attended the trainings in April and May.\u00a0 We appreciate that a lot of\u00a0teachers attended multiple trainings. \u00a0We had great discussions in the training and learned a lot from each other.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the recording website that we mentioned in the training: http:\/\/vocaroo.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Some teachers use this site to ask students record their reading and then email to teachers.\u00a0 This is a really good way to have students practice their speaking at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two Youtube\u00a0series\u00a0that Sheng Lanlan (\u76db\u5170\u5170) laoshi recommended for higher grade students\u00a0to watch at home\u00a0and practice their daily conversation. You can send to your class parents if you thinks it&#8217;s suitable to your curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL-EuyxtFVBRdG25a9wvL2b2UtqY6b_9Po\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIWFv4mkJGE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=happy+chinese+episode+1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have\u00a0other useful learning tool, please let us know so we can share with all teachers.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Reimbursement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the school year end is getting close, please submit all reimbursement before 6\/14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-School Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the link for 2015-2016 school calendar:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.newtonchineseschool.org\/calendar.php<\/p>\n<p>Here is this week&#8217;s newsletter to parents: http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/<\/p>\n<p>Have a great holiday weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Ling and Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 We only have three school days left &#8211; 5\/31, 6\/7 and 6\/14.\u00a0 -Training Summary Thanks to the\u00a0teachers and\u00a0adult &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/2015\/05\/21\/letter-to-ncls-teachers-21-may-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\/2034"}],"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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/teachers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}