Week 27:Homework

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.    2^ND 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