holy family catholic school
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL REVIEW/PREVIEW August 22, 2011
Volume 1 Issue 1 Dates to Remember
From Our Principal Mr. Suarez:
8/22-School House Catering begins
Thanks for attending Back-To-School Nights.
8/23-School Pictures
Thank you Holy Family Catholic School Parent Club, for sponsoring our school swim party on Friday. We had so much fun!
9/2-Min. Day Noon Dismissal 9/5-Labor Day Holiday NO SCHOOL 9/9–Parent Club Meeting 8:15 AM 9/13-CSAC Meeting 5 PM 9/17 &18-Parish Festival ********************************************** HFS Scrip in now online! Order your scrip from the convenience of your own home, and pick up at school. Orders submitted by Tuesday 8:30 AM will be ready for pick up by Friday of the same week. Just log in under Parents=> Parent Access and then click on “HFS Online Scrip Shop.” **************************************************
ALERT TO PARENTS: For the 2011-12 school year all students entering 7th and 8th grade will need proof of a Tdap (whooping cough) booster shot before starting school. This requirement began July 1, 2011, and can be met by receiving one dose of Tdap vaccine on or after the 10th birthday. The requirement applies to all public and private schools. If you have not yet submitted verification of your student’s Tdap booster vaccine, please bring a copy to the school office or fax a copy immediately to Holy Family Catholic School Registrar, Mrs. Sweeney, at (916) 722-5297. ********************************************** Holy Family Women’s Council Pasta Dinner Saturday, September 24, 2011. Holy Family Community Center. Sacramento Banjo Band will be playing. No Host Cocktails 5:30 PM; Dinner 6:00 PM; Tickets: Adults $12.00- Children 5-12 $6.00. RSVP by 9-17-11 or Ticket information call Kathy @ 916-729-1778.
Thank you, too, to Pack 212 (Boy Scouts) for your generous donation to our swim party. Your kindness will not be forgotten. Edline-is not ready, we are still making the necessary changes and additions of students. We will post on the web-site when access is ready. Hot Lunch begins today. Enjoy! Questions or concerns please call Jill @747-1358. Parents and students, please be sure to use the CROSSWALKS when coming to school and leaving school. We apologize for the construction interruption as our new fence goes in. SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FALL FESTIVAL September 17 for dinner and September 18 for fabulous food and fun! Buy your Fall Festival Raffle Tickets-great prizes! Thank you, HP Employee Product Giving Program for your generous donation of a HPV-VS834UT Compaq 6001 Pro AiO-greatly appreciated. SCHOOL PICTURES ARE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2011. School uniforms are required. Boys’ Varsity Football practice scheduled for August 23, 2011 after school on the softball field. Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Tryouts are Tuesday, August 23, 2011 in the gym from 3:00-5:00 PM.
CLASSROOM NEWS page 2 Mrs. Hernnandez Miss Gina and I are excited for our first full-day week of Kindergarten! The students have been adapting to their new school, friends, and teachers. We feel so blessed to be a school family. This week we will be starting all our specialty classes, starting out with PE on Monday. This also marks the beginning of lunch time and quiet time. Please bring in a blanket if you haven’t already. They will go home on Fridays to be washed. Homework will be going home today! It is due on Friday. Please do not send it back early. I’m asking each family to please donate ten dollars to cover art supplies for the school year. As a kindergarten class you can imagine the supplies that need to be purchased. Thank you in advance for helping us create an interactive, hands-on classroom experience. Please make sure your child is in the proper uniform Monday-Friday. Our PE days are on Mondays and Wednesdays, starting next week they must wear their PE shirt (no polo shirt underneath or on top). Also we do not get free-dress Mondays, that is a behavior incentive plan utilized fourth grade to eighth grade. We will have free-dress days, but not on a weekly basis. Thank you and God bless. Mrs. Chapman: Welcome! Thank you to all families for attending Back to School Night. I enjoyed meeting and talking with everyone. I am very pleased to announce we now have enough leveled readers. Thank you to everyone who donated either the leveled books or cash for me to purchase more books. We will begin the leveled reader program next week. Homework packets went home today. Please check your child’s backpack. Reading groups will begin in a couple of weeks. I need someone to coordinate volunteers. This can be done from home. If you volunteer for this position you will make a chart to schedule in volunteers for reading. If anyone is going to be absent then they will notify you. If anyone is interested please let me know ASAP. I also need a couple of parents to come in to the classroom to pull workbook pages. If you are available for this task please let me know. [email protected]. This week’s Curriculum: Math- Counting to 100 Graphing numbers 1-9 Science- Plants are living things Social Studies – Maps & Globes Phonics/Language Arts Short sound of “a” At words (cat, bat, sat etc.) Story “Sam
