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”
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 2nd
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. 30th
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 2nd
– Dec 14th (No schools on Nov 9th
and 30th)
2. LEGO®
Jr Builder class (K-2nd 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 2nd
– Dec 14th (No schools on Nov 9th
and 30th)
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
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:
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
02 Both LEGO classes start
30 No school - Thanksgiving
30 Final day to submit 2014 Chinese New Year performance program proposals
