NWCS PTA weekly communications 2/14/2013

PTA本周提要

1.     2013蛇年新春联欢会DVD or Blue Ray开始出售 CNY show DVD is ready to be purchased

2.    三月乐高班座位所剩无几 It can be the last chance to register any of the three LEGO classes

3.    财经讲座 Financial seminar

4.    欢迎参加西北中文学校成人舞蹈班

5.    家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

6.    日程表 For your calendar 

2013蛇年新春联欢会预览 Preview the DVD highlight of the CNY show

Now the CNY show DVD or Blue Ray is ready to be purchased at the PTA desk. The trailer can be previewed on our NWCS homepage http://www.nwchinese.org We have hired this time PSV as our professional videographer to get clearer quality of the performance and sound. So you can keep the memories and share the show with your families. It’s a great gift for anyone you love. Please specify at the purchase which version would you like: DVD or Blue-Ray. They cost the same $35 dollars. PSV donates $5 dollars to your class fund.

Students who want to earn community service hours, please come to the PTA desk, we need your help.

三月乐高班注册即将结束 It can be your last Sat to sign up any of the three LEGO classes in March

Registration fee is non-refundable

1.    For Grade K-1^st: LEGO Jr Builder class from LEAP4Kidz™  offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Lego bricks creating things from the world around them!  Subjects are different from the Oct session.

Class size:       max 24 students (9 seats are left)

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               11am – 12pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

 

2.    For Grade 2 - 4^th: LEGO Jr Engineer class from LEAP4Kidz™ offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks and motors. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Legos and receive an introduction to levers, gears, pulleys and more using batteries and motors to bring their creations to life! Subjects are different from the Oct session.

 

Class size:       max 24 students (6 seats are left)

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               12pm – 1pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

 

3.    For Grade 5 – 8^th: LEGO Robotics class from Play-Well. Learn about building and programming robots using the LEGO Mindstorms system and over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Explore the many uses of touch, light, sound, and ultrasonic sensors with a robotic project of your own unique design. Program your robot to avoid obstacles, manipulate objects, and much more. Projects are structured so that students solve problems and have fun in an open-ended, investigative environment. Students work in pairs each week. The ability to work and troubleshoot with others is a required skill for this class. All required materials and laptops are provided each week.

Class size:       min 8 and max 12 students (3 seats are left)

Dates:              March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & Apr 6^th

Time:               12pm – 2pm (2 hours per class)

Room#:           1106

Fee:                 $170 (same cost if attend less than 6 classes)

财经讲座 Free financial seminar

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.

1.  家庭税务和教育资金 Family tax return and educational funding一年一度的报税季节已经来了。税法是美国最繁杂的法律之一.你想知道怎么去file1040表，你想知道今年税法有什么新的改变，你想知道今年政府给了多少credit，填错的税表怎样去修正，该怎样拿回被多扣的social security tax跟Medicare tax？国内资产是否应该上报？是否应该给孩子开教育基金（529, education IRA) 账号？怎样给孩子申请教育基金？这是否影响孩子申请financial aid？该怎样去合理搭配孩子上学，退休，买房子的财务规划？投资，养老退休里面牵涉的税务问题？所有这些问题都会由专家给你解答。这个讲座在全美各州举办过多场，得到大家的普遍好评。

主讲: Dr. Xujie Zhang
教室:    1113 
时间:    Feb 16 from 11-12:30pm

2. 当我们年老时,谁来照料榻前? ----长期护理保险知识介绍 Find Balance In Life

主讲: Jamie Gu 注册理财师

教室:    1201  (steps further from the PTA desk)

时间:    Feb 16 from 11-12pm & from 12 – 1pm

欢迎参加西北中文学校成人舞蹈班

如 果您光临了今年西北中文学校的春节晚会，您一定会记得那个充满特色的苗族舞蹈《火塘边》吧？那就是西北中文学校成人舞蹈班表演的。指导老师何璐是从事舞蹈 教学和创作多年的专业舞蹈教师。虽然我们的老师和家长每年都有新面孔，西北中文学校的成人舞蹈差不多有和学校一样长的历史，让我们把这个传统保持下去。新 的学期开始了，衷心欢迎喜爱舞蹈的朋友们参加成人舞蹈班！时间地点是每周六下午一点到两点在二楼体育馆。西北中文学校家长老师免费。 

 

家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

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

            Feb 16             AM - 3F;  PM - 6D
coming up:
            Mar 02             AM - 4E;  PM - 7C

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. Xu Min 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 Minggang Li at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

日程表  For your calendar 

February

16 CNY show DVD or Blue Ray is ready to be purchased at PTA desk

16 Financial seminars

23 No school: Mid-winter break

March

LEGO month

Important links:

Click on this link Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon.

