白珊·安妮高中周讯（7）

Dear Baishan AWS Parents, Students, and Friends,

I would like to give you all a few points to keep in mind when reviewing our first quarter report cards next week. As we have discussed in our parent meetings and school newsletters, the transition to a new school and in a new language is a stressful and challenging experience.

While grades become important as the years of school pass, they should not be the sole measure of learning. In reality, most things that are learned are not graded at all. (All of our kids learned their mother tongue with no grades, and I think we can all agree that it was important that they did!)

It is important to keep our focus on the goal which we are working towards. That being,guiding our students to be a capable, academically and socially prepared young person who has strong opportunities to attend universities in the English- speaking world.

We must not lose sight of the overall progress we are seeing, and whether this progress supports the attainment of our goals. This is why I would like to have all parents keep the future goal in mind, and allow our students the time to learn.

Best Regards,

Robert Hinman

Director

尊敬的白珊·安妮高中的家长、学生、朋友们：

       下周您将收到学校寄出的本阶段学生成绩单，同时，我想说明几点，正如我们在家长会和学校周讯中所讨论的那样，学生们在新的语言环境中适应新的学校是一个充满压力和挑战的过程。

       随着学生们年级的不断提高，成绩也变得越来越重要，但成绩不是衡量学习的唯一标准。事实上，我们学到的大多数东西都是不被评分的。所有的孩子都是在没有评分的情况下学习母语的，我们都赞成一个观点：学习母语对他们很重要！

       把我们的注意力集中在我们正在努力实现的目标上，也是很重要的。我们应该引导我们的学生成为同时具有学术能力和社交能力的年轻人，这样他们将有更多的机会去英语国家的大学深造。

       我们决不能忽视学生们取得的进步，以及这些进步对实现总体目标的帮助，这也是为什么我想让所有的家长都牢记这个长远的目标，并给学生们足够的时间让他们学习。

谨致问候

罗伯特·茵曼主任

Annie Writes

安妮校报

Archery 射箭

Every Wednesday ninth grade students have archery class. We start at 4:30 after art class.

At the first class our teacher taught us how to wear the protective clothing correctly and how to shoot the target.

Our teacher is very patient. Someone's arm was scraped in shooting, so our teacher told us the posture of archery is very important. Your legs should be shoulder-width apart.The bow should be drawn to the chin and body straight.

After a few classes, we competed in balloon shooting. Everyone was interested in this game. During archery class, everybody has a good time.

by Livia Li

每周三下午，安妮九年级学生有一节射箭课。在美术课后，四点半开始。

第一节课，老师教我们如何正确地穿防护服和如何射击的目标。学习了几节课之后，我们进行了气球射击比赛。每个人都对这个游戏非常感兴趣。

老师很有耐心。射击时有人的手臂不小心擦伤了，老师就会告诉我们，射箭的姿势很重要：腿应该与肩同宽，弓应该拉到下巴和身体保持垂直。

射箭课上，每个人都玩得很开心。

记者 Livia Li

Band 乐队

On October 9th, Jay, Victoria, Max and I participated in music band. 

Our teacher said we should play some music in the New Year, and I think that’s a very cool idea. I play a musical instrument from China. It is Nguyen. Jay plays the accordion. Victoria plays the GuZheng. Max plays the drums. In the music band there are many children from Baishan school. There are guitar players, piano players, PiPa players, violins and cellos...

At the first class, our teacher gave us music to listen to and told us which instrument we should play. Our teacher told us this New Year show will be very happy and very crazy. We will play musical instruments and also sing the songs and play the drums. I'm getting more and more excited: I wish I could do it right now!

by Katherine Chen

10月9日，Jay, Victoria, Max和我参加了学校乐队。

老师说我们会在新年元旦晚会时表演。这是一个很酷的想法。我演奏一种来自中国的乐器——阮。Jay拉手风琴。Victoria弹古筝，Max打鼓。乐队中有许多白珊学校的孩子，有吉他手、钢琴手、琵琶手、小提琴手和大提琴手……

第一节课，老师给我们播放了音乐，并告诉我们应该演奏什么乐器。老师告诉我们这个新年节目将会很快乐，很疯狂，我们不光演奏乐器还要唱歌，对此，我们都兴致高昂并充满期待！

记者 Katherine Chen

Happy Halloween

万圣节来啦

Halloween is a mysterious holiday in the eyes of children. Kids put on colorful costumes, strange masks, put out a “Jack-o-lantern" and run out to play. A group of children dressed up as demons, carrying "Jack-o-lantern Lamps" run to the neighbor's door and shout, "Give money or give food.”

Halloween is coming!

We collected the students' opinions on what they want to do on Halloween:

• Jay wants some games like basketball.

• Jordan wants to have his phone at Halloween.

• Angel wants some delicious food.

•  Livia thinks at Halloween we can change clothes and make up and  not to go to school.

• I think we can carve pumpkins and put some candy in them. We  can also have a big party and play games like hide-and-seek and ask teachers “trick or treat”.