Week 28:Homework

March 6, 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 6 (Monday)                          PE and VAPA Day (Wear PE uniform)

                                                           

March 7 (Tuesday)                         Regular Day

                                                           

March 8 (Wednesday)                    Virtues Award Day

                                                            PE and VAPA Day (Wear PE uniform)

March 9 (Thursday)                       Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)

                                                            Mass at Chapel, 8:45 AM (Wear mass uniform)

March 10 (Friday)                          Regular Day

                                                           

                                                           

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 /ig/ words

Tuesday (Spanish)                                      Packet with “ge, gi” and number 13

Wednesday (English)                                 Packet with the /ig/ 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 (/ig/ 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 /ig/ word family

-       High Frequency Words: came, do, did, eat, four

-       Word Wall: March words

c.      Weekly Poem: “The Leprechaun”

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

e.     Group Reading: “The Story of St. Patrick”

Writing:

a.     Guided Handwriting: /ig/ words

b.     Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – came, do, did, eat, four

c.      Draw and Write – Narrative Writing: “ How To Catch A Leprechaun”

Spanish

1.     Reading:

a.     Read the story of  “Chano and Vega”

b.     Read stories for March themes.

c.      Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “ch and v”

Read “ch and v” words

2.     Writing:

a.     Narrative writing

Math

1.     Chapter 7: Model, Count and Write numbers 11-19 (16 and 17)

2.     Daily calendar

Social Studies

1.     Spanish – Introduction to Europe: Rome

2.     English –  Read the story Pope Francis

REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS

1.     MASS, THURSDAY, MDHS CHAPEL

Please join us for our weekly mass.  Let us worshiptogether as a community.

2.     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 9

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