We had a wonderful Harvest Festival Parade last week! I would like to thank all MCS staffs, parents, and teachers for all the donations and helping with the Harvest Festival to make the event fun and successful! Thanks to teacher Teresa Yin for posting an article about our event on OCAC news site (https://ocacnews.net/article/323968)

The following items are the events and announcements for this week:

Parent On Duty

Family: Tony Chou/Jasmine Hsu

Tasks:

• Keeping the school hours by ringing the bell at the beginning and the end of each class
• Keeping students in order and safe during recess (e.g., no student running/chasing allowed inside the Ward church)

Teachers’ Meeting (Nov 5, 2022)

• When: 3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
• Participants: All Teachers, Academic Administrator, Principal, Vice Principal
• Where: Grade 8/9 Classroom (Creative Lab L)

Chinese Reading Month (Oct 1 – Nov 5, 2022)
The reading month activity ends this Saturday. Please remind students to turn in their reading log.

2022-2023 MCS Directory Editing/Production and Advertising Fundraising (Now – Oct 29, 2022)

We’ve completed the recruitment of ad sponsorship in MCS Directory. I would like to thank everyone that was involved in supporting this activity. Also, I would like to thank our Documentation Director, Steven Lien, for the production of the MCS Directory. Thank you all for your hard work! We will be binding them together at school on Saturday. We are seeking 4 parents to help us finish the binding process. Please come see us at the hallway outside the classroom area if you would like to help.Weekly Food/Item Sale for Donations to MCS 
We are starting a food/item sale each week during school hours. Earnings of all sales will be donated to MCS. The sale will be located at the hallway outside the classroom area. The following are the food/items we will be selling this Saturday. If you are interested in selling food/items for donation to MCS, please let me know. Please note that you or someone you designated will be responsible for selling your food/item.

• Homemade Chiffon Cake from Ice Chai – $1 per slice (Limited pieces, first come first serve until all sold out).
• Lightning charging cables for Apple products from Ivan Tang – $1 per pack of 3 cables.

Special Thanks for Donations to MCS Special thanks to Mr. Ronny Chiang and Mrs. Stacey He for their generous support for MCS.
精誠財務 Education Fund Planning Seminar (Nov 12, 2022) 
Judy Wang from 精誠財務 will be hosting a seminar on Saturday 11/12/2022. All parents are welcome to attend the seminar. Please see attached flyer for more information about her seminar. Judy is one of our sponsors who has been supporting us generously for many years.

Free Chinese Reading Book Exchange (outside of the classroom area)Program guideline:Honor system based so no reservation needed or rental record trackingExchange/Borrowing is for one class week (i.e., pick up on Saturday class and return on the next Saturday class)Donation of Chinese reading books are greatly appreciatedIf you have not returned the book(s) you borrowed last year, please return them.

Amazon Smile Link 

An easy move to benefit MCS.  Please use the following link when you shop on Amazon. This will not cost you a penny but will help the school to get some funding from Amazon.  http://smile.amazon.com/ch/38-3424696