School Announcement:

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement March 4th, 2010

Dear students and parents:

Please pay attention to the following school events:

1, Art Exhibition. This year’s Art Exhibition will be held at the Chinese school on Sundays April 18, April 25, and May 2. We encourage all students of the School especially those in the Art Classes and the Handcraft Class to participate. Please submit your artwork to Xiaodong Yang, the Vice Principal or bring it to the registration desk. We will invite artists from outside and the Art Class teachers as the judges. Please be aware the following requirements:
· Give a title, preferably in Chinese, to your exhibit. For children, name, age, and grade/class should be indicated in the artwork. For adults, name and phone # should be given. Please also use the label provided by the School as an ID tag.
· It is up to the participant to choose the subject and medium;
· Up to 2 pieces of artwork may be submitted by each participant;
· The deadline for submission is 4/11/2010;
Please contact Xiaodong Yang at Kxyang@hotmail.com for questions or details.

2, Book Fair. This year’s annual Book Fair will be held on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 from 10:00-4:00pm at Cafeteria, Shaker Junior High School. The vender is Timesbook. Please visit http://www.timesbook.com for more information. If you have any special request for books, please email me as soon as possible.

3, Class Page design for Year Book is due: Please submit the class page design for your class to teacher Xiao Ling at lxiao2004@yahoo.com (language classes) or Normy Liao at normyliao@live.cn (Culture activity classes) before March 7th. Thank for all of your hard work. If you need to have photos for your class, please download from http://www.albanychineseschool.org/pictures/index.html

4, CCC Library open hour: CCC library located at 11 Avis Drive, Latham has recently been renovated, which now is a wonderful place for class activity and opens to all CCC members, Chinese School students and parents. Library open hour is Saturdays 1:00-4:00pm. Please visit the link for book list. http://www.cccalbany.org/CCCCMS/content/ccc-library For using it for class activity, please make reservation ahead of time. Reservation for the three weeks when there is no class for the Chinese school in March and April will be on the basis of first-come-first-service. Here is an update for reservation:

Sunday, March 27th; JTMLP 5-1, teacher: Xiaobo Ren.

All are welcome!

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2010 Chinese American Community Health Fair this coming Saturday:

The first health fair jointly organized by Chinese American Medical Society and Chinese Community Center will be held on Saturday, March 6th 9:30am -3:30pm at Chinese Community Center, 11 Avis Drive, Latham, NY 12110. There will be seminars on common diseases, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, breast cancer etc. and free checking for blood pressure, glaucoma, and raffles draws. Please visit http://www.cccalbany.org/CCCCMS/ for more information.

Spread the news! You and your family, friends and relative all are welcome to this event!

美洲中华医学会和纽约首府华社将于三月6日，星期六，9:30-3:30pm联合举办华人健康日。地点：华社活动中心，11 Avis Drive Latham, NY 12110. 届时会有华人医生向您提供免费健康讲座。并有免费血压 ， 青光眼等捡测服务， 免费抽奖等活动。详情请看http://www.cccalbany.org/CCCCMS/
希望互相转告这一好消息。欢迎你的朋友，家人来参加这一活动！

Thanks

Jianzhong Tang
Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  02-25-2010

Dear students and parents:

1, Food bank day: A CCC volunteer day for packing and sorting food at regional food bank has been scheduled on Saturday, Feb 27th, 11:00-1:00pm. CCC members, families and kids are encouraged to take part in this event (kids < 11 must be companied by their parents). To register, please contact Hongmin & Zhong Li at zhlih@yahoo.com ASAP. Address of the Food bank can be found as follow:

Regional Food Bank
965 Albany-Shaker Road
Latham, NY 12110

2. Seminar: “Child development and parenting (II).
Time: Sunday, Feb 28th, 1:10pm to 2:10pm
Location: Shaker Junior High School, Multi purpose room, A205.
Speaker: Dr Yanqing Sun
Dr. Sun welcomes parents email her for questions or topics that would like her to include in her talk. Her email: ysun@albany.edu
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讲座题目: 儿童发展与亲子交往II

内容简介:
上次讲座中简要介绍了有关儿童发展的理论及亲子交往中的一些基本原则。本次讲座将结合生活中的实例来深入探讨家庭教育及亲子交往中的常见问题和应对办法。如果时间允许，也可以就家长们现场提出的问题做具体分析。

主讲人: 孙燕青
Dr. Yanqing Sun is a lecturer at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include
child development, parenting, and language learning. She was formerly an
associate professor at Beijing Normal University, a post-doctoral fellow at
the University of Toronto.

3, Volunteer interpretors are needed for CCC Health Fair: The 2010 Chinese Community Center and Chinese American Medical Society Health Fair will be held on Saturday, 9:30-3:30pm, March 6th, 2010, at CCC building (11 Avis Drive, Latham, NY 12110). Volunteer interpretors are needed for in this event. Any one who is fluent in Chinese and English and willing to help, please reply to this email with your name, phone number and email address. Thanks for your help.

4. Lost and found. Two jackets (one white and one brown in color) were found left at Egg Theater at the night of the Chinese New Year celebration party. If you are the owner of these jackets, please come to claim them when you come to school this Sunday at Shaker Junior High School.

Sincerely
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Feb 17th, 2010

Dear students and parents:

 School will resume this Sunday, Feb 21st 2010. School announcement are as follow:

1, the Chinese Essay is due.  If you would like to take part in the 11th Oversea Chinese Assay Competition (refer to Jan 18th school weekly announcement for details of this competition), please send assays to Xiaobo Ren at xulujia@gmail.com or vice Principal Qian Tao at qian06@yahoo.com as soon as possible.  Essays should be submitted in the following format:

姓名：

年龄：

辅导老师：

学校：美国纽约州首府中文学校  简体__年级__班

通讯地址：

电话：（518）

E-mail：

2, Food bank day:  A CCC volunteer day for packing and resorting food at regional food bank has been scheduled on Saturday, Feb 27th, 11:00-1:00pm. CCC members and families and kids are encouraged to take part in this event (kids < 11 must be companied by their parents). To register, please contact Hongmin & Zhong Li at zhlih@yahoo.com 。Address of the Food bank can be found as follow:

Regional Food Bank

965 Albany-Shaker Road

 Latham, NY 12110

3．Seminar on “Child development and parenting (II)

The seminar (I) on the same topic by Dr.Yanqing Sun given on last semester was well received. Dr Sun will give a second seminar on Feb 28th from 1:10pm to 2:10pm at Shaker Junior High School.  Dr. Sun is welcome parent email her for questions or topics that would like her to include in her talk. Her email: ysun@albany.edu

讲座题目: 儿童发展与亲子交往II

内容简介:

上次讲座中简要介绍了有关儿童发展的理论及亲子交往中的一些基本原则。本次讲座将结合生活中的实例来深入探讨家庭教育及亲子交往中的常见问题和应对办法。如果时间允许，也可以就家长们现场提出的问题做具体分析。

主讲人: 孙燕青

Dr. Yanqing Sun is a lecturer at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include

child development, parenting, and language learning. She was formerly an

associate professor at Beijing Normal University, a post-doctoral fellow at

the University of Toronto.

4, New Fitness Ball Dance (健身球) will start in Chunyuan Zhang’s Adult dance class. After Chinese New Year celebration, dance teacher Chunyuan Zhang will lead the adult dance class to start practicing a new fitness ball dance(健身球)。 Any one interest in this dance, please come to joining her at Shaker Junior High School from 1:10pm-3:10pm.

Sincerely

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement February 5th, 2010

Dear parents and students:

The 2010 Chinese New Year (a year of Tiger) is around the corner. Many of our students are working very hard in preparation for the celebration performance which will be held in The Egg Theater, Empire state plaza, on Saturday, February 13th. I would like to give a big thank-you to all of the teachers, students for their hard work to ensure the success of the celebration party. Please note that the final rehearsal of all the programs of this party will be held in the Gym on this coming Sunday, 2:00pm-5:00pm at Shaker Junior High School. Teachers of language classes, please dismiss your classes a few minuets earlier to allow students who take part in the performance to get ready for the rehearsal. Thank you for your support.

