Dance Classes
Ballet
Ballet teaches grace, posture(姿势) and flexibility. Students focus on the use of proper ballet items(物品),expanding their knowledge of classical ballet techniques and improving motor skills for classical ballet practice. The class is a formal ballet class.
Age 8-10
September 7, 2019-May 16, 2020
10:30 am-12:00 am on Saturday
Creative Movers
Students can explore creative movement, balance, focus, the development of skills, motor planning and balance. The class helps build strength, flexibility and self-confidence, and allows children to realize expression in a positive and encouraging environment. Children use their imagination to celebrate movement and have lots of fun.
Age 3-5
September 7, 2019-January 18, 2020
9:00 am-9:45 am on Saturday
Jazz
Jazz includes movements from both classical ballet and dance techniques. This class will focus on traditional jazz dance. Students will be introduced to jazz-style rhythms and movements. In order to ensure proper placement for your child, we invite all students to participate in a sample(示例) class. Students and parents work with program staff to meet students' personal dance goals.
Age 5-6
September 7, 2019-May 16, 2020
2:00 pm-3:00 pm on Saturday
Hip Hop
Students will be introduced to several different aspects of hip hop dance including popping, locking, breaking and totting in a high-energy environment. Our hip hop instructors are highly knowledgeable and will provide students with a wonderful view of hip hop dance.
Age 7-10
September 7, 2019-May 16, 2020
1:00 pm-2:00 pm on Sunday
"Another bad day at school?" my father asked.
"How could you tell? I didn't shut the door heavily or anything," I replied. Over the past two months I had either done this or thrown my backpack across the room ever time I came home from school. Papa thinks it has something to do with moving to a new house.
"I know this move has been hard on you," Papa said, "However, with a lot of hard work and some time, you will make new friends."
"You don't know how hard it is. My baseball team would have won the championship. They won't even give me a chance to pitch here. All I get to play is right field, and that's the worst!"
Papa turned toward me. "Things will get better I promise you. Do you know why you were named David Lorenzo?"
"Yes, your name is David and grandfather's name is Lorenzo."
"Good, and what makes your grandfather so important?"
"He was the first in the family to come to this country and all that," I answered.
"That is only partly correct. Your grandfather was a very great man. In Mexico, he had been a teacher. When he came to America he could only get low-paid labor jobs because he didn't speak the language. It took him two years before he spoke English well enough to be allowed to teach here, but he did it. He never complained because he knew change could be difficult. Did he ever tell you that?" my father asked.
I looked down at my feet, ashamed at my behavior. "No. That must have been hard," I said sheepishly.
"Your grandfather taught me that if you let people see your talent, they will accept you for who you are. I want you to always remember what my father taught me, even if it takes a few years for people to see who you are," said Papa.
All I could say was, "Okay." Then I asked, "What should I do now?"
Laughing, Papa said, "How about you pitch a few to me? You need some work. "
After many months staying at home we're all dreaming of travelling somewhere exciting and stretching our legs. As an oceanographer (海洋学家), I've spent many years developing robots to explore the ocean, and now we're putting that technology to use in our JASON Project, a program that's designed to inspire students and get them interested in science, technology, engineering and math. We bring kids together and send back to them on large screens our live explorations of large areas of the globe. Not only are the kids observers, but they can operate robots moving across the area while broadcasting images back to them. The kids have the sensation (感受) of really being at the site with us.
I believe advances in robot technology will one day be the key to a new kind of travel. In the next 10 or 15years, people will have rooms in their houses that will be able to simulate (模拟) other environments. I like to call these rooms "home domes"—small theaters with screens and advanced equipment that can reproduce the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of a desert, or a forest. With these rooms, I can see a market for travel robots located in countries around the world. You could rent (租) a robot working in a rain forest, then go into your home dome, where you yourself operate the robot's movements. The equipment in the room will receive the sensations in the robot's environment and simulate them for you.
Today, much of the world's population never travels more than 50 or 60miles from home. And even a person with enough time can see only a part of the earth's sights. But this new way of travel will cost so much less in both time and money and allow people to see a lot more of the world. And simulated travel will also help protect our planet. You can't take large groups of tourists to look at Dian Fossey's gorillas (大猩猩). But a small robot, with no animal smell, can get very close to a gorilla and send the sights, sounds, and smells back to a million people.
