NWCS PTA weekly communications 12/12/2013

PTA本周提要

“同心协力,马到成功”是我校2014马年春节联欢会的主题！

1.      春节联欢会义工报名 Calling for volunteers for the 2014 NWCS Chinese New Year show

2.      春节联欢会节目审议将在12月14日继续 CNY audition to be held on Dec 14

3.  免费讲座Free seminars sponsored by PTA

4.  家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

5.  日程表 For your calendar

本星期六是今年的最后一天上课。预祝大家假日愉快，新年快乐！

假期购物时，别忘了Shopping holiday gifts at Amazon.com benefits school PTA!

Amazon has a school reward program. Don’t forget to click on this link to Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon to support programs for students and parents. So add the link to your favorites! The Amazon link is also on our school website at http://www.nwchinese.org Our fund can only grow when more parents, grandparents and relatives shop through this school link at Amazon.

“同心协力,马到成功”是我校马年春节联欢会的主题！请积极报名为西北中文学校2014春节联欢会出一臂之力 Calling for volunteers and fundraising for the 2014 Chinese New Year show

西北中文学校的春节联欢会是我们每年最隆重的传统节目之一，而我们联欢会除了是大小演员们的表演平台外，也离不开义工们的支持。我们欢迎各位家长和高年级的同学参与联欢会的工作，请在报名表上报名。联欢会预定于2014年2月1日在Bothell市中心的Northshore Performing Arts Center彩排，2月2日正式演出。义工们虽然不在台上表演，但台前幕后肯定是大家显身手的地方。为晚会有赞助意向者，请电邮 pta@nwchinese.org        The NWCS Chinese New Year performance is one of our most important events.  While the show is a showcase for our talent performers, its success is dependent on a dedicated volunteer team.  Please sign up to volunteer for the performance.  The show will be at the Northshore Performing Arts Center in downtown Bothell.  The rehearsal will be on Feb. 1, and the performance on Feb. 2, 2014. If you or your friend would like to help fundraise the show for the school, please contact pta@nwchinese.org for details.

春节联欢会报名节目审议将在本周六12月14日  CNY audition continues this Saturday  Dec 14

谢谢所有报名参加2014 NWCS 春节联欢会演出的老师家长同学。CNY组织委员会将本周六继续审议节目，我们将把具体时间分别通知，请大家做好现场审议的准备。The CNY Committee would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for the 2014 CNY performance.  The audition of programs will continue this Saturday, and the specific time slots have been notified to the participants.  Please be prepared to make yourself available for the audition.   

免费讲座 Free seminars sponsored by PTA

免责声明: 所有参与投资理财演讲的家长，应考虑投资本身的风险性，斟酌决定自己投资的可能性。西北中文学校提供演讲的场地，核实主讲人公司和其公众演讲许可证明，对家长个人投资错误或演讲内容误差一概不负任何责任。Parents who participate financial planning seminars should evaluate his or her own risk tolerance level and possibility before doing any investments.  NWCS provides classrooms for presenters, review and confirm each presenter’s company and their approved public appearance. NWCS is not responsible for any individual investment loss or errors in presenter’s materials.

A.      高中生家长讲座：一个可为美国高中生同时提供领导能力，志愿或社区服务，环保以及商业营销综合实践培训的崭新平台. James Yuan是一家高科技初创公司 (GroupTry) 的创始人 。他曾在微软工作9年. 3年前他离开微软开始创业. 最近他与其他创始人一起设计开发一个创新平台(已申请专利). 该项目曾获得2013硅谷高创会创业大赛前35名.  在这里他将讨论美国高中生如何利用这个平台获得领导能力，志愿服务，环保以及商业营销综合培训与实践。这些独特实践经验将会对今后的大学申请以及将来职业道路会有很大帮助和影响。James Yuan is a co-founder of a new startup（GroupTry）, and an ex-Microsoft employee. He will introduce a newly innovated platform and discuss how it can help high school students to get unique experiences in leadership, volunteering, sustainability and business training all together.  Such unique training and experiences could help these students to succeed in future college applications and future career paths. This new platform with patent pending has won top 35 startups in 2013 Silicon Valley startup competition (SVIEF).

 

主讲: James Yuan

时间: Sat 12/14/2013 from 11-12pm

地点: room# 1201

 

B. 投资理财讲座

主讲: Dave Wong

时间: Sat 12/14/2013 from 11 – 12pm

地点: room# 1112

 

 

家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

The next classes for parent-on-duty are as follows:

            Dec 14             AM - 4A;  PM - 4C

Each class will need 2 parents for safety patrol, and 2 parents for the gift certificate sales.  AM refers to classes starting at 9am, and PM refers to classes starting at 12noon.  Please inform the parents of the specific duties and procedures.

