School Announcement:

  • November 20, 2008 Announcement

1, Science Lecture this Sunday. The 2nd Science lecture will be given by Dr. Xinxin Ding PhD, a research scientist, a specialist in environmental toxicity from Wadsworth Center, NY Department of health. Lecture will be held in Room C106, 3:00-4:00pm. The title of his talk will be: “From DNA to personalized medicine”.  Students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to attend.

 

The following is the abstract of “From DNA to personalized medicine”

Adverse drug reaction is a major clinical problem and one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. Genetic make-up plays a major role in an individual’s risk of developing adverse drug response.  Inherited traits that affect pharmacotherapy include genetic polymorphisms that are associated with altered drug metabolism and genetic variations that lead to alterations in drug targets.  By combining pharmacology and genomics, the developing field of pharmacogenomics promises to provide the scientific basis for individualized medicine, making it possible to reduce adverse drug responses while improve efficiency of drug therapy.  Yet, many challenges need to be overcome before the ideal of personalized medicine becomes common practice.  Chief among the barriers to success is the complexity of drug responses, including the polygenetic determinants of drug effects and the multiplicity of genetic variations in each gene.  Therefore, beyond the successful sequencing of the human genome, much more work lay ahead, in which effort will be made to identify all genes, all regulatory sequences for each gene, and all genetic variations that are relevant to drug response in differing subpopulations.

 

2. School Picture day this Sunday. Please remember this week is the School picture day and a full attendance for the class is very much appreciated.

 

3, School LOST and FOUND boxes. The school's LOST and FOUND boxes are getting over-stuffed with items (mainly clothing) that people have found and turned in to us over the past year, we are running out space if we continue to hold these items, we will display the contents from the boxes in the cafeteria this Sunday, please stop by to claim your belongings.  We will eventually donate what is leftover to charity after the display is over so that the LOST and FOUND boxes will be functioning again.

  • November 12, 2008 Announcement

1. Our school resumes this Sunday Nov 16th at regular schedule.

 

2. Book Fair. There will be a book fair this coming Sunday, Nov 16th from 10:00 am-4:00pm at Shaker Junior High School. The vender is China Science Press USA Inc.  Please do not miss this great opportunity! You can buy almost any Chinese Culture material: Books, Movies, TV series, music CD, Magazine and many more at discount prices! The payment method will be:  cash or check with the amount ≤ $30.00, credit card except with the amount ≥ $ 30.00.

 

3. No table for snack this week. Because the entire dinning hall will be used for the book sale, students have to eat snack without a table this Sunday.  Please do not eat snack in the class room.

 

4. Science seminar II postponed. Due to the conflict with other activities, the 2nd science lecture title: ``From DNA to personalized medicine” has been postponed to next Sunday, Nov 23rd at 3:00-4:00pm.  This lecture will be given by Dr: Ding Xinxin Ph.D a well established research scientist from Wadsworth Center, NY Department of Health.

 

5. Application for CCC Chinese School Scholarship Award is due.  The Scholarship Award is established to recognize the outstanding high school students for their commitment to and achievement in learning the 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 this Sunday.

 

6. School picture day next week. Please be reminded it will be the School Picture day next Sunday, Nov 23rd.

 

7, fill out the teacher's surver form. IF you have not filled out the teacher's survey form please do so when you come to sign in this week. The survey form has been placed in your folder.

  • November 06, 2008 Announcement

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 9th 2008.  Enjoy the break!

 

2, 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, and JTZW1-1. Students in this group, please arrive CCC building at 12:50pm.

 

Group 2: JTMLP2-1, JTMLP2-2, JTMLP2-3, JTMLP3-1, JTMLP4-1 JTMLP4-2 and JTMLP-5. Students in this group please arrive CCC building at 2:00pm.

 

To all story telling participants: because the large number of participations,  please practice and control the time, limit your presentation within 3 minutes so that all the participants have chance to present.  

