Our 17th unit is from 8/1/2021 to 8/28/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today we reviewed the book words. We translated to what they mean and reviewed how they affect the characters in the book. […]

Our 17th unit is from 8/1/2021 to 8/28/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today we redid our exercise from last class and reviewed the words that they have disagreed on. Afterwards we gave them some […]

On August 14, the Sugar Land Branch continued its butterfly garden maintenance project with the Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department at Memorial Park. Members focused on the garden’s west side, which contained weeds that had grown to substantial sizes. After pulling as many weeds as possible to give the flowers room to grow and […]

Our 17th unit is from 8/1/2021 to 8/28/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

On August 13, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The cardio warm up consisted of butt kick, squats, froggers, knees to elbows. The warm up was done 2 times. To work on abdominal muscles, the next set consisted of a combination of starfish, crunches, russian twists, and leg […]

On August 9, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session started with a quick warmup consisting of neck rolls, arms and legs stretch. Next, participants followed the instructor with a set of squats, burpees, and jump squats.  After a break, the set was repeated. Continuing, instructors led […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today the kids did an exercise where they would write out a story with each other in groups and then would list […]

On August 7, the Sugar Land Branch continued its garden maintenance project at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. This time, members primarily focused on weed pulling. As the garden’s flowers grew, so did the weeds; several layers of smaller, unwanted plants had grown and were competing with the garden’s hibiscus and milkweed plants for space […]

Our 17th unit is from 8/1/2021 to 8/28/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

On August 6, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. To get ready for the upcoming leg set, participants followed a warmup that included single and both leg calf raises, runners position stretches, jumping jacks, and butt kicks. After the warmup, participants followed instructors for front and side lunge […]

On August 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. After warming up, instructors led participants through a set of leg exercises. The set was repeated and a break was given. The next set was an ab set consisting of 30 seconds each of planks, leg raises, bridge ups, […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today our sugarland branch latin moved on to Unit 3 where we reviewed a latin story. After we read the story line […]

Our 16th unit is from 7/4/2021 to 7/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

In June 2021, the Sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today, the class wrote a small essay in Latin while listing the words used in the story. Afterwards we reviewed and then […]

On July 23, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. As always, instructors began with a warmup of shoulder rolls, neck rolls, and some leg stretches. To conclude the warmup, participants did arm circle variations. To start off, participants did 45 seconds of jumping jacks. Next, instructors led participants […]

Our 16th unit is from 7/4/2021 to 7/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

On July 21, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Instructors began with a warmup of shoulder, neck, and ankle rolls; leg stretches; and arm circles. Next, instructors kicked off the first set with 10 of each: knee jumps, squat jumps, and squats. Then, instructors led participants through a […]

On July 19, the Sugar Land Branch continued the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Stay Fit At Home instructors welcomed new and returning participants! Instructors began with a warmup of shoulder, neck, and ankle rolls; leg stretches; and arm circles. Next, instructors kicked off the first set with cardio exercises: 30 seconds each […]

On July 17, the Sugar Land Branch continued its butterfly garden maintenance project with the Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department. Members pulled weeds in the northeast corner of the garden, clearing the area to allow more flowers to be neatly planted in the future. Additionally, members took turns filling water in a bucket from […]

On July 16, the Sugar Land Branch began the summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Stay Fit At Home instructors welcomed new and returning participants, as well as introducing a new Stay Fit At Home instructor: Amy! Instructors began with a warmup of shoulder, neck, and ankle rolls; leg stretches; and arm circles. Next, […]

Our 16th unit is from 7/4/2021 to 7/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to kids. We started the Singapore Math 2B class on 7/19/2021; and Singapore Math 1A on 7/15/2021. The classes are introductory mathematics courses for 2nd graders and below. […]

Alvin Zhou at Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program started session 3 of the Intensive Reading on 5/4/2021. It was targeting 4th-5th graders, 1.5 hours per lesson, and numerous books that would be discussed as a 6-8 person group. The four books those we will discuss are Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Northern Lights by Philip […]

In June 2021, the Sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today we continued to review the words we learned and started to read a short story in Latin. Timer: 1 hour Teacher: […]

On July 10th, the Sugar Land Aylus Branch successfully launched its very first performance at Gigi’s Playhouse, a Down Syndrome achievement center. In order to bring out the best concert, our members have started planning months ahead of time. Several different instruments were displayed to the kids including violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, and vocal. […]