Please note that it will be winter break and there will be no school next Sunday, February 14th. Enjoy the break! I wish you all a very happy Chinese New Year!

新年快乐！吉祥如意！

Sincerely
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  01/28/2010

Dear Students and Parents:

I’d like to draw your attention to the following school events:

1.      The 10th Oversea Chinese Essay Competition.   Details of this competition are included below. In the past years, students from our school have had great achievement in this competition.  Hence, students are strongly encouraged to practice the essay, participate in the competition.  Please send assays to Xiaobo Ren at xulujia@gmail.com or vice Principal Qian Tao at qian06@yahoo.com before March 15th 2010.  Essays should be submitted in the following format:

姓名：

年龄：

辅导老师：

学校：美国纽约州首府中文学校  简体__年级__班

通讯地址：

电话：（518）

E-mail：

第十一届世界华人学生作文大赛海外征文启事

2, Links for reviewing class photos have been updated: There were some class photos missing form the links sent out last week. Thanks to School website manager Peizheng Xu for updating the links. Please enjoy the photos:

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/CSPictureDay

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/ChineseSchoolChrismasParty

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/2009ChineseStoryTellingContest

http://www.albanychineseschool.org/pictures/index.html

3,  Seminar on “Child development and parenting (II)’’. The seminar (I) on the same topic by Dr.Yanqing Sun given on last semester was well received. Dr Sun will give a second seminar on Feb 28th from 1:10pm to 2:10pm at Shaker Junior High School.  Dr. Sun is welcome parent email her for questions or topics that would like her to include in her talk. Her email: ysun@albany.edu

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讲座题目: 儿童发展与亲子交往II

内容简介:

上次讲座中简要介绍了有关儿童发展的理论及亲子交往中的一些基本原则。本次讲座将结合生活中的实例来深入探讨家庭教育及亲子交往中的常见问题和应对办法。如果时间允许，也可以就家长们现场提出的问题做具体分析。

主讲人: 孙燕青

Dr. Yanqing Sun is a lecturer at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include child development, parenting, and language learning. She was formerly an associate professor at Beijing Normal University, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

4, New Fitness Ball Dance (健身球) will start in Chunyuan Zhang’s Adult dance class. After Chinese New Year celebration, dance teacher Chunyuan Zhang will lead the adult dance class to start practicing a new fitness ball dance(健身球)。 Any one interest in this dance, please come to joining her at Shaker Junior High School from 1:10pm-3:10pm.

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Jan 22nd 2010

1 Chinese SAT mock test. This year’s National Preparation Test for SAT Subject in Chinese will be held on one of these dates: March 12th, 13th or 14th, 2010. All students 9th grade and above from our school are encouraged to take this test. The deadline for registration is 31st of January 2010. Please contact your teacher as soon as you could if you would like to take the test. The school will cover the fee for the test. However, there will be a $10 refundable deposit for each student applying for the test. This fee will be refunded to the student when he/she comes to take the test on the day of the test. On the other hand, the student will loose the $10 fee for not showing up for the test.

2, The Eleventh Oversea Chinese Assay Competition. The Eleventh Oversea Chinese Assay Competition organized by the World Chinese Assay Competition Association is starting to collect assay worldwide. Students from our school actively took part in this competition in the past and won many awards. We strongly encourage our students to do the same this year. Please visit the link for more information:
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2009fall/EssayContest.doc    Please submit your assay to Xiaobo Ren xulujia@gmail.com; before March 15th. Thanks.

3, Links for you to enjoy photos of school events and picture download for class page design for school year book: We had several successful school events last semester and photos for these events have been kindly organized and provided by our school website manager Peizhen Xu. Please enjoy the photos. Teachers: Please download the best pictures for your class and start to design the class page for this year’s school year book. Thank you! The links are listed below:

http://www.albanychineseschool.org/pictures/index.html

To submit designed class page for the year book, Please send to Xiao Lin at lxiao2004@yahoo.com

 (Language class), or Normy Liao at normyliao@live.cn(culture class). Thank you!

4. More Dancers are welcome to Dance-5 class. Dance teacher Ms Xinhua Liu is directing a new program “Splash Water Dance (泼水舞)” for the Chinese New Year performance. Girls at age 13-18 are welcome to join the class. Class time: 12:00-1:00pm at Shaker Junior High School. If you are interested in this class, please contact teacher Xinhua Liu directly at xlee882000@yahoo.com.

5, Parking violation. Parking in front of the Shaker Junior High School building or on the Drive way is a serious violation. Last week, a Honda Odyssey with a place number: EEZ-1647 was parking on the school driveway. Please note that from now on, vehicles violate parking rule will be tow at the owner’s expenses. Thank you for your cooperation.

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  01-14-2010

Please note that there will be no school this coming Sunday, January 17th and school will be resumed on Sunday, January 24th 2010.

Please pay attention to an important note regarding SAT test below:

This year’s National Preparation Test for SAT Subject in Chinese will be held on March 12, 13 and 14 2010.  All students 7th grade and above from our school are encouraged to take this test. The deadline for registration is 31st of January 2010.  Please contact your teacher as soon as you could if you would like to take the test. The school will cover the fee for the test. However, there will be a $10 refundable deposit for each student applying for the test. This fee will be refunded to the student when he/she comes to take the test on the day of the test. On the other hand, the student will loose the $10 fee for not showing up for the test. 

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Jan-6th-2010

Dear Students, Parents:

I hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday season. The Chinese School will resume on this coming Sunday, January 10th, 2010. Welcome back! There will be no change of class schedules. Please note the following school tasks:

1: The Eleventh Oversea Chinese Assay Competition. The Eleventh Oversea Chinese Assay Competition organized by the World Chinese Assay Competition Association is starting to collect assay worldwide. Students from our school actively took part in this competition in the past and won many awards.  We strongly encourage our students to do the same this year.  Please visit the link for more information:

 http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2009fall/EssayContest.doc. Please submit your assay to Xiaobo Ren xulujia@gmail.com before March 15th. Thanks.

2, Links for you to enjoy photos of school events and picture download for class page design for school year book: We had several successful school events last semester and photos for these events have been kindly organized by our school website manager Peizhen Xu. Please enjoy the photos. Teachers: Please download the best pictures for your class and start to design the class page for this year’s school year book. Thank you! The links are listed below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/ChineseSchoolChrismasParty#

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/2009ChineseStoryTellingContest#

http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/CSPictureDay#

3, No Art-4 class this Sunday: Due to the unavailability of the teacher, there will be no Art-4 class this week. Art-4 class will be resumed on Sunday, Jan 24th 2010.

4. No Chinese School next Sunday. It is Martin Luther King’s day on Monday Jan 18th. There will be no School on Sunday Jan 17th because Shaker Junior High School is not available. Our school will be back in session on Sunday, Jan 24th, 2010.

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement 12-17-2009

Dear Parents:

1, Schedule for the last day of this semester. This coming Sunday, December 20th, is the last day of the fall semester. Agenda for this Sunday: there will be double sessions and no culture classes:

10:00am – 12:00noon, Language class and final exam;

12:00—1:00pm, potluck-lunch;

1:00—3:00pm, School meeting and Christmas party in Auditorium (Award Ceremony and thank-teacher Ceremony followed by student performance).

2. Safety on the last day of the school: please be reminded the importance of safety in the school. Students please do not run in the hallway inside the school building; please do not eat outside the dining hall area in case of spill of the food or drink on the floor; please do not bring sharp objects into the school.

3. Distribution of gift to teachers and students: To celebrate the holidays, the school administration have prepared gift for teachers and for students who have registered in language classes. Classroom PTAs please come to the school administration corner around 11:00am this Sunday to pick up the gift. Please note that the gift for students is a tin of Almont Roca which contains Almont nuts, and we also prepared some Chocolate wafers. If your child may be allergic to nuts, you could have a choice of picking up a can of wafer instead.

4. Please do not access any equipment in the Shaker Junior High School Classroom without permission. There was a report recently by Shaker Junior High School that someone (adult) from CCC Chinese School was trying to access the equipment in one of the classrooms last Sunday when the school was in secession. Once again, please be reminded we suppose not to touch any equipment without permission from Shaker Junior High School. Thank you for your corporations.

