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Jose Ortega parents have created laminated place mats of the San Francisco Unified School District Mandarin vocabulary. The placemats are 11″x17″ and come by grade level in sets of two — one mat has the Chinese characters only (for quizzing) and the second mat has the characters plus pinyin and English meanings (for study). The…
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Written by Elizabeth Olson In March 2009, I went to the Chinese Language Bridge Cup Contest in San Francisco to watch my first grader participate in a poetry recital. He was contestant #478 – I couldn’t believe so many kids would show up on a Saturday morning to recite poetry! I saw a friend there…
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Monday March 1st 5:30-7:30 pm Mandarin Immersion Parents Council meeting Where: Jose Ortega cafeteria/auditorium (JOES, 400 Sargent St., Sargent & Arch St.) Topics: Mandarin summer camps, Chinese culture-related classes, impacts to the MIP budget This will be a jam-packed meeting/information night for Mandarin immersion parents. Plan to be there! Sadly, we can’t offer child care or dinner…
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Tuesday, December 15 from 5:30-7:00 at Starr King (1215 Carolina Street) in Room 107. The teachers at Starr King will offer a workshop detailing the kinds of Chinese homework assigned for each grade level and why they are assigned, as well as how we parents can support our kids even if we do not know…
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Order t-shirts and sweatshirts with the cool new SFUSD Mandarin Immersion logo! Each t-shirt purchased contributes $5 toward Mandarin Immersion Parents Council projects, such as providing Chinese books for the classrooms. Click on the image to order. NOTE: Only t-shirts are available right now. Sweatshirts will hopefully be added in March. Notes on sizing: According…
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Our SFUSD Chinese content specialist created an educational game called “Chinese 1 2 3” for the students in the immersion programs. Click below to play.
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The San Francisco Unified School District asked the MIPC to create an advertisement for recruiting teachers to the Mandarin Immersion program. Check out the result (click on the image for more information):
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