January 30, 2017
Dear Parents,
Blessed be God!
PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END FOR UPCOMING
EVENTS
VIRTUE OF
THE MONTH: HONESTY
WEEKLY SCHEDULE: CATHOLIC
SCHOOLS WEEK
January 30 (Monday) P.E. (Please
have your child wear the PE uniform).
MILITARY TRIBUTE Wear
red, white and blue add-ons to uniform.
January 31 (Tuesday) Regular Day
PARENT APPRECIATION 100 DAY CELEBRATION. Dress
–up as an elderly.
February 1 (Wednesday) P.E. ( Please have your child wear the PE uniform).
STUDENT APPRECIAITION Free Dress and No Homework
Zoo Permission Slip Due
February 2 (Thursday) Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)
VOCATIONS DAY Mass (Chapel, 8:45 AM)
Please
wear the mass uniform.
February 3 (Friday) ZOO FIELD TRIP
FACULTY APPRECIATION
February 6 (Monday) HOMEWORK DUE
HOMEWORK
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 the /am/ words
Tuesday (Spanish) Packet with “Hh”
Wednesday (English) NO HOMEWORK
Thursday (Spanish) Packet
with “Jj”
Friday Packet
with /am/ words
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.
SCHOOLWORK
English
1. Reading:
a.
Phonics: blending phonemes, C/V/C words (/am/
word family)
Phonemic
Awareness: medial short /a/ and long /a/
sound
Recognize
rhyming words
Count
syllables on words of the month
Count
words on sentences.
b.
Vocabulary:
-
Words that belong to /am/ word family
-
High Frequency Words: look, run, said, up,
where
Word
Wall: January words
c.
Weekly Poem: “Going On A Bear Hunt”
d.
Shared Reading: Emergent Reader: “Where Is
The Apple”
e.
Guided Reading: “Bear Snores On”
2. Writing:
a.
Guided Handwriting: /am/ words
b.
Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure,
capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – look, run, said, up, where
c.
Draw and Write – I love Juan Diego because…
Spanish
1. Reading:
a.
Read the story of “Hugo” and “Jesus”
b.
Read stories for January themes.
c.
Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “j” and
“h”
Read
“h” and “j” words
2. Writing:
a.
Narrative writing
Math
1. Number
pairs 8 and 9; Subtraction
2. Daily
calendar
Social
Studies
1. Spanish
– Read stories on Africa
2. English
– Introduce Africa with a video. Read “Why
Mosquitos Buzz On People’s Ear”
Science
1. Spanish
– Introduce magnetism
2. English
– Read “Magnets Pull, Magnets Push” by David
Adler
Art
1. Draw
a panda using crayons.
REMINDERS
1.
PARENTS IN PRAYER
We would like to invite
you to join the other parents in prayer every Thursday, 7:45 AM, at the
chapel. A family that prays together,
stays together. We stay strong together
as a community when we offer our intentions and loving prayers to the Lord.
2.
ZOO FIELD TRIP ( PERMISSION SLIP SENT HOME TODAY WITH HOMEWORK)
We will have a field trip
to the zoo to study bears and other animals on February 3. This will be a walking tour of the zoo. There
is no entrance fee for the children.
However, we do need to pay for our transportation. The cost for the bus
is $15.00
per child and per adult. So, if you are
going on the bus with your child, the total cost is $30.00. PLEASE TURN IN YOUR CHILD’S PERMISSIO SLIP
AND MONEY FOR THE BUS ON OR BEFORE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 TO MRS. FIGUEROA. DO
NOT FORGET TO FILL OUT THE EMERGENCY INFORMATION AT THE BACK OF THE FORM. We have a limited number of tickets for
chaperones. As we have informed you,
there are 4 free passes and 6 discounted passes at $10.00 each. We will award these in the order that you
signed-up on Shutterfly. We will send the list tomorrow on a separate
email. All other chaperones without a
zoo pass will pay the regular entrance fee to the zoo.
3.
SPRING SCHOOL SUPPLY
Please turn in your
child’s supplies if you have not done so.
Thank you.
4.
PHOTO RELEASE FORM
This is a friendly
reminder to the following families who have not turned in their Photo Release
Form. This gives us permission to put
your child’s pictures or videos online on our website. We are unable to post
anything at the moment until all forms are turned in. You can download the form from the school’s
website or you can drop by Mrs. Figueroa’s office.
Wylan Martin, Kelsey
Navarro, Hector Padilla, Isabel Santos, Eduardo Schwarz and Mauricio Zarragoza.
Thank you for your
cooperation.
5.
100 DAYS OF SCHOOL CELEBRATION
Please dress-up your
child as an elederly person to celebrate our 100 days of school. Sign-up at Shutterfly for the things that we
need for our snack and 100 Day Activity.
PARENT VOLUNTEERS
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.
2. Thursday, February 2
b.
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
