March 20, 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: COMPASSION
WEEKLY SCHEDULE:
March 20 (Monday) PE and VAPA Day (Wear
PE uniform)
March 21 (Tuesday) Regular Day
March 22 (Wednesday) Virtues Award for
Compassion:
Mauricio Zaragoza and Kailyn Mary Cabusao
PE
and VAPA Day (Wear
PE uniform)
March 23 (Thursday) Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)
Mass at MDHS Chapel, 8:45 AM (Wear
mass uniform)
March 24 (Friday) Regular
Day
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 /ip/ words
Tuesday (Spanish) Packet with “x”
Wednesday (English) Packet
with the /ip/ words
Thursday (Spanish) Packet
with “k” and the number 16
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 (/ip/
word family)
Phonemic
Awareness: medial short /i/ and long /i/
sound
Recognize
rhyming words
Count
syllables on words of the month
Count
words on sentences.
b.
Vocabulary:
-
Words that belong to /in/ word family
-
High Frequency Words: get, good, have, he,
into
-
Word Wall: March words
-
Compound Words
BENCHMARK ADVANCE : REVIEW AND ROUTINES
c.
Weekly Poem: “Mary had A Little Lamb”
d.
Shared Reading: “Katy’s First day of School”
e.
Group Reading: “Katy’s First day of school”
Writing:
a.
Guided Handwriting: /ip/ words
b.
Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure,
capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – Review Dolch Pre-Primer
Words
c.
Draw and Write – BENCHMARK ADVANCE: “I like
to…. in school.” “I like to … with my friends.”
Spanish
1. Reading: BENCHMARK
ADELANTE REVIEW AND ROUTINES:
a.
Read the Poem: “Mary had A Little Lamb”
b.
Read stories for March themes.
c.
Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “x and
k”
Read
“x and k” words
2. Writing:
a. BENCHMARK ADELANTE - “My favorite part of the
poem…”
Math
1. Chapter
8: Model, Count and Write the number 20
2. Daily
calendar
Social
Studies
1. Spanish
– Spain
2. English
– Spain
REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS
1.
MASS, THURSDAY, March 22,
Mater Dei High School Chapel
Please join us for our weekly mass. Let us worship together as a community.
2.
BENCHMARK
ADVANCE/ADELANTE
We started our pilot program on our Language
Arts books for English and Spanish. We
will pilot the first 4 Units of the series.
It is common core aligned. The
curriculum is rigorous and the content is complex. We will use balanced literacy working between
whole group (whole class) to small groups for every lesson. There is an essential question for each unit
that goes across grade levels. Content
is taught in mini lessons with multiple context. Students are taught to infer, consolidate and
provide evidence to support their answers and opinions. There is also trans-adaptation between the
two languages to further support content learning. Phonics and phonemic awareness is taught in
conjunction with literary units. We are learning this week the different
routines that are used in teaching the mini-lessons throughout the whole
series.
3.
GARDEN DAY, MARCH 31
We will finally begin planting in our garden
on Friday, March 31. We had to move the
day due to logistical and weather concerns.
We thought that the weather is
now suitable for planting. Unfortunately
we still have rains in the forecast. Please
check Shutterfly for our sign-up on materials and volunteers needed.
4.
VOLUNTEER HOURS
Mrs. Figueroa sent an email last week
informing families of their current service hours. We have always asked you to help us in
various ways and you have always answered our call. It is true that at the moment we do not have
any consequences if the volunteer hours are not met. However, the time, treasure and talent that
you have shared with us have really made a difference in our classes. Please do not discount the importance of your
contributions. We ask for your help
because we want to give you the opportunity to come and be a part of child’s
learning experience. Children whose
parents are involved in their child’s school because they are truly invested in
their child’s education show tremendous growth in their self-worth. It tells them that what they do in school
truly matters. I have seen this time and
again in the many years that I have taught.
I have seen this in your children. So please continue to be an active family in
our school community not only because you want to meet the volunteer requirements
but because you understand that you are the heart of our community. We are truly grateful for all that you
do.
5.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Ash Wednesday marked 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 30
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
