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100 DAYS SMARTER!

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March 2016 Newsletter

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YEAR OF THE MONKEYLUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

According to the Lunar Zodiac calendar, this lunar new year welcomes in the FIRE Monkey. For this

special day, our Mandarin and Vietnamese Modern language departments show off some of the

language and cultural skills they learned through songs, dances, and other great performances. This

year’s assembly had a special guest performance from the Vietnam Bamboo Ensemble who perform all

over the world, including as representatives of Vietnam to the World Expo in Milan, Italy.

People born in a year of the Monkey are witty, intelligent, and have a magnetic personality. Personality

traits, like mischievousness, curiosity, and cleverness, make them very naughty. Monkeys are masters of

practical jokes, because they like playing most of the time. Though they don’t have any bad intentions,

their pranks sometimes hurt the feelings of others. Monkeys are fast learners and crafty opportunists.

100 DAYS, 100 SOCKS!LEARNING ABOUT ‘100’ IN RECEPTION & GRADE 1

As part of our 100 day celebration, we challenged our

two classes to see if they could collect 100 pairs of socks.

As part of who we are at Concordia, serving others, we

felt we wanted to donate those socks to children that

didn’t have socks. On Friday, as representative from

Friendship House came to receive our donation and tell

us a little about the children there. We were able to help

139 children have nice warm toes!


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CONCORDIA IS OUT IN THE

COMMUNITY EVERYWHERE

Pics: Right- Dr. Bernard Bull, Vice-President of Concordia University Wisconsin gives a seminar to Hanoi educators about self-directed learning; below middle- MS Boys Soccer duke it out in a Hanoi Activities Conference Soccer Tournament; Bottom- Concordia University Guidance Counselor tours Korean universities to learn more about admissions and getting our students the best future there.


Our Concordia National Honor Society

(NHS) and National Junior Honor Society

(NJHS) members are on a quest to beautify

the Friendship House orphanage. Over a

series of several visits, they hope to be able

to paint portions of the common areas and

spend time with the children living there.

Here is a taste of their first visit.


SPECIAL HONORS

Pics: Top- HS Honor Roll for Semester 1; Right- MS Honor Roll for Semester 1; Below- In November, 26 middle school students from Concordia Hanoi participated in the American Mathematics Competition. The students performed very well. Giang Nguyen was awarded a gold medal. Alex Sherwood, Ha Trang Tran, Nam Dao, Kevin Bae, and Dae Yun Kwon earned Silver medals. Gracie Byun and Vanessa Whitehead earned Bronze medals. Congratulations to all the students who participated and

Supported by the Embassy of Ireland

And other international bands, including Traditional Irish Musicians from Dublin.

Food, Music, & Good Craic! Tickets also include one FREE Magners Irish Cider and FREE entrance to the after party at Hanoi Rock City.

The American Club (19 Hai Ba Trung) Friday, March 185:30-11:00pmTickets 250,000 VNDRocks

proudly presents

SPECIAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY INVITATION FOR

CONCORDIA STUDENTS ONLY

As part of the national day of Ireland, St. Patrick’s

Day, there will be an Irish Embassy supported

concert, ‘St. Patrick Rocks,’ at the American Club

on Friday, March 18 featuring various bands, in-

cluding award-winning Traditional Irish Musicians.

Concordia students (12 and under) are being of-

fered a FREE child’s entrance ticket (worth 100k) if

students wear their Concordia GREEN uniform

to the event. To pick up a free ticket, please email

Lia Garcia Halpin in the Concordia Communica-

tions office or pick up a ticket at the Concordia

parent coffee morning on March 11.

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