Safety patrol  Safety patrol parents must arrive before 8:45 for morning classes and before 11:45 for afternoon classes, and stay until about 30 minutes after classes begin.   The parents should get the safety patrol jackets from the principal's desk.  The duties include directing traffic  outside of the school building, and ensuring that students walk safely in the school premises.

Gift certificate sales  Gift certificate sales parents can get the gift certificates from the accountant, Ms. Yi Qiufang at the admin desk.  Please remember to record the classes for which the certificates are purchases, because 5% of the proceeds go to the respective class funds.  Morning parents should stay until 10:50, and afternoon parents should stay until 1:30.

Please take a look at the overall class duty calendar to know your class' scheduled date, and prepare to organize the parent duties about 2 weeks ahead of time. If you have any questions or your role has been transferred to other parents, please contact Li, Minggang at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

 

日程表  For your calendar  

Dec

14 CNY performance audition

14 Lego classes continue in room 1114

14 Last school day in 2013

21 Winter break – holidays

28 Winter break – holidays

Jan

04 School resumes

11 Lego classes continue

11 Master Mind College Fund seminar returns

 

Important links:

Log your volunteer hours if your company pays for your volunteer hours Link to volunteer log 

For previous PTA announcements, please visit http://nwcspta.blogspot.com/

NWCS PTA weekly communications 12/5/2013

PTA本周提要

 

“同心协力,马到成功”是我校2014马年春节联欢会的主题！

1.      春节联欢会义工报名 Calling for volunteers for the 2014 NWCS Chinese New Year show

2.      春节联欢会节目审议将在12月7日和12月14日进行 CNY audition to be held on Dec 7 and Dec 14

3.  西北中文学校品德教育 Virtues education at NWCS

4.  免费讲座Free seminars sponsored by PTA

5.  家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty (AM 3F; PM 9C)

6.  日程表 For your calendar

 

The Holidays are here!  Shopping at Amazon.com benefits school PTA!

Amazon has a school reward program. Don’t forget to click on this link to Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon to support programs for students and parents. So add the link to your favorites! The Amazon link is also on our school website at http://www.nwchinese.org Our fund can only grow when more parents, grandparents and relatives shop through this school link at Amazon.

 

“同心协力,马到成功”是我校马年春节联欢会的主题！请积极报名为西北中文学校2014春节联欢会出一臂之力

Calling for volunteers and fundraising for the 2014 Chinese New Year show

西北中文学校的春节联欢会是我们每年最隆重的传统节目之一，而我们联欢会除了是大小演员们的表演平台外，也离不开义工们的支持。我们欢迎各位家长和高年级的同学参与联欢会的工作，请在报名表上报名。联欢会预定于2014年2月1日在Bothell市中心的Northshore Performing Arts Center彩排，2月2日正式演出。义工们虽然不在台上表演，但台前幕后肯定是大家显身手的地方。为晚会有赞助意向者，请电邮 pta@nwchinese.org        The NWCS Chinese New Year performance is one of our most important events.  While the show is a showcase for our talent performers, its success is dependent on a dedicated volunteer team.  Please sign up to volunteer for the performance.  The show will be at the Northshore Performing Arts Center in downtown Bothell.  The rehearsal will be on Feb. 1, and the performance on Feb. 2, 2014. If you or your friend would like to help fundraise the show for the school, please contact pta@nwchinese.org for details.

 

 

春节联欢会报名节目审议将在此周六开始12月7日和12月14日  CNY audition starts this Saturday Dec 7 and Dec 14

谢谢所有报名参加2014 NWCS 春节联欢会演出的老师家长同学。CNY组织委员会将在前述两天审议节目，我们将把具体时间分别通知，请大家做好现场审议的准备。如果你提供了节目录像，我们也可能会进行现场审议，也请你做好准备。

The CNY Committee would like to thank everyone who submitted proposals for the 2014 CNY performance.  The audition of programs will be on the aforementioned days, and the specific time slots to be notified to the participants.  Please be prepared to make yourself available for the audition.  If you have submitted a video for the program, we may still request a live audition.

