{"id":468,"date":"2013-11-09T00:31:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/?p=468"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:36:28","slug":"letter-to-parents-nov-8th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/2013\/11\/09\/letter-to-parents-nov-8th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Parents&#8212;&#8212;Nov. 8th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents,<\/p>\n<p>I would like to take this chance, monthly letter to parents, to summarize what we have done, where we are and what we are going to do next.\u00a0 So far we have had 8 sessions of the class. We drew and colored balloons, oysters, ducks, flamingoes, apples, pumpkins, and giraffe. The subjects are varied in a big range, and we have been doing great.\u00a0 The students have settled down, and got used to my style of drawing and teaching.\u00a0 They start to know that drawing and coloring are fun to do and they get interested in drawing and coloring.\u00a0 They focused on their drawing carefully during the class, following my instruction step by step and made wonderful artworks.\u00a0 I am really happy to see their concentration and enjoyment when they do their work.\u00a0 They are happy to come to the class, make them ready for the class and put their homework on the table and waiting for me to go through their pages and pages of homework. They are so proud of their work and I am so proud of this class of students.\u00a0 Of course, there is always one or two outliners, which is very typical and normal.<\/p>\n<p>I have posted some of students&#8217; artworks in my blog.\u00a0 You are all welcome to take a look. Because of space limit, I can not post everyone\u2019s work.\u00a0 I only chose what was available to photography.\u00a0 They are not the best and are randomly picked up.<\/p>\n<p>There are 12 pages of homework in the homework folder.\u00a0 Almost half the students have already finished all and for some of their favorite pages, the students did multiple copies.\u00a0 This speed is a way ahead of me and my teaching plan.\u00a0 So I asked parents to increase quality to help kids\u7cbe\u76ca\u6c42\u7cbe\uff0c\u597d\u4e2d\u66f4\u597d . If students do one page of homework, or multiple copies of that, it is already above my expectation.\u00a0 However, there is one maybe two kids who have not done any of homework.\u00a0 \u5bb6\u957f\uff0c\u5f97\u52a0\u6cb9\u54af\uff01<br \/>\nIn the next 4 sessions, we will continue to increase the level of difficulty to draw, mixed with interesting subjects.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nMichelle Yu, Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, I would like to take this chance, monthly letter to parents, to summarize what we have done, where we are and what we are going to do next.\u00a0 So far we have had 8 sessions of the class. We drew and colored balloons, oysters, ducks, flamingoes, apples, pumpkins, and giraffe. The subjects are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}