  • October 30, 2008 Announcement

1.  Fire Drill.  There will be a fire drill this week during the first hour of the class. Please review the fire drill procedure that is enclosed at the end of this announcement. After hearing the alarm, please evacuate out of the building with your students along the designated evacuation route. Do not come back to the building until told by the emergency coordinators.

 

2. Daylight saving time ends. The Daylight saving time will end in the early morning this Sunday. Please remember to move you clock one hour backward.

 

3. Teacher’s training next Sunday Nov 9th.  There will be no school next Sunday Nov 9th. Instead, there will be a teacher training session in CCC building from 10: am-12:00.

 

4. Submission of the list of story telling participants from your class. Story telling will be held in CCC building next Sunday, Nov 9th from 1:00-3:00pm.  If you have not yet submitted the list of the participants and the titles of the stories for your class, please do so as soon as possible.

 

5. Science lecture series starts this Sunday.  The Science Lecture Series organized by the school and school council entitled “Start your health science journey from here” starts this Sunday. The goal of the lecture series is to provide basic health science concepts to our students and parents. The first lecture will be given by vice Principal Xiaodong (Karl) Yang, Ph.D, a research scientist in NY Department of health. The lecture will be held in Room C106, 3:00-4:00pm. The title of his talk will be: “Protecting yourself from toxic metals in the environment”.  Students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to attend.

 

6. Application for CCC Chinese School Scholarship Award is due.  The Scholarship Award is established to recognize the outstanding high school students for their commitment to and achievement in learning the 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 16th.

  • October 22, 2008 Announcement

1. Class schedule this week. Please remember that the time for all language classes has been changed to 10:00-12:00 and there will be no culture class this Sunday.

 

2. School fund raising by PTA. The school PTA has organized many activities each year in the past to support our school and it will starts Fall Fund Raising this week! Please read the details regarding the fund raising from the announcement by Xiaoqing Zhang which was forward to you two days ago. We encourage each parent to participate in this event and purchase the suggested amount of Asian or Lee’s market grocery shopping coupon which is $100 or more. Please contact PTA Chair Xiaoqing Zhang for details or question about this fund raising event. Thank you for your strong support to PTA and the school.

         

3. Science lecture series starts Sunday, Nov 2nd.  The Science Lecture Series organized by the school and school council entitled “Start your health science journey from here” starts Sunday, Nov 2nd. The goal of the lecture series is to provide basic health science concepts to our students and parents. The first lecture will be given by vice Principal Xiaodong (Karl) Yang Ph.D, a research scientist works in NY Department of health. Lecture will be held in Room C106, 3:00-4:00pm. The title of his talk will be: “Protecting youself from toxic metals in the environment”.  Students, teachers, and parents are encouraged to attend.

 

The following is the abstract of Xiaodong Yang’s talk:

 

The existence of toxic metals, such as lead and mercury, in the food, water, air and consumer products poses a daily threat to your health, especial to children whose developing body is more vulnerable to the harmful effects.  The presentation will make you aware of the potential sources of the toxic metals in the environment and show you the measures you can take to mitigate/avoid the contamination and hence reduce the risk of exposure. 

 

Sincerely

Jianzhong Tang

  • October 22, 2008 Announcement

Dear Chinese School PTAs, parents and teachers:

We will start our fall fund raising this week. Please ask your class PTAs to come to school cafeteria between 10AM to 12 noon next Sunday to see PTA Chair Xiaoqing Zhang. She will give you Lee's Market or Asian Food Market LLC coupon so you can distribute to each parent. As always, we encourage each parent to participate the event so we will have some extra money for
kid's gift and school activities through out the school year.
Lee's Market and Asian Food Market LLC will donate 12% of the proceed to Chinese school. Parents still get 5% discount when your purchase is over $30. Each parent suggested purchase from the school is $100. Of course we would appreciate and encourage parents to purchase more if you go to those two Market shop regularly.
There is one difference this year, instead of writing the checks to Chinese school, please ask parents to write the checks to either Lee's Market or Asian Food Market, LLC. Please give all checks or cash back to Xiaoqing Zhang by Nov 16th so we can get ready for end of semester activities.