On July 5, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance project of the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. This time, members focused on weeds on the northern side of the garden, which have especially brittle stalks and deep weeds. Members worked in the muddy area, eventually pulling a large pile of weeds. This prevented […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. We hosted fourth class on the fourth of July. In which we have started to discuss and read paragraphs regarding stories in […]

Our 15th unit is from 5/31/2021 to 6/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On June 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance project at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Members pulled weeds from a large section of the garden, alleviating crowding for the existing plants. Additionally, members specifically cleared an area intended for future flower planting and growth. The participating members were Jason Yen, Runyan Zhou, Emma […]

Alvin Zhou at Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program started session 3 of the Intensive Reading on 5/4/2021. It was targeting 4th-5th graders, 1.5 hours per lesson, and numerous books that would be discussed as a 6-8 person group. The four books those we will discuss are Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Northern Lights by Philip […]

In June 2021, the sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today was our third week for the latin club where we officially moved on to unit two in the book. Before we […]

Our 15th unit is from 5/31/2021 to 6/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

In June 2021, the Sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today was our second latin day for latin club where we reviewed unit one from the book . After that we played […]

Our 15th unit is from 5/31/2021 to 6/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On June 15, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance project at the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. This week, members pulled weeds and cleared areas around the existing plants to give them space. Because the windmill that powered the automatic irrigation system created months earlier was not running, members manually watered the garden […]

In June 2021, the Sugar Land Branch launched a new Latin Club which offers students a place to study the Latin language. Andrew Lian serves as the club chair who coordinates the activities. Today sparked the first day of our new Latin class. We first watched a video talking about why Latin is really good […]

Our 15th unit is from 5/31/2021 to 6/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

Our 15th unit is from 5/31/2021 to 6/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On May 31, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance project of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden in collaboration with the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department. Members pulled weeds to clear out room for the garden’s flowers and trees, which (shown below) have started to bloom rapidly. After pulling the weeds, members […]

Our 14th unit is from 5/1/2021 to 5/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. This is the final class for this semester. We wrapped the current topic and discuss the plan for the next semester. […]

Alvin Zhou at Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program started session 3 of the Intensive Reading on 5/4/2021. It was targeting 4th-5th graders, 1.5 hours per lesson, and numerous books that would be discussed as a 6-8 person group. The four books those we will discuss are Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Northern Lights by Philip […]

On May 22, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. After completing the set, instructors taught some cool-down exercises to do after completing the sessions. Instructors emphasized that cool downs were important in gradually slowing down the heart rate back to normal and helps decrease muscle soreness after heavy exercises. […]

Our 14th unit is from 5/1/2021 to 5/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

Sugar Land Branch Debate Activity #53 The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today we discussed the debate topic. We also summarized what we learned in this semester […]

On May 15, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. This session introduced a new concept which Stay Fit At Home previously did not focus on: hip strength. Instructors demonstrated new exercises to help with hip rotation and strength using weights. The other focus of this session was building leg […]

Our 14th unit is from 5/1/2021 to 5/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today we continued reviewing the things that we covered for these past few months. Afterwards the coach gave a test to […]

On May 8, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Instructors led with a warm up of ankle rolling and leg/arm stretches. Instructors explained the importance of warming up before participating in moderate-strenuous physical activity. They demonstrated many warmup exercises including runner’s lounge position (leg stretch), head rolling, arm circles, […]

Our 14th unit is from 5/1/2021 to 5/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. On May, 5th, we started a new topic. We also reviewed important debate terms concepts. May 5th Time: 2 hour Coaches: […]

On May 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance project at Memorial Park in conjunction with the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department. The plants have been in full bloom throughout the spring; however, this growth has been accompanied by an increase in weeds and dead branches. To give the garden’s pollinator-attracting […]

On May 1, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise sessions. AYLUS volunteers began with a warm up of rolling out ankles and stretching out arms, calves, and legs. Next, participants followed leaders in the main set that included arm strengthening and leg strengthening. The set was repeated with a break […]

On April 29, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session began with a legs warm up consisting of high knees and knee to elbows. Following the warm up twice, the next set consisted of arm rows with weights, bicycles, and crunches. This set was done twice and was targeted […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today we decided to finish up both our rounds. We were able to get both of our rounds done, and the […]

Our 13th unit is from 4/5/2021 to 4/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On April 24, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session began with a short, full body warmup. The rest of the session was composed of 6 different sets, with each set including 4 different exercises. Each set included one of each targeted workout: cardio, arms, legs, and abs. Each […]

