Week 30: Homework

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