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Newsletter 02/21/2010

From Principal Elaine Hsu

  • Our Cultural Day and Chinese New Year Celebration was a great success. We sincerely thank all the staff/board members as well as parents, teachers, and students who volunteered to help. We wish everyone a happy and prosperous Year of Tiger.

  • School directory will be distributed to the students this week (02/21). There's only one directory per family. For families with more than one students enrolled, the oldest child will bring home the directory. Please remember to obtain the directory from your child. We also would like to especially thank Choli Teng, Wally Mei, George Wang, and Irene Huang for their contribution in making this directory possible.

  • Seminar next week (02/28 2:10-3:10pm)
    Topic: “How to Support Your Children’s Chinese Language Acquisition"
    Speaker Gail Wang is currently the coordinator for teacher professional development and outreach at Cheng&Tsui, a Boston based publisher of Asian languages and cultures. Gail has been an English as Second Language teacher for decades in both China and the US. She later switched to Chinese language teaching, and has done teacher training in language teaching methodologies. Mrs. Wang also worked for many years in major museums in the Boston area with rich experience in programming and exhibition as well as teacher trainings on China and Chinese culture.

  • .Parent Duty list for the whole school year has been posted on our school website: (http://www.thechineselanguageschool.org/newsletter.shtml).

  • On snowy days, Chinese School cancellation will be posted on our website. You will also be notified via email. Makeup day for last school cancellation (12/20/2009) is 04/04/2010 (Easter Sunday).

From Vice Principal Kai Chuang

Claxton, Sang & Cheng

黃爵貞

Lee, Thomas & Connie


Quan, Kevin Meikuen

關錦鴻 鄭美娟

Eng, Christopher & Nicola


McCandless, Michael & Jane

張臻文

  • Parents on duty should report to the Office (Room 243) at 1:45 pm. If you cannot come, please contact Vice Principal, Kai Chuang781-863-8213 kaiyao_chuang@yahoo.com) .There is a $50 fine for absence without prior notice to the Vice Principal.

From Curriculum Director Tung-Mei Pan

  • On 03/14/2010, the National Council of Associations of Chinese Language Schools (NCACLS) will offer a National Preparation Test for the 2010 SAT II Chinese exam.  
    Test Place: The Chinese Language School, 17 Stedman Rd, Lexington, MA 02421.
    All 9th graders are required to take the test; it is voluntary for 7th and 8th graders. 
    Scores will be available by April 30.  For further information, please come to the Office or check the following web site: http://www.ncacls.org .

From Curriculum Director (acting) Dai-Hua Shiao

    Teacher Profile: 1st Grade Teacher Mrs. Victoria Shih

Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts; Accountant license from Bentley College. 16 years of software engineer experience and 3 years of accounting experience.
Daughter Elizabeth Shih graduated from TCLS and currently works at TCLS as 1st Grade assistant and Folk Dance teacher.

This is the 4th year Mrs. Shih teaches 1st Grade at TCLS.

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