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 2/7/2013

PTA本周提要

1.   恭贺2013蛇年新春联欢会演出成功 What a successful show on last Sunday!

2.  三月乐高热详情 Sign up for any of the three LEGO classes

3.  法律讲座 Legal seminar (translator is provided)

4.   家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

5.   日程表 For your calendar 

2013蛇年新春联欢会圆满结束Tickets were sold out!

Special thanks to those who have contributed to the show!

“The best show ever from NWCS!” That’s the compliment we heard the most after the show. A three  months long preparation has paid off. Our audiences have been amazed by the hand selected 23 programs performed by NWCS students from Grade Pre-K to High school, their parents and our invited special guest-performers. We received so many applauds from the audience and saw so many hugs on the stage at the closing between the performers and volunteers. Everyone was super happy with the great success. I would like to share with you the excitement by showing you just a few feedback we received from emails, phone calls in the last few days after the event: “周日和家人朋友一起看了学校的演出，大家都非常喜欢。这场节目从整体规划构思，背景灯光等都方面都非常出色，而且绝大部分是学校孩子和家长的节目，真是了不起，可见组织者一定花了不少功夫.” “Yes, (Being a MC) this was so fun J I would gladly do it again (next year).”  “Thanks for the clear instructions and excellent coordination (for us performers) that made such a great show possible.”  “中文学校的春晚越办越好.挺像个样子!“  “ 晚会后的那晚上，我班的演员们和老师都兴奋得睡不着觉. 这次晚会的主题想得真好，含义深刻，对我们这些家长和老师来说孩子的确是我们的未来.”  “Just want to let you know that my family went to see the show yesterday and we really like it! It's the best NWCS show ever! It's very well organized and directed with so many parents' and kids' quality programs on stage.

Congratulations!”  “节目单设计得很专业，有价值感.”“每个节目的服装都那么漂亮。小小的孩子们虽跳不齐，但也可爱极了.”  “It’s an outstanding show! Chinese kids are so talented. China is the future and we see that presented through the show tonight.”

Besides all the hard work from our children, their parents, and the teachers, the success also comes with great passion and tireless efforts from the volunteers. 认真热忱，无私贡献的义工是真正的幕后英雄！Without these true heroes behind the curtain, this show will not reach the standard we dare to dream. Please allow me, as the Chair of the CNY Committee, to give my heartfelt biggest THANKS to the following heroes who did excellent job from planning, rehearsing to the show onsite management: Rongrong Bian 卞荣荣for auditing, organizing the entire 23 programs, scheduling the rehearsal and coordinating with the backstage crew; Yan Zhang 张岩for planning and directing the backstage crew; Zheng Zhao 赵铮for researching and designing the back screen projection; Meiru Sun 孙梅茹for writing the MC content and coaching the four MC students; Lu He 何璐, Tony Yang 杨晓for artistic consulting; Minggang Li 李明刚for ticketing and volunteer recruiting & management; CNY Committee and Board members for overseeing the event and fundraising to cover the entire cost of the show. Under their leadership, I would like to give my big applause to the entire 17 backstage crew volunteers: Peng Chen, Yang Gao, Ben Hawkins, Jingsi He, Yongsheng Liu, Minggang Li, Gang Yang, Benjing Sun, Fujie Gao, Yan Li, Yuan Li, Weiye Zhang, Hailin Jiang, Shiyang Liu, Anjie Li, Melissa Zhang, Celine Chai; The ticketing crew: Xi Tang, Yan Li, Ping Deng, Zhen Feng, Hailin Jiang, Hongwei Wang; Ticket design: Yuan Li (student); MC students: Feng Gu, Hang Zhao, Cheng Shan, Xinyi Chen; Photography: Charlie Wang; Theater admission management and logistics: Dong Ma, Ronnie He, Jenny Liang, Peiyong Qin, Lucy Ni, Winnie Wong, Zhen Feng, Yunxin Qiu.

You guys rock!  You made us feel so proud of being part of the NWCS community! You are the role model for the rest of our parents and students who will be encouraged to be part of the volunteer team next year. 

最后祝大家蛇年大吉，全家康乐！Wishing all of you a very happy and healthy Chinese Lunar New Year!

Li （许励）

PTA & CNY Committee Chair

三月乐高热详情 Sign up at PTA desk for any of the three LEGO classes in March

Registration fee is non-refundable after this Saturday Feb 9^th.

1.    For Grade K-1^st: LEGO Jr Builder class from LEAP4Kidz™  offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Lego bricks creating things from the world around them!  Subjects are different from the Oct session.

Class size:       max 24 students (limited seats are available)

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               11am – 12pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

2.    For Grade 2 - 4^th: LEGO Jr Engineer class from LEAP4Kidz™ offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks and motors. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Legos and receive an introduction to levers, gears, pulleys and more using batteries and motors to bring their creations to life! Subjects are different from the Oct session.

