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Class Schedule

2025-2026 School Year

Weekday Chinese Program Schedule

 

  • The 2025-2026 School Year consists of 36 weeks, spanning from August 20, 2025, to May 21, 2026, excluding school holidays. The program schedule offers options for either a 2-day, 3-day or 5-day program, Monday through Friday, from 2:30 PM to 5:20 PM.
  • First day of the Weekday Program:
    • 8/19 (Tue/Thu classes)
    • 8/20 (Mon/Wed classes)
    • 8/22 (Friday cultural elective classes)

2025-2026 Weekday Chinese Program Calendar

Weekday Program is Closed on
IUSD/SCCCA-Holidays/Important Day

  • 09/01/25 Labor Day
  • 10/13/25 IUSD Student Holiday
  • 11/11/25 Veteran’s Day
  • 11/24/25 -11/28/25 Thanksgiving Day
  • 12/24/25 - 01/02/26 IUSD Winter Recess
  • 01/19/26 Martin Luther King Day
  • 01/20/26 IUSD Student Holiday
  • 02/16/26 President's Day
  • 03/09/26 IUSD Student Holiday
  • 04/01/26-04/04/26 IUSD Spring Break
  • 05/25/26 Memorial Day

Our Class Schedules

Program Options & Bell Schedule

The school offers flexible attendance choices, allowing parents to select 1 to 5 days for their child.

Kindergarten

Parents have the option to choose between 2-day, 3-day or 5-day attendance options.

  • 2-Day/Week
    • Tuesday & Thursday
  • 3-Day/Week 
    • Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
  • 5-Day/Week 
    • Monday to Friday

1st-8th Grade

Parents have the option to choose between 1 to 5-day attendance options.

  • 1-Day/Week (Culture Enrichment)
    • Friday
  • 2-Day/Week (Language Enhancement)
    • Option 1: Monday & Wednesday
    • Option 2: Tuesday & Thursday
  • 3-Day/Week (Language Enhancement & Culture Enrichment) 
    • Option 1: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
    • Option 2: Tuesday & Thursday, and Friday
  • 4-Day/Week (Language Enhancement) 
    • Monday to Thursday
  • 5-Day/Week (Language Enhancement & Culture Enrichment) 
    • Monday to Friday

 

  • Monday to Friday

    1:30pm-2:30pm (Arrival/Warm up) – Individual Reading/Playing

    2:30pm-3:35pm (Circle Time) - Daily announcements, calendar, weather, theme lessons, language literary and Chinese culture.

    3:35pm-3:55pm (Break Time) - Outdoor

    3:55pm-5:20pm (Group Activities/Work Time) - Story time, show and tell, music, rhyming activities, hands-on crafts

  • Monday to Thursday

    2:30pm-3:30pm -Tutoring

    3:30pm-4:20pm - Chinese Lessons

    4:20pm-4:30pm - Recess

    4:30pm-5:20pm - Chinese Lessons

    Friday

    2:30pm-3:30pm -Tutoring

    3:30pm-4:20pm - Cultural Enrichment (1)

    4:20pm-4:30pm - Recess

    4:30pm-5:20pm - Cultural Enrichment (2)