{"id":265,"date":"2018-12-01T04:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T04:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=265"},"modified":"2018-12-01T04:11:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T04:11:34","slug":"pcls-newsletter-122-speech-contest-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"PCLS Newsletter 12\/2 &#8211; Speech Contest Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Parents\/Guardians\/Teachers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nThis Sunday, we will distribute<strong>\u00a0PCLS 2018-2019 Director<\/strong>y to our families and teachers.\u00a0 Special thanks to<strong>\u00a0Zoe Chen<\/strong>\u00a0for her dedication to design our beautiful directory.\u00a0 Each family will receive only ONE directory so one of your children will receive directory in his\/her language class.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>There is a Financial Workshop by\u00a0AIG Financial Network, Carol Lee MBA, CLU.\u00a0<u>3:30-4:30<\/u>\u00a0in\u00a0<u>Room 231<\/u>.\u00a0\u00a0 She will talk about\u00a0Planning for family financial security &#8211; How do families protect assets from creditors or in the event of critical, chronic or terminal illness.\u00a0 You will learn very useful information from this workshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are gearing up for preparations for Chinese New Year! We would greatly appreciate donations (value of $20 and above) of<strong>\u00a0Raffle Prizes<\/strong>\u00a0for the raffle during our New year&#8217;s festivities.\u00a0 All the donations go to our raffle which helps as a fundraiser for the school.\u00a0We will be accepting the donations starting this Sunday until 1\/13\/19.\u00a0\u00a0Please drop off the items to either<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sylvia<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Sophia<\/strong>\u00a0in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><u>Messages from the Academic Director, Molly Yang:<\/u><\/b><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong><em>speech contests<\/em><\/strong> part 1 will be held this Sunday\u00a0for contestants in groups V (CSL6~CSL8), and VI ~ VIII (T3 and up).\u00a0The competition starts at\u00a0<strong>1:00<\/strong>\u00a0pm\u00a0in the\u00a0<u>lower level\u00a0<\/u><strong><u>Amphitheate<\/u>r<\/strong>, and the check-in time for all contestants begins at\u00a012:50 pm\u00a0in the common area outside of the theater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your kid(s) enrolled but didn&#8217;t receive the reminder email, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:academic@pcls.org\">academic@pcls.org<\/a>\u00a0as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><u>Messages from the Culture Director, Ya-ping Su:<\/u><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>All drawings from the drawing contest will be returned to students this Sunday during language class. Students should pick up drawings from their language teachers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u><b>Messages from the Treasurer, Susan Lee<\/b>: <\/u><\/span> For parents asking for <strong><em>summer camp receipts<\/em><\/strong> and already contacting Stella, please\u00a0pick up your receipts from our Treasurer in the school cafeteria on 12\/2 and 12\/9 from 3:30 &#8211; 4:45 pm.\u00a0 Receipts that are not picked up by 12\/9 will be mailed to your home address.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><u>Messages from PTA, Shao-ching Cheng<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Parents who signed up to help the 12\/2 speech contest, please arrive at<strong>12:45<\/strong>to help. You should have received reminder emails from PTA. If you did not, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:pta@pcls.org\">pta@pcls.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Room parents<\/strong>who have not picked up the check for teachers\u2019 gift. Please stop by the cafeteria\u00a0<strong>BEFORE 3:00pm or AFTER 4:00pm.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you could not come to pick up the check this Sunday. Please confirm the amount with PTA in case you need to prepare it earlier.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Parents please note, you can always check your signups from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/60b0e49a8ae2fa20-20182019\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/60b0e49a8ae2fa20-20182019&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543723693698000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGZyOTs5o6zKtnKRN1o0boLVzrLNQ\">https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/60b0e49a8ae2fa20-20182019<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0You should receive the reminder emails from Signup Genius few days prior to the event. If you have never received emails from SignUp Genius even when you first sign up, please double check to see if your email entry is corrected in SignUp Genius.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please try NOT to change your signups few days prior to the event.<\/strong>It will affect the arrangements and won\u2019t have enough time to find other helpers.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong><u>Food Vendors this Week<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* 2:00 Stella&#8217;s bubble tea AND Taro cake (\u828b\u982d\u7cd5), sweet soup (\u7d05\u8c46\u6e6f\/\u9280\u8033\u6e6f), Mochi (\u9ebb\u7cec), Eggtart (\u86cb\u5854), Spicy Cold Noodle (\u9ebb\u8fa3\u6dbc\u9762), Ramen Noodle (\u65e5\u5f0f\u62c9\u9eb5).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* 1:30 PoHaiTsu frozen dumplings (\u6e24\u6d77\u6751)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* 1:30 Taiwan Tasty House \u53f0\u7063\u7f8e\u98df\u574a <\/span><strong>NEW VENDOR!!! <\/strong>coming from Edison.<\/p>\n<p>See you on Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents\/Guardians\/Teachers: I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends! This Sunday, we will distribute\u00a0PCLS 2018-2019 Directory to our families and teachers.\u00a0 Special thanks to\u00a0Zoe Chen\u00a0for her dedication to design our beautiful directory.\u00a0 Each family will receive only ONE directory so one of your children will receive directory in his\/her language class. There is a Financial Workshop by\u00a0AIG Financial Network, Carol Lee MBA, CLU.\u00a03:30-4:30\u00a0in\u00a0Room 231.\u00a0\u00a0 She will talk about\u00a0Planning for family financial security <a href=\"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=265\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}