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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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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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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…
