Our 7th unit is from 10/1/2020 to 10/31/2020, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children […]

On October 21, AYLUS Sugar Land continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. This session had one set with small breaks in between each exercise. The set aimed to strengthen legs with squats; improve stamina with burpees, high knees, and mountain climbers; and improve core muscles with plank jacks and bridge ups. Participating […]

On October 21, the Sugar Land Branch launched a nationwide butterfly garden construction project via the Environment Committee. Despite the ongoing national health crisis, it is important not to let our most prized possession–the environment–fall into disarray. Among the best ways to do so, especially during this time of year, is by building a butterfly […]

On Oct, 20, 2020, we started a new topic unit on “Should kids have privacy online”. We discussed the topic and had lots of fun. Reported time: Oct 20: 1.5 hours (Coach: Andrew) Reported by Andrew Lian

On October 18, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Specifically, members continued developing the trenches and expanding the system throughout the garden. Members dug trenches leading out of the main irrigation trench dug two weeks before to allow all plants in the garden to receive water via the […]

On October 17, Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. In this session, participants worked especially on arms and core muscles. Instructors led participants through pushups and push up burpees for arm strengthening and planks, situps, and crunches for core strengthening. Scattered through the workout were some cardio movements, for example […]

On October 14, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their full body. Instructors led participants through a full body set consisting of burpees, bicep curls, mt climbers, pushups, high knees, shoulder raises, jumping backs, and tricep dips. Next, they strengthened their core […]

Our 7th unit is from 10/1/2020 to 10/31/2020, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children […]

On October 11, the Sugar Land Branch continued its Memorial Park Butterfly Garden maintenance project. The focus this time was ensuring the previously established irrigation mechanic was functioning smoothly. Ensuring the trenches were allowing for adequate water flow and fixing any bottlenecks in the system was the primary goal. The participating member was Albon Wu. […]

On October 10, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their full body. Instructors led participants through an arm stretch and warm-up. Next, Isabella demonstrated cardio movements including burpees, high knees, and jumping jacks. Following, Nicole led participants through exercises that strengthen core […]

Our 7th unit is from 10/1/2020 to 10/31/2020, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children […]

On October 7, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home program. The session aimed to help participants work on their arms and legs. Instructors led participants through an leg set consisting of high knees, squats, and different lunges.. Next, Elliott demonstrated arm movements of big and small arms circles forward and backward. […]

On October 6, the Sugar Land Branch produced its fourth virtual concert. Due to members’ inability to perform in person for their local nursing home, performers instead prerecorded their pieces. Emma Jiang and Albon Wu edited the individual recordings together to create a single concert. The seniors greatly enjoyed the concert, saying that the performances […]

On Oct 6th, we had another round of tournament. Zaizai & Linus vs Ethan and Sarena. We also invited Nolan as a student Judge. All the students did an excellent job! In breakout rooms, other teams are working on further developing their cases for the their round.  This week, we also welcomed a new member, […]

On October 4, the Sugar Land Branch continued its maintenance of the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. This week primarily focused on continuing to develop the trench irrigation system started weeks prior. Members worked on digging out the main loop of trenches from which the system would branch out. By the end of the volunteering, the […]

On October 3, Sugar Land Branch continued the exercise sessions. Instructors first lead participants through a high-knee and butt-kick warm up. In the leg workout, instructors introduced two new exercises: skater jumps and froggers. The set also consisted of side lunges, squats, and bridge-ups to build muscles in the legs. Instructors then led participants through […]

On October 1st, we had a round of debate for the tournament I hosted for the kids. The students enjoyed the debate round and we also had Sherry Huang and Ray Tian here for coaching the parallel sessions.  Meeting time: 1.5 hour (Andrew/Ray/Sherry) Reported by Andrew Lian

On 5th week of 6th unit from 9/27 to 9/30, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Zarina, Derek and Annabelle joined as presenters. Lesson 17 had been taught by Zarina on 9/27, Lesson 18 had been taught by Derek on 9/28, Lesson 19 had been taught by Annabelle on 9/30. Reported by Alvin Zhou

