Week 21: Homework

January 16, 2017

Dear Parents,

Blessed be God!

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH: HONESTY

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

January 16 (Monday)                      MARTIN LUTHER KING

                                                            NO SCHOOL

January 17 (Tuesday)                     Regular Day

January 18 (Wednesday)                 P.E. ( Please have your child wear the PE uniform).

January 19 (Thursday)                  Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)

                                                            Mass. Please have your child wear the mass uniform.

                                                            (Mater Dei Parish, 8:30 AM)

January 20 (Friday)                        MINIMUM DAY.  DISMISSAL AT 11:30

January 23 (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)                                        No School

Tuesday (Spanish)                                      Packet with re, re ri, ro, ru

Wednesday (English)                                 Packet with the /at/ words

Thursday (Spanish)                                    Packet with na, ne, ni, no, nu

Friday                                                            Packet with the /at/ 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 (/at/ word family)

Phonemic Awareness: medial short /a/ sound

Recognize rhyming words

Count syllables on words of the month

Count words on sentences.

b.     Vocabulary:

-       Words that belong to /at/ word family

-       High Frequency Words: help, here, jump, little, make

Word Wall: January words

c.      Weekly Poem: “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”

d.     Shared Reading: Song of the Week: “Snowflake the Snowman”

e.     Guided Reading: “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”

2.     Writing:

a.     Guided Handwriting: /at/ words

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

c.      Draw and Write – “Snowflake the Snowman”.  Use adjectives and colors to describe Snowflake the Snowman.

Spanish

1.     Reading:

a.     Read “Ramiro” (Words that start with “ra, re, ri ro, ru”

b.     Read stories for January themes.

c.      Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “r” and “n”

Read words with m, p, t, s, l, n, d, c, q

2.     Writing:

a.     Narrative writing

Math

1.     Number pairs 6-10; Chapter 5 test

2.     Daily calendar

Social Studies

1.     Spanish – Introduction to Asia – Thailand (powerpoint on culture, language, people, etc.)

2.     English –  Read stories about Thailand.

Science

1.     Spanish – Discuss water conservation.

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

Art

       1. Make a “sarimanok” (colorful rooster from Philippines)

      

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.     MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION ( MCA ) CHRISTMAS ARTWORK CONTEST  

We sent home together with the homework a form ( in yellow paper), that you need to fill out in order for your child to be eligible to join this contest.  Sr. Leticia Ramirez has been working with the children with their art work depicting the Christmas Nativity Scene. Without this entry form, your child’s work will not be accepted by MCA.  It will be a pity if after all the hard work of your child, he or she will be disqualified due to a technicality such as a missed entry form.  Please send the form back on or before Monday, January 23.  Thank you for your cooperation.

4.     ZOO FIELD TRIP (MARK THE DATE!)

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.  We are currently in the process of working it out with the bus company that we used for our field trip to the pumpkin patch.  We will let you know as soon as we have finalized the times and price of the bus. Parents are welcome to join us as chaperones. The zoo will let us know how much the parents have to pay to go with us if they do not have their own zoo pass.  We will send home a separate letter to give you the details of this trip by next week.

5.     SPRING SCHOOL SUPPLY

We have attached the list of things that we need for the second-half of the school year.  Please send them to class on Monday, January 23.  Thank you so much.

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.     Friday, January 20

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

MDJDA KINDERGARTEN SPRING SUPPLY LIST

2016-2017

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1. Crayola Crayons Classic Colors (box of 24)                          4 boxes

2. Crayola Colored Pencils with Erasers (box of 12)                 4 boxes

3. #2 Ticonderoga Pencils                           2 boxes

4. Elmer’s Glue Sticks         12 pieces

5. Primary Journal (w/ picture box)                                            1 

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