Author: Elizabeth Weise
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This is the first of what should end up being several summer camp possibilities that we’ll post about as they become available. If you know of others please send them along. 中文美术夏令营日程安排和收费 2010 AAS Mandarin and Art Summer Camp for Children Entering K-3rd Grade URL: www.asianartsstudio.com Contact: Lin Wei 415-297-3072 or asianartsstudio@hotmail.com Want to give your…
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Here’s a listing of Mandarin language TV shows broadcast in the San Francisco Bay area, courtesy of the web site SanFranciscoChinatown.com and a alert Starr King mom Kendall Goh. Now we just need to get a sense of what these shows are actually about and how appropriate they are for kids. Please chime in if…
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The MIPC maintains two Yahoo groups: one for San Francisco topics, and one for topics of national interest. We have started to see more activity on the national group and recently Michele from St. Paul, Minnesota posted a very nice description of her school. I thought it would be interesting to start a blog…
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Starr King Elementary School December 2009 A Place for Everything Whatever you might think or be told, very few elementary-aged children seem to do homework at a desk in their room. They want to do it where everyone else is (i.e. you, the parent) and it usually happens in the kitchen or the living room.…
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Many parents in San Francisco are spending this month deciding which schools they will list on the SFUSD lottery form. For parents interested in Chinese, there are five possible schools, three offering Cantonese immersion and two offering Mandarin. A parent on the SF K Files found an interesting site that discusses the differences and similarities…
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The Mandarin Immersion Parents Council here in San Francisco focuses on the two Mandarin immersion public schools here, Starr King and Jose Ortega. But we get almost daily emails from parents around the country and around the world who are either interested in starting Mandarin immersion programs in their schools, or who have children attending…
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Parents who are looking at Mandarin immersion in particular (i.e. Starr King and Jose Ortega) for Kindergarten should remember that it works a little different than other immersion and general education programs. The District reserves half the spaces for Mandarin-speakers and the rest go to non-Mandarin speakers. So in Round One of the lottery, only…
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