20111105 - issue 9

*** Activities, Events & Announcements *** 近期活動介詔、公告及宣佈事項
1. UCS will host this year’s CACA 5-school Speech Contest on 12/10/11 at our auditorium。 (聯合今年將 舉辦 中美文拹五校演講比賽)。

2. UCS intramural speech contest first round was held last week on 10/29 and the winners list (top 5 places) is attached for your reference. The final round of intramural speech contest will consist of only those first ½ winning students (up to 10 people) in each group. In each group the first 3 winners will get a trophy and the first 2 winners will represent UCS to attend the CACA 5-school speech contest on 12/10 in our school auditorium.

3. To encourage more students to attend the final round of speech contest, we slightly adjust the maximum number of attendants in each group from 9 to 10. Also, we allow the lower half ranked students to be the possible back-ups (replacements) for those students in the upper half, should any of them can’t (or won’t) attend the final speech contest. This replacement will follow the ranks of the lower half students one by one, in sequential order, until the total number of students allowed in each group is reached.

4. The qualified students’ list for the final round is also attached but the ‘replacement list’ will be released next week. For those students who are qualified to attend the final round, please report to your teacher if you will attend the final round or not. We encourage you to report to your teacher this week (if you determine to attend or you know that you can’t attend) because next week there is no class due to NJ Teachers’ Conference Day. If you don’t report by next week (11/12) we will treat you as ‘forfeit’ and a replacement will be sought. 晉級決賽者請向該班級任老師報告，確認十一月十九日是否參加決賽。如下週六(十一月十二日) 之前未報告決定者視同棄權，缺額由後半段參賽者依名次高低依次遞補，直到該組滿額或無人可補時為止(亦即後半段者無人願意出來參加決賽) 。

5. The ‘school library’ will open today (11/5), please utilize it if you want to borrow some books/magazines from school. 學校圖書館今天開放借閱，請多利用。

6. We will have our first coupon redemption day on today (11/5/11). Drawing contest paper will also be distributed to students today. Rules and topics for each group are specified in the attached file. 獎勵卷兌換將於十一月五日舉行，並發放繪畫比賽稿紙。比賽辦法詳情請參閱附件。

7. There is no class on 11/12, due to NJ Teachers Conference Day event. 十一月十二日，學校停課乙次(新澤西州教師研習會) 。

8. We have one (anonymous) parent who is willing to donate $3.00 to each contestant (who actually gave a speech last week) of each group for the speech contest. We will give such a student (who actually attended the speech contest) a ‘special coupon’ (equivalent to 12 regular coupons) so that you can use it to do the redemption today. Thanks for that parent’s kindness to our students.

本校有位匿名好心家長，願捐給每位上台比賽的小朋友三美元的獎勵金。學校已印製等值的《特別獎勵券》，將於十一月五日發給各上台比賽的小朋友。謝謝這位熱心的家長，並請小朋友們莫忘記領取，以便換獎。

9. The ‘Goodman foundation’ will host a donation event on 11/19/11 in UCS. They will collect new/old clothes, toys, shoes, and new soaps and toothbrush and ship the materials they get from us to Salvador which suffered a severe water draining disaster recently, before Thanksgiving holiday. If you have extra stuffs (those mentioned above) on hand at home and are willing to donate them, you can bring those things to school on 11/19 at school cafeteria. They (the charity group) can provide you a receipt that you may use it for tax (deduction) purpose next year. We will collect all the materials by 11:00 A.M. and give to their representative at that time. We wish a lot of our parents can help out in this event. Please bring your own bags for your donation materials. Thank you very much.

好人基金會將於十一月十九日來本校發起一項賑災活動，希望能透過中文學校募集新舊衣服, 玩具, 鞋子, 以及新的肥皂跟牙刷在感恩節前 把物資送到災區(中美洲薩爾瓦多全國嚴重淹水) 。你的捐助可以開具收據，便於明年報稅之用。十一點時會有專人在餐廳收集捐助物品，請踴躍參加，詳情請參閱附件。謝謝！