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From our reporter at Boston: Kwong Kow Chinese School held its "Chinese Talent Show and Competition" recently. More than 200 students attended the Accelerated Mandarin, Singing, Story Telling, and Speech shows, and Handwriting, and Essay Competitions. All of them performed very well. Parents, teachers and the competition committee were deeply impressed.
The principal of KKCS, Dr. Yanyu, Zhou, first gave a presentation with the title of "Chinese - Open the door for your future," to show the students the richness of Chinese culture. She also asked questions to the students and discussed with them about why they should study Chinese and what does Chinese mean to their future. At the end of her speech, she encouraged the students to continue their study in China when they grow up and create a wonderful tomorrow there.
During the performance in the morning, the Kindergarden to Grade 2 studnets first performed Accelerated Mandarin Demonstration Show. They have leaned more than 300 Chinese charaters within three months. The G2 students fluently read the story "A Little Horse Crossing the River" in Chinese to the audience.
The teacher of the class, Dr. Huijie Miao, who graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said this course was especially designed for kids from age 5 to 7. The curriculum was written according to the memory pattern of young kids. It uses pictures, music, children's songs, tongue twisters to let students memorize at least 1000 charaters in an acdemic year. At the show, students could read a long Chinese story without any picture or other forms of help, which proves the success of this teaching method.
The committee of the shows was composed of the Principal Yanyu Zhou and four other Chinese education specialists. They show the scores right after each performance. The Grade 2 students performed the choir "You and Me," which was the theme song of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Other choir performances included "Where is the Spring," and "Wa Ha Ha." Students from Grade 3 and up performed story telling, including "the Story of Cars," "the Race between the Rabbit and the Turtle," and so on. Jitong Lin, from Grade 6, won the first prize in story telling, with her story about Niu Lang and Zhi Nv.
Other performances include class choirs, student solos, and so on. There were shows from sisters or brother, shows with singing and dancing, and shows in mandarin and cantonese. The performances were rich and impressive.
In the afternoon, KKCS held the handwriting and essay competitions. According to the Chinese level of the students, the lower grade students had the writing competition, the middle level students had the short essay competition and the higher grade students had the essay competition with the title of "My Dreams." All had to complete their work in one hour and half. The committee then selected one winner from each grade.
The show was hosted by KKCS teacher, Ms. Bingru Wang. She also performed a song "The Butterflies" with Chinese harp, which made the show even more impressive.
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