Thank you for your participation.
School Principals and PTA

  • October 16, 2008 Announcement

Dear all,
There are some seats of 3 classes(Basic Drawing Technique,Chinese Brushing Painting and Children Basic Dance)in CCC enrichment program still be available.The registration due day is this Saturday(Oct. 18). If your child is interested in these classes, please  contact Ms.Ma Yanli whose phone number is (518)258 9959, and Email is marion_myl@hotmail.com  before Oct .18.
　

Director of CCC Enrichment Program

  • October 16, 2008 Announcement

1, School will resume this Sunday, Oct 19th.

 

2, Class schedule for next week. Please remember that all language classes for next Sunday October 26th will be changed to the morning from 10:00am -12:00noon.  There will be no culture class on that day. All students are encouraged to participate in the 37th Festival of Nations. This coming Sunday is the last chance to get the ticket. Please stop by CCC treasurer Chunlan to get your ticket if you have not gotten your ticket for this event.

 

3. Please have the name and contact info of your class room PTA representive ready this Sunday. Xiaoqing Zhang, our PTA chair will stop by each class room to pick up the PTA name list of each class this Sunday during the first class.

 

4. Please advice your students to keep the class room clean and tidy. Last week, the principal of Shaker junior high School approached our school administrator asking us to inform all students to keep the class room nice and clean, and not to remove anything from the class room.  He emphasized that no student should be left unattended during class break time.  In addition, everyone should leave the school building as soon as class has finished.  We appreciate all of your cooperation.

 

5. Free Sahaj Meditation Class for teachers organized by PTA Chair Xiaoqing Zhang, please see the message from her below:

 

Diana Rothenberg is a educator and practice Sahaj Meditation Session.  She will teach Chinese school teachers on how to expand the natural ability of children to experience joy and friendship.  Learn CREATIVE RELAXATION: a technique for children of all ages. 
 
Please come to Auditorium on Sunday between 3:10PM to 4PM.

  • October 16, 2008 Announcement

Our Culture, Our Stories

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

 

Purpose:  The goal of this Chinese Story 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 your language teacher and ask for guidance if you want to participate.

 

Competition date and time:  1:00-3:00pm , November 9, 2008 , the 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:  Teachers in the language classes should help the students to choose a story or a topic and advise the students on how to prepare the presentation, arrange rehearsal, and send students to final competition. Teachers should also inform vice Principal Xiaodong Yang before 11/2: 1) the names of the participating students and 2) the selected story topics;.  To Save time and to let more students have opportunities to participate, we encourage group presentation (limit to 5 minutes please)

 

Judge and award:  Three PTA representatives (who have no participating children) will be selected as judges.  The top three winners will be nominated to 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. 

  • October 1, 2008 Announcement

The 37th annual Festival of Nations will be held in Empire State Plaza, Convention Center on Sunday, October 26th. 2008. This event is organized by Ethnic Groups of the Capital District. The purpose of the Festivals is to create awareness and appreciation for the culture heritage of the people from diverse nation origins and to promote understanding among the many nations and ethnic groups residing in the capital district and vicinity. In the past, our students were not able to participate in this important event due to conflict with School schedule. This year, the school makes an effort to work with Shaker Jr high School. Hereby I am pleased to announce that, the school classes on that day will be moved to the morning. All students and parents are encouraged to participate in this great event. The details On Sunday, October 26th, 2008 as follow:

 

1.          All language classes will be moved to the morning from 10:00am-12:00, and there will be no culture activity class on that day;

 

2,         School will pay for all student’s tickets;

 

3.         With the generosity of CCC, parents can buy their tickets at discount price: CCC will pay 40% of the adult tickets cost: you pay $3.00 for a ticket of $5.00;

 

4.        Raffle tickets are available at $1.00 each. You have very good chances to win the great prizes from TV, DVD player, gift set, certificates and many more.

