{"id":784,"date":"2014-10-07T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/?p=784"},"modified":"2014-10-16T02:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T02:57:26","slug":"letter-to-parents-oct-7th-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/2014\/10\/07\/letter-to-parents-oct-7th-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Parents&#8212;&#8212;Oct 7th, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parents,<\/p>\n<p>We have had five classes so far ever since the school started.\u00a0 We are doing great.\u00a0 The kids are so focused and working very hard in the class.\u00a0 So far we mainly drew subjects with a shape of circle.\u00a0 The kids are getting better and better, and easier and easier to do it.\u00a0 Roses, balloons and apples all used drawing skill of circle.\u00a0 When we drew turtle and butterfly, we try to do more detailed structure by drawing more and different sizes of circles.\u00a0 The kids did very well.\u00a0 Meanwhile, students are asked to add previously learned subjects to the newly drawing subjects, keeping to memorize what is learned.\u00a0 For an example, in the class of drawing butterfly, students added roses, flowers and grass in their drawing, to make their artwork like a part of garden, more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Every student in the class truly loves drawing, never felt too much to draw more.\u00a0 Their coloring skills are advanced, but they tend to prefer to do drawing in the class, and this is why they come to the class. They want to learn how to draw.\u00a0 Parents should prepare a 3-ring binder for your kid to keep their artwork and coloring material distributed from the class.<\/p>\n<p>I have updated the page of students&#8217; artworks in my blog. You are all welcome to take a look.\u00a0 Some kids\u2019 artworks are not posted because they were not\u00a0 available to take a picture.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming Sunday, we don\u2019t have a class because of Columbus holiday.\u00a0 In the coming Saturday 10\/11\/14, I will be in Newton city hall to do face painting for the Asian festival.\u00a0 If you have a time, please bring your kids there to have a fun.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Yu, Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parents, We have had five classes so far ever since the school started.\u00a0 We are doing great.\u00a0 The kids are so focused and working very hard in the class.\u00a0 So far we mainly drew subjects with a shape of circle.\u00a0 The kids are getting better and better, and easier and easier to do it.\u00a0 [&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\/784"}],"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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.newtonchineseschool.org\/yuxiaomei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}