February 27, 2017
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: FRIENDSHIP/CARING
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
February 27 (Monday) Regular Day
Dismissal:
2:15
February 28
(Tuesday) Regular Day
PARENT CONFERENCES FOR K BEGINS
Dismissal
2:15
March 1 (Wednesday) ASH WEDNESDAY MASS (MATER DEI PARISH AT 7:45 AM, Please
wear mass uniform).
Dismissal: 2:15
March 2 (Thursday) Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)
Regular Day
Dismissal: 12:15
March 3 (Friday) Regular
Day
Dismissal:12:15
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 /et/ words
Tuesday (Spanish) Packet with “ge,
gi” and number 13
Wednesday (English) Packet
with the /et/ words
Thursday (Spanish) Packet
with “ge, gi”
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.
SCHOOLWORK
English
1. Reading:
a.
Phonics: blending phonemes, C/V/C words (/et/
word family)
Phonemic
Awareness: medial short /e/ and long /e/
sound
Recognize
rhyming words
Count
syllables on words of the month
Count
words on sentences.
b.
Vocabulary:
-
Words that belong to /et/ word family
-
High Frequency Words: ate, be, black, brown,
but
Word
Wall: February words
c.
Weekly Poem: “Five Little Dinosaurs”
d.
Shared Reading: Emergent Reader: “All About
Dinosaurs”
e.
Group Reading: “What Are Dinosaurs” Power
point presentation on facts about dinosaurs
2. Writing:
a.
Guided Handwriting: /et/ words
b.
Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure,
capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – ate, be, black, brown, but
c.
Draw and Write – Narrative Writing: “ My Trip
to the Zoo”
Spanish
1. Reading:
a.
Read the story of “Genaro”
b.
Read stories for February themes.
c.
Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “ge, gi”
Read
“g” words
2. Writing:
a.
Narrative writing
Math
1. Chapter
7: Model, Count and Write numbers 11-19 (15,16)
2. Daily
calendar
Social
Studies
1. Spanish
– Introduction to Europe: Rome
2. English
– Important Historical African-Americans
Science
1. Spanish
– Read stories
2. English
– Dinosaurs
Art
1. Dinosaur
shadow painting
REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS
1. 2ND Trimester Parent Conferences for K
Our parent conferences
will start on Tuesday, February 28. Please take note of the various dismissal
times during the week.
Please sign-up for the parent conferences on
Shutterfly. We would like to request that
you bring your children to the conference.
It will be very good for them to hear first hand how well they are doing
in class. Now that they are older and
more mature, they can participate in setting up goals or steps that are needed
to help them work on some of the challenges that they face in class.
Each conference will last for 15 minutes for
both English and Spanish. You will see time slots on Shutterfly marked
reserved. Those were set-up specifically
by Mrs. Moncayo and I. Thank you for
your cooperation.
2.
ASH WEDNESDAY MASS AT
MATER DEI CHAPEL
PLEASE PROCEED TO THE
CHAPEL BY 7:45. Do
not go to Guadalupe Center. We will not
have a morning assembly. Take their
backpack and all their belongings to church.
We will have the two outside classrooms at the parish open where the
children can leave their things before going into the chapel. We will pick
everything up after the mass. This mass
will be open to the parishioners as well.
Please come on time so we will not be disruptive to the congregation. Please have them wear their mass
uniform. They will miss PE that morning
but we will give them an extended recess so they can make-up for the loss of PE
time.
3.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Ash Wednesday marks the
beginning of Lent. As
part of our Lenten preparation, we would like to invite you to join the Mater
Dei parishioners and friends every Friday at 5:30 PM for the stations of the
cross. There will be a mass first
followed by the stations after. This
will go on for all the Fridays of Lent. Father Ven invites volunteers among those who
are present to lead the readings of the different stations. This is a great way
for our families to remember the Passion of Christ.
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.
b.
parents to help change our bulletin boards
2. Thursday, March 2
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 Mo
