Week 25: Homework

February 13, 2017

Dear Parents,

Blessed be God!

PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY TO THE END FOR UPCOMING EVENTS

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH: FRIENDSHIP/CARING

WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

February 13 (Monday)                   P.E. (Please have your child wear the PE uniform).

                                                            Visual and Performing Arts Class (VAPA)

February 14 (Tuesday)                  VALENTINE’S DAY CELEBRATION

                                                            Please wear RED ADD-ONS to the school uniform. (NO FREE DRESS).

February 15 (Wednesday)            P.E. ( Please have your child wear the PE uniform).

                                                            VAPA

February 16 (Thursday)               Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)

                                                            Mass (MATER DEI CHURCH, 8:30, Mass Uniform).

February 17 (Friday)                     HOMEWORK DUE

February 18 (Saturday)                 MDJDA PARENTS’  SPIRITUAL RETREAT

                                                           

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 /ed/ words

Tuesday (Spanish)                                      Packet with “ga, go gu”

Wednesday (English)                                 Packet with the /ed/ words

Thursday (Spanish)                                    Packet with “gue, gui”

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: blending phonemes, C/V/C words (/ed/ 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 /ed/ word family

-       High Frequency Words: ate, be, black, brown, but

Word Wall: February words

c.      Weekly Song: “Skidamarink”

d.     Shared Reading: Emergent Reader: “Presdident’s Day”

e.     Guided Reading: “I Am George Washington” and “Abraham Lincoln”

2.     Writing:

a.     Guided Handwriting: /ed/ 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  “Gogo” and “Guillermo”

b.     Read stories for February themes.

c.      Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “ga, go, gu” and “gue, gui”

Read “ga, go, gu” and “gue, gui” words

2.     Writing:

a.     Narrative writing

Math

1.     Chapter 7: Model, Count and Write numbers 11-19

2.     Daily calendar

Social Studies

1.     Spanish – Black History

2.     English – Continue with animals from Africa, the landscape and safari

Science

1.     Spanish – Read stories

2.     English – Dinosaurs

Art

       1. Make a Valentine Card, Make art deco of animals from Africa

      

REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS

1.     VALENTINE’S DAY

We will have our Valentine’s Day celebration on February 14 in the afternoon.  We will send another email to discuss the details of our celebration.

2.     BOOK FAIR

We will have our Book Fair starting this week.  Please help us reach our schoolwide goal of selling $5,000.00 worth of books. If we reach our goal, the shool will receive a $1,000.00 voucher for the Scholastic Store where we can can get more books for our library.   We sent home the catalog of the books that we will sell at the book fair.  Please help your child make their choices.

3.     PARENT SPIRITUAL RETREAT, FEBRUARY 18

One of the things that was suggested at last year’s parent meeting was for the school to host a spiritual retreat for the parents for spiritual growth. We will host the first one on Saturday, February 18. Please mark your calendar.  The theme will revolved around togetherness in our family, school and community.

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, February 16

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 Moncayo

VALENTINE’S DAY REMINDERS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

2:00 PM

1. The children are allowed to use red add-ons (ribbons, bows, scarf, etc.) to their uniforms. This is not a free dress day.

2. The children may bring valentine cards or treats to give away to their friends at our party.  For ease of distribution, please do not write the names of their classmates on the cards. We will sit in a big circle.  Each child will have a Valentine bag which we will make in class as part of our celebration.  The children will take turns distributing their cards or treats to their classmates in the circle. We have 30 students.  It will take us a long time to finish all students 

if they have to read the names of their friends as they are moving around in the circle.

3. Snack: We would like to ask if we can have some volunteers to cut out watermelon using heart cookie cutters.  We would also like some red apple wedges and a case of mini water bottles.  Please sign-up in our Shutterfly account. 

Heart-shaped watermelons – 70 pieces

Red apples – 70 wedges.

Valentine’s plates – 35

Valentine’s napkins – 35

Parent Volunteers – 4

Thank you so much for your continued support and cooperation.