中文学校每周简讯 - 10月25日

中文学校的各位家长、老师,你们好,

上个周末姒玉明博士给我们作了两次精彩的演讲,上午是面对老师们,下午是针对家长。相信大家都能感受到他对中文教育的热忱之心。虽然我们这些非专业人士常常干些专业人士的活,比如我自己在家里常做些水电工(都是被北美生活所迫),但是姒玉明博士以农业专业背景,软件工程师之职编写“整全的教育”一套八本十几万字的系统中文教材,不愧是现代“愚公移山”精神的真实写照;教材中体现的理念有很多我们值得思考、学习和借鉴的地方。一、两场讲座并不会给我们带来万能的钥匙,只是希望催进我们去发现、交流、思考、实践。今后我们还会请更多的老师、专家来学校和大家分享。

这个学期的另外两个重要活动需要大家关注:
1.      讲故事比赛
一年一度的大家讲故事比赛定于11月9日在华社隆重召开。讲故事比赛报名截止日期为10月26日,请抓紧时间报名。如果你想参加评委团,请联系孙校长(xufeng.sun@gmail.com)。

2.      第十六届世界华人学生作文大赛
第十六届世界华人学生作文大赛截稿日为12月31日, 所有参赛习作必须在12月8日前由各班老师统一交给参赛组织者任小波老师。根据以往经验,各位任课老师可以有针对性的利用平时的作业鼓励学生写作发挥,聚沙成塔。希望年底我们有一大批高质量的文章参赛。

上个月华社季刊约稿,自由发挥,没有审稿人,当然也没有稿费。拙文一片附上,敬请指正。
谢谢大家关注,周末愉快!

陈峰
中文学校校长2014-2015

Dear Chinese School Families,

It seems to be a long week as we are going through the change of seasons. Last week many of you attended the seminar given by Dr. Yuming Si, author of “Holistic Education”. I was deeply moved by his passion in Chinese language and culture education. One of the analogies I recall in his talk is that our kids are like fishes born and growing up in the vast sea. Having them to learn Chinese in America is to ask them to learn how to swim in a river. (I guess We need to add a bit of “salt” to the water.) I hope you also learnt a few things new and inspirational. These seminars are not meant to provide a ready solution to our problems. That would be too easy, wouldn't it? Instead, they provide a platform so we can start to understand, discuss, exchange ideas. A few parents have approached me after the seminar with good suggestions on how we can improve our language education. I’d really like to hear more feedback and thoughts from you.

Two things in the coming weeks need your attention:

1.      Chinese Story Telling Contest at CCC
The annual Chinese Story Telling Contest for the school year of 2014-2015 will be held on Sunday, November 9th, at the CCC building (1:00PM – 4:00PM). The deadline for registration is coming Sunday, October 26th. We are still looking for parents to sit in the judge team. If you like to get involved, please contact Vice Principal Xufeng Sun (xufeng.sun@gmail.com).

2.      Composition competition
The 16th International Chinese Essay contest has been announced last month and the deadline internally is Dec. 8th to submit compositions to Teacher Xiaobo Ren. Every language teacher is encouraged to utilize their weekly writing assignment and have their students participate in this competition. We usually see parent involvement is helpful and promoting a good outcome.

See you on Sunday.

Feng Chen
Principal
CCC Chinese School 2014-2015

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