HXGNY 10th Week — 11/10/2013

大纽约华夏中文学校将举行2013年“自信童年，风采尽现”演讲主持比赛。请填妥报名表格，并在上课期间交到学校咨询台或以电子邮件方式发送到 Hongwei Zhou:  hzhou428@gmail.com, 注明为“演讲主持比赛”。报名表格请点击这里。

11月30日19:00报名截止, 12月8日12:30－3:00 pm为正式比赛时间 。

比赛分成两组: 低年级组(一年级—三年级, K 可以参加一年级组); 高年级组: 四年级以上。比赛 分三部分进行: 先是简要自我介绍，然后是2分钟的才艺展现（朗诵、讲故事、说绕口令，或美国学校常用的Show & Tell形式, 应选择积极向上, 赞美自然或歌颂人物相关的题材。最后是一分钟的现场问答。 部分获奖选手将有机会代表我校参加总校组织的演讲比赛, 或推荐为校内春节联欢会主持人。

HXGNY will have its annual speech hosting contest. Please fill out the form and return to the information desk during school time or email to hzhou428@gmail.com  with “Speech hosting contest” as title. Please click here for registration form.

Time: Registration Deadline will be 19:00 on 11/30,

Contest will be held from 12:30-3:00 pm on 12/8.

Contest will be split into two groups: G1-3,  G4 and up.  K may join 1st grade group. The contest will have 3 parts. First part is a brief self-introduction. Second part is 2 minute talent show (recite a poem, tell a story, tongue twister, or show & tell) and the topics should be positive.  The last part is a 1 minute impromptu speech. Top winners will have the opportunity to attend the speech contest representing HXGNY (after the contest, winners from lower grades will group on 12/15 and 01/05 for training/rehearsal), or preside over the Spring Festival Party of our school.

2013华夏大纽约围棋竞赛将于十二月十五日下午举行，社区全体成员都可参加，包括校内外的少儿和成人。少儿组获胜者将获得奖品，成人将有非常好的机会与其他有共同兴趣者交流。报名从现在起至十二月八日。如报名人数太多，我们将严格按照报名时间决定最后参赛选手。请尽早填好随附的报名表并电邮到hxgny.go@gmail.com. 报名费是$15一人，请用Paypal 链接付款。HXGNY 2013 Go Tournament will be held in the afternoon of Dec 15. Everybody in our community is welcome to participate, including both children and adults and those outside of our Chinese school. Awards will be presented to the winners of the children’s group while adults will have the great opportunity to play for leisure with other people with the same interest. The registration is open now till Dec 8. Please register early since the cutoff will be strictly by enrollment time if players exceed our capacity. To register please fill the attached form and email tohxgny.go@gmail.com. Please use the Paypal link to pay the $15 per player registration fee.

The 2013 2nd HXGNY Club Cup Tennis Open Tournament finished successfully last Sunday. After several rounds of competitions, Long Su and Carol Wang claimed the Men’s and Women’s Single Championship title. Men’s runner up and 3rd place winners are Roy You and Haiming Gao, Kevin Li. Women’s runner up and 3rd place winners are Ruby Chu and Emma Zhang, Lu Marino. Congratulations to all the winners and thank for the full support from all the players and our school. (pictures link here)

Please be reminded: the circle near the east entrance/tennis courts will be closed for auto traffic. Also there are about 10 parking spots close to the circle and these spots will be reserved for teachers only. Please use the west parking lot A to avoid traffic.Direction to Parking Lot A: use the White Plains High School entrance at Bryant Ave, follow the “Student Parking” sign to the West/Main parking lot.  An entrance to the building will be provided close to Lot A.  This entrance will continue to be open between 9:20 and 9:50 AM for the rest of school year.
If you enter from the North street to access to Lot A, do not violate the traffic rules by entering the “One Way” lane from an opposite direction.  Drive forward further. You will be closer to the entrance to the building.

For your safety, security team would like to remind all parents:
• Do not drop off your kid(s) close to the North Street entrance
• Do not block traffic, pay attention to pedestrians
• Do not violate the traffic rules by entering the “One Way” lane from an opposite direction
• Do not park on the fire line marked with yellow strips

In order for us to continue use White Plain High School as our Chinese school campus, HXGNY Admin team reminds teachers, parents and students respect and follow the rules from WPHS:
• Classrooms must be left the same way they are found
• Furniture in original positions
• Do not unplug computers
• Do not touch smart boards
• Do not eat in the classrooms
• Outside doors need to be closed and locked at all times for security reasons
• Do not park in the “no parking” areas which creates fire hazards
• Do not run in the hallways

We appreciate all parents cooperation in the past weeks.