You’re welcome to our school on November 18th, 2022.

On that day, all parents are welcome to have a cup of coffee and meet teachers and other parents.

You can go into classrooms. You can have a talk with the teachers and the headmaster（校长）, have a look at the new school library and ask questions about our school and your children. Here is the schedule（安排表）of School Day.

Every day we communicate with others—often with symbols or gestured. Here are some of the most common gestures.

Shaking Hands

Shaking Hands has been done since at least the second century B. C. It’s a symbol of believing each other. Now we usually shake the right hands. But in the old time, people also shook left hands. The world record for handshakes is held by a man from New Jersey, who shook 11,000 hands in a single day.

Thumbs (拇指) Up

The Thumbs Up sign is thought to come from a match in Rome. There people decided whether the fighter would live or die by thumbs up or thumbs down. In fact it came from an old English saying “Here’s my thumb on it”. Business men held their thumbs up and extended (延伸) them until the two touched each other.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rochambeau, or rock, paper, scissors is played all over the world to deal with something difficult. In Indonesia, it is earwig (蜈蚣), human, and elephant. The earwig drives the elephant mad. The human killed the earwig, and the elephant killed the human. So far, nobody has known why it is called Rochambeau. It is still a mystery.

OK

The real history of this sign is lost. Some people think it is in connection with American president Martin Van Burden. He was often called as “Old Kinderhook.” Others say it is the bad handwriting which made OR—representing “order received” into OK.

American families are changing. One important change is that most married women now work outside the home. What happens when both parents work? Read about the Morales family.

Judy and Steve Morales have three children: Josh, 12; Ben, 9; and Emily, 6. Steve is a computer programmer. This year, Judy is working again in a hospital. The family needs the money, and Judy likes her job very much. Everything is going well, but there are also some problems.