Class size:       max 24 students (limited seats are available)

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               12pm – 1pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

3.    For Grade 5 – 8^th: LEGO Robotics class from Play-Well. Learn about building and programming robots using the LEGO Mindstorms system and over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Explore the many uses of touch, light, sound, and ultrasonic sensors with a robotic project of your own unique design. Program your robot to avoid obstacles, manipulate objects, and much more. Projects are structured so that students solve problems and have fun in an open-ended, investigative environment. Students work in pairs each week. The ability to work and troubleshoot with others is a required skill for this class. All required materials and laptops are provided each week.

Class size:       min 8 and max 12 students (limited seats are available)

Dates:              March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & Apr 6^th

Time:               12pm – 2pm (2 hours per class)

Room#:           1106

Fee:                 $170 (same cost if attend less than 6 classes)

法律讲座 Legal seminar (translation is provided for Q&A)

由曹霄鹤律师事物所主办，邀请多位著名法律专家为西北中文学校家长提供五大系列免费法律讲座。

问答中英文翻译：黎秉伦Alan Lai 华盛顿州法庭认证翻译。民事法庭，刑事法庭，移民法庭翻译经验丰富。

第一系列：遗产规划法律 Estate (for heir) planning law (in English)

Speakers：Stacey Romberg & Debbie Whitlock

Time：Feb 9th from 11-12pm

Room# ：1201 （steps away from the PTA desk）

律师Stacey Romberg从业25年，擅长于财产规划、遗嘱检验和商业法。曾在华州律师协会举办的各类法律教育课程中、电视台、杂志、报纸上主讲或发表遗产规划知识，先后于2009年、2010年和2011年被西雅图杂志评为五星级财富管理专家。与她同台主讲的Debbie Whitlock 是电台的财务规划的主讲人。

家长值勤安排

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

            Feb 09             AM - 3A;  PM - 1D
coming up (new semester):
            Feb 16            AM - 3F;  PM - 6D

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. Xu Min 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 Minggang Li at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

日程表  For your calendar 

February

09 First school day of Spring Semester. Legal seminar series start.

09 Don’t forget to sign up your child’s class. And, sign up free Parent-classes for Dance and Taiji.

09 Legal seminar series start.

23 No school: Mid-winter break

March

The month of LEGO fever! Don’t forget to sign up. Available seats are very limited.

Important links:

Click on this link Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon.

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 2013 蛇年春节联欢会

各位老师和家长，

经过大家的共同努力，我们的秋季学期完满结束了，农历新年也来了。爆竹声中除旧岁，君到哪里迎春回？洛阳亲友如相问，西北中文联欢会！其实岂止洛阳的亲友，你在广州，拉萨，北京，上海，武汉，台北，东西岸...的亲友如问，都可以同样的回答。

大家记住，西北中文学校2013年蛇年春节联欢会《我们就是未来》，2月3日星期天下午2:30在Northshore Performing Arts Center (地址：18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell) 举行。2点开始入场，自选座位，2:30准时开演。今年我校的学生，家长和老师们为这次联欢会贡献了他们所有的业余时间，准备了一台精彩的创作表演，请大家宁早勿晚。若来迟，请在剧场入口处等待领座时机。

今年除了一台丰富的演出和搞乐的抽奖外，我们还为大家准备了两个额外惊喜：一是教师十年奖励；二是请来了本地著名的家庭摄影馆Yuen Lui到剧场大厅实地为大家拍全家福。摄影时间是下午1:30 到 2:20。收费$25, 包括全体拍摄和一张5X7"的照片。Yuen Lui还将募捐一部分给NWCS PTA。多好啊！请你穿戴起来拍张难得的全家福做个纪念！早到会避免排队，确保能照上。

谢谢大家的踊跃参与，我们的网上售票已经圆满结束。从现在起，所订的票恕不退款。如果你还没有领取你的入场卷，请把购票收据打印出来，演出前到剧场大厅领票。

 

我们期待着和你们一起欢度这个难忘的下午！

Now that the Fall semester is complete, while we are awaiting the new semester, the Chinese New Year is upon us.  The NWCS is holding its New Year performance on Sunday Feb 3, 2:30 - 5pm at the Northshore Performing Arts Center, 18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell.  Admission to the theater will start at 2pm, and the show will start at 2:30 sharp. Seating is festival style. That means, the earlier you come, the better seats you will get. You will be enjoying 23 wonderful performances by our children, teachers, and parents who spent their spare time for months to prepare this for you. So please arrive on time. If you will be late, please wait at the entrance to be seated. 