On April 24, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session began with a short, full body warmup. The rest of the session was composed of 6 different sets, with each set including 4 different exercises. Each set included one of each targeted workout: cardio, arms, legs, and abs. Each […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today the Debate team decided to take a short break from the tournament and start practicing our debate terms. We played […]

On April 20, the Sugar Land Branch released its seventh virtual concert for a local nursing home. This performance had the theme of “classical music,” so members recorded violin and piano pieces which Albon Wu then edited into a full concert. The participating members were Angela Wang, Serena Li, Emma Jiang, and Albon Wu.

On April 19th, the Sugar Land Branch continued its city landscaping project with the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department. Members focused on pulling weeds from the sides of the road they had previously planted seeds along. This allowed the intended landscape to grow as planned without interference from other plants. Ultimately, members […]

On April 18, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Because members covered plants during the winter freeze that struck Texas, the garden’s plants were in full bloom (see below). As per the usual spring maintenance at the garden, members pulled weeds from around flowers to allow them enough […]

Our 13th unit is from 4/5/2021 to 4/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On April 17, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Warming up, instructors stretched out arms and legs and demonstrated some simple knee to elbow and high knee walk, and gradually transitioned to jumping jacks and butt kicks to get participants’ blood pumping. Next, instructors led participants through the first […]

The Sugar Land Branch initialized a bullying prevention project in 2020.  The aim of the project is to help kids better understand how to take action to stop bullies and to prevent becoming bullies themselves.  The first activity of the project is to develop a picture book about anti-bullying.  The target readers of the book […]

On April 14, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. For a short warmup, instructors led short exercises like knee to elbow and skater hops for either 30 seconds or 1 minute. For the rest of the session, a leg set was held consisting of 45 seconds of one exercise, […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today we had our second february-March tournament round with Jasper and Emma and Ethan Leo. After Jasper and Emma win, I […]

Our 13th unit is from 4/5/2021 to 4/30/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started the Singapore Math 2A class on 4/5/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 2nd graders and below. We decided to teach […]

On April 10, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Instructors first began with a warm up consisting of a few cardio exercises, arm circles, and leg stretches. Next, instructors introduced a new exercise called gecko for the first set. The second set focused on cardio and ab exercises. The […]

On April 7, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions.  Instructors first began with a warm up consisting of a few cairo exercises: jumps and burpees. Next, an ab set was done with exercises like shoulder taps and russian twists, the set was repeated twice with 1 minute of rest […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. Today we had our first february-march tournament round with Nolan and Albert versus Kevin and Zaizai. Kevin and Zaizai won after […]

On April 4, the Sugar Land Branch continued its project to provide landscaping for a City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation project. Members met with the city’s parks director and transferred the previously sprouted plants to the road connecting the Memorial and Brazos River Parks. First, members dug shallow holes spread two feet apart, […]

On April 3, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session began with a set that included exercises such as jumping jacks, pencil jacks, burpees, high knees, wall sit, etc. After a minute to two minutes of break, the set was repeated in reverse. Next, instructors led a lug pulse […]

From December 26 to April 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued its project to assist with providing landscaping for the City of Sugar Land Parks and Recreation Department. Members grew mealy blue sage seeds, which eventually sprouted under their care. Because the plants that members grew had very particular growing conditions–constant sunlight, warm temperatures, and […]

Our 12th unit is from 3/1/2021 to 3/31/2021; the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued offering free lessons to Pre-K kids. We started math class on 1/15/2021. The class is an introductory mathematics course for 1st graders and below. We decided to teach twenty-six lessons in […]

On March 31, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The session began with a warm up consisting of different planks. The next set was a cardio set that alternated between 15 exercises and 1 minute of another, such as push ups and leg raises. The next set mainly focuses on […]

The Sugar Land Branch launched a debate club in Spring 2020. This club, founded and led by Andrew Lian, focuses on helping elementary school students develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, persuasion, and communication. On March 31st, the club met and prepared the debate cases. I split up the class into two breakout rooms. The […]

On March 27, the Sugar Land Branch resumed Stay Fit At Home after a week and a half of break (spring break). Instructors started off the session with a cardio warm-up. The first set consisted of a variety of exercises alternating between 5 squat twists and another exercise. The other exercise included jump squats, skater […]