On September 8th of 2024, the Roslyn AYLUS branch helps out at the school of CCA- The Chinese Cultural Association of Long Island in the evening from 1:00 p.m.to 5:00 p.m. Today is the first day of CCA.
Today, the volunteers came in early to listen to instructions given by their group leader. As we enter the Great Neck South High School, we stood to the side, and took a group photo together. After that, the volunteers went to their assigned teachers. Some of us went to Zhuyin classes and others went to Pinyin classes. Then we would assist the teachers of our assigned classroom to help keep the classroom from chaos. Some volunteers had younger kids so they had to make sure that the kids don’t leave the classroom when the teacher isn’t paying attention. During class, we helped the teacher by giving out awards, such as stickers, to the kids. After learning for a while, we took kids to use restrooms together. We showed kids that were new where the restrooms are. After, kids were given coupons or “fake money” to buy snacks at the snack bar downstairs. Then the kids, following the teacher and TAs, went back to their classrooms. They ate their snack quietly while listening to mandarin songs. We always kept the classrooms prolific and motivated by tutoring the kids that needed aid by rereading or repeating the questions on their textbooks while communicating with them in Mandarin.
Usually there would be culture classes for kids to go to. This is the second section of class. In this section, the students chose what class they wanted to be in. Some examples are: Arts and Crafts, Calligraphy, Dance, Singing, or Martial Arts. Since today was the first day, there was no culture class, so the kids just stayed in their classrooms with their mandarin teachers. They watched different mandarin videos and played traditional mandarin games such as “Yi Er San, Mu Tou Ren” with the TAs.
Participants: Simon Long (4 hrs), Hunter Chen (4 hrs), Joy Zhou (4 hrs), Sofia Chen (4 hrs), Jinrui Lei (4 hrs), Lynn Lin (4 hrs), Emma Wei (4 hrs), Elisabeth Ouyang (4 hrs), Hanrui Wang (4hrs), Jasmine Lin (4 hrs), Olivia Yang (4 hrs), Mingyao Xu (3 hrs), Amy Wu (2 hrs), Ryan Lin (4 hrs), Tiffany Lin (4 hrs).
Reporter: Mingyao Xu