 

5.         There are going to be plenty of fun activities on that day: parade led by Miss Festival of Nation of each group; culture performances from different ethnic groups; sale of art crafts; delicious traditional foods from different culture etc.

 

What will be added to this already exciting event are: Our newly selected Miss of Chinese Community Center Bingling Zhang will represent CCC to participate in the Festival of Nation Contest; our CCC Chinese School excellent dance of “Girls of apple orchard”, traditional Chinese music “Jasmine Flowers” will be performed on that day; CCC volunteer workers will have a food stand to serve wonderful Chinese food and a art craft stand for this event.  We strongly encourage all our students and parents to show strong support to our Miss CCC Bingling Zhang, our performers and all our volunteer workers for their best efforts to represent out great Nation origin.

 

Tickets are available now from CCC treasurer Chunlan Chen every Sunday at the School entrance. Parents please come to buy your tickets and to pick up ticket (s) for your child (ren).

　

  • September 28, 2008 Announcement

1. General parent meeting this Sunday. There will be general parent meeting this Sunday start 1:15pm in the Auditorium of Shaker jr High School.  In this meeting the school principal and the school council chair will report on school work. Following the parent meeting there will be a RPI lecture series, lecture title: the Secrets of College Admission and the Power of MBA

 

2. Participate in CCC Youth Team and vote your leaders:  The CCC Youth Team will have a meeting this Sunday from 3:00 – 4:00pm at Rm C106.  If any students are >= 14 years old, want to join the Youth Team, or want to run for the team leader, please come to this Sunday's meeting.  Thank you for your support and your children's participation.

 

3. Health Science Seminar and Club:  this year our Chinese School will organize a series of Youth Science Seminars entitled "Start your health science journey from here".  The goals of these seminars are to provide basic concepts on 1) what is health science? 2) How health scientists do their research?  3) Impacts of the research findings and future challenges.  We will invite the scientists on laboratory fields of DNA or protein, cancer research, toxicology and epidemiology.  The tentative dates are 3-4 pm at Rm B104 on 11/2, 11/16 and 12/7.  We will also plan to organize a health science club for those >= 14 years old to develop and conduct a health projects during this school year.  Those want to join the club and learn conduction of a project should contact Shao Lin through shao_lin@verizon.net

 

4. Chess-1 class (Mr. Mark French) will be cancelled for this Sunday. Mr. French will be out of the town on a business trip. Class will resume the following Sunday Oct 5th, 2008.

 

5. CCC enrichment program fall class held in CCC building starts on Oct 4th, 2008. Anyone interested in these classes please down load and complete the attached registration form or contact Yan Li Ma (马艳丽) the new program director at  marion_myl@hotmail.com for question regarding these classes.

  • September 20, 2008 Announcement

CCC Chinese School Announcement:

 

1, Teacher Parent Conference Day. This Sunday is Teacher Parent Conference Day which is for teacher to communicate with parents of their teaching plan for the semester.   In this meeting, parents will select a class room PTA representative. The elected PTA representative of each class needs to report yourself to the PTA chair: Xiaoqing Zhang.

 

2, School approval is required for class transfer. As announced earlier, all students should have made their final decision for class last week.  Starting this week, except new registers, any student who wants to transfer from one class to another is required obtaining approval from the school administration.

 

 3,  Advance Chinese class to be continued.  I am pleased to announce that taught by our school highly experienced teacher Dong Ying, Advance Chinese class is now continue to be held in CCC building on Saturdays, 2:00-4:00pm . Chinese history, mordent and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese Geography  and many more will be covered in this class. Any one who is interested in attending this class; please contact Dong Ying at dongying@aol.com or school administration.

