新设高年级马立平《中文》课介绍
为了满足部分家长的要求,我们将根据学生的注册人数(至少7名),计划增设高年级马立平《中文》班。该班将使用6年级(第16册至第18册)的马立平《中文》教材。 第16册是以趣味对话为课文形式,介绍海外生活常用中文,如海外中文报刊上的常用字、中餐馆和中国城方面的有关知识等。第17和第18册是中文写作训练,分别练习写“状物”和“过程”。欢迎已经注册6年级《标准中文》博览班和7年级《标准中文》班的学生踊跃报名。上学年马立平四年级的学生,成绩优秀,并希望跳过五年级《西游记》内容的,也可以考虑选择这个班。
新设文化课介绍
We are hiring a professional company to teach the popular Lego Robotics and Video Game design classes. They will offer these classes in sessions: 8 weeks is one session and they will charge $180 per student per session (including all equipments and software). Each class will have 8 to 12 students:
- For video game design classes, they will provide each student a laptop during the class and GameMaker software. By the end of the class, students take home a CD with the GameMaker software and students’ games.
- For Lego Robotic class, they will provide all the Legos, motors, laptops in the classes. However, students can not take the robots home.
Computer Video Game Creation: (5th grade and up)
If you think playing computer games is fun, think what a blast learning to program your own games will be. Your imagination is the limit as you use GameMaker software to create maze, strategy, and a variety of other types of games. You’ll learn about creating sprites, objects, events and actions. Design a room, make it look the way you want, add objects and play your game. We’ll teach you how to display health, lives, score, splash screens and high score tables. Using drag and drop programming, you’ll be creating exciting, professional looking games you can play with your friends.
The students’ games can be played on any PCs.
*Students take home a CD with the GameMaker software and students’ games at the end of class.
LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT Robotics Engineering: (4rd Grade and up)
This exciting class teaches you how to build and program LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT robots. You will use your new skills to meet such challenges as beating your opponent at Sumo or pushing water bottles out of a ring. This class will introduce programming concepts such as repeat loops and if/then statements, and sensor use will also be taught. For the student who has little or no experience with robotics or programming.
*Students will not take the robots home.
WeDo Robots: (1st to 3nd grade) -Junior Lego Robotic
This class provides the opportunity for the younger children to get an introduction to simple robotics. Build and program dancing birds, drumming monkeys, hungry alligators, roaring lions and flapping birds. Using the LEGO® WeDo robots, students will learn to build models, attach sensors and motors and use a computer to program the model’s actions and behaviors. Students will also learn about simple engineering concepts such as pulleys, belts, gear and levels, while having a blast with their creations.
*Students will not take the robots home.
(更多课程介绍,请点击这里).
Parenting Club invitation
We created a parenting club forum on our website under “Build Community” – “ParentingClub” (http://www.hxgny.org/wp/?forum=parenting-club) . Feel free to browse and post comments there.
Picnic invitation
Let ‘s get together and enjoy the last breeze of the summer before it is over. We will have a parenting book club picnic on 8/25 3:00PM-6:30PM at Pepsico Sculpture Garden
(http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/travel/escapes/29trip.html?pagewanted=all). The park has a landscape with lawns, trees, ponds, and fountains, as well as a garden with a topiary, tended hedges, flower beds and water-lily ponds. It will be a fun trip for the whole family.
We also invite Bonnie Liao, founder of YingHua language School and YingHua International School, major advisor of PCE (NJ Parents Child Club) and PCE chairwoman Huang Min came here to share their parenting experience with us.
It will be a potluck party. Please bring your favorite dish!
Location: 700 Anderson Hill Road,Purchase, NY 10577 (SUNY Purchase 对面) We will meet near the lake picnic table area.
每周一笑:妙答
老师:“同学们,火箭为什么能上天?谁能回答这个问题。”过了很久没人回答。刚打完瞌睡的小明醒来后站了起来:“老师,这个问题太简单了。”老师感到意外:“那就请你就回答吧!”“老师,你想火箭的屁股都着火了,它能不蹦上天吗?”