This year, besides our wonderful programs and Raffle, we prepared two more surprises for you: One is our teacher’s award for 10 years contribution; another one is that we have invited famous Family Portrait Studio YUEN LUI to come to our show and take family portrait for you. The picture taking starts from 1:30 - 2:20pm. For only $25 dollars, you will get a group sitting and a 5X7" print. Yuen Lui studio also donates a portion of it to NWCS PTA. So dress up and memorize the moment with your family! Arrive early can ensure your turn.

Our online ticket sale is now closed. No refunds will be given from here on.  If you have not picked up your tickets, please print the receipt, and bring it to the theater Will Call desk on Sunday.

 

We look forward to spending a memorable New Year afternoon with all of you!

 

 

NWCS PTA & CNY Committee

NWCS PTA weekly communications 1/24/2013

PTA本周提要

1.    2013蛇年新春联欢会最新消息 Be the lucky raffle winners!

2.  三月乐高热详情 Sign up for any of the three LEGO classes

3.  家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

4.  日程表 For your calendar 

 

2013蛇年新春联欢会最新消息 Ten amazing raffle prizes are waiting for the lucky winners!

别忘了领取春节联欢会的门票 Don’t forget to pick up the tickets for the Chinese New Year show!

自从我们的春节联欢会《我们就是未来》网上售票站开通已来，出现了相应的新流行问候语：你买了吗？这句话明了又温謦。大家有空练练：你买了吗？

如果你已经买了票，请把你的收据打印出来，本星期六(1月26日)凭你打印的收据到PTA的办公桌领取你的票。西北中文学校的联欢会每年座无虚席，为了保证能买到票，又节省你的时间和金钱（现场售票价每张另加$2），请尽快到我们的网上售票站预定！如果你在网上买了票却没有时间来领票，请把收据打印出来，演出当天在剧厅门前领取。记住，这张门票用途大大的：凭它你可以欣赏联欢会节目，参加现场十份礼品的抽奖，还可保留下来做书签。超值啊！

Spring is around the corner, and so is the Year of the Snake Chinese New Year show by NWCS. As usual, our NWCS new year show has been always sold out quickly. To guarantee your seats, save you time and money ($2 will be added for onsite ticket purchase), please visit our on-line ticket sale site to reserve your tickets now! After you have purchased your tickets, print the receipt and bring it to PTA desk on Saturday (Jan 26^th) to pick up your tickets. If you cannot pick up the tickets at school, please bring the printed receipt to the theater before the show to pick up them up.  Remember, the ticket is good for the on-site raffles. You can be one of the 10 lucky raffle winners.

 

三月乐高热详情 Sign up at PTA desk for any of the three LEGO classes in March

1.    For Grade K-1^st: LEGO Jr Builder class from LEAP4Kidz™  offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Lego bricks creating things from the world around them!  Subjects are different from the Oct session.

 

Class size:       max 24 students

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               11am – 12pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

 

2.    For Grade 2 - 4^th: LEGO Jr Engineer class from LEAP4Kidz™ offers an integrated STEM curriculum including science, technology, engineering, math, as well as history, language arts, and team decision making to children using LEGO® bricks and motors. This is a hands-on class where students will build and design with Legos and receive an introduction to levers, gears, pulleys and more using batteries and motors to bring their creations to life! Subjects are different from the Oct session.

 

Class size:       max 24 students

Dates:              March 9, 16, 23

Time:               12pm – 1pm

Room#:           1113

Fee:                 $35 (same cost if attend less than 3 classes)

 

3.    For Grade 5 – 8^th: LEGO Robotics class from Play-Well. Learn about building and programming robots using the LEGO Mindstorms system and over 100,000 pieces of LEGO®!  Explore the many uses of touch, light, sound, and ultrasonic sensors with a robotic project of your own unique design. Program your robot to avoid obstacles, manipulate objects, and much more. Projects are structured so that students solve problems and have fun in an open-ended, investigative environment. Students work in pairs each week. The ability to work and troubleshoot with others is a required skill for this class. All required materials and laptops are provided each week.

 

Class size:       min 8 and max 12 students

Dates:              March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & Apr 6^th

Time:               12pm – 2pm (2 hours per class)

Room#:           1106

Fee:                 $170 (same cost if attend less than 6 classes)

 

 

家长值勤安排

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

            Jan 26             AM - 2F;  PM - 5C
coming up (new semester):
            Feb 09            AM - 3A;  PM - 1D

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. Xu Min 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 Minggang Li at: ming.li@nwchinese.org

日程表  For your calendar 

January

26 CNY show tickets pick-up

26 Last school day of Fall Semester (clean up your classroom after the party)

February

03 “我们就是未来”蛇年春节联欢会演出 “We are the future!” show time

09 First school day of Spring Semester

March

The month of LEGO!

Important links:

Click on this link Shop at Amazon.com! ONLY when you shop through this link, our school will earn 4-10% free money from Amazon.

Log your volunteer hours if your company pays for your volunteer hours

Link to volunteer log. 

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