Come Back” Mrs. Sedgwick Second Grade: I would like to welcome all of our new and returning families to Holy Family School this year! We are off to a great start! Our class has 35 amazing students. Thank you to all of our parents for turning in supplies and coming to our Back to School Night last Wednesday. Homework folders begin coming home today. Picture Day is tomorrow, please send in your picture envelopes with your child if you are interested in purchasing pictures. The school lunch menu and money was due today, please return that to school tomorrow if your child will be getting a school lunch. Our class will be attending Daily Mass at 8:30 on most Wednesday mornings. Please join us! We will have our first Language Arts, Spelling, and Religion tests this Friday, 8/26/11. Our Star Student this week is Drew Altobell. Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Villamil: This week in third grade:Dear Parents, Whew! Three days down, 177 more days to go! (ha-ha) I enjoyed meeting many of you at Back-to-School night and I look forward to working with you this school year. I hope that evening was informative, but I realized that there were a few items I missed, so I hope to send you an update soon! Here are some things to note for this week: Our extra-curricular activities begin this week with P.E on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday, August 23 is Picture Day. Please DO NOT wear P E shirts this day only. Send your child with his/her picture envelope. Hot lunch order forms were sent home last Friday. Please return them ASAP if your child will be ordering for the month. This week, we will be starting our first chapters in all of our subjects. Homework begins! We will have two tests this week on Friday: Spelling and Ch.1 in Religion. I wish you all a great week! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, it turns that out my e-mail address was NOT yet activated as of Back-toSchool night, so hopefully, that will be worked out this week. Happy Monday!
Mrs. Remick: Hope you had a great time at the pool party and a relaxing weekend. Please send in $5 for planner, signature sheet from school handbook, and have books covered by 8/24. This week in Religion Ch. 1 God’s Goodness: God reveals himself to be one God in Three Divine Persons. There will be a test on Friday on Ch.1. Language Arts: In Reading we will read Yang the Youngest and our focus will be on sequence of a story. In Grammar we will learn about declarative and interrogative sentences. In Spelling our words will be short vowels that follow the vccv pattern. We will have our Language Arts tests on Friday. Also this week, students will be administered reading and math baseline assessments. In Science we will be learning about electricity. In Social Studies we will review geography and map skills and begin discussing California’s environment. Please check your child’s student planner every day.
Mrs. Altobell’s Fifth Grade: Welcome Back to School! We begin the first full week of school diving right into the fifth grade curriculum! In Math, we will work through the first eight lessons, reviewing many familiar concepts. In Language Arts, we will read the realistic fiction selection, The Red Kayak, and focus on the skills of developing character and plot, and predicting using cause and effect. Our spelling words for the week deal with short vowel sounds, and our grammar concept is identify types of sentences. Look for the Newsletter in your child's communicator with all of these details. We will have our first weekly test on Friday. Look for a "practice test" coming home on Thursday. In Science, we begin Chapter 5 dealing with water on Earth. In Social Studies, we delve in to Chapter 2 and discuss the different geographic areas of the United States. We begin Chapter 1 in religion and focus on God's gifts to us. Please be sure to return your student surveys to me by Friday. If you haven't already done so, please turn in $5 for your student planner. Have a great week!
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Mrs. Moniz:
Dear Parents, WELCOME BACK! I have truly enjoyed this past week working with our veteran 8th graders, the Great 38 7th graders, and the new kids on the block…6th grade. Thank you for attending Back To School Night. It was nice to meet new parents and visit with familiar faces! Grade 6, please remember the following: Yosemite payments (Aug. 31 installment 1) and signed paperwork, signed handbook paper, books covered, and please support the Magazine Drive! I look forward to your participation in all fund raising activities, and to a productive school year. GRADE 6: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: begin study of nouns…identification and usage. Literature: begin Jack London’s “The King of Mazy May”; the focus is plot analysis and character study.
