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 26th) 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-1st: 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 - 4th: 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 – 8th: 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 6th
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!

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Link to volunteer log. 
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