NWCS PTA weekly communications 10/19/2013

PTA本周提要

1.              AMAZON shopping rewards PTA

2.              预告2014春节联欢会  Pre-announcement of 2014 Chinese New Year show

3.       乐高班席位所剩无几 A few seats left for Lego classes registration

4.       免费讲座 Free seminars sponsored by PTA

5.   西华艺术团大型歌舞表演“水墨中华”

6.       家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty      

7.       日程表 For your calendar 

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

预告2014春节联欢会  Pre-announcement of 2014 Chinese New Year show

春节是中华民族最重要的节日。西北中文学校的春节联欢会一直受到观众的期待和欢迎, 也是展示我们学校的风貌精神和同学们才能及中文学习成果的窗口。我们把2014年的春节联欢会初步定在2月2日下午演出 (2月1日彩排) at Northshore Performing Arts Center.  PTA在此请各位老师、家长、同学积极参与联欢会的准备活动，创作和演出高水平的节目。我们特别鼓励并优先考虑和汉语相关的节目（如相声、小品，朗诵等），但也欢迎歌舞、音乐、技艺等其它演艺项目。请在11月30日前报上你的节目到pta@nwchinese.org. 如有问题，亦请通过上面电邮和我们联系。Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in our Chinese culture, As a long celebrated tradition of NWCS, we will again present our Chinese New Year celebration event, tentatively setting the performance date on February 2^nd 2014 (rehearsal date on Feb 1) at Northshore Performing Arts Center.  The CNY show provides an opportunity to showcase your children talents and their Chinese language and culture learning at Northwest Chinese School. We would like to invite all interested students, parents and teachers to participate in this performance by creating and preparing high quality programs. This year, we strongly encourage and will give priority consideration to high quality Chinese-language related programs, including but not limited to Chinese play, musical, singing, poem recite etc. Please direct your questions to PTA@nwchinese.org.  The deadline for submitting your program is Nov. 30^th 2013.  Please watch for future announcement for audition date and other CNY related information.

乐高班席位所剩无几  A few seats left for the Lego classes Registration
学动脑，玩乐高！以下是PTA部分赞助的不同年级的乐高班。为了达到最好效果，每班每堂课所收学生有限。这星期六开始到PTA处报名。记住啊，最先报名和交费的学生优先录取。Registration for Lego classes starts this week.  Space is limited, and is guaranteed only after fees are fully paid. Classes will be cancelled if the minimum attendance number is not reached. Registration fee is non-refundable.

1.       LEGO® Jr Engineer class (3-5th Grade) 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! 

Class size:             min 15 – max 24 students (10 seats left)

Dates:                    5 sessions from Nov 2^nd – Dec 14^th  (No schools on Nov 9^th and 30^th)

Time:                     11-12pm

Room:                    # 1114

Fee:                       $75

2.   LEGO® Jr Builder class (K-2^nd Grade) 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! 

Class size:             min 15 – max 24 students (5 seats left)

Dates:                    5 sessions from Nov 2^nd – Dec 14^th  (No schools on Nov 9^th and 30^th)

Time:                     12 – 1pm  

Room:                    # 1114

Fee:                       $75

 

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.     家庭省税与教育基金讲座 美国是一个高收入高税收的国家，家庭“税”的管理及其重要。美国政府提供哪些有税上好处的政策？哪些人可以享受这些税的优惠？许多工作的人都给自己存了退休基金，但是应存多少将来才够用而又不会使现在的生活太紧张，如何考虑将来税的负担？如何在市场下跌时保护401(k), 403(b)退休金不至缩水? 美国大学学费正在以平均每年6-7%的速率增长，你是否需要给孩子存教育基金？在现有的教育基金中，哪一种更适合您的家庭状况？如何申请到更多的financial aid? 家庭各种财务需求需统筹规划。怎样合理搭配孩子上学的教育基金，自己的退休，买房子的财务规划？如何计划才不会影响孩子申请助学金？

 

主讲:         Dave Wong (Transamerica)
时间:         10/19 from 11 – 12pm
地点:         Room # 1112 

 

B. 选择更加适合的贷款 许多朋友希望赶上目前房贷利率低的好时机买房或者重新贷款，而在贷款过程中，除了要了解自己的信用记录，家庭收入支出等状况，同时也要了解市场上多种贷款年限和利率，这样能帮助自己选择更加适合的贷款。而面对银行对贷款越来越严格的审理制度，爱维贷款（IVY Mortgage Inc）在这里向大家介绍有费用和无费用的贷款，并分享贷款中的基本费用，常识和小窍门，希望大家的贷款申请会更加方便容易。

                    主讲:             Alice Li (Ivy Mortgage)

   时间:             10/19 from 11:00 – 12pm

   地点:             Room # 1201

   

西华艺术团大型歌舞表演“水墨中华”

票价: VIP $50.00  普通票： $25.00, $15.00

联络人： Eva Ma at (425) 649-9563 or Mr. Ren at (206) 718-7691

时间：11月10号,下午2：00 pm  and 晚上 6：30 pm 两场

地点：Meydenbauer  Convention Center  11100 NE 6th Street, Bellevue, WA 98004

 

 

家长值勤安排 Parent-on-duty

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

           Oct 19             AM - 2E;  PM - 2C

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  

Nov

02 Both LEGO classes start

09 No school – Ski Swap

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

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