November 21, 2015
校長的話 / Principal's Notes, 每週通訊 / Weekly Messages
NWCS Weekly Newsletter – 11/21
Dear NWCS families,
In honor of our first Thanksgiving pot luck, our board chairman Mr. Calvin Chin announced to postpone the General Meeting. He also sent me the following notice to share with you.
Thanksgiving pot luck
The NWCS is having its first Thanksgiving Pot Luck on Saturday at the cafeteria at 10:30AM. Parents – there will be no break at 10AM so feed your children well in the morning. The break will be moved to 10:30AM so all the classes can be dismissed and teachers can join the families for a feast. Some important things to do -
Very limited selection of snacks will be on sale from 9-10:30AM.
1. If you signed up to bring a dish or dessert, please do so before 10:30AM.
2. There will be hot and cold foods and desserts too.
3. water, juices, gatorade, and lemonade will be available for purchase
4. a donation basket for people to give money and offset the costs of the utensils, napkins, plates, cups, etc.
5. Come eat and vote on the best dishes!
6. It is not too late to make plans to be with your NWCS family for this exciting meal
Pilgrims, Native Americans, and other people are welcome to join!!!
Letter of gratitude – 感恩信
In addition to the highly anticipated Thanksgiving pot luck, the Breakfast Club came out with another great idea. We would like to encourage all classes (particularly Grade 4 and above) are encouraged to put together a letter of gratitude (yes, in Chinese). Each class please work on the letter as a team, and have one or more volunteers to present to teachers and families in the cafeteria before food is served in the party.
Calligraphy award ceremony and call for dads to organize Lion Dance for Chinese New Year
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure to attend the award ceremony at Taipei Economic and Culture Center in Flushing, along with our students 朱莉雅, Juliet Rose Weglarz, and 文天娜, Valentina Capshaw. Our school, the Weglarz family and the Capshaw family are very proud of their accomplishments. I took photos of submissions from other Chinese schools to share with Ms. Shen our calligraphy teacher and believed our students truly best other schools’. Congratulations again!
While I was at the Center, I noticed they have costumes for Lion Dance for loan, both adult and kid sizes. Hence I would like to call for 2 to 4 NWCS dads, who have strong arms and do not have a history of back injury to step up for a Lion Dance performance at the coming Chinese New Year celebration. If you are not sure what Lion Dance is about, please seehttp://www.nwcsny.org/?p=1187
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’s link.
Your principal,
Yuan-Chi Chang 張元極