There was a new online lesson had been established by Alvin Zhou at Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, the Intensive Reading,  It was targeting 4th-5th graders, and detail of numerous of books would be talked as a 6-8 person group. The first four books those we will discuss are Refugee by Alan Gratz, Wonder […]

On September 27, the Sugar Land Branch continued its butterfly garden maintenance project. This week focused mostly on digging the trenches that would form an irrigation system. This time, members made considerable progress, successfully digging a trench across a whole section of land. This is a productive step towards building a substantial, thorough irrigation system. […]

On 4th week of 6th unit from 9/20 to 9/26, Alvin organized meetings and taught lesson 16 on 9/25, meanwhile Nathan, Ethan and Emily joined as presenters. Lesson 13 had been taught by Nathan on 9/20, Lesson 14 had been taught by Ethan on 9/21, Lesson 15 had been taught by Emily on 9/23. Reported […]

On September 22nd, we worked together to finalize this topic unit. The coaches provided feedback and suggestions to the students to further polish their cases. We are ready for the tournament next week!  We also welcomed a new student this week. Club meeting: 9/22/2020, 1.5 hours; new student orientation: 9/24/2020 1 hour Reported by Andrew […]

On September 19, Sugar Land Branch continued the  Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. The 30 minute session consisted of an ab workout with 6 different movements and an exercise set consisting of alterations between pushups and plank holds. At the end, participants did a 1 minute wall sit to test their leg strength. […]

On 3rd week of 6th unit from 9/13 to 9/19, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Mathew, Fiona, Sarena and Erin joined as presenters. Lesson 9 had been taught by Mathew on 9/13, Lesson 10 had been taught by Fiona on 9/14, Lesson 11 had been taught by Sarena on 9/16, Lesson 12 had been taught by […]

On September 16, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members led participants through a whole body set consisting of pushups, tricep dips, leg raises, squats, bridge ups, and calf raises. With their blood pumping, participants followed instructors in doing some fast jogging, high knees and butt kicks. The […]

We now officially moved our meeting time to Tuesdays for this semester. On September 15th, we continually worked on the topic about online education. We conducted peer reviews on the cases. The meeting time is 1.5 hour. Reported by Andrew Lian

On September 13, the Sugar Land Branch continued its garden maintenance project. This week’s session focused mostly on developing the irrigation system that started last week. Members used a trowel to clear out a trench following the path of some large plants and used the windmill to direct water into the trench. This would remove […]

On September 12, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members led participants through a warm-up consisting of jumping jacks, lounge jumps, lounge holds, high knees, and shoulder rolls to the beat of “Head and Heart”. With their blood pumping, participants followed instructors in doing some cardio exercises, front, […]

On 2nd week of 6th unit from 9/6 to 9/12, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Zarina, Shaopan, Brianna and Philina joined as presenters. Lesson 5 had been taught by Zarina on 9/6, Lesson 6 had been taught by Shaopan on 9/7, Lesson 7 had been taught by Brianna on 9/9, Lesson 8 had been taught by […]

On September 9, the Sugar Land Branch Continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members lead participants through a warm-up consisting of from/back and side to side jumps. Following, members lead participants through an arm set consisting of forward/backward big and small arm circles. Finally, the last set was an ab set, which […]

On September 7, the Sugar Land Branch continued its garden maintenance at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. As usual, members pulled weeds to clear room for the flowering plants. As fall has started to arrive, all plants in the garden have begun to grow exponentially, weeds included. Members cleared a large pile of weeds and […]

On September 5, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Participants first followed along for a cardio warm-up to get their blood pumping. Next, instructors lead participants through leg and calf strengthening exercises, the frying fish movement, and lastly a leg raise exercise to the beat of the music. […]

Our 6th unit from 8/30/2020 to 9/30/2020, has ended very quickly and the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Reading Lesson by Michael Levin was introduced to Pre-K kids in this unit. The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program […]

