I’d like to keep the newsletter short so you can read it quickly. For details, please see the linked pages posted on NWCS web site.

• On Monday, Sep 28, we celebrate Teachers’ Day which is also Confucius’s birthday. Many of today’s Chinese cultural traits are deeply rooted by Confucius’s teaching. Traditional Chinese look up to teachers and​ scholars who pass down knowledge, morality, social relations and justice from generations to generations. To honor our teachers, I am distributing a Thank You card to every class on Saturday for kids to sign and thank their teachers. At NWCS, we not only teach the Chinese language but also honor good Chinese traditions and values. http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1041
• On Sunday, Sep 27, we celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival which is one of the three commonly celebrated Chinese holidays during the year. If you like sweets, definitely do not miss the delicious mooncakes. I put some animated stories on the web site to illustrate the legends of Jade Rabbit and a beauty flying to the Moon before Armstrong’s first step. http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1039

Online Tutoring Initiative

• I would like to invite up to 10 families to join a trial of a new online tutoring initiative introduced this year. I am hoping online tutoring will become a viable education tool to keep our students practicing speaking and listening Chinese ​during the week. For details, please see http://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1035

Student Travel Journals

• I’d like to invite our students who visited any Mandarin speaking cities during the summer. ​This week I am going to publish an essay from our 6th grade student ​Megan Chin, 陳頌詩同學. Please stay tuned to feature stories on our web site.

Order Your Lunch

• Thank you for being patient to read on the email till here. The Breakfast Club takes lunch orders from a local Chinese restaurant for your convenience. You get an entree, Wonton or Egg Drop soup, and a choice of can soda or egg roll. Please order at the school cafeteria by 10:00AM – pay CASH when ordering. Each order includes $0.50 delivery cost and $1.00 donation to the school. The menu is available online at http://www.nwcsny.org/?page_id=1010

Donate to NWCS by shopping at AmazonSmile program

• Please remember to use Amazon.com through www.nwcsny.org website so we can get 0.5% of the sale proceeds from eligible purchases. The 0.5% would have been pure profit to Amazon if you do not go through our school link.