It is known that March 21st is a snow makeup day and Dec. 20th was a snow day. Therefore, we will have a regular Chinese school day on March 21st. Please mark your calendar.

This Sunday your children will receive a vote form as a handout from the language teachers. Please review the form and vote as indicated,then have your children submit the form back to language teachers in the following week (3/14).

Father and mother count as 2 votes. If you have sibling children study in HXNY, please vote only on one form, and then have the second or third form...checked as requested, still submit it back to teachers, who will simply collect the votes from all students.

Please exercise your right as the school member, and help school develop a fair leader election process.

Panda Travel is organizing a summer camp in Shanghai China this summer. Please click the link for more details in Chinese: http://www.hxny.org/ftp/weeklynewsletter/030710_summary_of_summer_AD.pdf or in English:http://www.hxny.org/ftp/weeklynewsletter/030710_WExpYouthSummerCamp.pdf.

3月21日（周日）晚8：30在纽约卡内基音乐厅，三代古典音乐艺术家们将汇聚一堂，他们是——备受讃誉的钢琴家郎朗、传奇指挥克里斯多夫•艾申巴赫（Christoph Eschenbach）以及德国石荷州音乐节管弦乐团（Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra）。此次音乐盛会是一次慈善演出，收入全部捐赠给联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF），用于救助在海地大地震中的幸存儿童。艾申巴赫和郎朗原已预定在北美21个城市举行巡回演出，庆祝他们长达十年的艺术合作，但当他们知悉海地大地震的噩耗后，当即决定，在纽约演出一晚，支持联合国儿童基金会在海地的救援工作。20人以上团体订购有20%优惠。团体订购电话212-903-9705 或 groupsales@carnegiehall.org. 华语购票咨询热线：212-841-9590 。

Please click http://www.hxny.org/ftp/weeklynewsletter/030710_LL_eblastChinese.jpg to view the flyer.

PTA特邀在纽约举办的中国演义画展的中国当代中国画家在访问纽约之余来华夏纽约举办画展.希望大家参观收藏.

这次在美国纽约举办的中国演义展览被邀请的30余位艺术家，他们都代表了今天中国当代艺术的现状，许多艺术家都是在这一领域的领军人物，他们的风格多元化，这是一次非常集中的展示中国现当代艺术的展览，有些艺术家这次参展的作品在国际上都有很强的市场号召力和价位.这些艺术家大部分都生活在北京，都有各自的很强的收藏群体，不论是他们的风格还是作品价位，都代表了今日中国当代艺术的繁荣。

参展艺术家名单：黄岩、苏新平、王华祥、刘力国、常徐功、沈敬东、尹坤、董浩、张铁梅、一墨、胡赤骏、韩伟华、王斐、刘国强、林宇新、黄阿线、古煜瑾、王乐、吴翀、黄世鹏、黄墨、万家娜、苏昊、牟林童、鲁婷婷、李寒笑、刘滨、杜翌、陈世友、彭麒

近年来，中国常驻联合国代表团有组织向国内外一些团体开放，负责接待国内参访游学团组以及东道国学术界学者、智库、友好团体、有志于研修国际政治的青年学生以及其他有关方面的人士。活动包括: 情况介绍、座谈、互动以及合影留念等等。华夏中文学校将组团于3月12日（周五）上午10时到中国常驻联合国代表团参观访问座谈。参加者以在校高中生为主，最好已经参观过联合国总部，并对国际政治、外交事务有浓厚兴趣, 以中文流利为佳。教师和学校管理人员也可报名参加。名额有限, 有兴趣者请尽快与校长李盛京联系（shengjing.li@gmail.com）。

HXNY 2010 Debate Contest Call for Registration from students of G4-G9:

We will be holding our annual HXNY debate contest on Mar 14, 2010. The registration begins today until Feb. 19. Please register with your class teacher or email rosalindge@yahoo.com.

《主题辩论》

辩论主题:

•正方观点：《中文学校应该每年评选优秀学生》
•反方观点：《中文学校不必每年评选优秀学生》

本次活动邀请4 - 6 & 7 - 9年级的同学参加. 欢迎参赛和不参赛的同学家长观摩.

比赛日期： 2010 年3 月14 日
时间: 9:30-10:30 am
地点: SCI-102

There will be three training sessions which will be held on Feb. 21, Feb. 28 and Mar. 7 from 9:30-10:30am in Room SCI-102. Students who registered are required to attend. More details will be given out then.

A series of seminars will be followed after the week of the parent/teacher meeting. Examples of these are college admission; one special reading method for various ages; basic law knowledge; Tai-Chi, Qi Gong and Yi Li Quan education; medical students discussion panel and/or medical education; education advice; parent discussion panel on children’s music involvement from an early stage. All of these proposed seminars are driven by our supportive parents. Several parents are interested in sharing ideas on children music involvement. If anyone has any questions and/or is willing to volunteer and share experiences by joining the discussion panel, please contact Mark Yin at peacehealth@gmail.com. Once again, anyone who has specific questions on law, please contact Mark Yin since these questions will be finalized and presented to our speaker on basic law knowledge seminar very soon.

If you have not yet pick up the HXNY 2009-2010 School Directory for your family, you can come to AAB-116 to get a copy on 1/24. Please note that it is limited to one copy per family.
Please keep in mind that our school directory is intended only for facilitating communications among HXNY families, school administrators, and PTAs. Any other uses including soliciting business are strictly prohibited.
If you would like to dispose of last year’s or any other previous years’ school directories, please carefully shred off all pages with names, addresses, and phone numbers to protect the privacy of HXNY families.

The 1st HXNY Singer Star Competition 2010 was successfully held on Sunday, 1/10/2010. Thanks to all the parents who worked hard to prepare their children well! Thanks also to all the support from our Board/Admin team members: Zeqiang Guan, Shengjing Li, Chaochi Tien, Mark Yin, Gutuan Zheng members who offered their professional expertise on audio/video system setup! Without all your support the event would not have been as smooth!

The winners will be performing chosen to sing at our Chinese New Year Celebration Party. The Winners are:

Grade 4-9

1st Place:  Cynthia 于心夏 G5-3    老鼠爱大米
2nd Place:  Timothy 赵阳   G6-1    童年/白龙马
            Eric Chow      G6-2    童年
3rd Place:  Hannah Hu      G6-1    北京欢迎你            
            Grace Guo      G6-2    北京欢迎你            
            Michelle Cai   G6-2    北京欢迎你
            Sophia Guo     G3-2    北京欢迎你

Grade K-3

1st Place:  Cynthia Chen  G2-1    小螺号
2nd Place:  徐翰杨         G2-1    白龙马
3rd Place:  Rachel 陈芝瑾  G3-3    月亮代表我的心