Dear Parents,
Blessed be God!
PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END FOR UPCOMING
EVENTS
AND IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPECIAL
ACTIVITIES
VIRTUE OF
THE MONTH: PEACEMAKING
May 1 (Monday) PE and VAPA Day (Wear PE uniform)
May 2 (Tuesday) Regular Day
May 3 (Wednesday) Virtues Award for
Peacemaking:
Lillian Hamby and Kailyn Cabusao
PE and VAPA Day (Wear PE uniform)
May 4 (Thursday) Mother’s Day
Celebration
Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)
Mass at MDHS Chapel, 8:45 AM
Program at ES Theater
Brunch
at ES Theater
May 5 (Friday) Regular Day
HOMEWORK
DUE
Thank you for
helping your children. Homework will be sent home on
Mondays. If there is no school on Mondays, homework will be sent home on
Tuesdays. The children will do their
English homework on Monday and Wednesday.
The Spanish homework will be done on Tuesday and Thursday. If your child is absent over an extended
period, please pick up the packet from me, ready on Mondays. We will give your
child up to the following Monday to turn it in.
Our schedule this
week:
Monday (English) Packet with /un/ words
Tuesday (Spanish) Packet with “fr”
Wednesday (English) Packet
with the /un/ words
Thursday (Spanish) Packet
with “fl” and number 20
Friday (English) Homework
Due
HOMEWORK
TIPS:
1. Take out the homework packet for
the week from the binder and leave it at home. The children do not need to take
them to school every day until Friday, when it is time to submit the packet
unless they go to after school care and you want them to do their homework
there.
2. Homework is graded on the
following criteria:
a. Correct answers
b. Neatness
c. Timely submission
d. Following directions
3. Make sure your child
writes his/her full (first and last)
name on the front of the packet.
Please continue practicing with your child how to write their name. We still have some who says that they are
unable to do so.
4.
Use RED pencil tracing; REGULAR pencil
for writing; and CRAYONS for coloring. Do not use markers for coloring because they
bleed and makes the paper look messy.
Keep
the packet stapled, in the same order
in which it was sent.
5.
Timely submission is part of their grade. So please be conscientious
in sending your child’s homework at all times.
For every day a student is late in
submitting homework, a half-point will be deducted from the grade. The student
will receive a grade of zero if homework is not submitted. We will allot extra
time for completion if the student was absent due to illness, family travel, or
any other unusual circumstances, on a case by case basis. If, however, after
the extra time, the homework is not submitted, the student will receive a grade
of zero.
6. Thank you so much for
helping your child clean up his/her binder by removing finished school work
that was sent home. They are doing well
in practicing their organizational skill, something they will need their whole
life.
English
1. Reading:
a.
Phonics: blending phonemes, C/V/C words (/un/
word family)
Phonemic
Awareness: medial short /u/ and long /u/
sound
Recognize
rhyming words
Count
syllables on words of the month
Count
words on sentences.
b.
Vocabulary:
-
Words that belong to /un/ word family
-
High Frequency Words: on, our, out, please,
pretty
-
Word Wall: May words
BENCHMARK ADVANCE : UNIT 2: Every Story Has Characters
Essential question: “How are
people different?”
c.
Weekly Song: “Just the Way You Are”
d.
Mentor Read Aloud “The Tortoise and The Hare”
e.
Read Aloud Shared Reading: “Sad Ladybug and Glad Ladybug”
and“Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling”
Writing:
a.
Guided Handwriting: /un/ words
b.
Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure,
capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – Review Dolch Pre-Primer
Words
c.
Draw and Write – BENCHMARK ADVANCE: Write
about “key events”, “ an opinion”, “write about a character”, “compare and
contrast two characters”.
Spanish
1. Reading: BENCHMARK
ADELANTE:
a.
Read the Story: “La liebre y la tortuga”, “Simona, sarita, y el pichon”
b.
Read stories for May themes.
c.
Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables –
“fr” and fl”
2. Writing:
a. BENCHMARK ADELANTE - “La liebre y la tortuga”
Math
1. Chapter
10: Identify and Describe Three Dimensonal Shapes
2. Daily
calendar
Social
Studies
1. Spanish
and English – Character
REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS
1.
MASS, THURSDAY, MAY 4,
Mater Dei High School Chapel
Please join us for our weekly mass. Let us worship together as a community.
2.
MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION,
MAY 4, THURSDAY
We will start the morning with a
mass. Then we will have breakfast and a
presentation by each class at the theater.
Our class will present a special song and dance number. They need to wear blue jeans, plaid shirt short
sleeves or rolled long sleeves and black school shoes on this day.
3.
SUMMER SCHOOL AND
ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
Mrs.
Figueroa sent an email last week that the online portal for summer enrollment
is now open. You may pay the summer
tution now if you wish. If you have just
decided that you want to avail of this great learning opportunity, please see
Mrs. Figueroa so she can give you directions on what you need to do to enroll.
1. Anytime During the week
a.
parents to organize graded work to be sent
home.
We really need help with this task as we have
a good amount of papers to be sent home.
b.
parents to help change our bulletin boards
2. Friday, May 5
c.
2 parents to make copies and put together the
homework packets
Please sign up at shutterfly. Then email us to
confirm. We only want the specified
number of volunteers per day to keep it manageable for us.
Mater Dei, lead us to your son, Jesus.
Yours in Christ,
Faina Salter and
Karina Moncayo
