Chinese Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES)
Scenic Park Elementary School
Contact: 907-742-1650, Jennifer Schmitz, Principal
In the 2008-09 school year the Anchorage School District expanded world languages offered to include Mandarin Chinese. Scenic Park Elementary School students in kindergarten through fifth grade are learning Chinese in an FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary School) program with teacher Georgette Yang. At Bartlett, the feeder high school for Scenic Park, students are learning beginning Chinese with teacher, Yan Wang. The district began offering Chinese at Begich Middle School in 2009-10.
 Did you know?
- Chinese is the national language of more than 1.3 billions residents of China and millions more ethnic Chinese around the world
- 200 million Chinese schoolchildren study English
- No more than 50,000 U.S. students study Chinese
- China is Alaska’s number two export partner ».
Bartlett High School students celebrate the beginning of the
Year of the Rabbit, February 2011
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Year of the Dragon begins for Chinese
Students from Scenic Park Elementary will celebrate the Chinese new year with a Dragon Celebration, Jan. 19, 6:30 - 8 p.m. Begich Middle School will host a New Year Carnival with Bartlett High School students on Jan. 21, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m..
Past celebrations
The Year of the Rabbit, in 2011, was celebrated by students from Scenic Park Elementary and Bartlett High School with performances, food and a silent auction. In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, Bartlett High School marked the new year with a celebration by creating a dragon and parading it through the school. The project, started by ELL teacher Yan Wang, soon turned into a schoolwide project with support from other staff and students in the form of supplies, structural and design work, and plenty of enthusiasm. The Year of the Ox, in 2009, Scenic Park Elementary celebrated with an all-community event called A Night in China. The festivities included a 15-foot-long dragon, students singing traditional Chinese folk songs and a rendition of Mulan.
Scenic Park Elementary's new year celebration, February 2011
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