 

4, Borrow Chinese books/DVD in Chinese School this Sunday (9/21) :
 Our local favorite Librarian and CCC's loyal friend, Xiaofei Li will have an outreach visit to our Chinese School this Sunday at 1 pm .  She will bring many new Chinese books and DVDs for your checking out. Please bring your library card this Sunday to our school and enjoy those Chinese treasure from Xiaofei.

 

5. Lost of text book.  Last week someone mistakenly took Teacher Zhao’s textbook from Xerox area. Please return it to Teacher Zhao in Room C208 or to any of school administrators in school this week.  Mr. Zhao cannot teach without textbook.  The textbook is titled, “Conversational Chinese 301” （汉语会话301 句）, published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press.  Thank you!

 

6. The Martial Arts class is cancelled.  Due to unavailability of teacher, I am sorry that we have to cancel the Martial Arts class. If you registered for this class, please consider selecting another culture class or get the full tuition refund.

 

Your Sincerely

 

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

  • September 15, 2008 Announcement

Dear Teachers:

 

We had a very successful school day last week.  Thank you all for your hard work. This week, the school needs your help on the task below:

 

Please check the student’s registration status in your class. School administration will distribute a student list based on the registration the school has received. Please check the list and compare to the actual attendance in your class.  Submit the final student list to the school administrator at the end of class.

 

Please see the School announcement to all students and parents below and help the school administrator for the class rearrangement if your class is among these rearrangements.

 

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Dear students and parents:

 

 It was a very successful starting day at the school last week. There are total of 315 student registered for language classes and/or culture classes this school year up to today.  Welcome all to CCC Chinese School !

 

1, Rearrangement for some classes. Based on the student registration file and observation from the first day at school, I notice that some classes that are over crowded while some of them are under registered. In order to achieve the best educational quality and for the safety of all our students, the school administration has decided to re-arrange some of the classes that with student number >20 or < 6. We’d appreciate the support from the parents who have kids in the following classes for this rearrangement:

 

JTMLP1-1: Split to JTMLP1-1, classroom B107, teacher: Wenyi Zhai;

                        And JTMLP1-2, classroom B205; teacher: Wei He ;

 

CFL-C1: Split to CFL-C1A (beginner’s) classroom C101, teacher: Teresa Chen-Keat;              

                    And CFL-C1B, (returned students) classroom C103; teacher: Ying Ji;

 

JTMLP2-3: Merge with JTMLP 2-1, classroom B105, teacher: Qunhui Guo;

 

JTMLP5-2; Merge with JTMLP 5-1, classroom B206, teacher: Lily Lee;

 

How to reassign the students will be decided by the teachers of the correspondent classes under the supervision and approval of school administrators.

 

2, Please make your final selection for class this week.   It is understandable that parents would like to search for a class that is most fit to your child(ren)’s language level or cultural interest by trying out classes. For all registered students, this week will be the last week for you to settle down in one class. Our teacher will do a final check for all their students in their class and submit the list to school administration. From the third week, it requires school approval for students to transfer from one class to another.

 

3, A $10 of late registration fee for returning students will be applied after this week. If you are return students, this week is your last week for registration without been charged for later fee. Based on the school registration rule, there will be a $10 late fee after this week.

 

4, our school is still looking for teachers for Children’s Dance, Martial Arts, Tac-Kwon-do classes.  Any of you interested in teaching these classes or know some one who may be interested in, please contact Jianzhong Tang : 489-4427, or our vice principal Bin Du: 221-9138.

 

Thank you all for your kind cooperation and support!

 

Sincerely

 

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School .

  • September 3, 2008 Announcement

 

  1. School will start on this coming Sunday, September 7th, 1:00pm . 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 (the signed student copy) before you going to the class room.  You need to present it to both your language teacher and culture class teacher if you registered both. 

