Week 20: Homework

January 9, 2017

Dear Parents,

Blessed be God!

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH: HONESTY

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

January 9 (Monday)                        Regular Day.  Homework Due.

                                                            P.E. (Please have your child wear the P.E. uniform).

                                                            Homework sent home.

January 10 (Tuesday)                     Regular Day

GIRL SCOUT MEETING FOR K AND TK STUDENTS AT K ROOM, 4:00 PM

January 11 (Wednesday)                 P.E. ( Please have your child wear the PE uniform).

January 12 (Thursday)                  Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)

January 13 (Friday)                        Mass (Please have your child wear the mass uniform).

                                                            Homework Due.

January 16 (Monday)                      NO SCHOOL IN CELEBRATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY.

January 17 (Tuesday)                     Classes Resume.

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 initial sound of /z/ sound

Tuesday (Spanish)                                      Packet with que, qui and the number 6.

Wednesday (English)                                 Packet with review of beginning spounds from   A-Z

Thursday (Spanish)                        Packet with que, qui; cut and paste words to form a sentence and color purple.      

Friday                                                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.

SCHOOLWORK

English

1.     Reading:

a.     Phonics: Letter name and initial sound of /z/ and review initial sounds from A-Z

Phonemic Awareness: Alliteration Discrimination (Which word does not      belong based on initial sound

Recognize rhyming words

Count syllables on words of the month

Count words on sentences.

b.     Vocabulary:

-       Words that begin with the initial sound of /z/

-       High Frequency Words: red, yellow, down, funny

Word Wall: January words

c.      Shared Reading: Song of the Week: “Martin Luther King”

d.     Guided Reading: “Martin Luther King Jr.”

e.     Close Reading: “Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King”

                             

2.     Writing:

a.     Guided Handwriting: Uppercase and lowercase Zz. Review letters A-Z.

b.     Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation marks (period, question mark, and exclamation mark).

c.      Draw and Write – “I Have  A Dream” (based on the story of MLK).

Spanish

1.     Reading:

a.     Read “Story of Quequi” (Words that start with “que, qui”

b.     Read stories for January themes.

c.      Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – que, qui

d.     Read words with que, qui

2.     Writing:

a.     Narrative writing

Math

1.     Number pairs 6-10; Chapter 5 test

2.     Daily calendar

Social Studies

1.     Spanish – Introduction to Asia (Read Stories)

2.     English –  Introduction to Philippines

Science

1.     Spanish – Discuss and experiment on the states of water (gas, liquid and solid).

2.     English –  Make a diorama on the water cycle.

Art

       1. Make a bear using different sizes of circle.

       2. Snowflake – coffee filter dipped in different water color

REMINDERS

1.     VIRTUE OF THE MONTH: HONESTY

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.  Teaching our children the value of telling the truth is very important as we all know.  It is the right thing to do.  It also teaches our children the importance of accountability, of taking responsibility for our actions and the possible consequences.

2.      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.

3.     TARDINESS and ABSENCES

We have noticed that some of our students are absent or coming late to school consistently.  Please be aware that we start our lessons as soon as we get to our classroom after morning assembly. If they are late or absent they miss a lot.  We are at the end of the second trimester.  Usually at this point when we come back from Christmas break, we pick up the pace in our lessons.  The children are able to do more.  So if your child is not present during class hours, they get left behind. If they have been absent for a prolonged period of time, please come and see us to make- up for all the lessons missed.

4.     GIRL SCOUT MEETING

The girls were given invitations last Friday after school to come to a preliminary Girl Scout Meeting this Tuesday, January 10 at 4:00 PM in the KInderagrten classroom.  The Girl Scout representative will present the program for TK and K students.  We hope to see you tomorrow.  For our boys, we have an existing Boy Scout Troop already.  If you want your son to be a part of the Boy Scouts, please let me know and I will give you the contact information for the Scout Master, Mr. Salgado who is a parent of one of our First Graders.

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, January 12

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

Additional Resources:

         1.  Khan Academy Online Math               1.  Raz-Kids Online Reading