5. Starting day of spring semester 2009-2010. Spring semester will start on Sunday, January 10th 2009.

6. Looking for Piano teacher: the Chinese School and CCC Enrichment program is looking for a piano teacher. Anyone or you know anyone who may be interested in teaching piano, please contact Jianzhong Tang at liu.family1@gmail.com or Yanli Ma at Marion_Myl@hotmail.com

The year of 2009 has been a successful one for us. Please accept my sincerely thanks for your support to the school. On behalf of the school administration team, I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jianzhong Tang
Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement   December 10th, 2009

 Dear Teachers:

1, Please submit the result of YCT test for your class.  For the classes in which students took the YCT test, please submit the results to Principal Jianzhong Tang by email this coming Sunday, December 13th, 2009 (please use the excel form sent to you last time).

2, Appreciation card. It will be a great opportunity for us to show our appreciation to Shaker Junior High School for their generous support of providing us with the classrooms. It is recommended that each teacher prepare a Christmas greeting and thank-you card with signatures of the students in your class. Please leave the card to the school administration desk this Sunday. The school administration staff will present these cards to Shaker Junior high school.

3. Please provide the name of the PTA representative for your class. To celebrate the holidays, the school administration is preparing gifts for teachers and students (please note that there is no need for teachers to prepare gift for their students). We need PTA representative to help distributing the gift for each class next Sunday.  Please provide the name of the PTA representative for your class to PTA Chair Zhang Xiaoqing as soon as possible.

4, This coming Sunday is pay-day. School treasurer Zaozhi and CCC book keeper Yinxin have been working hard and they will have the paycheck ready. Please come to pick up your check when you come to sign in on Sunday.

5. Potluck- lunch participation. PTA is helping for the planning of the Last School Day Potluck lunch. As the participation of the lunch is optional, class room PTA representatives must report to Zhang Xiaoqing whether their class will participate the lunch so that she can arrange the tables accordingly. 

Upcoming:

 Last day of fall semester and Christmas Party:  Next Sunday, Dec 20th will be the last day of the fall semester. There will be double sessions and no culture classes:

Agenda for Sunday Dec20th,

10:00am – 12:00noon,   Language class and final exam;

12:00—1:00pm,   Potluck- lunch;

1:00—3:00pm,   School meeting and Christmas party in Auditorium (Award ceremony, thank-teacher ceremony followed by student performance).

 Thanks –teacher ceremony. There is going to be a thank-teacher ceremony on the Christmas Party. Please come to the Christmas Party the Sunday of Dec 20th.

 Party performance:  Party performance will be presented by grader 5 below and dance classes. All students of other grades are strongly encouraged to participate the party.

Thanks

Jianzhong Tang

On behalf of the

CCC Chinese School administration team

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  12-03-2009

Dear Students and Parents:

1, The Chinese School will resume on this coming Sunday, Dec 6th, 2009.

2, Please return your Heath Survey Form. A survey for Fish Consumption was conducted in our Chinese school about several weeks ago. The response has been reasonably good. However, the survey would be more statistically reliable if we would collect 10 more completed forms to reach a returning rate of 70%. It is much appreciated if you could complete the survey form and return it when you come to the school this Sunday.

3, Our school Annual Picture Day is this coming Sunday, Dec 6th. Class attendance is very much appreciated.

4, Deadline for submission of Scholarship application. Students, who are interested in applying this year’s Scholarship, please submit your application form this Sunday.

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Upcoming school event:

End of semester day and Christmas Party. The last day of the fall semester of 2009-2010 will be Sunday, Dec 20th 2009. There will be double sessions and no culture classes:

10:00am – 12:00noon,   Language class and final exam;

12:00—1:00pm,   potluck-lunch;

1:00—3:00pm,    School meeting and Christmas party in Auditorium (Award ceremony and thank-teacher ceremony followed by student performance).

CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement 11-20th 2009

Dear students and parents:

1, Story Telling event. The 2009 annual Story Telling was successfully held on last Sunday, Nov 15th at CCC building. Please review the event summary and the list of the winners and pictures from the link here http://picasaweb.google.com/berylh8/2009ChineseStoryTellingContest.

http://albanychineseschool.org

Congratulations to all the winners!

Sincerely thanks to the following: students and parents for their participation; school administration staffs, Peizhen Xu, Ming, Min Hsia, Hongyuan Xia, Rui Li, Ling Sun, Honglian Gao and kebo Tong for their hard work for this event.

2．    Seminar:  2009 Pandemic H1N1 Virus

          Title:  Introduction to Influenza A Virus and the 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Virus

        Location: Shaker Jr High School, Room A205

         475 Watervliet-Shaker Rd, Latham, NY 12110

         Time: This coming Sunday, Nov 22nd 2009, 1:10pm-2:10pm

         Speaker: Bin Zhou (Influenza A virus and Coronavirus Pathogenesis Laboratory at Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health)

   讲座：2009年HINI流行病毒

   题目：感冒病毒与2009年HINI流行病毒的介绍

   地点：CCC 中文学校， Shaker Jr High School，ROOM A205，

               475 Watevliet—Shaker Rd， Latham，NY 12110

   时间：星期天，Nov 22nd 2009, 1:10pm-2:10pm

   主讲：周 斌 （纽约州府卫生厅,感冒病毒及非典病毒研究实验室）

3．Manuscripts for CCC <News letter > are wanted. Teachers, parents, school administration staff are welcome to write articles about experience on learning, teaching Chinese culture. Please send your manuscript to berylh8@gmail before Nov 30th.  为了使《中文学校简报》、《华社通讯》和“中文学校网站”的内容更加丰富多彩，希望各位老师、家长、学生踊跃投稿，谈谈老师在海外中文教育的感想感受、家长在辅导孩子学中文过程中的宝贵经验、学生在海外的所见所闻。于此同时，欢迎各位校长、副校长每人写一份工作总结报告。

来稿请寄berylh8@gmail（以前的berylh8@yahoo.com被人盗用，于10月31日作废）截稿日期为11月30日。 许佩珍 (Beryl Hsia)《中文学校简报》主编; 《华社通讯》主编; “中文学校网站”主管

4. Application for CCC Chinese School Scholarship Award.  The Scholarship Award is established to recognize outstanding high school students for their commitment to and achievement in learning Chinese language and culture, and for their volunteer community service. Any student interested in applying for this year’s School Scholarship Award, please review the details of the “Scholarship Recipient Selection Criteria” on the School hand book and submit application to vice principal Xiaodong Yang at kxyang@hotmail.com  this coming Sunday Nov 22nd.

School upcoming events:

1.  School picture day: Please note that the School Picture Day will be the next school day, Sunday, Dec 6th.

2. 2009 Christmas Party.  The Last day of fall semester will be Sunday, Dec 20th on which the 2009 Christmas Party will be held. It is appreciated if the teachers submit the titles of the program for their classes to vice Principal Tao Qian at Qian06@yahoo.com before Dec 6th 2009.

CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Announcement   11-13-2009

Dear Students, Parents:

1, There is no school this coming Sunday. Please be reminded because shaker Junior High School is not available, there will be no school this Sunday, Nov 15th 2009.  Enjoy the break!

2, Story telling. Story telling event for grader 5th below will be held at CCC building at 1:00pm-3:00pm this coming Sunday. Please note that Story telling will be run as two groups:

Group 1:  XQ-1, XQ-2, XQ-3, JTMLP1-1, JTMLP1-2, JTMLP 2-1 and JTMLP 2-2. Parents and students in this group, please arrive CCC building at 12:50pm.

  Group 2: JTZW 3-1,JTMLP3-1, JTMLP3-2, JTMLP3-3, JTMLP4-1, JTMLP 5-1 and JTZW5-1. Parents and students in this group please arrive CCC building at 1:50pm.

        To all story telling participants: because there are many participations to this event, please practice and control the time, limit your presentation within 3 minutes so that all the participants have chance to present.

