Hello Everyone!

Here we are! The last week of the Fall Semester!  We have final exams on Saturday and then the celebration starts! 

Graduation for the 6^th grade and 9^th grade (as of the Spring of 2012), and the 12^th grade will start at 1:30 pm in the High School auditorium.  The High School auditorium is the first building when you come into the school.  It is connected to the Middle School.  This year we have seventeen  6^th graders graduating, six 9^th graders and nine 12^th graders!  Lots of diplomas to give out! What a wonderful time this is.  J

Please find out the time and location to meet for your class’s performances from your teachers and be on time!  The teachers and students have been working very hard on their performances and the staff has been working tirelessly preparing the stage, coordinating the dinner menu, and organizing the carnivals to guarantee a fun day for all.  

I hope you have purchased your dinner tickets and will be joining us for a day of wonderful activities! 

Cindy Huang and Cherry Kung, our board members, want me to remind you that there is still time to purchase your raffle tickets.  30 tickets for only $20.  The prizes include a Kindle Fire HD, PS3, tons of gift cards (thank you to those who donated them) and much more!  Cindy and Cherry will be in the cafeteria.

And if you are like me, planning to stay in the school throughout the day, you can order your lunch and the kids can enjoy a movie between 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm.  Save time and gas (driving home and back).  Order your lunch here: http://23.23.192.51/ibm-restaurant/onlineorder.html

After the celebration, we will be off for the holidays, Chinese New Year is February 10^th and it is the year of the Snake!  We will be back for week 1 of the Spring semester on February 23. 

See you on Saturday!  Classes start at 9am sharp.  Please be on time.    

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李宜蓉 Eileen Y. Lee
北威校長 NWCS Principal, 2009-2013
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GO NWCS!!!!  Visit www.nwcsny.org
or email LearnChinese@nwcsny.org 

Brrrrrrr, I hope everyone had a warm, safe, and happy New Year!   We will resume our week 13 tomorrow and we have a lot happening!

Our senior class is busy preparing for their graduation speeches while the other classes continue to rehearse for their performances.  It is one of the most important days of the school year. 

The 12^th grade is finished after the Fall semester and then they graduate, thereby allowing them time to complete their college applications.  The 6^th and 9^th grades who graduated in the Spring of 2012 will also be having graduation ceremonies and will receive their diplomas as well.  The graduation is scheduled for 1:30pm on 1/12/2013. 

The class performances are scheduled to start right after that at 2:30pm.  The current 6^th graders will be our MCs to announce each performance. Each 12^th grade graduate will deliver their speech in Chinese before each performance as well.  It is a day that we celebrate the hard work of our students, teachers and YES, the parents! 

Dinner follows, as well as the Carnival, where our Vice Principal, Ms. Shuna Awong, has lots of fun activities planned. It will definitely be a night for the kids to remember. 

Purchase your tickets tomorrow!!!!  Right after your purchase your lunch!  Here is the link:  http://23.23.192.51/ibm-restaurant/onlineorder.html  :-) 

Board meeting is at 9:15 am in the faculty room.  Guess what the topic is… you guessed it!!!  It is all about our Annual Graduation and Chinese New Year Celebration.  If you can help in any way, please let Ms. Shuna Awong know asap.

See you tomorrow!  Classes start at 9am sharp.  Please be on time.

Tis the season to be jolly … hello everyone,

I was hoping that this weekly email would be a light hearted one given the upcoming holiday season, but I am sorry to say that there have been some disturbing events at our school that I need to bring to your attention.

There were at least 2 incidents with the classrooms in the past 3 weeks that our chairman was contacted by the host school’s principal and teachers.  Both incidents involved the teachers’ desks.  One had the paper totally re-arranged and unorganized and the other incident from last week, the teacher found glue stick marks run across the computer monitor.  I find these incidents quite disturbing as we have always prided ourselves on taking good care of the school property as a way of showing our appreciation to the school sharing space with us.  I know that the teachers are doing their best to control the classroom and making sure that the classrooms are put back to the way it was found.  Our counselors and chairman take a tour every Saturday after school is over to make sure that the classrooms are in good order, but we need your help as well!

Just a few reminders:

• ·         Students are not to touch the teachers’ desks in the classrooms;
• ·         No running in the school hall ways (this is no different than the regular school days);
• ·         No eating or drinking in the classrooms;
• ·         Students who do not attend class during the 3^rd period should stay in the cafeteria with their parents.

I am asking the parents on duty to help monitor the activities in the hall ways and the teachers to make sure that there is no eating or drinking in the classrooms.  I am asking that the students help the teachers to maintain the classroom and together we can continue to use this wonderful school to learn Chinese together.  Any feedback or ideas on how we can further improve our control, please share with me.  (No, George, we cannot use the bamboo stick!)  After all, this is our school and we are all in this together!  Please help!

On a lighter note, this is our last week of school for the year.  Some teachers are scheduling their Chinese New Year performances rehearsals in the High School Auditorium.  I hope you will encourage your kids to practice and invite everyone in your family and friends to come see them perform on January 12, 2013. 

