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MLCCC 2017-09-24 news letter

Dear Parents,

Our heartfelt condolences go to all the victims of the recent earthquake, flood and hurricanes across the North America and Caribbean! We encourage you to show support in your own way.

We welcome all the new families who joined our MLCCC community in the last two weeks! We are confident that you will find a lot of loving and caring for your children and also friends for yourselves. We are here to help if you have any questions. Welcome!

During the last two weeks, many families have tried different classes, please finalize your class schedule and complete your registrations. For those who decided to switch classes, please make sure school is notified of your switch. Thank you.   

If your family is still looking for a time slot to fill, how about the newly opened classes such as Junior Journalist class, Children’s Chorus, Chess, etc. Come to the Admin Desk to find out more details.

Additionally, a friendly reminder to all families to please read emails from your classroom teacher and from the school, both of which contain important updated information about the coming weeks’ homework, class events, school wide events, etc. For those families who have not received any of the school wide emails and/or teachers’ emails, please let us know so that we can add your email addresses to our database.

Synopsis:

1. Parent Teacher Conference This Sunday - First 10 Minutes of Class
2. Special Presentation:
3. Parent-On-Duty Sign Up - All Slots Filled Until 2018! New Member, On Duty This Week
4. Donating to MLCCC: Your Support Makes Our Missions Possible, Thank You!
5. Suggested Class Movements and Registrations
6. Photograph Club 摄影俱乐部:
7. Fitness Club 健身俱乐部 Continues This Sunday at 2PM, Room 166
8. Taiji Club Continues Sundays at 3PM, Admin Hallway
9. MLCCC Dance Troupe Participates in Culture Event at Central Library of Philadelphia, 10/14/2017
10. Last on Site Textbooks Sale, Purchase by Request Only After This Sunday
11. Summer Homework Completion Reward with School Dollars

Appendix:

1. Triumph Music Festival - Application Deadline 9/30/2017
2. The W. E Cultural Exchange Institute

Details:

1. Parent Teacher Conference This Sunday - First 10 Minutes of Class
   Many classes will hold a parent teacher conference this Sunday during the first 10 minutes of class. Teachers have already sent out class emails regarding the conference.  Teachers will talk about the curriculum and answer any questions. Homeroom parent is an important asset to the class. Please show your support and consider volunteering for your class.
   
   
2. Special Presentation:
   We welcome back our students Kenneth Yang and Kevin Wu to present this special seminar to promote the MATHCOUNTS cause (and other math competitions), which has been their devotion for years! Come and learn more about these prestigious math competitions. This presentation is free. However, donations of any amount would be appreciated.  Kevin and Kenny will give half of the donated proceeds to MLCCC and the other half to the MATHCOUNTS organization.
   Come and show your support to our former students for their cause. Please see attachment for more event details.
   
   
3. Parent-On-Duty Sign Up - All Slots Filled Until 2018! New Member, On Duty This Week
   We are ecstatic to report that after just one week of the online sign-up system being in use, all of the slots have been filled through December! This is an unprecedented level of volunteer spirit and enthusiasm by our parents and families! Thank you so much to you and to our PTO who created this system!
   Also we want to welcome our newest member, Ms. Sun Mingqian (孙明倩) to the MLCCC PTO Committee. She and her family have just joined our MLCCC community, and, inspired by our PTO team at work, she quickly decided to join our PTO. A warm welcome aboard to Ms. Sun!
   As of today, we have a strong team under the leadership of the president Mr. Li, Lu:  Lai Zhihong, Li Yufeng, Liang Shuguang, Men Lijie, Sun Mingqian, Tong Jinlin and Zhu Xia. Thank you! (李路, 来志红, 李玉峰, 梁曙光, 门立杰, 孙明倩, 佟锦林和朱霞). 谢谢你们！
   Parent-On-Duty This Week:
   1-3pm: Li Sun
   3-5pm: Mingqian Sun
   Thank you!
   
   
4. Donating to MLCCC: Your Support Makes Our Missions Possible, Thank You!
   United Way Campaign - MLCCC Donor Code is 45966:
   Many companies are starting their United Way campaigns. Please consider designating your contribution to our Chinese Weekend School. Our agency code is #45966.
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5. Suggested Class Movements and Registrations
   Thank you to the PreK families who have moved from one time slot to another. The two Montessori PreK time slots are much more balanced now. Even class helps teachers teach better and students learn more.
   -Move to same class during same time slot:
   3pm Montessori K by Ms. Iris Teng (14 kids) - move from
   3pm Montessori K by Ms. Wang Xin (7 kids) - move to
   2pm Children’s Dance by Ms. Ma Weiwei (14 kids) - move from
   3pm Children’s Dance by Ms. Ma Weiwei (6 kids) - move to
   -Great Classes With Few Students
   While our enrollment is again higher than last school year, there are a few classes that can still enjoy more students:
   CHL JDZW G5 3pm
   CHL MLP G7 1pm
   CHL MZHY G7 1pm
   Calligraphy with Pen 4pm
   Martial Arts 3pm
   Music Ensemble 3pm
   MATHCOUNTS 4pm
   Drawing 1pm and 4pm
   
