亲爱的家长们、老师们，亲爱的同学们：
Dear NWCS Fellow Members;
Dear All Parents, Teachers and Students;
1、2013年还剩下二十来天，还有一周各学校就将陆续进入冬季假期。为了配合您们的假期安排，中文学校也将从下周起开始放假。本周六将是我们在2013年的最后一次课，我们下次的见面将在2014年的1月4日。在这里我们提前预祝您和您的家人拥有一个愉快的假期和祥和幸福的新年！
There are about twenty days left for the year of 2013 and the winter break will start in a week or two for most schools. To commensurate with your holiday arrangements, our school will also take a two week break starting from next week. So this Saturday will be our last class meet for the year of 2013 and our next meet will be on Jan.4th, 2014. And we wish you and your family a happy winter break and a very happy New Year in advance!
2、我们相信大家一定已经为孩子们安排了许多丰富多彩的假期活动，但我们也建议大家可以趁此机会好好锻炼孩子们的中文口语对话和中文写作的能力，比如，家长们可以在安排回国探亲或是走亲访友的时候让自己的孩子多练习中文对话或是教会他们一些中文习惯用语，另外还可以让孩子们在假期开始用中文记日记或是写作文，记下他们假期中发生的有趣的故事或是读过的好书。
由《侨报》主办的“西北教育论坛”发表了我校7A班潘丰忻、7B班苏童、7C班杨澜和高级绘画班刘翰雯的作品（ http://sf.uschinapress.com/node/25393），请这几位同学本周六11：00-11：30之间来Admin办公桌领取稿酬奖励。我们期待在上面不久就会见到你们的作品。欢迎你们投稿，来稿请寄：admin@nwchinese.org。
We believe you probably have arranged all kind of activities for your children during this winter break. And we would like to add some more ideas to your list of the winter break activities because we think this would be a great opportunity for your kids to practice more with their Chinese speaking and writing skills: you can let your children converse in Chinese when your family is visiting friends or relatives during the holidays or you can teach them some Chinese idioms when the occasions come up. And you can ask your children keep a Chinese journal about their winter break activities or write about a book they read in the break. The “Northwest Education Forum” of 《侨报》is opened by our school to encourage our students, teachers and parents to write Chinese essays more. And you can find more works from our students in the new issue (see http://sf.uschinapress.com/node/25393). You are welcome to submit your own work through email to: admin@nwchinese.org.
3、上次我们学校向所有西北中文学校的师生家长提出征集校训后，得到了大家的积极响应。继杨琳老师提出了她所建议的校训-----“豁达自重，智勇求真”之后，又有其他学校成员提出了他们新的建议，比如“厚文修德，心臻华美”等。对大家的热情支持在此表示感谢，也再次欢迎大家积极参加讨论，帮助我们找到能反映我们学校办学理念和治校精神的校训。
After our asking all our teachers, parents and management team to join us in searching for our school's motto, we have received some great responses. We want to thank you for your enthusiasm and hope more of you can join our discussions in order to search for the best motto that could summarize the motivation behind our school and set a great goal for us. You are welcome to join our discussion by sending emails to: admin@nwchinese.org.
4、今年六月后家长报送的公司 Volunteer Hours资金名单已经出来一部分，请还未报知资金分配计划的家长发信到qiufang.yi@nwchinese.org或者周六来Bellevue 行政办公桌前报知资金分配到班级的详细计划。名单如下（以后出来的名单还会陆续发布）：
Ma Kenneth； Shi Fang； Zhang Hanzhong； Wang Xiaoqing； Tang Lan； Wang Dong；Zhang Yanan；Zhao Chunzhi
Microsoft Volunteer Hours matching fund has already arrived. Parents whose names are in the above list, please let us know where you would like to allocate the fund by sending email to qiufang.yi@nwchinese.org or coming to the Bellevue admin desk on Saturdays.
谢谢大家！
Thank you all and keep warm!
西北中文学校教学行政团队
NWCS Admin Team
