PCE Club - 56th Event-Chinese Learning for Heritage Students

The PCE Club will hold its 56th monthly event on Saturday April 12, 2008 in the Asian Cultural Center (#1876 Rt. 27, Edison, NJ 08817). The theme will be "Raising Bilingual Children". Our honored guest speaker will be Ms. Hui Rebecca Wang, a public school world language teacher with experience in Chinese language education for heritage children. She will give a presentation on "Chinese Learning for Heritage Students". She will cover following topics:

Reasons to encourage our children learn Chinese;
The importance of early preparation before formal language study;
How to build heritage students� language proficiency;
Setting realistic goals for proficiency level for K-12 heritage students;
What are SAT II Chinese and AP Chinese and how to prepare for them.

Biography of the speaker:

Ms. Hui Rebecca Wang has been teaching Chinese to heritage students since 1999. She currently teaches Chinese at Thomas Grover Middle School at West Windsor � Plainsboro school district. She graduated with a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.

As usual, this monthly event will start with our signature program - kids' talent show. If your child would like to perform, you need to register for them by specifying your children's name and form of their performance (piano, singing, story-telling, etc.) when you register online. Due to time limitation, only a limit number of children can perform on stage each time. Please register online as soon as possible.

After the kids� talent show, kids under 7 years old will move upstairs to continue with Children's program led by Ms. Zhao while their parents and older kids participating in the seminar downstairs. Ms. Zhao is professionally trained in early children education. Kids love her program!

Location and Time:
Asian Cultural Enterprises Center, #1876 Rt.27, Edison, NJ 08817
April 12, 2008, Saturday, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Registration: Please register online at http://www.pceclub.org/portal/eventRegister.php?EventId=56 or from PCE homepage http://www.pceclub.org
Admission Fee: Free for members. $10 per family for non-members to share the operation cost.
Agenda:
Family Program (downstairs)
6:30pm-6:55pm Registration, socializing and networking
6:55pm-7:45pm Kids' talent show
7:45pm-8:00pm Break
8:00pm-9:15pm "Chinese Learning for Heritage Students"' by Ms. Hui Rebecca Wang
9:15pm-9:30pm Q&A, kids pickup and clean up.
Kids Program (upstairs):
8:00pm-9:30pm led by Ms. Zhao Xiaohui
9:30pm kids pickup.

To learn more about PCE Club, please feel free to sign up for the free online forum by sending a subscription request email to joinpceclub@pceclub.org or at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pce_club/. Please visit
us at our website www.pceclub.org for more details on the club's activities.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 56th event.

Angela Chiu and Danqing Li
On behalf of the PCE Club's Volunteering Organizers

怎样培养能讲双语孩子

父母子女教育俱乐部将于4月12日举办第五十六期活动

做为华人父母, 我们经常在想怎样培养生活学习在美国的英语环境里孩子们讲双语. 父母子女教育俱乐有幸请来Ms. Hui Rebecca Wang作第五十六期活动的嘉宾. 她是Thomas Grover Middle School的中文老师. 她将给大家讲述给美国长大的华人小孩教育中文的经验. 她的经验包括怎样鼓励孩子学中文, 非正式中文学习的重要性, 怎样设立现实的目标, SAT II中文考试等等．

父母子女教育俱乐部本期的活动还是由孩子的才艺表演开始. 这是给孩子培养表演风格不可多得的机会．本期的儿童活动将请招小惠老师继续为我们主持。

欢迎有兴趣的家庭报名参加讲座.

时间: 2008年4月12日 星期六6:45pm - 9:30pm
地点: Asian Culture Center, 1876 Rt. 27, Edison, NJ 08817
请到www.pceclub.org网上注册孩子们的才艺表演和家长讲座．疑问请电***-***-1758 Angela Chiu
费用：会员免费；非会员＄10每家庭（场地费用）

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