It tastes like flowers. It smells like a campfire. What is it? It is a $6,000 bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year on the International Space Station.
Researchers in Bordeaux are examining the twelve bottles of wine as well as 320 pieces of grapevines that returned to Earth in January. They say the wine and grapevines are part of a longer-term effort to make plants on Earth better resist climate change and disease.
Alcohol and glass are not usually permitted on the International Space Station. Each bottle was packed inside a special steel container during the journey. At a special tasting this month, 12 wine experts tried one of the space-traveled wines at the Institute for Wine and Vine Research in Bordeaux. They tasted and smelled the wine alongside a similar bottle from the same year that had stayed on Earth. The tasting was blind and the experts did not know which wine they were drinking.
Nicolas Gaume, the head of Space Cargo Unlimited, arranging the experiment, said the experiment studied the effects of the lack of gravity on the wine and vines. "I have tears in my eyes," Gaume told The Associated Press about the experiment.
Jane Anson is a wine expert and writer who said the wine that remained on Earth tasted "a little younger than the one that had been to space."
The small pieces of vine not only survived the journey but also grew faster than vines on Earth, unaffected by limited light and water. Such information could help create a way to grow grapes or to make wine in space. Chemical and biological study of the wine's aging process could also help scientists develop stronger, healthier vines on Earth. It is expected that it would take a decade or more to lead to practical, or actual uses.
Money Matters
Parents should help children understand money. So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.
1 The basic function of money
Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It's important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier (收银员). When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.
2 Money lessons
Approach (着手处理）money lessons with openness and honesty. If you must say no to a child's request to spend money, explain, "You have enough toy trucks for now." Or, if the request is for many different things, say, "You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy."
3
Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product — a name-brand butter and a generic (无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to buy other things with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
A. Wise decisions
B. The value of money
C. Permit the child to choose between them.
D. Tell your child why he can—or cannot—have certain things.
E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.
F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.
G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.
It was Sam's first visit to England, and he was looking forward to his first journey on London's Underground Railway. And against his friends' 1, he was determined to travel2.
He entered the station shortly after five o'clock in the afternoon. This is a3 time to travel in London, 4crowds of people go home from work at this hour. He 5to join a long line of people waiting for tickets. When at last his 6 came, he had some difficulty in making himself understood by the ticket seller. 7, he got the right ticket in the end and by asking people the8, he also found the right platform. It was9with people. He did not 10in getting on the first train, but he was able to move nearer to the platform so as to be in a better11to get on the next one. When this train came in, Tom was12forward onto the train by the13of people from behind. The doors closed and the train moved off. He was unable to see the 14of the stations where the train15, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth 16along the line. When the train reached the sixth station, Sam got off, feeling 17 that his journey had been so easy. But he suddenly realized that he had come to a station he had never 18. He explained his19to a man who was standing on the platform. With a20on his face, he told Sam that he had caught a train going in the opposite direction.
Do you want to learn a foreign language? Choose one ofmost useful languages to learn suggested below.
In most countries all over the world, English is (wide) used as a second language. Whether a person is traveling to a foreign countrycommunicating with people from some other(country) for business purposes, English is one language which will come in handy at every step.
Spanish is the language of business in about twenty countries. There are many jobs in the United States as well as in many other countries, which specially ask for people know how to speak and write Spanish.
The Chinese economy is booming! In the future, China (become) the economic world leader, which makes the perfect time to learn mandarin Chinese, a language (speak) by about 880 million people.
French is regarded one of the top languages to learn, simply because it is a chief language in northern and western Africa. Anyone trying to understand European history can benefit a lot from (learn ) this language.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2．只允许修改10处, 多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang all work in our school. They live far from the school, and it takes them about a hour and a half to go to work every day. In their spare time, they are interesting in planting vegetables in their garden, that is on the rooftop of their house. They often get up earlier and water the vegetables together. They have also bought for some gardening tools. Beside, they often get some useful informations from the Internet. When summer came, they will invite their students pick the fresh vegetables!
注意：1）词数 100 左右；2）可适当增加细节和衔接词，使行文连贯。
参考词汇：Du Fu Thatched Cottage杜甫草堂；Wuhou Memorial Temple武侯祠；
the Dujiangyan Irrigation System都江堰水利灌溉系统
