MLCCC Newsletter (2016-04-01)
Dear Parents,
Our Chinese Weekend School resumes this Sunday. Hope everyone had a relaxing break!
A friendly reminder that the early registration deadline (as well as the deposit refund deadline) for our summer camps is this coming Monday April 4. If you plan
to hand us the registrations, this Sunday is the last Weekend School day to do so. More details below. Thank you to those who have already registered.
Thank you so much to the many parents who helped out with our Easter Egg Hunt! Below are their names (apologies if we missed anyone).
Donors:
Ting Chen, Long Ding, Karly Kauker, Qing Wang, Xiaowei Wang, Jian Zhou.
Volunteers:
Sophie Bi, Julia Chou, Jilliant Jin, Karly Kauker, Xia Li, Shuguang Liang, Sherry Liu, Xiaojian Lu, Kayla Ngoi, Qunbin Xiong, Sherry Shen, Chwanchin Wang, Fenghua
Wang, Sherry Wang, Yongjun Zhang, Jian Zhou & Yuefang Tao.
A very special recognition goes to Karly Kauker (our Montessori Kindergartener Elgin Harbaugh’s mom), who prepared a collection of stuffed eggs with gift notes
inside and distributed various gifts she bought on her own to the kids who found those special eggs. The surprised and bright smiles from the kids were a treasure
to behold! Thank you so much, Karly!
Synopsis:
- School Store Opens This Sunday
- FREE Ballroom Dancing Class at 2pm - Moves to Admin Hallway This Sunday
- Early Bird Registration for Weekend School’s Next School Year Starting Soon
- MLCCC MathCounts Students Win High Honors at Pennsylvania’s MathCounts State Competition!
- Possible Additional Chinese Language Track at MLCCC -《美洲华语》
- MLCCC’s Summer Camps - Early Registration Deadline is Monday 4/4/2016
- MLCCC’s Summer SAT/ACT Prep at Villanova - Group Discount!
- MLCCC’s Partner ABD International Co-Organizes Asian Food & Business Expo at the Convention Center
- Parent on Duty
Details:
- School Store Opens This Sunday
This would be the second from last school store for this school year. Although the school dollars do not expire, still collect your
school dollars and come to shop.
Store managers on duty: Bridget Xu, Jonathan Liu, Michael Xiang, Derek Qin.
- FREE Ballroom Dancing Class at 2pm - Moves to Admin Hallway This Sunday
The dancing will move to the other side of Admin Hallway, so as to be less disrupted by foot traffic.
What Shoes to Wear:
Comfortable leather shoes with leather bottoms or soft bottoms; or ballroom dance shoes; or Latin dance shoes. No sneakers. No shoes with rubber bottoms. 有舞鞋的请带上，国标的或拉丁舞的都可以。没有的请穿皮底或软底的皮鞋，找一双最合脚且舒服的。不要穿胶底的皮鞋或sneakers.
- Early Bird Registration for Weekend School’s Next School Year Starting Soon
- MLCCC MathCounts Students Win High Honors at Pennsylvania’s MathCounts State Competition!
Congratulations to Kevin Wu for achieving 1st place in individual in the MathCounts State competition and is therefore the Pennsylvania
MathCounts Champion!! This automatically qualifies him to go to the MathCounts National competition in Washington D.C. during May 7-10!!
Kevin is part of the team from Tredyffrin/Easttown which placed 1st in the team competition. MLCCC MathCounts student Kenny Yang placed high in individual as well
and is the captain for the team from Great Valley which placed 7th in team standings. MLCCC MathCounts assistant Tobey Le is the captain for the team from Radnor
which placed 3rd in team standings. Congratulations to all!
- Possible Additional Chinese Language Track at MLCCC -《美洲华语》
MLCCC Chinese Weekend School currently has two Chinese language tracks, Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL) and Chinese as a Second
Language (CSL). The CHL track is for students who has Chinese speaking environment at home and are fairly fluent in speaking Chinese. We use《马立平》textbook for
this track. Below are some feedbacks on this track from some families. (Note that there are also other families that like the《马立平》textbooks.)
1) Too much content each week: each week, students have to learn many new words and new text; students cannot remember all the words and text in class. So they
have to re-study at home. Also, because the teachers have to finish everything in 2 hours, they are pressed to push the content to the students and do not have
time to really teach in a fun and interesting way.
2) Too much homework: each day students have to spend at least 30 minutes or more to work on their homework.
3) The homework requires a lot of time from parents, especially the first 3-5 years. It is very challenging for parents who are very busy.