   
6. Photograph Club 摄影俱乐部:
   本周日由于各班学生家长会和数学竞赛(MATHCOUNT)讲座的原因，临时取消摄影课。欢迎大家携带相机为讲座拍摄几张新闻照片。
   下周日(10/01)是全校的Parent-Admin-PTO会议，因此也要取消摄影课。
   这两个周日要求大家在校园拍摄同一个主题——建筑。你可以用各种相机、任何拍摄手法完成这个作业。建议设置照片格式为RAW+JPG，然后选出至少一张（如果是RAW+JPG就是两张了），上传至你的Dropbox。我整理后在一下次课以这个拍摄作业为题材开始本学期的活动。提醒：先设计再构图，先设置参数再拍摄，不要去碰运气。
   
   
7. Fitness Club 健身俱乐部 Continues This Sunday at 2PM, Room 166
   热爱健身的朋友们，大家好！开学伊始，希望大家都度过了一个美好的暑期，以更加饱满的热情迎接新学年。从这周日起（9/24），我们跳操班正式开始。老时间（2-2:50pm），老地点(Room 166)，我们一起继续“郑多燕”的减肥健身操。另外，我已订购Zumba DVD，希望下周有机会一起来跳Zumba。新学期新气象，希望大家都能通过健身变得越来越健美！期望我们每个周日见！
   
   
8. Taiji Club Continues Sundays at 3PM, Admin Hallway
   We welcome all parents, especially new MLCCC families. Our renowned instructor, Ms. Shao has shown what is caring and giving to our community by volunteering her time and energy for many years teaching Taiji at our school.  We thank her for her high spirit of community service!
   大家好！新学年开始了！欢迎大家老朋友归来，更欢迎新朋友的踊跃参加！我们和邵老师一起练太极，议养生，　充实每一个礼拜天。
   邵老师今年计划先教＂八段锦＂，作为练拳前的热身运动。这个時间很短，椄着复习24式太极拳。再椄着可教42式太极拳。24式太极拳是纯杨式的，打基础。42式太极拳是＂陈＂、＂杨＂、＂吳＂、＂孙＂综合竞赛套路。学完这套拳就可以学剑了。
   时间：周日下午三点到三点五十, 地点：明朗中文学Admin走廊
   
   
9. MLCCC Dance Troupe Participates in Culture Event at Central Library of Philadelphia, 10/14/2017
   The MLCCC Dance Troupe was invited to participate in a cultural exchange event with other organizations at the central library of Philadelphia on Saturday, October 14th. Our Children’s Dance Troupe, under the teaching of Ms. Ma Weiwei, will bring two performances! Thank you children, parents, and teacher!! This cultural event is sponsored by the W. E Cultural Exchange Institute (see attachment) and the Philadelphia Free Public Library. We strongly share our missions with the W. E Institute in the advancement of cross-cultural communication and collaboration through educational and community engagement programs.
   
   
10. Last on Site Textbooks Sale, Purchase by Request Only After This Sunday
    We will have another textbook sale this Sunday. After this Sunday, textbook purchase will be by request only. To ensure that we have your textbooks ready, please reply to this email with “textbook” on the subject line and specify the books you need and your child’s name.
    · No textbooks needed for Montessori Chinese PreK and K.
    · 马立平 Ma Liping Textbooks: $50 per set
    · 美洲华语 MeiZhouHuaYu Textbooks:  $25 per set
    · JiNan University's ZhongWen Textbook: $20 per set (for Ma, Liping CHL grade 5).
    · CSL Level I& II: $46 per set.
    · CSL Level III- IV: $50 per set
    · Harvest - 收获 （AP中文九年级) $75
    (Please have you check or cash ready, and remember to sign the sale record sheet.)
    
    
11. Summer Homework Completion Reward with School Dollars
    CHL students (grades 2 and up) who have done the Ma Liping summer HW book, will be rewarded with school dollars. Those who completed 90% or more of the HW book will be rewarded $10 school dollars and those who completed 40%-80% will be rewarded $5 school dollars.
    Note that our school dollars now have a QR code on them. It is a real QR code. Try scanning it with your phone.
    Best regards,
    Qunbin Xiong - Principal
    Julia Chou – Vice Principal
    Sally Chen – Director of Academics
    Lu Li - PTO President
    MLCCC Chinese Weekend School
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Appendix:

1. Triumph Music Festival - Application Deadline 9/30/2017
   The mission of the Festival is to provide an extraordinary performance opportunity and to support growing artists with professional evaluation and guidance of our panel of judges. The team of judges will feature winners of prestigious international competitions, members of Philadelphia Orchestra and music educators from colleges and universities of the United States.
   The winners of the Festival will participate at the Gala performance held at the Academy of Music Ballroom in Philadelphia. The elegant Ballroom, filled with sounds of instrumentalists, vocalists, and ensembles is a special place for a memorable celebration of outstanding talents and their achievements.
   This Festival can become an exclusive educational event for our participants. The historic city of Philadelphia is the home of the oldest grand opera house in the United States, which was opened in 1857. Since then, many prolific musicians have graced Academy of Music with their presence and historic performances, including Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Enrico Caruso, and others.
   We invite all aspiring musicians to participate at an inspirational classical music event - Triumph Music Festival, as well as in rich cultural life of "Avenue of the Arts".
   Please see attached flyer for more information.  Application deadline is 9/30/2017.
   
   
2. The W. E Cultural Exchange Institute
   On October 14, MLCCC will partner with the W.E, Institute to present a cultural event at the Central Library of the Philadelphia (see attached).
   The mission of W. Cultural Exchanges Institute in Philadelphia is to Advance the cross-cultural communication and collaboration through educational and community engagement programs, see attached. We are proud to be the community partner with the W. E. Cultural Institute. We look forward to more collaborations in the future.