 

 

西北中文学校品德教育  Virtues education at NWCS 

良好的品行对孩子和家长有重大意义。如果孩子在课堂上的良好行为得到老师和家长的认可和鼓励，孩子会感受到他的行为的价值所在，能成为其他孩子的榜样。老师和家长的一个小小的，及时的认可和鼓励往往能对孩子今后的学习、工作、生活都起到终生的影响。PTA和学校从本学期开始，每两月选择一个品德主题，和课堂老师共同推动品德教育。我们本学期选择的主题是：尊敬，责任感，同情心，诚实，感恩。11月和12月在各班倡导的品德教育是：尊敬。尊敬会表现在如何有礼貌的与人对话，如何对属于他人的东西和隐私保持一定的距离，如何对他人的想法表示有礼貌的认可。尊敬不光是需要对他人表现，也要对自己。尊敬会使人在每天的日常生活中有价值感。Practicing VIRTUES in the classroom takes only minutes but the acknowledgement of Virtues by a child’s teacher and parent may impact a child’s life forever. As our children are learning academic excellence, Virtues help empower each child and parent to live a more meaningful life. Virtues are part of our daily lives – Parents to raise children of compassion and integrity, teachers to create safe, caring and high performing learning communities, leaders to encourage excellence and ethics in the work place. In order to allow our children really understand Virtues, we think the best way is to learn Virtues in action. PTA would like to work with teachers in the classroom on one Virtue for two months. This school year we will practice the following virtues: 1.Respect (尊敬); 2.Responsibilities (责任感); 3. Compassion (同情心); 4. Honesty (诚实); 5. Gratefulness (感恩). In November and December, we start with practicing Virtue RESPECT in the class. With respectfulness people’s privacy and personal belongs would not be violated. With respect people will not speak rudely to each other and treat others as if they don’t matter. With self-respect you would not let others use you or hurt you. Being respectful helps people feel valued, every day.

 

 

免费讲座 Free seminars sponsored by PTA

高中生家长讲座：一个可为美国高中生同时提供领导能力，志愿或社区服务，环保以及商业营销综合实践培训的崭新平台. James Yuan是一家高科技初创公司 (GroupTry) 的创始人 。他曾在微软工作9年. 3年前他离开微软开始创业. 最近他与其他创始人一起设计开发一个创新平台(已申请专利). 该项目曾获得2013硅谷高创会创业大赛前35名.  在这里他将讨论美国高中生如何利用这个平台获得领导能力，志愿服务，环保以及商业营销综合培训与实践。这些独特实践经验将会对今后的大学申请以及将来职业道路会有很大帮助和影响。James Yuan is a co-founder of a new startup（GroupTry）, and an ex-Microsoft employee. He will introduce a newly innovated platform and discuss how it can help high school students to get unique experiences in leadership, volunteering, sustainability and business training all together.  Such unique training and experiences could help these students to succeed in future college applications and future career paths. This new platform with patent pending has won top 35 startups in 2013 Silicon Valley startup competition (SVIEF).

主讲: James Yuan

时间: Sat 12/07/2013 from 12:30 – 1:30pm

地点: NWCS Seattle Branch room# 129

家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

The next classes for parent-on-duty are as follows:

            Dec 07             AM - 3F;  PM - 9C

Each class will need 2 parents for safety patrol, and 2 parents for the gift certificate sales.  AM refers to classes starting at 9am, and PM refers to classes starting at 12noon.  Please inform the parents of the specific duties and procedures.

Safety patrol  Safety patrol parents must arrive before 8:45 for morning classes and before 11:45 for afternoon classes, and stay until about 30 minutes after classes begin.   The parents should get the safety patrol jackets from the principal's desk.  The duties include directing traffic  outside of the school building, and ensuring that students walk safely in the school premises.

Gift certificate sales  Gift certificate sales parents can get the gift certificates from the accountant, Ms. Yi Qiufang at the admin desk.  Please remember to record the classes for which the certificates are purchases, because 5% of the proceeds go to the respective class funds.  Morning parents should stay until 10:50, and afternoon parents should stay until 1:30.

Please take a look at the overall class duty calendar to know your class' scheduled date, and prepare to organize the parent duties about 2 weeks ahead of time. If you have any questions or your role has been transferred to other parents, please contact Li, Minggang at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

日程表  For your calendar  

Dec

07 LEGO classes continue in room 1114

07 CNY performance audition 

14 CNY performance audition

21 Winter break – holidays

28 Winter break – holidays

Important links:

Log your volunteer hours if your company pays for your volunteer hours Link to volunteer log 

For previous PTA announcements, please visit http://nwcspta.blogspot.com

NWCS PTA weekly communications 11/21/2013

PTA本周提要

1.             西北中文学校品德教育 Virtues education at NWCS

2.             马年春节联欢会节目报名最后一周 Only about one week left until closing of the CNY show registration

3.             北美高层次人才创业大赛

4.             免费讲座 Free seminars sponsored by PTA

5.             入住美国后饮食调适过程研究

6.             家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

7.             日程表 For your calendar

 

The Holidays are coming!  Shopping at Amazon.com benefits school PTA!