4) Some of the students cannot keep up with the textbook, so they stop to learn Chinese altogether after a couple of years.
To solve these problems, we are looking at the《美洲华语》textbook as an additional track.
We are trying to see if there is any interest in opening《美洲华语》track at our school. This track is for students who have Chinese speaking environment at home and
fairly able to speak Chinese but feel《马立平》 textbook is too demanding for them. We will start to bring the《美洲华语》textbooks to school starting this week. If you
are interested, please come to the Admin’s Desk to take a look. You are welcome to borrow the textbooks too, as long as you return them the following week.
If you are interested in registering your child for《美洲华语》next school year, please answer a short survey using the link:
http://goo.gl/forms/9GtmJAzB8T.
This will help us to plan the《美洲华语》track, especially which grades to open, and at what time.
- MLCCC’s Summer Camps - Early Registration Deadline is Monday 4/4/2016
The "Save $50 Registration Fee" early registration deadline is this coming Monday April 4. Either postmark or hand in your registration
with deposit by Monday.
Registration still continues after Monday but the $50 registration fee will no longer be waived.
This Monday April 4 is also the date before which if you request withdrawal or reduce your number of weeks attending, your deposit will be refunded. After April
4, deposit will not be refunded.
Wayne Chinese Camp: 9 weeks, 6/20/16 – 8/19/16
Location: The Church of Christ at Valley Forge, 45 Walker Road, Wayne, PA 19087
Time: Full day 8am-6pm; 3/4 day 8am-3pm; half day 8am-1pm;
Registration form is at the Admin Desk and
here.
English Writing Camp or Math Enrichment Camp details:
- 2-week camp from 7/5 – 7/15 or 7/18 - 7/29;
- 3 hours each day, morning session (9am-noon) and afternoon session (1pm-4pm);
- classroom is inside Wayne Camp. Students can enroll in:
· English Writing Only (Registration form)
· Math Enrichment Only (Registration form)
· English Writing and Chinese (Registration form)
· Math Enrichment and Chinese (Registration form)
· English Writing and Math Enrichment (Registration form)
· Pre or aftercare for before morning session or after afternoon session
Rosemont Chinese Camp:
Location: Rosemont School of the Holy Child, 1344 Montgomery Avenue, Rosemont, PA 19010
Time: Full day 9am-3pm; half day 9am-12pm; Before and After Care provided.
Registration form is at the Admin Desk and
here.
- MLCCC’s Summer SAT/ACT Prep at Villanova - Group Discount!
We will give $75 additional discount per student for a group of 5 or more students or give $100 additional discount
per student for a group of 10 or more students. Please help us spread the word and take advantage of this offer.
Program details:
Choose either SAT Prep or ACT Prep
Dates: 8/1/2016 – 8/18/2016 (3 weeks)
Time: Mondays – Thursdays, 9AM – 4PM
Location: Villanova University
Tuition: $1,350 if early registration by 4/15/2016, else $1,500. Materials fee is included in the tuition.
Founded by University of Pennsylvania alumni, Ivy Experience is effective, up-to-date, responsive, and experienced in the college application process.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Registration form is here and will be at the Admin Desk this Sunday.
- MLCCC’s Partner ABD International Co-Organizes Asian Food & Business Expo at the Convention Center
"ABD International (MLCCC's partner) is proudly announcing a great event for people who love Asian food and providing Asian food related
services and businesses, Asian Food & Business Expo 2016 to be held on on April 30th at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia.
"Asian Food & Business Expo 2016" in the Pennsylvania Convention Center is the 2nd annual event promoting Asian Markets and Asian American cultural heritage in
the U.S. This event will be the largest Asian American Business Expo in the east coast of the United States.
Partnered with the Expo, ABD International is co-organizing the event to help area businesses to access the untapped Asian markets, to meet the best food manufacturers
and suppliers, to discover the newest products and services affecting your business, to build new business partnerships and secure existing relationships and to
find out new business opportunities. It's free admission and has free sample foods to enjoy! For more details please visit the expo website:
www.AsianBizExpo.com
or contact ABD International at info@abdinternational.com. Flyer is also
here.
- Parent on Duty
Hua Yan (Thank you!)
We need parents to sign up for April and May’s Parent-on-Duty. Hope to see more new faces helping out. Thank you in advance!
Looking forward to seeing you!
Best Regards,
Li, Xia - Principal
Julia Chou - Director of Operations and Communications
Sherry Wang - PTO President
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