{"id":459,"date":"2019-12-08T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=459"},"modified":"2019-12-08T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T15:22:16","slug":"pcls-newsletter-128-speech-contest-part-2-pcls-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"PCLS Newsletter 12\/8 &#8211; Speech Contest Part 2 &#038; PCLS Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents\/Guardians\/Teachers\/TA:<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends!<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, we will distribute<strong>\u00a0PCLS\u00a02019-2020 Directory<\/strong>\u00a0to our families and teachers.\u00a0 Special thanks to our designer,<strong>\u00a0Ivy Yeh Cox<\/strong>, for 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.<\/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\/19\/2020.\u00a0\u00a0Please drop off the items to either<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sylvia<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Shanpi, or Feifang<\/strong>\u00a0in the cafeteria.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nMessages from the Academic Director, Molly Yang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>speech contests<\/strong> part 2 will be held this Sunday (12\/08\/2019) at <strong>McAneny Theater<\/strong>.\u00a0 Due to the large number of participants, there will be 2 check-in times as below. <strong>\u00a0All the participants will take a group photo (used in next year&#8217;s directory) together around 1:55pm.<\/strong> \u00a0(The rule of speech contest is attached)<\/p>\n<p>Group B (CSL 1-3), Group 3 (T1\/T2), Group 4 (CSL 4-5):\u00a0<strong>The check-in time is 12:45PM.\u00a0 The contest will begin at 1:00PM.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please stay for the group photo, which will be taken around 1:55PM.<\/p>\n<p>Group A (PreK\/TK):\u00a0<strong>The check-in time is 1:45PM.\u00a0 The contest will begin at 2:00PM.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please arrive in time for the group photo, which will be taken around 1:55PM before the contest begins.<\/p>\n<p>If your kid(s) enrolled but didn&#8217;t receive the reminder email or can not participate, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:academic@pcls.org\">academic@pcls.org<\/a>\u00a0as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Messages from the Culture Director, Ya-Ping Su<\/strong><br \/>\nAs the year 2020 approaches, please mark your calendar for the following events coming up early next year:<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chinese New Year celebration will take place on<strong> Feb. 2, 2020<\/strong>. We will be sending out emails reminding parent sign ups and have individual team meetings to go over details.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Our internal YoYo competition will take place on<strong> March 1, 2019 from 4:20-5:20pm<\/strong> in the Large Gym. All PCLS students and alumni are welcome to participate in this competition. Competition will include two types: individual (high school, 9th-12th graders, middle school, 6th to 8th, and elementary, 1st to 5th) and double (1st through 12th graders). Registration will be available in January.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Association of New Jersey Chinese Schools Chinese Chess contest from<strong> March 22, 9am to 2:30pm<\/strong> at PDS. Registration will be available in February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Messages from PTA team\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speech Contest helpers<\/strong>: \u00a0You should receive an email from contest.pta (Kuan-Juei Su) on Monday with your assigned tasks\u00a0 Please arrive between 12:30-12:40pm at McAneny Theater and check in with Kuan-Juei. \u00a0** IMPORTANT: All helpers should go to the cafeteria for score calculation AFTER the contest.\u00a0 Then be sure to sign out so that our PTA will mark as fulfill your parent duty.\u00a0 Thank you for your cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Room parents<\/strong>: If you didn&#8217;t pick up you class gift money check last time, you can find Paul (PTA) or Susan (Treasurer) this Sunday to pick up the check.\u00a0 Please note: the amount of the check depends on the size of your class.\u00a0 The $20 class fee\/per student was included in the tuition during the registration.\u00a0 Any questions, please contact Paul @<a href=\"mailto:pta@pcls.org\">pta@pcls.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Food Vendors this week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* 1:30-3:00 HsiuLing Taiwanese Kitchen (\u79c0\u73b2\u53f0\u5f0f\u5c0f\u5403)<br \/>\n* 2:00 Stella&#8217;s bubble tea AND Taro cake (\u828b\u982d\u7cd5), sweet soup (\u7d05\u8c46\u6e6f\/\u9280\u8033\u6e6f), Mochi (\u9ebb\u7cec)<br \/>\n* 3:00-4:30 NuRo Beef Noodle Soup \uff08\u6b63\u4e2d\u725b\u8089\u9eb5\uff09: Please pick up your order at the designated time.<br \/>\n* 3:00-4:30 \u963f\u5fe0\u6ef7\u5473 (Master Huang) from Flushing will provide tasty braised dishes for PCLS families. Please pick up your pre-order and pay cash by 4:30.\u00a0 <strong>NOTE: We still\u00a0<\/strong><strong>need more orders\u00a0<\/strong><strong>so that Master Huang can deliver from Flushing to Princeton.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sayweee.com\/deal\/view\/1mayz?from=singlemessage\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.sayweee.com\/deal\/view\/1mayz?from%3Dsinglemessage&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575843990696000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHrU_19t_TjCi9b1sYzueCC8bbWOg\">Click this link<\/a>\u00a0to order and the deadline is 12\/7 (Saturday) 3pm.\u00a0 I will make an announcement tomorrow if the delivery is cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents\/Guardians\/Teachers\/TA: I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time with family and friends! This Sunday, we will distribute\u00a0PCLS\u00a02019-2020 Directory\u00a0to our families and teachers.\u00a0 Special thanks to our designer,\u00a0Ivy Yeh Cox, for 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. We are gearing up for preparations for Chinese New Year! We would greatly appreciate donations (value of $20 and <a href=\"http:\/\/pcls.org\/?p=459\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcls.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}