Mrs Adamson: Thank you to all the parents who came to Back to School Night. How fun to start a new year! School pictures are tomorrow, the 23rd. We elected Josh Boe to be the 8th grade representative to Student Council for this school year. Congratulations, Josh. We still need a parent to volunteer for 8th grade Room Representative. An Auction Project Coordinator is also needed. Parents are needed to do Junior Achievement as well. Thank you to the parents who volunteered for the other tasks needed. I look forward to a great year with all your students.
GRADE 7: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: noun review: categories and usage. Literature: begin O.Henry’s “After Twenty Years”. The focus is plot analysis and characterization. GRADE 8: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: noun/ pronoun review and analysis. Literature” begin O.Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” with an emphasis on plot analysis and irony. Students were given their Literary Term packets; they are responsible for the first 12 terms. Quizzes are UNANNOUNCED, so studying daily is in their best interest! Each week a 6th grade student will be recognized, so please read your newsletter to see if you are the star attraction! This week a big CONGRATULATIONS to all 6th graders who have made it through their first week of Junior High!
Mrs. Hendry:
Welcome to ART SMART! Holy Family’s Student Learning Expectations include “appreciate the arts” and “recognize God-given talents” - the two primary objectives of our new art program.
The thematic unit for August and September is Landscape Artwork featuring four artists: Ansel Adams, Albert Bierdstadt, Georgia O’Keefe and Thomas Moran. Please see the school website for a slide show which will be presented to your child at the first art appreciation class.
It was great to meet the parents of my students last
week at Back-to-School. If you were not able to make it, please feel free to drop by my classroom some time and introduce yourself. This week, in all Religion classes, we will be getting aquainted with the textbook and identifying some key topics we will be covering this year. In 6th grade math, we will be discussing sequences, order and properties of operations, and hopefully begin solving for variables. In 7th grade math, we will review variables, properties of operations, and begin sequences. In 8th grade math, we will continue our discussion from last week on Real Numbers, and move on to variables and simplifying expressions and hopefully jump into some advanced order of operations. Weekly Mass begins this Friday at 8:30am.
Week One Requirement: a landscape sketch to be completed during class time.
Recommended literature: Ansel Adams, This Is The American Earth (available in our library).
Recommended Art Gallery: The Ansel Adams Gallery, San Francisco.
Volume 1 Issue 1 Dates to Remember
From Our Principal Mr. Suarez:
8/22-School House Catering begins
Thanks for attending Back-To-School Nights.
8/23-School Pictures
Thank you Holy Family Catholic School Parent Club, for sponsoring our school swim party on Friday. We had so much fun!
9/2-Min. Day Noon Dismissal 9/5-Labor Day Holiday NO SCHOOL 9/9–Parent Club Meeting 8:15 AM 9/13-CSAC Meeting 5 PM 9/17 &18-Parish Festival ********************************************** HFS Scrip in now online! Order your scrip from the convenience of your own home, and pick up at school. Orders submitted by Tuesday 8:30 AM will be ready for pick up by Friday of the same week. Just log in under Parents=> Parent Access and then click on “HFS Online Scrip Shop.” **************************************************
ALERT TO PARENTS: For the 2011-12 school year all students entering 7th and 8th grade will need proof of a Tdap (whooping cough) booster shot before starting school. This requirement began July 1, 2011, and can be met by receiving one dose of Tdap vaccine on or after the 10th birthday. The requirement applies to all public and private schools. If you have not yet submitted verification of your student’s Tdap booster vaccine, please bring a copy to the school office or fax a copy immediately to Holy Family Catholic School Registrar, Mrs. Sweeney, at (916) 722-5297. ********************************************** Holy Family Women’s Council Pasta Dinner Saturday, September 24, 2011. Holy Family Community Center. Sacramento Banjo Band will be playing. No Host Cocktails 5:30 PM; Dinner 6:00 PM; Tickets: Adults $12.00- Children 5-12 $6.00. RSVP by 9-17-11 or Ticket information call Kathy @ 916-729-1778.