Amazon has school reward program. Don’t forget to click on this link to Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon to support programs for students and parents. So add the link to your favorites! The Amazon link is also on our school website at http://www.nwchinese.org Our fund can only grow when more parents, Grandparents and relatives shop through this school link at Amazon.

 

西北中文学校品德教育  Virtues education at NWCS 

良好的品行对孩子和家长有重大意义。如果孩子在课堂上的良好行为得到老师和家长的认可和鼓励，孩子会感受到他的行为的价值所在，能成为其他孩子的榜样。老师和家长的一个小小的，及时的认可和鼓励往往能对孩子今后的学习、工作、生活都起到终生的影响。PTA和学校从本学期开始，每月选择一个品德主题，和课堂老师共同推动品德教育。我们本学期选择的主题是：尊敬，责任感，同情心，诚实。本月和12月在各班倡导的品德教育是：尊敬。尊敬会表现在如何有礼貌的与人对话，如何对属于他人的东西和隐私保持一定的距离，如何对他人的想法表示有礼貌的认可。尊敬不光是需要对他人表现，也要对自己。尊敬会使人在每天的日常生活中有价值感。Practicing Virtues (品德) in the classroom takes only minutes but the acknowledgement of Virtues by a child’s teacher and parent may impact a child’s life forever. As our children are learning academic excellence, Virtues help empower each child and parent to live a more meaningful life. Virtues are part of our daily lives – Parents to raise children of compassion and integrity, teachers to create safe, caring and high performing learning communities, leaders to encourage excellence and ethics in the work place. In order to allow our children really understand Virtues, we think the best way is to learn Virtues in action. PTA would like to work with teachers in the classroom this school year to practice the following virtues: 1.Respect (尊敬); 2.Responsibilities (责任感); 3. Compassion (同情心); 4. Honesty (诚实). For the rest of the month November and December, we start with practicing Virtue RESPECT in the class. With respectfulness people’s privacy and personal belongs would not be violated. With respect people will not speak rudely to each other and treat others as if they don’t matter. With self-respect you would not let others use you or hurt you. Being respectful helps people feel valued, every day.

 

 

春节联欢会节目报名截止日11月30日  only about 1 week left until closing of the 2014 Chinese New Year show registration

报名内容要求：节目的名称（中英文）；形式，班级，演员名单，联系人电话和电邮，以及节目简介和所需时间。请把节目录像下载到YouTube并通知我们，以资评审。现场评审将在12月7日和14日进行。如有问题，请通过pta@nwchinese.org和节目组联系。

Until Nov 30^th, we need the following content for your Chinese New Year program submission: 1. program title in both Chinese and English; 2. your class, name of the performer(s); 3. type of your program. 4. contact info of the program organizers; 5. program length and duration; 6. Brief description of your program. Please submit your program on the YouTube (private links only) by 11/30. We will audit your program based on that. We will also have an onsite audition schedule on 12/7 and 12/14. Based on the YouTube and Onsite audition, the final program selection will be made. We strongly encourage and will give priority consideration to high quality Chinese-language related programs. If you have any questions please email PTA@nwchinese.org

北美高层次人才创业大赛

第四届北美创业大赛详情见http://startup21.org 西雅图赛区选拔赛暨第一届西雅图创业大赛将于2013年11月11日在西雅图启动，由西雅图创业协会承办。将经过三轮评选，总决赛在2014年1月5日在加州圣塔克拉拉会议中心盛大举行（Santa Clara Convention center）。组织者定于本周六十二点在中文学校的2105教室为大家现场问答。欢迎大家光临参加。
 

 

免费讲座 Free seminars sponsored by PTA

免责声明: 所有参与投资理财演讲的家长，应考虑投资本身的风险性，斟酌决定自己投资的可能性。西北中文学校提供演讲的场地，核实主讲人公司和其公众演讲许可证明，对家长个人投资错误或演讲内容误差一概不负任何责任。Parents who participate financial planning seminars should evaluate his or her own risk tolerance level and possibility before doing any investments.  NWCS provides classrooms for presenters, review and confirm each presenter’s company and their approved public appearance. NWCS is not responsible for any individual investment loss or errors in presenter’s materials.