 

3. New teachers and new culture classes. Due to various reasons, some of our teachers who taught last year are no longer available this academic year. We are grateful to their excellent work for our community and our school. At the beginning of the new school year, it is my honor to announce to you that we have recruited a number of new teachers to replace the teachers who have left the school.   For language classes, all new teachers will continue to carry on the class teaching curriculum as they are assigned. Herein, I would like to provide you with the following new information of new teachers and some new culture classes:

 

  • New Chess teachers: Mark W. French (Chess-1) and Philips Sells (Chess-2) will replace David Chen and Kevin Liu respectively. Mr. Mark W. French became a Chess Master in 1989. And he and Mr. Sells both are experienced Chess tutors and have taught numbers of Chess classes for a number of years. They will teach student Chess rules, the right move of Chess games.

 

  • New Art-2 class:  in addition to the continuous Art-1 and Art-3 classes, Ms. Shujun Jiang (蒋淑君) will teach Art-2 class this year. Ms. Shujun Jiang is specialized on Chinese Brush Painting (国画), Gong bi (功笔画) ， Calligraphy（书法），water color (水彩) and many more. In the Art-2 class, she will focus on Chinese Brush painting ( 国画). 

 

  • New Dance Teacher for Dance-5 class:  Teacher Wei He ( 何薇) will fill in for Huqiu Zhang( 张沪秋) for Dance-5. Ms. Wei He graduates from specialized school in China and has had many excellent performance and won many dance awards. Her teaching plan: Basic ballet, Chinese folk dance, general dance performance.

 

  • Handcraft class:  Teacher Aiping Chen（陈爱萍）offers this class and she will teach students to learn paper origami, paper cutting, and knitting and many more.  Student will have fun and enjoy this ancient art in this class.

 

  • French class: Teacher David Gao (高远). David Gao studied in a French speaking province in Canada for 5 years and is fluent in French and English. He has finished college level French course with excellent score. In this class he will teach students to learn basic French conversation, reading, grammar, vocabulary e.g.

 

4.   Due to unavailability of teacher, there will be no Dance- 4 and Adult Dancing class for the first week of the school.    Sorry for the inconvenience. These two classes will be started on the 2nd week, which is Sep 14th, 2008 .

 

Sincerely

 

Jianzhong Tang

 

Principal, CCC Chinese School

　

  • August 21, 2008 Announcement

Dear prospect students and parents:

 

Summer is flying by once again! I hope it has been and continue to be enjoyable for you. Throughout the summer, out school administration team has been working hard in preparation for another successful school year in 2008-09.

 

As announced earlier, the starting day for the fall semester of 2008-09 will be on Sunday, Sep 7th, 2008 in Shaker Junior High School and we need your help for a good start of the new school year.  You are encouraged to register your child (ren) if you have not done so. In doing so not only you are qualified for $10 discount (deadline, post mark by 08/31/2008 ), but also greatly reduce the amount of work for the first week of the school.

 

In order to speed up the registration process, minimize the work for both school administrators and parents. Please note there is a minor change in filing your registration this year:

 

* There are two copies (school copy and student copy, respectively) of registration form for each student to complete and send. One copy will be returned to the student to serve as a receipt to prove of your tuition payment.

 

* Please review the registration guideline and down load both copies of the registration form from http://www.albanychineseschool.org . Send both completed copies along with your check to Ms Geng Shukun, 847 Beech Drive, Niskayuna NY 12309 . On the first day of the class, student is required to present the signed student’s copy to the teacher.

 

  I am pleased to announce that in addition to the culture classes offered last school year, we will offer two new culture classes. One of them is Handcraft taught by Chen Aiping. In this class student will learn paper origami, paper cutting e.g and will have fun with this ancient art.  The other class is French taught by David Gao. Student will learn basic French conversation, grammar, vocabulary.

 

It is my pleasure to welcome you back to a new school year. I hope 2008-09 will be another enjoyable, successful year for everyone!