As for tomorrow, someone in a big red suit might be visiting … hope you all have been good this year … HO HO HO!  Let’s have a great last class of the year and welcome the New Year with lots of cheers …

See you tomorrow!  Classes start at 9:00am sharp.  Please be on time.    

Hello Everyone,

I hope you had a great week with some of the warmer weather early on …but now it feels like winter has arrived.  The colder weather will definitely wake everyone up and keep everyone awake for Chinese School tomorrow.  J   

There are a few events happening for tomorrow:

• Scholarship applicationsare due tomorrow.   Please see Ms. Cherry Kung.
• Parent consent forms are due tomorrow.  We will be taking many school pictures and would like to have your permission.  Please take a few minutes to review and sign the form sent home with your kids last week.  The form was also attached in last week’s email.   Please see Mr. Mike Andrews.
• Our Annual New Year Celebration is scheduled for January 12 and as we do every year, we have great prizes.  The raffle tickets will be on sale starting this Saturday!!  Look for the sale in the cafeteria.   
• And last but not least, next Saturday, 12/15 is our last day of Chinese School of the year before the holidays!  As you shop for the holidays, please also check out our Shop.com (http://www.shop.com/search/nwcsny), the link is also on our school site.  As mentioned during the General Meeting, you can purchase almost anything your heart desires on this site which sometimes even have a better prices than in the stores … and that’s not all, with each purchase, a certain percentage will be donated to our school.   I was looking for gift cards for the teachers and this would be a great place to shop!  Won’t you give it a try!!!!!  Any questions about the site, please see Ms.  Cindy Huang. 
• Board meeting is scheduled at 10:10am in the faculty room.

Whew, that was a mouth full!  Now that I have taken care of the business items, just wanted to share the following with you:

One of my twins came home from school and told me this story.  One of his friends told him that he got a “B” on one of his exams.  His mom looked at the grade for a while and said to him, “Remember son, we are ‘A’sian not ‘B’sian. “  Boy, tiger moms everywhere.  Of course my son said “… but mom, aren’t we ‘C’hinese?” With a deadly glare from me, he knew better. J With that, don’t forget to finish your homework for tomorrow and study for the quizzes.  Remember, we are ‘A’merican, not ‘B’merican!  J  Relax!  Tis the season to be jolly …

It is Friday, have you ordered your lunch for Saturday yet?  Here is the link:  http://23.23.192.51/ibm-restaurant/onlineorder.html

See you tomorrow!  Classes start at 9am sharp.  Please be on time.

Happy December! 

I hope everyone had a wonderful turkey day!  We had about 40 family members and friends over for the holiday.   The feast is not just the traditional Thanksgiving dishes for us anymore … in addition to the two giant turkeys, we also had three ducks and sushi J … Our family members consisted of Greek, British, Dutch, Irish, German, French, Polish and of course, Chinese.  It has become an international Thanksgiving!   How was yours? 

As we prepare for the next holiday…yes, it is just around the corner … we will be taking many pictures of our students and school activities.  We will be posting these pictures on our school website, but first we need you to sign a consent form to allow us to do so.  As Mr. Mike Andrews announced at our General meeting, the forms will be sent home with your children this coming Saturday for you to read, sign and return.  The forms are also attached here.  Please return the signed forms to Mr. Mike Andrews, our school secretary, no later than 12/8. 

Graduating class! If you are in the 12^th grade class in our school or in the regular school, you qualify to apply.  Your scholarship application, which is on our website, is due next Saturday, December 8th.  Please have it ready and submit it to Ms. Cherry Kung, our board member.  Good Luck!

Our teachers are also busy rehearsing for the Chinese New Year Celebration performances scheduled for the afternoon of January 12th.  Please reach out to your teachers to see if they need a hand in coordinating.  Or please let Ms. Shuna Awong, our Vice Principal, know if you can help out with the New Year preparation.  Remember, this school runs on volunteers!  I hope that all of you will find a little time during this busy holiday season to lend a hand and make this year’s celebration another huge success!   

Upcoming events:

12/08/2012 Week 11 –  Scholarship applications due; Signed consent form due.

12/15/2012 Week 12 –  HO! HO! HO!  Who is visiting our school?  Have you been good or naughty?

 12/22/2012 No School

12/27/2012  No School

01/05/2012 Week 13 –  

01/12/2012 Week 14 –  Final exam, Graduation and Chinese New Year Celebration Dinner and Performances!

 See you tomorrow!  Classes start at 9am sharp.  Please be on time.

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李宜蓉 Eileen Y. Lee
北威校長 NWCS Principal, 2009-2013
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GO NWCS!!!!  Visit www.nwcsny.org
or email LearnChinese@nwcsny.org 

Hello Everyone,

Get ready to start your preparations for the big feast …. after Chinese School of course! Let’s have a great week 9 and have all the trimmings for a healthy and happy Gobble Gobble day.

Tomorrow is our General meeting which starts at 10:10am in the cafeteria. So after you order your lunch, buy a snack and a cup of coffee, then we will chat about the status of our school operations and other important news.

We are looking for students to sign up for an ACS sponsored Multi-Media contest being held on December 2nd in Connecticut. Talk to the Dean or your teachers for more information. It would be a fun project to work on over the holiday weekend!

See you tomorrow! Classes start at 9am sharp. Please be on time.