Madison Hope Chinese School
Special Chinese Classes Schedule for Fall 2005

September 10- December 10, 13 Weeks

Special Chinese Classes are specially designed for children who love to explore Chinese language and Chinese culture. The program has been running for about five years since it started in summer Y2000. We are so encouraged by children’s great achievement and high enthusiasm from parents and children. Amazingly, Children can sing many Chinese children's songs and can say many Chinese words with perfect tone! Children’s handwritings have been much improved through all the practice.

Our dance classes accepted many invitations to perform at various civic and cultural events. They performed at UW Memorial Theater for the last four years in Chinese New Year Talent Shows, a few times in Civic Center for Children’s Arts Festival and “Kids Cross Road” event, at St. Mary Hospital Elderly home, at the Moon Festival Celebration for the Mayor and some Chinese community groups, at a Celebrate Youth Day at our new Monona Terrace Convention Center, at “Call for Peace” in the front of our Capitol. They also performed three times for International Adoption Citizenship Day! The Dance classes have become quite polished after so many performances and it is a real pleasure to watch them perform for parents! Through all these activities, children not only learn Chinese language and dance but also, most important, to build their little rich cultural heritage!

We will work even harder to improve the quality of our program and hope the parents and our young students enjoy the program as much as we did in the past.

What children will learn in our Special Chinese Classes?

Children will still carry on learning pinyin (Chinese phonetic system), the names of the objects, simple sentences and basic strokes of Chinese characters, nursery rhymes, children's songs, play games etc.  SCC Two and Three children will start to learn Chinese handwriting. SCC Four children have been learning handwriting for about two years and have performed amazingly well. We will focus on using real objects in the class to make the class more vivid and more attractive. Our teachers will speak Chinese only with children in the class. We will Form a “Waist Drum Team” for age of 8 or above children to learn traditional Chinese Waist Drum. This is a fascinating program and I believe it will be a very first Waist Drum Troop in US!

Here are the details of our courses for this coming semester:

SCC for Beginners (SCCB)           9:30 - 10:15 am
The class is for children aged about 4 - 5 who have just started exploring Chinese language. They will learn Pinyin, simple words, names of objects, simple rhymes and songs etc. LanLan and Ling Zhang will be teaching this class.

Special Chinese Class One (SCC One)         10:25 - 11:10 am
This class is for children aged about 4 – 5 who started Chinese language class last fall. They will continue to learn pinyin, simple words, names of objects, rhymes, songs etc. LanLan and Ling Zhang will be teaching this class.

Special Chinese Class Two (SCC Two)         9:30 - 10:15 am
This class is for children aged about 6 – 7 who have been in the program for one or two years. They will carry on learning pinyin, simple words, names of objects, rhymes, songs. They will continue using text book level one, learning Chinese strokes and handwriting. LanLan and Ling Zhang will be teaching this class.

SCC3 Three/Four     10:25 - 11:10 am
This class is for children aged about 7 – 8 who have been in the program for at least two years. They will carry on learning pinyin, simple words, names of objects, rhymes, songs. They will carry on using Text book level one. They will continue learning Chinese strokes and handwriting. LanLan and Ling Zhang will be teaching this class.

SCC Five       10:25 - 11:10 am
This class is for children aged 7+ years old and who have been in our formal Chinese language study program for more than 2 years. They have completed Chinese Text Book vol. 1, and will be starting to learn vol. 2!LanLan and Ling Zhang will be teaching this class.

Chinese Language Class for Adult           11:20 am - 12:05 pm

This class is designed for adults who want to explore Chinese language and culture. Our teacher Ping Sun is a professional University teacher who has great teaching experience and has been highly praised by our grown-up students.

Singing and Dancing One                  10: 25 am - 11:10 am

Singing and Dancing Class Two     9:30 - 10:15 am

This is a fun way for children to learn Chinese language and culture - through the music and the songs! Children have had a very good training with our beloved teacher Joy Chen in the past years and have been performed in various public occasions. Our new teacher Hua Fei will be carrying on what Joe Chen did and creating her own fun program.

Waist Drum Troop 11: 20 am - 12:05 pm

This will be the very first Chinese Waist Drum Troop in US! It’s a kind of very unique, very traditional entertaining performed at Chinese New Year or to celebrate a big event in China. To play this drum, requires skills and a lot of energy to do the quick movement and change the postures! So, it is a good exercise for the arms and the legs! Let's have a try! Please go to the link "Waist Drum TroopProposal" for more details. Let’s have a try!

Parents Committee

Parents Committee is doing a great job in helping organizing, registration and decision making for the issues of the school. Here are the members with their email addresses:

Jeff and Sonja Buchholz buchholz4@tds.net

Dick and Cathy Lathrop rlathrop@facstaff.wisc.edu

Dale Wilson dawilson@pharmacy.wisc.edu

Sue McCartney yaqian@earthlink.net

Cathy Dornon dornoncg@dhfs.state.wi.us

Please contact above members if you are interested in our programs or if you have any questions.

Thank you!