 

Sincerely

 

Jianzhong Tang

Principal, CCC Chinese School

　

  • August 6, 2008 Announcement for Teachers

Dear Teachers:

 

I hope every one of you has enjoyed the summer break so far. On behalf of our new school administration team, I’d like to express my sincere thanks to the excellent work that you did for the Chinese School in the past years and to your continuing support in the coming school year. To all of the new teachers, welcome! Thanks for willing to serve in the Chinese Community Center at the Capital district.  As the new school year is approaching, I‘d like to draw your attention to the following:

 

1) the tentative starting date for the fall semester, 2008 is:   Sunday, September, 7th, 2008 .

 

2, staff meeting:  our first staff meeting of this school year will be on Saturday, Aug 23rd, 2008 .  The schedule of the meeting is:

 

  11:00-12:00 : staff meeting,

  12:00-1:00pm : potluck lunch.                                                                                                  

 Location:  CCC building.

 

Please bring a dish to share if you could, all of your family members are welcome to join the lunch. In order to compensate your time, all teachers attending the meeting will be paid.

 

3, teacher candidates needed:  Due to various situations, some of the teachers who taught last year will be unable to continue their teaching. We need teacher candidates for the following classes:

 

XQ-1;

JTZW1-1;

JTMLP1-1;

JT8-2;

CFL-C2;

Chess-1;

Chess-2.

 

If you know anyone who might be interested in teaching, please pass the information to them or please have them contact me at principal@albanychineseschool.org or our vice principal Du bin at Bin_du@plugpower.com, or fill out the application form at our school web site.

 

Thank you very much for your support! I am looking forward to seeing you all.

 

Sincerely

 

Jianzhong Tang

School Principal

  • May 7, 2008 Announcement

1. Schedule for the Last School Day (5/11/08):  This coming Sunday is the last day of our school.  Please be aware the following schedule:

10:30 – 12:00 noon      Final Exam for all language classes (No cultural classes) 

10:30 – 11:15 am         School General Parent Meeting (School annual report from the Principal and Council Chair and introduce new administrators of 2008-09 school year)

12:00 – 1:00 pm           Puck-luck lunch 

1:00 – 1:15 pm             Short School meeting (Announce graduated students, art-show winners and Chinese Weekly participants) 

1:15 – 3:00 pm             Field Day activities (Led by the Youth Team and PTA)

2. Albany Public Library’s outreach visit to CCC Chinese School (5/11/08)

Time: Sunday, May 11, 12:30pm-3:00pm

Albany Public Library’s Outreach Department will bring Chinese Books, DVDs and magazines to CCC Chinese School on Sunday, May 11, between 12:30-3:00. Please bring your library card, visit our desk and checkout our materials!  For more information, please call 427-4315, or email: lix@uhls.lib.ny.us

3. Announcement from the School Council Chair:

Dear Chinese School Student, Parent and Staff,

I am very pleased to announce that on May 4, 2008, Chinese School Council has accepted the nomination of the following people to form a new executive team of 2008-09 school year;

Zhi Zhou (Principal)

Jianzhong Tang (Vice Principal)

Bin Du (Vice Principal)

Xiaodong Yang (Vice Principal)

Shukun Geng (Treasurer)

This is an excellent team and they seek your support and cooperation.

Also, the council accepted nominations of three new council members (Yun Dai, Guoping Fei, and Xiaoqing Zhang). 2008-09 Chinese School Council is formed by the following people;

Yun Dai, Bin Du, Guoping Fei, Shukun Geng, Shao Lin, Sandy Metz, Sharon Shieh, Huei-Cheng Lin, Jianzhong Tang, Hongyuan Xia, Xiaodong Yang, Wenyi Zhai, Xiaoqing Zhang, Peisheng Zhao, Zhi Zhou

The newly established council elected Shao Lin as 2008-09 School Council Chair.

Congratulations to all and best wishes for a very productive and enjoyable 08-09 school year!

Peisheng Zhao, Ph.D.