 

A.  美国顶尖大学是这样考取的: 成功家教范例献给学生及家长 Parenting seminar by author of the book “Dream College Admissions Made Possible”  

一个中国父亲送走两名顶尖大学生后的反思和建议。引用姜医生自己的话说：“我和我的妻子都是第一代移民到美国。我们在这个国家没有正式的课堂教育经历。我们花了多年的时间去摸索美国的教育系统。我们犯了不少的失误也走了很多的弯路; 但从中也获得了丰富的经验。我真诚地希望我们的反思和经历能为现在的和将来的年轻父母们提供一些指导和参考. 如果我们的孩子能进入美国顶尖大学, 没有谁家的孩子不能进入他们梦想的大学”. 在研讨会结束后，还有签书仪式。A reflection and advice from a Chinese parent who sent two students to top colleges. Here is the seminar introduction with Dr. Jiang’s own words: ”My wife and I are first-generation immigrants to the United States. We did not have formal classroom experience in this country. It took us many years of trial and error to navigate the American educational system. If our children can do it, so can any student in America. It is our sincere hope that our reflections provide some guidance for all present and future parents in preparing children for their dream colleges.” At the end of the seminar, you can purchase his book onsite and there will be a book signing in the classroom.

主讲/Speaker: Dr. Peter Jiang (in English and Chinese)

时间/Time: 11/23/2013 from 11-12pm

地点/Room: 1112  

 

B. Alzheimer research and current findings - hosted by UW Research center Dr. Gail Li

Gail Li, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UW, a Co-Associate Director of the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Clinical Core, as well as a UW ADRC research principal investigator (PI). Dr. Li has studied the genetics of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease, and she is currently investigating spinal fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, as well as vascular risk and protective factors for Alzheimer's disease in a community-based population. Dr. Li will be speaking about Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, what we know about their causes, and what the current treatments are.

Speaker: Dr. Gail Li (in English)

Time: 11/23/2013 from 11-12pm

Room: 1201  

 

 

C.  西雅图分校理财讲座

主讲:     Albert Chang

时间： 11/23/2013 from 12:30-1:30pm

地点:     room 129 at Seattle Branch   

 

入住美国后饮食调适过程研究

华大博士生刘仪君正在寻找约8名志愿的研究对象来一起参与一场90分钟的焦点团体访谈会。符合条件的有志者，请和博士生刘仪君联系。访谈会地点: 西北中文学校PTA desk;  时间: 11/23 上午9:30- 11:00。研究对象将一起讨论入住美国后饮食调适过程的个人经历并获赠30美元的礼卡。对象资格: 在美国居住尚未超过5年并且至少18岁并且是华裔且会说华语并且是位母亲，正在养育至少一名未成年子女。详情请电邮: liui@uw.edu; 电话(206) 953-8637

 

 

家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

The next classes for parent-on-duty are as follows:

            Nov 16             AM - 1B/9A;  PM - 8C

Each class will need 2 parents for safety patrol, and 2 parents for the gift certificate sales.  AM refers to classes starting at 9am, and PM refers to classes starting at 12noon.  Please inform the parents of the specific duties and procedures.

Safety patrol  Safety patrol parents must arrive before 8:45 for morning classes and before 11:45 for afternoon classes, and stay until about 30 minutes after classes begin.   The parents should get the safety patrol jackets from the principal's desk.  The duties include directing traffic  outside of the school building, and ensuring that students walk safely in the school premises.

Gift certificate sales  Gift certificate sales parents can get the gift certificates from the accountant, Ms. Yi Qiufang at the admin desk.  Please remember to record the classes for which the certificates are purchases, because 5% of the proceeds go to the respective class funds.  Morning parents should stay until 10:50, and afternoon parents should stay until 1:30.

Please take a look at the overall class duty calendar to know your class' scheduled date, and prepare to organize the parent duties about 2 weeks ahead of time. If you have any questions or your role has been transferred to other parents, please contact Li, Minggang at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

Thank you.
NWCS PTA

 

 

日程表  For your calendar  

Nov

23 Virtue education starts at NWCS – Respect

23 LEGO classes continue in room 1114

30 No school - Thanksgiving
30 Final day to submit 2014 Chinese New Year (CNY) performance program proposals

Dec

07 CNY performance audition 

14 CNY performance audition

21 Winter break – holidays

28 Winter break – holidays

 

Important links:

Log your volunteer hours if your company pays for your volunteer hours Link to volunteer log 

For previous PTA announcements, please visit http://nwcspta.blogspot.com

NWCS school website: http://www.nwchinese.org