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

Parent On Duty

Family: Ryo Kuribayashi/Joyce Kuribayashi

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 Procedures (Oct 29, 2022)

Students are welcome to bring their own bag/bucket for collecting treats and wear costumes to the class or bring them in to change at school.

NOTE: We ask that costumes be school/church appropriate, which includes non-violent, non-scary, and no weapons or gore/blood.

• 1:30-2:25: Photo Station decoration and treat stations preparations
  • Drop off treat donations at the hallway outside of classroom area.
  • Drop off decoration items at the Photo Station between grade 2 and 3 classrooms.
  • 1:30-1:40: Event Planner/General Staff Support team members and volunteers meet at the hallway outside classroom for a quick meeting for task assignments.
• 2:30: Harvest Festival Parade begin
  1. When the recess bell rings at 2:30, teacher of each class will bring their students out to the hallway outside of the classroom area to line up by grade starting with Pre-K to Senior class in order.
  2. Students of each class will go around the classrooms to get their treats at each treat station and take class group picture at the photo station in the middle.
  3. Students wait at the hallway outside the classroom area until all students pass Treat Station 4 for final group picture of all grades.
  4. All students return to their classrooms after the final group picture.
• Clean up

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

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

Special Thanks for Donations to MCS 

• Paul Lee Insurance Agency
• ShieHern Kubien
• Isaac Fong
• Carrie Ong

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