Chinese School Council Chair (2007-08)

4.  Chess Award Pinic (5/21/08):  Since Oct of 2007, CCC Chinese School Chess Team has won about 10 team trophies which are displayed at CCC building in Latham.  On May 21st,  annual Awards Picnic at Christian Brothers Academy, 12 Airline Drive, Albany, NY from 4PM to 8PM.  We are going to register under CCC as a group.

All players listed will receive a special medal and certificate.10 of our kids are on the list.  Our own Charlie Chen is going to be the player of the year. Top players from each grade and school will also be recognized.  $5.00 each for the hamburgers and hot dog. Response back by  May 14 to Xiaoqing Zhang at qingagency@yahoo.com,  so the committee may order enough food.

30 Charlie Chen                        30  Nicholas Lawless
28.5  Yogi Kanakamedala
25.5  Dilip Aaron
25    Michael Zhao
24  Shamanth Murundi
23.5  Jason Yuan                        Jimmy Yuan
23  Sean McHugh                       Ziqing Dong
22.5  Jonathan Richman              Jack Zhao
21.5  Thomas Kolath                   David Luo
21     Robert Seth                       Amani Jones
20.5  Zubin Mukerjee                  Michael J Liu        George Shi               (Jerry) Chen Qu

  • April 30, 2008 Announcement

1. Be a teacher next school year:  We are looking for different levels of Chinese language teachers and cultural teachers (especially Painting and Dance classes) for next school year (Fall 2008-Fall 2009).  Our school is growing and we currently have more than 40 teachers.  Join our team and help promote Chinese language and culture in our community!  If you are interested in becoming a teacher, please send a CV and a teacher application form (download from the school website) to the current School Principal, Dr. Shao Lin (principal@albanychineseschool.org) or Council Chair, Dr. Peisheng Zhao (peishengzhao@aol.com)
　

2. Painting and Art Show:  Our annual Painting/ Art Show and Competition was very successful!  The qualities of the artworks displayed were praised and impressed by all parents.  Thanks for our Vice Principal Bin Yan and other school administrators, our judge, all participating students, supporting parents, and the PTA helpers.  This coming Sunday (5/4) will be the last day of displaying these artworks at the Chinese School.  If you participated in this Art Show, please remember to take your artwork home by the end of the Chinese School.  The enclosing file shows the result of the Painting Competition.

  • April 23, 2008 Announcement

1. Painting and Art Show:  Our annual Painting/ Art Show and Competition will Continue this Sunday (4/27).  All artworks will be displayed in the Chinese School from 4/20 - 5/4 for three Sundays.  If you forgot to  bring your artwork to the Chinese School last week, please do so this week (the latest).

 

2. Be a teacher next school year:  We are looking for different levels of Chinese language teachers for next school year (Fall 2008-Fall 2009).  Our school is growing and we currently have more than 40 teachers.  Join our team and help promote Chinese language and culture in our community!  If you are interested in becoming a teacher, please send a CV and a teacher application form (download from the school website) to the current School Principal, Dr. Shao Lin (principal@albanychineseschool.org)

  • April 16, 2008 Announcement

1. The Chinese School will resume this coming Sunday (4/20).

 

2. Painting and Art Show:  Our annual Painting and Art Show and Competition will start this Sunday (4/20).  All artworks will be displayed in the Chinese School from 4/20 - 5/4 for three Sundays.  Please bring your artwork to the Chinese School to Vice Principal, Bin Yan this Sunday.

 

3. Ping-pong Tournament:  A ping pong tournament will be held in Chinese School (Shaker Junior High) from 13:10 to 15:00 on Sunday April 20 . Only games for doubles will be played this time. Pairs will be formed from a random drawing (joined men's and women's). Players will be divided in two groups and start round-robin. Top two teams from each group will go to the semi-final.  The final three winning teams will receive tournament trophies. Players are limited to Chinese School staff, students and their parents. Interested parties please contact Limin Guo at lguo.us@gmail.com, or Minfeng Xu at