Dear Teachers:
Please join us for our semi-annual teachers' conference this Sunday (Nov 15th 2009) between 10am and 12pm at the CCC building. Here is the agenda for this conference:
10:00 am - 10:05 am Opening Remarks & Introduction (school administrators)
10:05 am - 10:15 am ACS award ceremony
10:15 am – 10: 35am School work report (School principal, Jianzhong )
10:40 am-11:50am Group discussion
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm Box Lunch
We look forward to seeing you all at the CCC building this coming Sunday.
尊敬的老师们：
本星期天十一月十五日是每年一度的老师年会, 时间是上午10点至12点，地点在华社。以下是开会的议程：
10：00-10：05 介绍开会议程；
10：05-10：15 发奖仪式（授予美东中文学校年会得奖得主）；
10：15-10：35 学校工作汇报 （校长 ：唐建中）；
10：40-11：55 分组讨论， 交流教学体会及经验；
12：00-1：00pm 午饭 （盒饭）。
请大家按时参加，希望在华社见到您！为了便于交流教学经验，请自选教材的老师（XQ及CFL班等）将教材带来。 另外，还没交本年度教学计划的老师，请将计划带来。

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcemen 11-06-2009

1. Teacher’s training and Story telling on Nov 15^th. There will be no Chinese School next Sunday (Nov 15^th) because Shaker High school facility is not available. Instead, there will be a two-hour session of teacher’s training followed by Chinese story contest held in CCC building. The teacher’s training will start at 10:00am to 12:00 followed by lunch.  Story telling will start at 1:00pm and end at about 4:00pm. For teachers of grade 5^th and lower, if you have not yet submitted stories for your class, please do so ASAP and the deadline for submitting stories is extended to this coming Sunday.

3. Application for CCC Chinese School Scholarship Award.  The Scholarship Award is established to recognize outstanding high school students for their commitment to and achievement in learning Chinese language and culture, and for their volunteer community service. Any student interested in applying for this year’s School Scholarship Award, please review the details of the “Scholarship Recipient Selection Criteria” on the School hand book and submit your application before Nov 22^nd.

4. Please hand in the Health Survey form. Your and your family’s participation is very important to complete the Health Survey conducted by the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Center for Environmental Health, New York State Department of Health. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and return it to the help desk this coming Sunday.  Thank you!

5. Male students are wanted for Chinese New Year celebration opening ceremony. Teacher Chunyuan Zhang has been organizing dancing programs for the next Chinese New Year celebration opening ceremony and a group of female students are already recruited. She would like to have more male students age 7-10 year old to join the program. Any male student in this age group and is interested in participating this event, please contact teacher Chunyuan Zhang at: 518-753-4815.

6. No parking in front of the Shaker Jr high School main building. Parking in front of the Shaker Jr high School Sunday during Chinese School time is a violation of the safety rule.  For the Safety of all of us, please do not park in front of the Shaker Jr High School main building.

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  10-28-2009

Dear Students, Parents:

Please pay attention to the following school task this week:

1, Fire Drill.  There will be a fire drill this week during the hours of the language class. Please review the fire drill procedure enclosed at the end of this announcement and leaving the building at the designated evacuation route. Do not come back to the building until told by the emergency coordinator.

2. Daylight saving ends.  Daylight saving of this year ends this coming Sunday, Nov 1^st 2009, Please be reminded to move you time one hour forward. 

3. Story telling event of this school year will be held in Nov, 15^th 1:00-3:00pm at the CCC building. Please see the full announcement for this event below:

Our Culture, Our Stories

[Chinese Story Telling Contest is coming-- 5^th graders and lower]

Purpose:  The goal of this Chinese Story Telling Contest is to stimulate students’ interest in learning Chinese language and culture, to improve their abilities of oral presentation in Chinese, and to express themselves in Chinese smoothly and accurately.

Participants:  Students in language class grade 5 and lower.  Please contact with your language teacher and ask for guidance if you want to participate.

Competition date and location:  November 15, 2009, CCC building.

Suggested topics: Short Chinese culture-related stories such as Chinese idiom story, short Chinese history story, Chinese riddle story, Chinese ancient poem or children folk song (for young students), or something you learn from the class.   Each class can submit up to 5 stories, please limit the presentation time for each story within 3 minutes.

Responsibility of the teacher:  The teacher in the language class should help the student to choose a story or a topic and report: 1) the names of the participating students and 2) the selected story topics to the vice Principal, Xiaodong Yang  before 11/5; advise students to prepare the presentation, arrange rehearsal, and send the students to final competition.  To save time and to allow more students to present, we encourage group presentation

Judge and award:  Three PTA representatives (who has no participating children) will be selected as judges.  The top three winners will be nominated for the CCC Chinese New Year Shows or the New Year Party in the Chinese School.  All participants will receive a small gift. 

Contact information:  Please contact Xiaodong Yang at kxyang@hotmail.com  or Jiangzhong Tang at liu.family1@Gmail.com  if you have any questions or suggestions. 

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement 10-21-2009 

Please pay attention to the following school announcement:
1, Adjustment of Class. Due to low enrollment of Dance-1 class, the school administration has decided to merge Dance-1 class with Dance-2 class. 

2, Please continue your best effort to keep Shaker Junior High School facility tidy and clean. As announced several times previously, it is our best interest of doing so and there has been improvement in the last few weeks. However, we were informed by the Principal of Shaker Junior High School a few days ago that our student(s) entered a classroom that was not assigned the Chinese School and made mess of it last Sunday.  The school administration asks for your help on this issue to prevent any similar violation from happening.

3, The classes of English as Second Language are welcome more students. These classes are kindly offered by two Literacy Volunteer English teachers and are free to anyone who wants to learn English. Please come to classroom C101 (beginner), or teacher’s lounge (intermediate) if you or your relatives are interested in leaning English.

4. Seminar on Woman's Healthy this week, 1:10-2:00pm

Title: “Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection”

Speaker: Dr. Chen Lei

Location: Shaker Jr High School, Room 205 (second floor)

About the speaker: Dr. Chen, Lei is an OB/GYN doctor for 18 years in GuangDong , China . She is the chair of OB/GYN department. Dr. Chen came to Albany last year to do research on woman related cancer. In this seminar, Dr. Chen is going to share her knowledge on breast cancer prevention and early detection based on her research and clinical experience.

 

 

School Up coming event:

Story telling event of this school year will be held in Nov, 15^th 1:00-3:00pm at the CCC building. Please see the full announcement for this event:

Our Culture, Our Stories

[Chinese Story Telling Contest is coming-- 5^th graders and lower]

 

Purpose:  The goal of this Chinese Story Telling Contest is to stimulate students’ interest in learning Chinese language and culture, to improve their abilities of oral presentation in Chinese, and to express themselve in Chinese smoothly and accurately.

Participants:  Students in language class grade 5 and lower.  Please contact with your language teacher and ask for guidance if you want to participate.

Competition date and location:  November 15, 2009, CCC building.

Suggested topics: Short Chinese culture-related stories such as Chinese idiom story, short Chinese history story, Chinese riddle story, Chinese ancient poem or children folk song (for young students), or something you learn from the class……   Please limit the presentation time within 3 minutes

Responsibility of the teacher:  The teacher in the language class should help the student to choose a story or a topic and report: 1)  the names of the participating students and 2) the selected story topics to the vice Principal, Xiaodong Yang  before 11/5; advise students to prepare the presentation, arrange rehearsal, and send the students to final competition.  To save time and to let more students to present, we encourage group presentation (limited to 5 minutes please)

Judge and award:  Three PTA representatives (who has no participating children) will be selected as judges.  The top three winners will be nominated for the CCC Chinese New Year Shows or the New Year Party in the Chinese School .  All participants will receive a small gift. 

Contact information:  Please contact Xiaodong Yang at kxyang@hotmail.com  or Jiangzhong Tang at liu.family1@Gmail.com  if you have any questions or suggestions. 

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Oct 15^th 2009

The school will resume on this coming Sunday, Oct 18^th 2009. Please pay attention to the following announcements:

1, Class cancellation.  The Go Chess Class will be canceled due to low enrollment. Sorry for the inconvenience. Students in this class please select another cultural class or have their tuition (registration fee) refund. Thank you for your understanding and support.

