The following items are the events and announcements for this week:

Parent On Duty

Family: Jonathan Lee/Amy Lee

Tasks:

• Keeping the school hours by ringing the bell at the beginning and the end of each class
• Keeping students in order and safe during recess (e.g., no student running/chasing allowed inside the Ward church)

Harvest Festival Donation Sign-Up

We will have a harvest festival parade on 10/29 during class recess. We would like to seek families’ support to sign up for the “goodies” donation and/or event helper. Students are encouraged to wear their favorite Halloween costumes to school that day and will be receiving their goodie bags at the parade.

Sign-up link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E094DA5A929A5F94-mcsharvest

2022-2023 Directory Proofreading (at hallway outside of the classroom area)

Our Documentation Team will place a draft of the MCS directory on the table outside of the classroom area tomorrow for families to proofread and confirm the accuracy of their respective contact information. All parents please stop by to verify your information to be printed in the MCS directory.

Chinese Reading Month (Oct 1 – Nov 5, 2022)
We are entering our 3rd week of the Chinese Reading Month. In addition to classroom lessons, the school encourages students to read and watch Chinese books and videos outside of class time. Parents are encouraged to accompany and assist their children in reading Chinese books and videos. Log sheet can be downloaded from our school website if needed: https://www.michiganchineseschool.org/blog/?page_id=631

2022-2023 MCS Directory Editing/Production and Advertising Fundraising (Now – Oct 29, 2022)

** NOTE ** Deadline for sponsor ad submission is extended to 10/29/2022.

It will be greatly appreciated if parents can sign up to contact the pre-populated sponsors and/or to develop new sponsors for our school.  Please go to the sign-up link (here) to learn more about the process and past sponsors.  

As a small token of gratitude, a reward of $20 (for each full-page advertisement) or $15 (for each half-page advertisement) will be awarded to each parent who successfully secures the sponsorship to our school.   Feel free to download the flyer with detailed advertising package options to facilitate your engagement with your sponsor(s).

Free Chinese Reading Book Exchange (outside of the classroom area)

• Program guideline:
  • Honor system based so no reservation needed or rental record tracking
  • Exchange/Borrowing is for one class week (i.e., pick up on Saturday class and return on the next Saturday class)
  • Donation of Chinese reading books are greatly appreciated
  • If you have not returned the book(s) you borrowed last year, please return them.

Covid-19 Guideline

• TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
  • Must isolate for 5 FULL days.
  • You may return to school on day 6 or later, as long as your symptoms have significantly improved, and you mask-to-stay days 6-10.

• SYMPTOMS SUGGESTIVE OF COVID-19
  • Stay at home until one of the following conditions is met：
    • (At any time) Provide proof of a negative provider administered COVID-19 test
    • (At Day 6 – 10) Provide proof of a negative home COVID-19 test, symptoms have significantly improved, and you mask-to-stay days 6-10.
    • Complete a 5 full day quarantine and then must mask-to-stay for days 6-10.
  • Symptomatic student or staff with pending COVID-19 test cannot come to school.
• IDENTIFIED AS A CLOSE CONTACT
  • Household contacts may continue to attend school as long as they monitor for symptoms AND wear a well fitted mask for 10 days.
    • (Symptom suggestive) If exposed household contacts develop symptoms
    • If without symptoms AND the positive COVID-19 household contact is isolated, please test on day 5 post exposure.
    • If without symptoms AND the positive COVID-19 household contact cannot be isolated, please test on day 5 and day 10 post exposure.
    • Notify school staff of ALL positive test results

Amazon Smile Link 

An easy move to benefit MCS.  Please use the following link when you shop on Amazon. This will not cost you a penny but will help the school to get some funding from Amazon.  http://smile.amazon.com/ch/38-3424696