Week 26: Homework

February 20, 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 20 (Monday)                   PRESIDENT’S DAY

                                                            NO SCHOOL

February 21 (Tuesday)                  Regular Day

February 22 (Wednesday)            P.E. ( Please have your child wear the PE uniform).

                                                            VAPA

February 24 (Thursday)               Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)

                                                            Mass in Spanish(Chapel, 8:30, Mass Uniform).

February 25 (Friday)                     Regular Day

February 28 (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                                                          NO SCHOOL

Tuesday (Spanish)                                      Packet with “gue, gui” and number 12

Wednesday (English)                                 Packet with the /en/ words and number 13

Thursday (Spanish)                                    Packet with “gue, gui”

Friday (English)                                          Packet with /en/ words and number 14

Monday                                                          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 (/en/ 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 /en/ word family

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

Word Wall: February words

c.      Weekly Song: “Hamba Gale” – African prayer/song on friendship

d.     Shared Reading: Emergent Reader: “Rosa Parks and ruby Bridges”

e.     Guided Reading: “The Story of Rosa parks and ruby Bridges”

2.     Writing:

a.     Guided Handwriting: /en/ 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  “Pinguino”

b.     Read stories for February themes.

c.      Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “gue, gui”

Read “gue, gui” words

2.     Writing:

a.     Narrative writing

Math

1.     Chapter 7: Model, Count and Write numbers 11-19 (13 and 14)

2.     Daily calendar

Social Studies

1.     Spanish – Black History

2.     English – Important Historical African-Americans

Science

1.     Spanish – Push and Pull

2.     English – Dinosaurs

Art

       1. Zebra – with black strips of paper on cut-out shape, African mask

REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS

1.    2^ND Trimester Parent Conferences

We will post this week on shutterfly our schedule for parent conferences next week.  We would like to rquest that you bring your child 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. 

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 23

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