School Visiting Day and New Classes/Teachers Introduction

Reminder: 08/25 Teachers’ Training and School Visiting Day

华夏大纽约中文学校将于八月二十五日下午12：30 至 3：00举办学校教师培训，内容涵盖学校教学运作常规，各种教材研讨，教学方法交流等等，学校管理团队有关成员也将到场。欢迎各位家长参加。华夏新学生家长及有兴趣加入华夏的家庭，亦可借此机会参观校舍，与学校管理团队和教师交流，了解学校运作，教学体系及课外活动设置，为您的孩子开始华夏学校学习做好准备。日程安排请见这里。报名请联系：hxgnyadmin@googlegroups.com.

Our school has become the choice of parents for their kids to learn Chinese language and culture – we have got an over 25% increase in enrollment compared to last school year. In order to ensure education quality and to keep the class size age appropriate, one extra class has been added to each lower grades. We have also opened 美洲华语 (MZHY) for Grade 1 through Grade 9. The fast growing enrollment also provides us an opportunity to recruit new talents to our teaching faculty. Please join us to welcome these highly qualified teachers: Yue Ma, Jie Lei, Pingping Song, Sisi Guo, Lilian Sun, Wendy Li, Peggy Lovro, Coral Wu, Lili Pang, Zhipeng Zhou, Kangyan Chen, Zhigeng Yang. For new teachers’ bios please click here for Chinese version and here for English version.

MATHCOUNTS Club This year we will open a new club “MATHCOUNTS Club” coached by Min Xu and Mark Yin. The goal of this club is to use MATHCOUNTS competition as a platform to i) Raise members’ interest level in math; ii) Improve members’ problem solving skills; iii) Help members understand and master the middle school level math concepts. Please click here to see our MATHCOUNTS Club 2013-2014 Syllabus. 今年是华夏历史上数学选修课选择最多的一次。为了帮助学生和家长挑选最适合的课程，我们提供以下列表比较，希望能有所帮助。

Course                    Time                           Teacher    Recommendation

小班奥数                  11:30am-12:30pm    潘青          Grade K-3;

大班奥数                  9:30am-10:30am      程韬          Grade 4-6;

Mathcounts Club     12:30pm-1:30pm       徐珉          Grade 6-8;

AP Math                    9:30am-10:30am      尹永义      Grade 8-9;

Advanced Painting (Acrylic/Oil) for G4+ and Adult 高级绘画班（丙烯画、油画）

Time: 9:30-10:30 Extra Cost: $100 to cover materials for entire school year (paper, cloth, oil, brush, etc).

Teacher: Aihua Shea, a professional artist with over 15 years of teaching experience in the greater New York area. Currently teaching Cartoon Drawing Jr. 卡通漫画 and Chinese Brush Painting for Adults 成人国画课. 孩子是天生的画家，他们对色彩特别敏感，鲜艳的颜色会引发他们对绘画的兴趣，激起他们对绘画的渴望。所以在孩子学习绘画时，应该让他们接触彩色，大胆地使用颜色，用色彩来造型，画些他们想要画的东西，让儿童的想象力通过色彩充分地发挥和表达。在任课老师的指导下，由浅入深引导，使他们能在绘画过程中更加热爱生活、大自然，并从中得到美的享受。本课程向四年级以上学生开放，也欢迎成人学员参加。所有画具和颜料将由学校统一安排、保管，以保证每次上课的授课时间。

教课内容：

第一，色彩的认识。（1）认识三原色；（2）颜色的调配，“间色”和“复色”；（3）冷色、暖色和对比色。

第二，色彩练习。（1）笔触的运用。简单的图案练习，用三种色到八种色作画，课堂提供现场绘画教材；（2）色彩层次的变化。同类色渐变的运用，分出层次、深浅，变化柔和。

第三，绘画素材。动物，食物，日常用具等等。在完成课堂要求的前提下，学生们也可以自由发挥自己的想象。

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