2, School approval is required for class transfer. As announced earlier, all students should have made their final choice of class by now.  If you still have not yet registered, please do so as soon as possible.  Except new registers, any student who wants to transfer to other class must obtain approval from the school administration.

3, There will be no Art-4 Class (素描) this Sunday. Because the teacher is not avalible, there will be not Art-4 class this week. The class will be resumed next week. Sorry for the inconvenience.

4. Continuing efforts in keeping our classrooms clean. The school need all of your efforts and support to keep classroom in order and clean, which is important for our privilege of using Shaker Junior High school facility.

5, Seminar on this Sunday at 1:10pm (all parents is welcome to attend):

Title: “Child Development and Parenting”

Speaker: Dr. Yanqing Sun

Location: Shaker Jr High School, Classroom: A205 (second floor, multi-language room)

About the Speaker: Dr. Yanqing Sun is a visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include child development, parenting, and language learning. She was formerly an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Upcoming school event:

Seminar on Woman's Healthy presented by Dr. Lei Chen entitled “Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection”

The seminar will be given in Chinese.

Seminar Time: Sunday, Oct 25th 1:10 - 2:00pm, Questions and Answer: 2:15 - 3:00pm

Location: Shaker Jr High School, RM A205

Do you know that over 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year? One person is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3 minutes. One person dies of breast cancer every 14 minutes. People over the age of 50 account for 76% of breast cancer cases. The statistic shows that 1 out of 8 women will develop breast cancer over her life time. There is over a 97% five-year survival rate when localized breast cancer is caught before it spreads to other parts of the body. It's extremely important to learn the knowledge on how to prevent breast cancer and how to detect it as early as possible for better survival rate.

Dr. Chen, Lei is an OB/GYN doctor for 18 years in GuangDong, China. She is the chair of OB/GYN department. Dr. Chen came to Albany last year to do research on woman related cancer. In this seminar, Dr. Chen is going to share her knowledge on breast cancer prevention and early detection based on her research and clinical experience.

Dr. Chen not only practices western medicine, but also combines Chinese traditional medicine as well as balanced nutrition to achieve good results for overall woman's health. She will be happy to spend some time to answer questions after the seminar. 

Chinese Community Center

CCC Chinese School

NY Capital district

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement Oct 8th 2009

1, Please be reminded that there is no Chinese School this Sunday, Oct 11^th, due to Shaker Junior High School is not available.

Please join us to enjoy the biggest event ever organized by CCC this Saturday, 11^th, 2009 at RPI.  Please review the announcement for this event:

2009 CCC “Asian Market Cup” Table Tennis Tournament and Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

After several months of preparation, the 2009 CCC Mid-Autumn Festival party and Table Tennis Tournament will be held in RPI Robison Gym on Oct 10, 2009. The 2009 CCC Table Tennis Tournament It is an official 2-star tournament rated by the United States Association of Table Tennis and co-organized by the Chinese Community Center (CCC) of the Capital District of New York. This is the most highly-rated table tennis event ever held in the capital region and has already drawn national attentions especially within the table tennis society. A number of US Olympians and national team members have registered in the tournament and several local business and media have showed strong interests as well.

The Mid-autumn Festival party is co-organized by CCC and RPI Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA). A lot of wonderful programs embodying traditional Chinese culture will be performed. At the beginning of the party, there will be tournament banquet and a lot of traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn festival games.

Spectators are welcome. Free Entrance to Public.

Tournament time: 9am-6pm, Oct. 10

Party time:               5pm, Oct 10

Venue:                     RPI Robison GYM. Alumni Sports & Recreation Center (Armory Gymnasium), 15th Street,Troy, NY 12180

Banquet Fee:           $3 (CCC member and RPI student), $5(Non CCC member or RPI student)

Contact:                  Renge Li (518-698-7913, lirenge2008@gmail.com);

                                James Yang (518-229-3709, jamesyzh@yahoo.com)

For more information of tournament, party and parking, please visit  http://www.cccalbany.org

  or   http://www.cccnycapital.org/bbs/index.php/topic,246.0.html

2009 CCC “东方超市杯”乒乓球大赛暨中秋晚会

经过接近半年的准备，2009 CCC中秋节晚会和首届CCC杯乒乓球比赛将在10月10日在RPI Robison Gym隆重召开。通过申请，我们联合美国乒乓球协会举办本次比赛。在10月10日早上9点开始，RPI Robison Gym将是高手如林，迎来Capital Region 地区前所未有的顶级赛事---美国兵协两星级乒乓球大赛。这将是一系列龙争虎斗，场场精彩的大赛。据目前所知，多名前美国国家队奥运会成员，国家队教练和国手将出席我们本次大赛，并带来众多美国东北部众多专业和业余高手。

中秋晚会将联合RPI CSSA, 强强联合，精彩重重。晚会将展示中国传统节目，体现传统文化。将是一场别开生面，精彩纷呈,令人难忘的晚会。在晚会之前还有乒乓球比赛的颁奖典礼和晚餐，游园活动，包括书法表演，各类趣味游戏等。真诚邀请您的参与。

免费入场观看比赛。

比赛时间： 10月10日9am-6pm

晚会时间： 10月10日5pm

地点：RPI Robison GYM. Alumni Sports & Recreation Center (Armory Gymnasium), 15th Street,Troy, NY 12180

晚会晚餐： $3 (华社会员，RPI学生)，$5(非华社会员，非RPI学生)

联系人：李任戈 (518-698-7913, lirenge2008@gmail.com);

杨朝辉 (518-229-3709, jamesyzh@yahoo.com )

停车等更多信息，请参考http://www.cccalbany.org or   http://www.cccnycapital.org/bbs/index.php/topic,246.0.html

3.

Dear parents and teachers,

 

As you may know, our environment, daily diet, and health are all related to each other. To identify current dietary habits and potential problems in our Chinese community, the Center for Environmental Health (part of the New York State Department of Health), the Chinese School and the CCC will distribute a survey to all students in language classes and their parents at the Chinese School on Sunday (10/18). This short survey (takes 5-10 minutes to complete) will ask about certain dietary habits and knowledge. Our community is the only community fortunate enough to be selected for this project. We encourage and ask all of you to complete this survey so we can get a representative picture of the dietary pattern of our community members. Based on your response, we will plan appropriate dietary education seminars in Spring 2010 that target our community's problems and concerns. Dietary experts will be invited to the CCC to provide these educational benefits. Therefore, your participation is critical to the success of this project and will directly benefit our community as well as yourself.  In addition, we will use this project as a practical example to train our students in research design and analysis methods.  Please watch for information packets and surveys to come home with your child Sunday (10/18).  Information on the project will also be available on the CCC website at www.cccalbany.org. Surveys can also be downloaded from the website. Thank you very much for your support and participation.

 

Shao Lin, Ph.D.,  M.D.                                                                            Jianzhong Tang, Principal

Research Director (Chinese School Council member)                       CCC Chinese School  

Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Center for Environmental Health

New York State Department of Health

 

亲爱的家长和老师们，

 

我们周围的环境和我们的饮食息息相关，也和我们的健康密切联系。为了研究我们华人社区目前的饮食习惯及潜在的问题，纽约卫生厅环境卫生中心、中文学校和纽约首府华社合作，将于10月18日在中文学校的语言班发放饮食健康调查问卷。此问卷内容简短（只需5－10分钟完成)，涉及到一些饮食习惯和知识。我们是唯一的被选入参加此项目研究的华人社区。我们鼓励并希望所有中文学校的成员都完成此问卷，以使最后问卷汇总的结果能够代表我们整个社区的饮食习惯。依据问卷的结果，我们计划在2010年春邀请饮食卫生专家来中文学校进行饮食讲座。因此，您的参与对此次活动的成功非常重要，并且直接有益于您个人、家庭和整个社区的饮食健康。我们也将利用此机会作为一项实际的科研课题去培养我们高年级的学生掌握基本的研究设计和分析方法。请各位家长查阅及填写您的孩子于10月18日从中文学校带回的信封及问卷。也请您近期关注华社网 www.cccalbany.org 有关此题目的信息。所有的问卷都可以从华社网下载。非常感谢您的支持和参与！

 

林梢     博士, 医师                                           唐建中

中文学校校董事                                             纽约首府华社

纽约卫生厅环境职业流行病科研主管         中文学校校长

• CCC Chinese School weekly Announcement  October 2^nd 2009

1, Class cancellation. After reviewing the most updated student registration record in the school database, the school administration has decided to cancel the following classes that are under registered:

1, JTZW9-1;

2, JTZW4-1;

3, Art-3;

4, Chess-2 (no teacher available);

Students in these classes please select other classes that are suitable to your language level/your culture interest, or the school will refund you the tuition (registration fee). Thank you for your understanding and support.