On September 5th, we started a new debate club activity.  We did SPAR (Spontaneous Argumentation) debate with the students and we discussed how to do research. SPAR debate is a good way for new students to participate in debates. We divided the students into two groups and brainstormed together for arguments and cases. We had […]

On September 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. Members lead participants through squats, burpees, jumping jacks, and various planks/push up exercises. Participants used weights, backpacks, or books to practice shoulder raises. Next, they followed the instructors in an ab workout. The session lasted 30 minutes and had […]

On August 29th, the Debate Committee Chair Andrew Lian invited a guest coach, Ray Tian, joining the meeting. Ray has been very beneficial and has provided good suggestions to the students. We went over the cases together and discussed future plans for the club. Reported by Andrew Lian

On August 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. AYLUS members led participants through alternate supermans and superman movements to warm up arms and legs. Participants used weights, backpacks, or books to practice bicep curls and shoulder raises. Next, they followed instructors in a cardio and ab workout. […]

As August has come to a close, the Sugar Land Branch has continued its international academic tutoring lessons. On 4th week of 5th unit from 8/23 to 8/29, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile AYLUS members Shaopan and Erin joined as presenters. All the c’s and All the u’s had been taught to Pre-K students on 8/24/2020 […]

On August 29, the Sugar Land Branch continued its weekly maintenance of the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. The park development manager was present this time to further instruct members on future project ideas like building an irrigation system. Members focused on pulling weeds using a new method and placing them over unwanted plants […]

The Sugar Land Branch welcomed new instructors Jialu and Elliott in teaching Wednesday classes. Before their first session teaching, previous instructor Nicole Wu hosted a meeting with new instructors teaching them how to explain and demonstrate movements, how to run the session on an online setting, how to time exercises, when to play music, etc.  […]

Since the new semester has started, the club weekly meetings have been moved the Saturdays. On August 22nd, the students were sent to different break rooms with their partners to work on their cases.  The coach went through each room to check what research they have done over the past days and to go over […]

On August 22, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members led participants through leg strengthening exercises including lounges and squats, calf exercises, and arm exercises including plank taps, plank jacks, and bicep curls. At the end of the 30 minute session, participants followed instructors in doing sit ups […]

Throughout the month of August, the Sugar Land Branch has continued Unit 5 of its international academic lessons. On the 3rd week of 5th unit from 8/16 to 8/22, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Emily and Daniel joined as presenters. Sight words and All the o’s had been taught to Pre-K students on 8/17/2020 and 8/21/2020, […]

On Wednesday August 19, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. This 30 minute session consisted of arm strengthening exercises with weights mixed with some cardio movements and a combination of arm and ab exercises. There were 16 attendees. The participating members were Nicole and Isabella Wu. Reported by […]

In response to many requests following the end of the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program, the Sugar Land Branch launched the first session of the Fall Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program on Saturday August 15. Since this was the first session, members created a full-body workout consisting of an arm circle warm […]

On 2nd week of 5th unit from 8/9 to 8/15, Alvin organized meetings, meanwhile Derek and Ethan joined as presenters. All the a’s and all the I’s had been taught to Pre-K students on 8/10/2020 and 8/14/2020, respectively. Reported by Alvin Zhou

On August 14, the Sugar Land Branch continued its butterfly garden maintenance project. As usual, the priorities were watering the plants and pulling weeds. Members pulled an exceptionally large pile of weeds, disposed of them accordingly, and watered the whole garden. The participating members were Elliot Yeh, Nicole Wu, Serena Li, Emma Jiang, and Albon […]

On August 11th, the coach introduced new concepts such as weighing and extending.. The students were sent into different groups and the coach went into each room to teach them how they could do literature research for their contentions.  The coach also created a discord server for the students to interact with each other after and […]

Our 5th unit from 7/28/2020 to 8/29/2020, has ended very quickly and the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou, has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Before the starting of 5th unit, all volunteers had a meeting organized by Alvin on 07-30-2020, the teaching plan was […]

