大纽约华夏中文学校(Huaxia Chinese Academy Greater New York)

亲爱的各位家长:

Recap HXGNY 2013 Speech Hosting Contest
Education Seminar — “Raising a Self-Motivated Child”( “培养自立自强的孩子”)
HXGNY 春节联欢会 02/09/2014
Notice and Change of Schedule
Student Corner (小语世界 )

Community News: Job Posting

“自信童年，风采尽现”演讲主持比赛赛后花絮

12/08/2013 我校“自信童年，风采尽现”演讲主持比赛落下了帷幕。 40位小选手临场不乱，各显所长。节目精彩纷呈, 极好地展现了我校学生及家长的文化素养与文化底蕴。经六位评委的认真评选, 此次大赛的获奖选手为：

四年级以上 : 1) Brian Wu    2) 郑芷兰     3) 王洲安
三年级 : 1) 刘思源     2) 陶子明      3) 刘吉麟, 刁大卫
二年级 : 1) 冯一苇　 2) 张楚玥　 3) 王洲宁
一年级 : 1) 刘珂        2) 王意轩    3) 高乐慧

每位选手都获得了奖品。感谢评委，家长, 志愿者，和校委会的鼎力支持和协助。感谢小选手们赛前充分的准备，赛场上淋漓尽致的表演。尤其感谢Wendy Cheng, Yanyun Liu。做了许多重要赛前准备工作, Maggie Yu不辞辛劳，为大家带来比萨饼。请点击这里欣赏此次活动的照片。

40 contestants participated the 2013 HXGNY Speech and Host Contest, and delivered a very entertaining, high quality cultural show. After careful consideration by 6 judges, we have the winners announced as above.
All contestants were awarded ribbons and prizes.
HXGNY activities team would like to express our sincere gratitude to all judges, parents, volunteers, especially our little participants for their effort and lively performance. Our gratitude also goes toward Wendy Cheng and Yanyun Liu who were instrumental in many prep work, Maggie Yu for delivering pizza on that cold day. Please click here to view pictures.

Education Seminar – 培养自立自强的孩子 12/15

特邀演讲嘉宾: 著名作家、教育家珍妮沃克珍妮沃克・卡弗里博士

Time: Sunday 12/15 10:00AM – 11:00AM

Location: Cafeteria

作为父母，我们都希望孩子有上进心，对世界充满好奇，怀揣梦想、目标坚定、百折不挠，希望他们有美好的将来。但在现实社会中，越来越多的孩子不仅对学校的教育没有兴趣，对很多现实生活的活动也提不起劲。他们终日沉迷于电脑游戏，深陷于虚拟世界，并因物质生活富裕、一切唾手可得变得愈加懒散、不求上进……，作为父母，我们对此时常感到忧虑，感到痛苦，甚至绝望无助。父母子女俱乐部一直努力尝试着、探索着，希望能够在父母和孩子之间，筑起一座有效沟通的桥梁，培养孩子自律、自立、自强的精神，帮助孩子走上一条使生活更快乐更有意义的道路。什么方法能让孩子激发学习兴趣，愿意为通向未来的成功之路而不懈努力呢？
成功者皆有自身的秘诀。这个星期天我们荣幸地邀请到著名作家、教育家珍妮沃克・卡弗里（Janine Walker Caffrey）博士，卡弗里博士在教育“如何激发孩子内在的潜能和动力”方面有丰富经验，她将就如何培养孩子自律、自立、自强的精神的话题，做一场生动活泼、别开生面的主题演讲, 就大家关心的问题分享她的经验，相信她的演讲将给您带来多层次的思考，有意义的启示及新颖的技巧。如果您是一位关心孩子成长的父母，如果您迫切想培养孩子内在的向上驱动力，就请参加星期天的讲座。

珍妮沃克・卡弗里博士将会探讨如下课题：

探路型父母，直升机型父母的另一种选择
提高孩子自我锻炼意识、营造赏识激励氛围，以建立自信心
降低生活舒适度、培养孩子自我管理能力，以建立适应性和独立性
延迟满足和降低奖励，以建立耐心和良好的工作态度
利用孩子朋友圈的正面影响，以建立主动性

珍妮沃克・卡弗里女士简介：珍妮沃克・卡弗里博士曾任职任教各种公校私校及政府教育部门，还创建了自己的艺术学校，现任新州学区学监。她致力于帮助父母学会如何寓教于乐，教子有方，出版发表了《９种激励孩子上进的方法》 (Drive: 9 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Achieve)一书。

HXGNY 春节联欢会 02/09/2014

雪花片片凝瑞，马蹄声声报春。转眼蛇年逶迤离去，马年奔腾而来。华夏中文学校大纽约分校将于新春伊始, 万象更新之际, 隆重推出一年一度的春节联欢会, 与大家共度中华民族的传统佳节。