 2, School approval is required for class transfer. As announced earlier, all students should have made their final decision for class last week.  If you still have not registered, please do so as soon as possible. Starting this week, except new registers, any student who wants to transfer from one class to another must obtain approval from the school administration.

3, Teacher Parent meeting Day. This Sunday is Teacher Parent Meeting Day which is for teacher to communicate with parents for their teaching plan for the semester.   In this meeting, parents will select a classroom PTA representative. The elected PTA representatives of each class needs to report themselves to the PTA chair: Xiaoqing Zhang: qingagency@yahoo.com

4. There will be no school next Sunday, Oct 11^th. 2009. Please be reminded that it is the Columbus day next week and there will be no school because Shaker Jr High School is not available.

5. School Upcoming event:

On Sunday, Oct 18^th 2009, there will be a seminar given by Dr. Yanqing Sun

Title: “Child Development and Parenting”

Location: Shaker Jr High School, Classroom: A205 (second floor, multi-language room)

Time:  1:10pm

About the Speaker: Dr. Yanqing Sun is a visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include child development, parenting, and language learning. She was formerly an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Happy Autumn Festival!

中秋节快乐！

Chinese Community Center

Chinese School

• 尊敬的学生，家长，老师们：

你们好！由于大家的共同努力，新的学年开学一切顺利。我们学校的规模发展到现在的三十二个语言班，三百多学生，表明了大家对中文教育的重视以及众人长期的努力的结果。我们中文学校的发展也得到Shaker Junior High School长期的大力支持： 他们给我们 提供了充分的教学场所并且 只收 取 象征性的租金。这对我们能够维持远低于其他中文学校的学费提供了坚实的基础。作为受益的中文学校，我们 对Shaker Junior High School 承诺，保持学校的清洁，不损害教室设备，不乱动 教室内的 东西。 但是，最近 Shaker Junior High School 对我们提出了意见： 有些教师的办公桌的抽屉被打开了， 有些教室的设备被乱动了，有些学生在教室吃东西留下垃圾，留在黑板上的文字等等信息被抹掉或涂改了， 这些行为 给他们的正常教学造成了干扰. 如果我们对此不加以改正， Shaker Junior High School将收回教室的使用权，中文学校有可能失去这个重要的教学场地。

在此我们重申: 1,学生，家长和教师都要维护学校的规章制度，防止类似事情再次发生。2, 建议各班教师在下周上课的前半小时,　辅导学生重新学习校规.  3, 从现在起，每周下课后老师最后一个离开教室前，并在离开前检查教室，尽量将教室恢复到上课前的状况。4. 在无成人陪伴的情况下不允许学生留在教室。

学生守则 

1, 按时到校上课。

2, 因故缺席，应提前通知老师。

3, 做好课前准备，包括完成家庭作业，带好课本，作业本，笔记本，和所需文具。

4, 上课要认真听老师讲课，上课发言要举手。

5, 尊重老师和同学。遵守课堂纪律。

6, 严禁在教室里吃食物和喝饮料。

7, 不得动用教室内任何不属于自己的物品。

8, 不得在桌椅和墙上涂抹。

9, 课间休息严禁乱跑或一切危险行为。遵循校方安全巡视人员的指挥。

10, 严禁吸毒，饮酒，抽烟，严禁携带危险物品。

11, 上课期间若发生紧急情况，应听从老师和校方人员指挥。如需打911紧 急电话，一律由老师或校方人员拨打。

12, 学生如破坏学校公物，一律由家长赔偿。

13, 学生因违反校规所造成的意外，由家长承担一切法律责任。
 
Dear students, parents and teachers,
 
Because of your hard work, our new school year began smoothly. To date, our Chinese school has developed to the current scale of 32 classes and about 300 students. This reflects the great care and continuing efforts of the Chinese community to Chinese language/culture education. The success of our school is also a result of long-term and generous support from Shaker Junior High School. They have provided us the classrooms, facilities and charged only token rent. This has enabled us to charge a registration fee that is far below other Chinese schools in New York State. Benefited from their generous support, we promise to keep the school tidy, clean and not to cause any damage to the facility.
Unfortunately, Shaker Junior high school recently complained to us that some teachers' desk was opened, some of their facilities were moved without permission, some students ate and left garbage in the classrooms, and their teaching information on the blackboard was erased or changed.

All these have created inconvenience to Shaker Junior High School and interfered their normal teaching activities. If these violations continue, we may face the possibility of losing this important venue for our Chinese school.

 We emphasize here again: 1. All our students, parents, teachers and staffs must follow our school regulations and work together to put such violation to an end. 2. It is recommended that teachers should take about 30 min in their classes next week to review our school regulations with their students. 3. From now on, teacher should be the last one to leave the classroom after checking and restoring the original order of classroom. 4. Students should not be left in the classroom without the accompany of adult at any time.

Student Conduct

1.     Come to school and attend class on time.

2.     Notify your teacher in advance of any excusable absence.

3.     Come to class prepared, including completing all homework, bringing textbook, homework book, notebook, and general supplies.

4.     Be attentive in class. Raise hands to speak.

5.     Respect teachers and classmates. Follow all classroom rules.

6.     Eating and drinking beverages in the classroom are prohibited.

7.     Do not touch or remove anything in the classroom that does not belong to you.

8.     Do not draw or write on school furniture or walls.

9.     Running inside school building and any dangerous conduct are prohibited. Follow the directions of PTA hall monitors.

10. Drugs, alcohol, smoking, and dangerous objects are strictly prohibited in school. 

11. In case of emergency during class, students should follow the directions of the teachers and school staff. If a 911 call is necessary, teachers and school staff are responsible for making such an emergency phone call.

12. If students deface or damage any school property, parents are responsible for replacement and repair.

13. Parents are legally responsible for any accident due to the violation of school rules by the student(s) involved.

 Chinese School

Chinese Community Center

Capital District of New York

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Sep 24^th, 2009

Dear Students, Parents:

Please be reminded that there is no Chinese School this Sunday, Sep 27^th, due to Shaker Junior High School is not available.

Please Review the poster for the upcoming big event organizes by CCC:

 

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement 09-17-2009

Dear Students and Parents:

It was a very successful starting day at the school last Sunday. There have been 291 students registered for language classes and 135 students registered for culture classes this school year to date.  Thank you for coming to the CCC Chinese School .

            Based on the observation and the registration file on the first day at the school, the size of most of the classes has met the required number of students (≤ 20 or ≥ 4 for language classes or ≤ 20 or ≥ 6 for culture classes).  As registration continues, adjustment will be made for a few classes that are over registered this week. Thanks for your support.

1.    Adjustment of JTMLP1-1, JTZW1-1 and Art-4 classes.

• Classes of JTMLP1-1, Art-4 ( 素描) are over crowded and need to be adjusted. The school administrator will work together with the teachers of these classes to make the adjustment. Parents of these classes are advised to stay in the school, a short meeting will be held before the classes begin this coming Sunday.

• Based on the request from parents of students form class of JTZW1-1, the class of JTZW1-1 will be changed to JTMLP 1-2.

2.   Registration receipt. If you have already registered, please come to the registration desk to pick up your receipt before going to the class.  Please present the receipt to both your language teacher and culture class teacher if you registered both. 