Friday August 7 marked the final Stay Fit At Home exercise session for the Summer. To celebrate the end of the summer program, members created a game that lasted the entire session. Participants were split into two groups. In each round of the game, each group sent one representative to guess a number 1-50. Whoever […]

On August 6, Sugar Land Branch continued the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. AYLUS members led participants through different jump exercises to improve stamina and strengthen legs. Next, participants followed instructors in a combination of arm and leg strengthening movements. The remainder of the session consisted of core strengthening exercises including what members […]

The plants and weeds of the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden have been growing relentlessly throughout the summer. Throughout the sweltering month of August, members of the Sugar Land Branch have continued maintaining the garden mainly through watering and weed pulling. Members met again on August 6 to continue routine maintenance. The participating members […]

On August 5, Sugar Land Branch continued the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. The 30 minute session consisted of back exercises, challenging ab movements, and a cardio set. The session concluded with a horse stance competition that tested participants’ leg strength. It was a close tie, but the winner persisted through almost three […]

On August 4th, the Sugar Land debate club started the new topic, which was “Can Online classes replace Traditional Classrooms?” We reviewed the topic together and the coach helped the students think of arguments they could use for their contentions for the new topic.  After that we still had a few minutes of class time […]

On August 4, Sugar Land Branch Continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. In this 30-minute session, members led participants through exercises that improved stamina and activities to strengthen arms, legs, and calves. Participants were encouraged to use weights (less than six pounds) or anything they could find such as books, water bottles, or […]

On Monday August 3, the Sugar Land Branch began Week Two of Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. To get their blood pumping, participants warmed up with some jumping jacks. AYLUS members then led them through various ab exercises and cardio movements. Finally, participants followed instructors for a leg raise combination to the beat […]

With social distancing precautions, people are limited to travel. Stuck at home, many children, teens, and adults are lacking an important necessity: exercise. On August 3, Sugar Land AYLUS members Nicole Wu and Isabella Wu launched a two-week Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions to be held Monday to Friday, each session lasting for 30 […]

On August 2, the Sugar Land Branch continued the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members hosted a special challenge session in celebration for the end of the week. For the entire session, members led participants through a burpee variation challenge. Participants were split into two groups, each group led by a different AYLUS […]

In continuing with the virtual series, Sugar Land Branch produced their 2nd virtual concert on August 1, which contains performances by different instruments including violin, oboe, piano, and harp. Members presented the performance online to the senior citizens for whom we have missed live-performance during the pandemic. The performers were: Albon Wu, Emma Jiang, Angela […]

On August 1st, the Sugar Land Branch continued volunteering at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Due to the frequent rain recently, members mainly focused on pulling weeds from around the plants, but also sporadically watered some plants and surrounding trees. Their efforts have caused the garden to attract the attention of the City of Sugar […]

On August 1, Sugar Land AYLUS continued the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Sessions. To get everyone’s blood circulating, members led participants through a challenging ab and cardio workout. For the last half of the session, AYLUS member Emma Jiang hosted a yoga session to teach participants the importance of stretching and relaxing our […]

On July 29, members of the Sugar Land Branch continued the Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. First, members led participants through an arm and wrist stretch in preparation for pushups and planks. Participants followed along through an arm strengthening set, a cardio set (consisting of burpees and jumping jacks), a sit-up and crunch set […]

On July 28, Sugar Land Branch continued the Summer Stay Fit At Home Exercise Program. Members first demonstrated how to do warm up leg stretches in preparation for the upcoming workout. After the short stretch, members led participants in leg strengthening exercises such as various types of lunges and squats. Next, participants followed AYLUS members […]

With social distancing precautions, people are limited to travel. Stuck at home, many children, teens, and adults are lacking an important necessity: exercise. To combat this obstacle, Sugar Land Aylus members Nicole Wu and Isabella Wu launched the first online Stay Fit At Home Exercise Session on Monday July 27, 2020 via Zoom. Members prepared […]

This month was a very enjoyable month. We had 5 new members join and we were able to invite them to do the tournament despite how new they are. We had a new debate topic for the tournament, which is “Parents should take parenting classes before having a child” and we are currently deciding the […]

