NewsFebruary 2016 Happy Chinese New Year – The Year of the

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February 2016
Important dates: Feb. 15 - Feb.19 – Mid-Year Recess
March 7 – Cupertino Staff Learning Day
Happy Chinese New Year – The Year of the Red Monkey! Our students
decorated the classrooms with their craft projects. And they are so proud of their work!
Dear parents and guests, we, the
students at Omei Academy hope you
enjoyed
our
Spring
Festival
performance! This is the most
important holiday in the Chinese
culture. Many of you said this was
really exciting! Your encouraging
words and your smiles are really
important for our success.
The Omei Academy Kung Fu students opened
the festival with the traditional Lion Dance.
“The Lion dance was amazing”, sais our journalist
Krish. “There were two lions with 4 dancers –
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Caleb, Jason, Mikey and Bill”.
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All students and teachers worked very hard to prepare an exquisite show and to satisfy the guests. Some
classes even missed some of the precious recess time they had to rehearse longer.
This is a quick summary for
and be part of the celebration.
those, who were not able to come
We hope next time you can join us.
At the performance almost everyone wore traditional clothing and brought some delicious traditional Chinese food, like
buns, to share at the end.
Omei Academy Founder
Yunjian Zou and
Director Maria Tzankova
Greet the guests.
These were our hosts – Stephanie and Harry.
They did a fantastic job introducing all performers.
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The performance started with Ms. Lu’s
first grade class, which sang “Gong Xi,
Gong Xi” or
“Let’s celebrate”.
The second grade class did a play,
called “The Big Beautiful Rooster”.
With the great help of their teacher Ms. Yan students prepared costumes, masks and décor.
The third grade class recited a poem, called “The flowing river”, while the fourth graders recited the Chinese Zodiac.
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In addition the Kung Fu School students showed
the guests their speed and power
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The little dancers from Lead Dance
Theater showed their elegance
and we all listened to the
beautiful voice of the Chorus
Teacher Ms. Lin Fei.
Maria Tzankova, director, played on the piano
a mesmerizing piece by Beethoven, called “The Moonlight Sonata”,
while Yunjian Zou, principal, did a very impressive and powerful Tai Chi performance.
Now that the Festival is over, we must carry on with our daily activities. And this
is one of them – preparing for St. Valentines Day, making cards and showing all
people close to us, that we care about them.
This card is for you, OMEI FAMILY!
from the Omei Journalists Krish, Max,
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Sylvia and Krisalyn