The Smith Academy of International Languages (SAIL) will host its Grand Opening of a new Confucius Classroom along with its Chinese New Years Celebration on February 11th, 2010. SAIL is a K-8 language immersion school located on 1600 Tyvola Rd in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Along with celebrating the beginning of the Chinese year of the tiger, SAIL will announce the commencement of its newly acquired Confucius Classroom together with the Confucius Institute of Pfeiffer University. The Confucius Classroom will build upon the Academy’s existing Chinese language emersion program by providing materials, teachers, and funding. These programs are offered by Confucius Institutes around the globe to schools within the Institute’s surrounding community seeking to expand and create new Chinese learning environments for their students.
Festivities will begin at 6:30 PM at the Smith Academy school hall and will open with speeches by Ynez Olshausen, Principle of SAIL, and Weihong Yan, Director of the Confucius Institute of Pfeiffer University. The night will include presentations of Chinese traditional songs and dances as well as musical demonstrations and poems recitations performed by the students.
For SAIL Grand Opening details click here