Our 4th unit from 6/22/2020 to 7/27/2020 has ended very quickly and the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by Branch’s junior leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Last unit, Alvin Zhou, Shaopan Gao, Erin H, Philina Zhou, Daniel Hu, Fiona Qiao, and Derek Su provided science lessons. […]

The Sugar Land Branch has routinely volunteered at the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden for almost a year. Members started with planting the garden’s flowers and trees last year and have continued to maintain them by removing dead branches, watering, and pulling weeds etc. through the summer. The garden had attracted many butterflies and […]

Starting from April 16, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by Junior Leader Alvin Zhou offered free online Basketball lessons for kids who want to have a healthy body and learn more moves during the COVID–19 quarantine. This program teaches kids new Basketball moves each lesson. The lessons are 50 minutes long, and […]

On July 17, the Sugar Land Branch continued volunteering at the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. The plants were heavily dehydrated, so members continued to water them to prevent them from drying out. Members also pulled many weeds from around the plants and watered the surrounding trees. These efforts have caused the garden to attract the […]

The Sugar Land Branch continues the bullying prevention project this month. A group of members co-developed a picture book about anti-bullying. The book is about how a new student handled bullying and eventually became friends with his bully. The participating members are Andrew Lian, Fiona Qiao, Andrea Shih, Sarena Cheng, Liliah Liu, Shaoting Gao, Nathan […]

On July 10, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Butterfly Garden at Memorial Park in Sugar Land. The plants have required constant watering since the start of summer, so members have increased the frequency of garden visits from biweekly to weekly. The work involved routine weed pulling as well as plant watering.    

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sugar Land Branch has been unable to continue its usual weekly music performances at nursing homes. In response, members put together a virtual concert for the seniors consisting of a performance of “See You Again” by Charlie Puth. Because participants were to play together simultaneously in an ensemble, members […]

On July 6, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. As Texas summers have peaked in temperature, the plants have required constant watering to avoid becoming dehydrated. Thus, the participating members’ main goal was watering the plants to ensure their survival. By now, many flowers have bloomed and attracted numerous visitors […]

It’s finally the time to celebrate the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival! While the Covid-19 pandemic lingers on, the AYLUS Sugar Land Branch launched its very first culture-related event of the year. In preparation of this noteworthy day, members of the Sugar Land Branch held several discussions through virtual meetings and stumbled across with the idea […]

The debate club in the Sugar Land Branch is working on a new topic for this unit: “Should all parents have parenting classes before raising a child?”. The students had intensive discussions about pros and cons of this topic. Students were re-paired with new partners. Homework assignments were given to each team and the coach […]

On June 21, the Sugar Land Branch continued maintaining the Sugar Land Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Members sawed dead branches hindering the plants’ growth, in addition to completing routine weed pulling to give the plants room to grow. By now, most plants have started blooming; combined with the recently cleared paths, the garden attracted many […]

June 15 is National Nature Photography Day, designated by the North American Nature Photography Association. It aims to promote environmental conservation and awareness through photographically capturing the beauty of nature. In response to National Nature Photography Day, the Sugar Land Branch volunteered to photograph the stunning scenery of two local parks: Memorial Park and Brazos […]

The Sugar Land Branch initialized a bullying prevention project.  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 will be […]

Our 3rd unit from 5/29/2020 to 6/15/2020 has ended very quickly and the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program, led by our branch’s Junior Leader Alvin Zhou has continued to offer free lessons to Pre-K kids. Last unit, Alvin Zhou, Shaopan Gao, Erin H, Philina Zhou, Daniel Hu, and Derek Su provided science lessons. Fiona […]

Starting from April 16, the Sugar Land Branch Junior Support Program led by Junior Leader Alvin Zhou offered free online Basketball lessons for kids who want to have a healthy body and learn more moves during the COVID–19 quarantine. This program teaches kids new Basketball moves each lesson. The lessons are 40 minutes long, and […]