Chinese New Year celebration events at CHPCS

Dear families,

Chinese New Year is on Friday, January 31^st, 2014. It is the Year of Horse. You are invited to join our Chinese New Year celebration on Thursday Jan 30^th, 2014 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM in school GYM. We have invited a Lion dance team to join our celebration!! In addition, our students will perform singing, dancing, skits and games.

During the class this week, Chinese craft making activities are scheduled for all Chinese students on Wednesday (1/29) and Thursday (1/30). Next Monday (2/3), we will have Chinese Tea Party in our Chinese classes for 2^nd Grade and up. Our Chinese class students will experience Chinese tea culture and taste Chinese special pastry with tea.

Please read carefully for the pastry ingredient list below.

Pastry ingredient: Peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, dates, rice, soybean oil, butter, eggs, flour, fruit filling, almonds etc. (If your child is allergic, please send an alternate treat.) 

Wenny Laoshi

Chinese Teacher at CHPCS

Chinese New Year Celebrations in the Greater Portland Area‏

Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 6:00-10:00 PM (this is the CFAP-organized event) (Lake Oswego High School: 2501 Country Club Rd, Lake Oswego, OR 97034. For more information, please visit: http://www.portlandcfa.org/events/2014chinesenewyearcfap20thanniversarycelebration

Friday, January 31^st at 6:00-9:30 PM in PSU SMSU 355/the Ballroom (1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201): Chinese New Year Celebration Gala (the Year of the Horse/Ma). The event is sponsored by the Confucius Institute at PSU and PSU Chinese Students and Scholars Association. For more info and the flyer for the event, please visit: http://www.pdx.edu/confucius-institute/sites/www.pdx.edu.confucius-institute/files/2014-1-31%202014%20Chinese%20%20New%20Year%20Night%20new%202.pdf

Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 11:00AM-5:00PM at Oregon Convention Center (777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Portland OR 97232) “Chinese New Year Cultural Fair- Year of the Horse” organized by Portland Chinese Times & Portland Art & Cultural Center. For more information, please visit: http://www.pdx.edu/confucius-institute/sites/www.pdx.edu.confucius-institute/files/2014%20NY%20Fair%20Poster.pdf

Friday, February 14^th, 2014 at 6:30-8:00 PM in SBA 490 (631 SW Harrison Street, Portland, OR 97201): Presentation on the tradition of Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival Celebrating the Chinese Lantern Festival: Jiaozi and Tangyuan Party (Chinese dumplings and sweet glutinous rice ball stuffed with sweet red bean paste, black sesame paste, etc., organized by the Confucius Institute at PSU. Come to learn how to make Jiaozi and Tangyuan and enjoy this delicious traditional Chinese New Year food and practice speaking Chinese with the native Chinese speakers (food will be served in the resting area on the 4^th floor outside Room 490 of School of Business Building) (The CIPSU’s Chinese Corner starts at 6:00 PM). For more info and the flyer for the event, please visit: http://www.pdx.edu/confucius-institute/sites/www.pdx.edu.confucius-institute/files/2-14-2014%20latern%20festival.pdf

The Chinese New Year celebrations at the Lan Su Chinese Garden:
http://www.lansugarden.org/

中文课二零一四年一快讯

Dear CHPCS Parent(s):

Happy Year of HORSE! 马年快乐！

Jan. 30^th , Chinese New Year celebration will be hosted at our school GYM at 10:00am. Please join us for the celebration. You will expect to see our special Children’s performance during the celebration.

Feb. 10^th , our sister school 13 students and teacher will come from Suzhou to visit our school for one week and stay with our host family.

This month and next month’s  topic is Motion and Expression. All of grades will learn Chinese twelve zodiacs and Lucky message for Chinese New Year.  At the same time, they will be listening, speaking, reading and writing and making crafts in Chinese. We will have special Chinese tea party during the Chinese New Year celebration. In addition to this:

·       Kinder will focus on animal song and making animal book

·       1^st grade will focus on recognizing Chinese rhythm, basic strokes, My first Chinese words book and songs

·       2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th will continue to study the Chinese Paradise text book

·       6^th, 7^th  and 8^th grade will continue to study the Happy Chinese text book

Below is the useful website for our students to learn Chinese at home.

For all grade levels: http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/vocabulary/

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or need to set up an appointment.

Sincerely,

Wenny Chunwen Liao

w.liao@chpcs.org

Chinese Teacher at CHPCS

 “Where Children Soar!

Host Families Needed for Chinese Students!

Cascade Heights Public Charter School will have the opportunity to host 13 students from Suzhou Experimental Elementary School February 10, 11, 12 and 13. These students will be coming to our school and learn with our students. We are seeking families who can host students during this time frame and provide transportation to school. Our first preference would be to have at least two students with a host family. This is an excellent opportunity for Cascade Heights students to practice speaking Chinese with a native speaker and to help the visiting students enjoy our part of the world.

If you are interested in hosting, please email Wenny Laoshi at w.liao@chpcs.org , by January 10th. Please indicate how many students you can host, if you have completed your criminal background check for the year and if you have been cleared as a Cascade Heights volunteer.

Wenny Laoshi

Chinese Teacher at CHPCS

Helpful weblink for learning Chinese during the winter break

Dear all,

Below is the great weblink for learning Chinese online:

http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/vocabulary/

jié rì kuài lè       Happy Holiday!

节日 快 乐

 Wenny laoshi 　

No Chinese Class on the week of December 16th

Dear all,

We only have two weeks of Chinese class on December. You are welcome to stop by my classroom to check out some books in Chinese.

Happy Holiday!

节日快乐

Wenny 老师

November Class Information

中文课十一月快讯

Dear CHPCS Parent(s):

It is very nice to meet with some of you during the Friday conference. For some of you couldn’t make it, you can always feel free to send email to me, or make an appointment with me. This month our world language classes theme is Time and Calendar. During this month the biggest event is Thanksgiving (感恩节); where we celebrate the holiday and try to greeting in Chinese. At the same time, they are listening, speaking, reading and writing these things. Addition to this:

·       Kinder will focus on animal name, color, number and songs

·       1^st grade will focus on practice recognize and write Chinese number characters, rhythm, basic strokes and songs

·       2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th will continue to learn Chinese Paradise text book

·       6^th, 7^th  and 8^th grade will continue to learn Happy Chinese text book

Below is an useful website for our student to learn Chinese at home. 

 http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/vocabulary/

Chinese book store online:

 http://www.nanhaibooks.com/

Chinese Cartoon:

 http://www.tom61.com

Have fun learning Chinese this year!

Sincerely,

Wenny Chunwen Liao

w.liao@chpcs.org

Chinese Teacher at CHPCS

 “Where Children Soar!