时间：2014年2月9日，放学后
地点：学校大礼堂
活动：午餐（中餐，pizza), 游艺，文艺汇演

节目征集：文艺演出以各班级节目为主，辅以精选的由家长自荐的节目。如您或您的孩子有意登台演出，请电邮qingclaire@gmail.com。因汇演时间限制，表演人数要求五人以上（相声节目例外），低于五人的节目将被放入春天举办的 ”HXGNY Got Talent”。为避免歌舞节目比例过重，我们现只征集曲艺，说学逗，体操，武术，杂技，天津快板，小品, 京剧，地方戏等节目。除戏剧节目外，演出时间不超过3分钟。为了让更多孩子有登台机会，除学校、班级节目外，每名学生只允许参演一项自排节目。请尽速报名，我们将在01／26开始节目遴选。落选节目也将有机会在学校其他活动中演出。

征求专才：成功的晚会需要大家的支持。无论是想展示你高超的摄影、剪辑、特效制作、美工的功底，还是想借此机会结识更多技术达人共同进步，我们都热烈欢迎！晚会需要你们精良的技术支持。有意报名者，请email qingclaire@gmail.com。

HXGNY Chinese New Year Gala 02/09/2014

Please mark your calendar for our annual Chinese New Year Celebration: 2014/02/09 after school at White Plains High School auditorium. We will have Chinese food for all the adults and pizza for the kids at the cafeteria starting 12:30pm, followed by many performances from the children at our school.

We now would like to add unique group performance that is NOT singing or dancing, but gymnastics, comic shows, cross talk, Beijing opera, martial art, acrobatic acts, Tianjin allegro, etc. Please email Claire at qingclaire@gmail.com with details of your name, phone number, title of performance, length etc. Each performance should be under 3 minutes. All programs will need to go through the screening process on 1/26/2014, and final program selection will be available by 2/1/2014.

Seek Volunteers: We would like to ask for volunteers who can help us with stage setting, and directing (such as audio/visual and lighting), photography or videography. If you would like to volunteer, please email your name, email, phone number and what you would like to help with to Claire, qingclaire@gmail.com

Notice and Change of Schedule

1. Winter Weather Alert
按照学区规定，如遇到恶劣天气，White Plains High School 有可能关闭，如发生这种特殊情况，学校将在网站上发布信息，发送Email通知，并尽可能直接电话联系各个家庭。请大家周日注意查看学校网站。为便于学校通知各个家庭，请准确填写学校注册系统中家庭信息部分（email，电话）。
Please check the school website HXGNY.ORG for any announcement regarding school closing information in case of severe weather condition on Sunday. It’s very important for each family to update their phone numbers and e-mail addresses with the school and class parents. In addition, a special edition of newsletter may be sent on school cancellation.

2. Use of Gym
Dear parents, our school has secured a very good gym facility from WPHS. If you want to play badminton or basketball in the gym for the winter season, a partial year gym fee would be charged. For details please contact Gao Yong for badminton, Tao Shu for basketball or Zhang Li for general sports related information. You may also email badminton_hxgny@googlegroups.com, basketball_hxgny@googlegroups.com or sports_hxgny@googlegroups.com. If interested please act fast due to the popularity and limited capacity. Every one need to pay the membership fee to use the gym.

亲爱的家长们，我们中文学校租了非常好的体育馆设施。如果你想冬天在体育馆内打羽毛球或篮球，学校会收取部分费用。有关详情，请联系羽毛球负责人高勇，篮球负责人陶舒或张力有关体育一般性的问题。你也可电邮badminton_hxgny@googlegroups.com，basketball_hxgny@googlegroups.com或sports_hxgny@googlegroups.com。如有兴趣，请尽快申请，因为两队已经有很多人，只能接受很有限的新成员。所有人交会员费后才可以使用体育馆。

3. Class Parent Meeting
We are going to have class parent meeting this Sunday 12/15 from 9:45 am to 10:45 am in the faculty cafeteria.

4. Class Photo Taking
We have rescheduled class photo taking on Sunday 02/09/14.

Student Corner 8th Issue (小语世界第八期）

编者的话

大家好！圣诞节马上就到了！圣诞节放假所以下两个星期我们没有小语世界。希望大家能够渡过一个愉快的假期！
我们这一期的小语世界发表了二年级马立平一班学生的作文。指导老师李谦云。本期编辑陈恩璐，人物专访由编辑雷博采访折纸班雷明辉老师，本期食谱、新书及音乐推荐胡舒菡。小语世界第八期请点击这里。
希望大家积极投稿。请老师们鼓励学生积极投稿。稿件请寄：hxgnystudentcorner@gmail.com。谢谢大家的支持！

Job Posting

Looking for job? Good news to you. Our school website recently added a job posting session. Please following the link http://www.hxgny.org/wp/forums/forum/job-postings for job opportunity .If you are interested, please email: hxgny_community_jobs@googlegroups.com