March 13, 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 13 (Monday) PE and VAPA Day (Wear
PE uniform)
March 14 (Tuesday) Regular Day
March 15 (Wednesday) Virtues Award Day
PE
and VAPA Day (Wear
PE uniform)
March 16 (Thursday) Parents in Prayer (Chapel, 7:45 AM)
Mass at Mater Dei Church, 8:30 AM (Wear
mass uniform)
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day (Wear
green ADD-ONS)
March 17 (Friday) NO SCHOOL ( TEACHER RETREAT)
March 19 (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 (English) Packet with /in/ words
Tuesday (Spanish) Packet with “ll”
and number 15
Wednesday (English) Packet
with the /in/ words
Thursday (Spanish) Packet
with “z”
Friday (English) No
School - HW Due ( Monday, Mar 19)
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 (/in/
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
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: /in/ words
b.
Writer’s Workshop: Sentence structure,
capitalization and punctuation marks; sight words – Review Dolch Pre-Primer
Words
c.
Draw and Write – Narrative Writing: “ How To
Catch A Leprechaun”
Spanish
1. Reading:
a.
Read the story of “Llanes and Zapata Story”
b.
Read stories for March themes.
c.
Phonics: Identify, sound, syllables – “ll and
z”
Read
“ll and z” words
2. Writing:
a.
Narrative writing – Pedro y el lobo
Math
1. Chapter
7: Model, Count and Write numbers 11-19 (Chapter review and test)
2. Daily
calendar
Social
Studies
1. Spanish
– Write about St. Patrick
2. English
– Ireland
REMINDERS: UPCOMING EVENTS
1.
MASS, THURSDAY, March
16, Mater Dei Parish
Please join us for our weekly mass. Let us worship together as a community.
2.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
CELEBRATION, THURSDAY, MARCH 16
We will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on
Thursday, March 16 since we have no classes on Friday, March 17. The children can wear green add-ons. THIS
NOT A FREE DRESS DAY. We will “Hunt For Gold” in the afternoon. We will need 6 parent volunteers. Please check Shutterfly for our sign-up on
what we will need for our celebration that will begin at 2:00 PM.
3.
GARDEN DAY, MARCH 21
We will finally begin planting in our garden
on Thursday, March 21 which is the first day of spring. The weather is now suitable for
planting. Please check Shutterfly for
our sign-up on materials and volunteers needed.
4.
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 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
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