Week 23: Homework

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