3.   Please make your final decision of selecting a class this week.   As mentioned in the previous school announcement, new students are allowed to try out classes before making decision of which class is most appropriated for their language level or culture interest. This week will be the last week for students to sit in classes without registration. Our teachers will be checking for students in their classes for their registration statues next week.  Starting from the third week, it requires school approval for students to transfer from one class to another.

4.   Presentation this Sunday, Sep 20th, time: 1:10pm, title:  “Visions of China: Exploring China's History and Culture Through Earliest Color Photography in China."   Location: Shaker Junior High, multi- language room, A205 (second floor)
 Introduction: You are invited to take a visual journey into China 's past. The journey will begin in 1945 in Kunming ( Yunnan Province ) with the earliest known color photographs of China (this will include a few "then and now" comparisons). Then we'll travel back to the early 1900's, following the coast of China , with hand-colored glass lantern slides and black and white glass slides and stereoviews. We'll end our journey in the late 1800's, back in Yunnan , with the earliest motion pictures of China .

    Presenter, Gregg Millett began his China adventures in 2004 when he took his father's 35mm Kodachrome slides back to where they were taken -- at the eastern end of the Ledo/Burma Road -- to Kunming China . Gregg's father, Clinton Millett, was a U.S. Army doctor who led a hospital convoy across the Ledo/Burma Road . The exhibition of Dr. Millett's photographs caused a sensation in Kunming . Many people saw themselves as children, their parents, their shops -- indeed a colorful panorama of their almost forgotten past -- and 10,000 people a day packed the Yunnan Provincial Museum for the thirty-day exhibition.  A year later these photographs were exhibited at the National Museum of China in Beijing  and declared the "earliest known collection of color photographs of China ."

5, Our school is still looking for teacher for Chess class.  Anyone or you know someone is qualified to teach Chess class, please contact Jianzhong Tang: 489-4427, or our vice principal Bin Du: 221-9138.

Thank you all for your kind cooperation and support!

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

• CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement   Sep 10^th, 2009

        Dear Students and Parents:

  1.                School will start on this coming Sunday, September 13^th, 1:10pm. If you have not yet registered, please do so as soon as you could.

  2.                Registration receipt. If you have already registered, please come to the registration desk to pick up your receipt before going to the class room.  Please present the receipt to both your language teacher and culture class teacher if you registered both. 

  3.                Decision of selecting a class.   It is understandable that parents would like to search for a class that is most fit to their child (ren)’s language level or cultural interest by trying out classes. Our teachers will do a final check for all the students in their class and submit the list to school administration at the second week. Starting from the third week, it requires school approval for students to transfer from one class to another.

  4.                The Size of classes.  For better teaching quality and safety of your child, a class should not be over registered. The number of student in each class will be limited to twenty students for both language and culture classes. On the other hand, for economic reasons, the required minimum number student in each class is four for language class and six for culture class. The School administration reserves the right to make necessary adjustment.

  5.                Please DO NOT come to school if you have flu like symptoms. Due to the pandemic of HINI,   for the health of all our students, parents and teachers, please be advised that you or your child stay home should you or your child have flu like symptoms such as fever, headache, chills, body aches, tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, and nasal congestion. Come back to school after you fully recovered.

  Thanks for all your support! Welcome to the Chinese School!

   Have a great first day at school!

  Jianzhong Tang

  Principal, CCC Chinese School

  CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement  Sep 9^th 2009

  Dear Teachers:

  1.   The Chinese School will start on this coming Sunday, 1:10PM . Please arrive school 15min earlier to sign in and get ready for your class.

  2.    We need your help on checking student registration for your class. Please make a list of student by checking their registration receipts and submit to the school administration in the second week by email to School data base manager Jia-hua Chen . For some brand new students, please allow them at least one week time to observe the class before they make final decision of to which class to enroll.

  3.   As you may have noticed from the student enrollment information sent to you by Jianhua our school data base manager, student number in some classes are under the required minimum number (6 for culture class, 4 for language class). However, please note that the total number of students is not final yet. Student registration state has been monitored by the School administration closely. Necessary adjustment to classes will be made according to the final number of enrollment. However, before school send out decision on class adjustment, please prepare teaching and come to the class that you are assigned.

  4.    As requested by the Shaker High School administration, no student should be left in the classroom without teacher or parent present. Please inform all your students:  keep the classroom clean and do not remove anything from the classroom.

  5.    If your class still needs text books, please find out which volume of the text book  and the number of copies you need then report to our vice principal Xiaodong Yang as soon as possible.  

               Thank you so much! Have a great first day in the School!

  CCC Chinese School Weekly Announcement September 4^th, 2009

  Dear Students and Parents

  1, As we are looking forward to our first day of the new school year, I am pleased to share with you a great news: It was a very successful open registration day last Sunday. there were forty students and families came forward to complete the registration. Up to today, the number of registered student for language classes reaches 220,  and there are109 students have registered for Culture activity classes.  Welcome to CCC Chinese School! Welcome the new school year. Thanks for all your continued support!   

  2,  At the same time, it is my pleasure to introduce to you a group of lovely youth instructors who will be teaching in this coming school year:

  Kaiyuan Liu (Chess-1 Class).   Kaiyuan Liu is a 12^th grade student at Niskayuna High School. He has studied chess under private teachers for ten years. Kaiyuan is very friendly and loves to help people. He did a lot of volunteer activities for both CCC and Niskayuna High School. He has been teaching chess at CCC Chinese School for two years. Kaiyuan was also the vice president of the CCC chess club for two years. Kaiyuan is in a great number of clubs in High School including chess club; he is also an active member in both the Natural Helpers Program and the National Honors Society. Kaiyuan also won both the Chinese School Scholarship and the Hai-Hua Scholarship from Association of Chinese School in North East of USA.

  Xingyu Wei (Tae-kwon- Do class). Xingyu Wei is a student at Guilderland High School. He started learning and practicing Karate/Tae Kwon Do at the age of 5. Now he is a certified black belt of the first degree. He is invited to demonstrate Karate/Tae Kwon Do at various organizations. Xingyu is dedicated to helping younger students and is very

  sociable. He has served as a junior counselor at Tawasentha Camp, president of the class of 2012 at Guilderland High School, tutor, and a volunteer of beneficiary causes at numerous occasions."

  Jacqueline Hsia (Art-2A Class).  Jacqueline Hsia  a 10th grader at Colonie Central High School and 11th grader at Chinese School, has been learning Chinese Brush Painting for nearly four years now and has been taught by various teachers in China and Professor Lefu Gu. Last year she was the teacher assistant of Teacher Jiang ShuJun.  The past summer, she has been tutoring Chinese Brush Painting. She enjoys many forms of art, including sketching, digital painting and graphics, and painting with other mediums. She also plays Chinese Zither and frequently performs it at various Chinese cultural events.

  Eileen and Jennifer Jin (Dance-1 Class). Eileen and Jennifer Jin are juniors at Shaker High School.  They began Chinese traditional dance at the age of 8 at the Chinese School and are familiar with the various folk dances of China.  Eileen and Jennifer have also studied six years of ballet at the Berkshire Ballet Company.  They have performed at events such as the Chinese New Year Celebration, the Festival of Nations, and in local libraries and colleges.  As Chinese school students themselves, they would love to share their dancing skills with younger students eager to learn their first dance.

  3, In the attachment, please fine the Notice for Over Sea Chinese Essay Publication-09. Any one interest in ordering the publication, please contact Xiaobo Ren by sending her a  email at  xulujia@gmail.com before September 15, 2009.  Thanks.

   Correction for the last school announcement: New teacher Shih Chia Thompson will be teaching Art-4 (素描) and FT-2 (Traditional Chinese Class 2).

  　

• CCC Chinese School Open Registration Day

    

  Starting day for the new school year is approaching, for your convenience on registration; CCC Chinese School will hold an open registration day：

  　

  Time: Sunday, 30^th 2009, 1:00pm-4:00pm; 星期天，8月30日，下午1点至4点。

  Location:  CCC Building,  纽约首府华社， 11 Avis Dr. Latham， NY  12110

  　

  School administration staffs, school treasurer, school data base manager will be there to take your registration, answer any questions.

  　

• August 24, 2009 Weekly CCC Chinese School Announcement

Dear Students and Parents:

　

It is my pleasure to introduce to you our new teachers for this school year:

　

Bozhen Huang ( 黄宝珍), new teacher of XQ-1. Ms Huang graduated from Fuzhou City Normal School for kindergarten Education, Fujian Province, China (福建省福州市幼儿师范学校). She is a very experienced pre-school teacher and had taught in Pre-school in Fuzhou City , China for six years. After immigrated to US, she gained valuable experience of teaching children raised in the United States by teaching at the Red Apple Pre-School (纽约市红萍果幼儿园) in New York City for six years.

　

Yanqing Sun (孙燕青）new teacher of JTMLP 3- 3。Dr. Yanqing Sun is a visiting assistant professor at SUNY-Albany and a specialist on child development. Her research interests include child development, parenting and language learning. She was formerly an associate professor at Beijing Normal University , a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada.

 

Normy Liao （廖卫迟）, new teacher of Art-1B (Children’s painting II). Normy Liao graduated from the Art School of Hubei, China. She has many talents in arts and design.  Before coming to the United States , She gained experience by teaching in Hubei province and Shenzhen city for several years as an art teacher, Chinese Language teacher and Art designer.

　

Shih-Chia (Nikki) Thompson (陈诗佳), new teacher for Art-4 (素描).  Shih-Chia (Nikki) Thompson Graduated from National Changhua University of Education , Taiwan . After graduated, she became a Graphic Design Consultant for Chen Graphic Design Changhua, Taiwan for several years. She then succeeded as a fine arts teacher, deputy supervisor of education Team in Nei Hu High School, Taiwan.  After coming to the United States , Mrs. Thompson continues her teaching profession by teaching Chinese Language at Voorheesville Middle School .

　

Feng Li (李凤), new teacher of CFL-A2( Chinese as Foreign Language for Adult). Feng Li is a visiting scholar at SUNY Albany. She gained her MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Foreign Language School , Northeast Normal University , Changchun , China , after obtained her bachelor degree of English Education from the same university. Before visiting the United States , Ms Feng Li was a Lecturer in Foreign Language Teaching and Research Center , Jilin University, and later in the University of Nationalities , China for several years.

　

We are fortunate enough to have these new teachers join us; please join me in welcoming them to our school.

　

　

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

• August 20, 2009 Weekly CCC Chinese School Announcement

Dear Teachers:

　

A special fundraising event for Taiwan Morakot Typhoon Disaster Relief organized by Chinese Community Center at the NY Capital District will be held at CCC building this Sunday, 23rd 2009. from 2:00pm-6:00pm . Please note the following school announcement:

　

1, CCC Chinese School Staff meeting will be held as scheduled this coming Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm; we will have to finish the meeting in time.  Your help on cleaning up after the meeting and setting up for the special even are needed.

　

2, As the special fundraising event will follow our meeting, it is a great opportunity for us to show our help and support to the Taiwan people who need it. You are encouraged to bring in your family and show your support by bring in one dish of finger food, desert or fruit,  Suggestions of food: cookies, mini-muffins, mini cheese cakes; mini-donuts; 茶蛋; 卤蛋 ; grapes; cherries; strawberries…. fruit that are easy to handle. No melon please! All of the dishes brought in will be used for the fundraising event!

 

Teachers who taught last school year, please be reminded to turn in your class student final exam score when coming to the meeting, or you could email it to vice principal Tao Qian at qian06@yahoo.com. Thanks a lot.

　

Please visit the links for both English and Chinese version of the poster for this event: http://www.cccnycapital.org/bbs/index.php/topic,301.0.html

　

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

• August 12, 2009 Weekly CCC Chinese School Announcement

Dear Students and Parents:

　

On behalf of the CCC Chinese School administration team, it is my pleasure to welcome you back for another wonderful new school year. I hope that your summer has been and continue to be enjoyable and restful! As the new school year approaches, our school administration staff has been dedicated to insure a smooth school starting day and for another successful year.  The Registration Guideline, Class list and Registration Form, can be down loaded by from the link:

　

http://www.albanychineseschool.org/schoolhandbook200910/2009Fall_registr_Guidelines.pdf

　

You are encouraged to review, print out the registration form, and register for class as soon as you could if you have not done so. There is no late fee apply if you register before August 31^st 2009 (postmark). The tentative starting day for new school year will be Sunday, September, 13^th, 2009.

　

Herein, I would like to ask you to pay particular attention to the following important new school regulations which were approved by school council at the end of last school year. For all details of new school regulations, please see the attached school council document.

　

•  Student registration for school enrollment will be changed from once per semester to once per school year;

• Tuition for culture classes will be increased from $45 to $55 per semester, which is $110 for a year starting from this coming school year;

•  There will be no discount for early registration, instead a late fee of $10 will apply for returning students if register after the registration deadline ( August 31^st 2009 ) which is two weeks before the school starting day. This fee can be waived for new students.

It is appreciated if you could print clearly your update email address and phone number when completing the registration form, which will be very important for school to communicate with you affectively.

　

Thank you in advance for your continue support to the CCC Chinese School . I hope year 2009-2010 will be a great success for everyone.

　

Cordially

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

　

• August 4, 2009 Weekly CCC Chinese School Announcement

Dear students and parents:

On behalf of the CCC Chinese School administration team, it is my pleasure to welcome you back for another wonderful new school year. I hope that your summer has been and continue to be enjoyable and restful! As the new school year approaches, o ur school administration staff has been dedicated to insure a smooth school starting day and for another successful year. Attached with this announcement, is the Registration Guideline, Class list and Registration Form. You are encouraged to review, print out the registration form, and register for class before August 31^st 2009(postmark). The tentative starting day for new school year will be Sunday, September, 13^th, 2009. Herein, I would like to ask you to pay particular attention to the following important new school regulations which were approved by school council at the end of last school year. For all details of new school regulations, please see the attached school council document.

•  Student registration for school enrollment will be changed from once per semester to once per school year;

• Tuition for culture classes will be increased from $45 to $55 per semester, which is $110 for a year starting from this coming school year;

•  There will be no discount for early registration, instead a late fee of $10 will apply for returning students if register after the registration deadline ( August 31^st 2009 ) which is two weeks before the school starting day. This fee can be waived for new students.

It is appreciated if you could print clearly your update email address and phone number when completing the registration form, which will be very important for school to communicate with you affectively.

 

Thank you in advance for your continue support to the CCC Chinese School . I hope year 2009-2010 will be a great success for everyone.

Cordially

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

• August 4, 2009 CCC Announcement

1. Event:       CCC Annual Picnic (华社年度聚餐)

Time:            12pm, Saturday, Aug 8

Location:       Colonie Town Park (71 Schermerhorn Road, Cohoes, NY 12047)

Activities:      BBQ, Games, Poker Contest (拖拉机大赛)

Cost:            $2 for members, and $5 for non-members; this fee will be waived if you bring a dish to share

Parking:        $5 parking fee in the park, free parking outside the gate

Contact:        Ming Huang (387-7956), Renge Li (698-7913, lirenge@gmail.com)

This is a potluck party. Thank you for bringing one home-cooked dish to share with others.

欢迎大家积极参与华社一年一度的大型自助聚餐活动。感谢您将自己的拿手好菜与大家分享。

　

2.Event:       CCC Fishing Tournament (华社2009钓鱼比赛)

Time:           2pm-6:30pm, Sunday, Aug 16, 2009

Where:        Mohawk River (Erie Canal) Lock 7

                  (search “Erie Canal Lock 7” on maps.google.om for  directions)

Entry Fee:    $2 for members, and $5 for non-members.

Requirement:    Must have NY state fishing license, bring your fishing pole and bait.

Prize:          First Prize: $30;   Second Prize: $15;  Third Prize: $10 

The winner is decided by the total weigh of  all fishes.

For enrollment or any question, please contact  Renge Li  (5186183484, 5186987913, Lirenge@gmai.com ), or

                                                                     Yanli Ma  (5182589959) , or Lining He (5189610398)

You can register at the fishing spot at tournament day.