Thank you, too, to Pack 212 (Boy Scouts) for your generous donation to our swim party. Your kindness will not be forgotten. Edline-is not ready, we are still making the necessary changes and additions of students. We will post on the web-site when access is ready. Hot Lunch begins today. Enjoy! Questions or concerns please call Jill @747-1358. Parents and students, please be sure to use the CROSSWALKS when coming to school and leaving school. We apologize for the construction interruption as our new fence goes in. SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FALL FESTIVAL September 17 for dinner and September 18 for fabulous food and fun! Buy your Fall Festival Raffle Tickets-great prizes! Thank you, HP Employee Product Giving Program for your generous donation of a HPV-VS834UT Compaq 6001 Pro AiO-greatly appreciated. SCHOOL PICTURES ARE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2011. School uniforms are required. Boys’ Varsity Football practice scheduled for August 23, 2011 after school on the softball field. Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Tryouts are Tuesday, August 23, 2011 in the gym from 3:00-5:00 PM.
CLASSROOM NEWS page 2 Mrs. Hernnandez Miss Gina and I are excited for our first full-day week of Kindergarten! The students have been adapting to their new school, friends, and teachers. We feel so blessed to be a school family. This week we will be starting all our specialty classes, starting out with PE on Monday. This also marks the beginning of lunch time and quiet time. Please bring in a blanket if you haven’t already. They will go home on Fridays to be washed. Homework will be going home today! It is due on Friday. Please do not send it back early. I’m asking each family to please donate ten dollars to cover art supplies for the school year. As a kindergarten class you can imagine the supplies that need to be purchased. Thank you in advance for helping us create an interactive, hands-on classroom experience. Please make sure your child is in the proper uniform Monday-Friday. Our PE days are on Mondays and Wednesdays, starting next week they must wear their PE shirt (no polo shirt underneath or on top). Also we do not get free-dress Mondays, that is a behavior incentive plan utilized fourth grade to eighth grade. We will have free-dress days, but not on a weekly basis. Thank you and God bless. Mrs. Chapman: Welcome! Thank you to all families for attending Back to School Night. I enjoyed meeting and talking with everyone. I am very pleased to announce we now have enough leveled readers. Thank you to everyone who donated either the leveled books or cash for me to purchase more books. We will begin the leveled reader program next week. Homework packets went home today. Please check your child’s backpack. Reading groups will begin in a couple of weeks. I need someone to coordinate volunteers. This can be done from home. If you volunteer for this position you will make a chart to schedule in volunteers for reading. If anyone is going to be absent then they will notify you. If anyone is interested please let me know ASAP. I also need a couple of parents to come in to the classroom to pull workbook pages. If you are available for this task please let me know. [email protected]. This week’s Curriculum: Math- Counting to 100 Graphing numbers 1-9 Science- Plants are living things Social Studies – Maps & Globes Phonics/Language Arts Short sound of “a” At words (cat, bat, sat etc.) Story “Sam
Come Back” Mrs. Sedgwick Second Grade: I would like to welcome all of our new and returning families to Holy Family School this year! We are off to a great start! Our class has 35 amazing students. Thank you to all of our parents for turning in supplies and coming to our Back to School Night last Wednesday. Homework folders begin coming home today. Picture Day is tomorrow, please send in your picture envelopes with your child if you are interested in purchasing pictures. The school lunch menu and money was due today, please return that to school tomorrow if your child will be getting a school lunch. Our class will be attending Daily Mass at 8:30 on most Wednesday mornings. Please join us! We will have our first Language Arts, Spelling, and Religion tests this Friday, 8/26/11. Our Star Student this week is Drew Altobell. Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Villamil: This week in third grade:Dear Parents, Whew! Three days down, 177 more days to go! (ha-ha) I enjoyed meeting many of you at Back-to-School night and I look forward to working with you this school year. I hope that evening was informative, but I realized that there were a few items I missed, so I hope to send you an update soon! Here are some things to note for this week: Our extra-curricular activities begin this week with P.E on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday, August 23 is Picture Day. Please DO NOT wear P E shirts this day only. Send your child with his/her picture envelope. Hot lunch order forms were sent home last Friday. Please return them ASAP if your child will be ordering for the month. This week, we will be starting our first chapters in all of our subjects. Homework begins! We will have two tests this week on Friday: Spelling and Ch.1 in Religion. I wish you all a great week! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, it turns that out my e-mail address was NOT yet activated as of Back-toSchool night, so hopefully, that will be worked out this week. Happy Monday!
Mrs. Remick: Hope you had a great time at the pool party and a relaxing weekend. Please send in $5 for planner, signature sheet from school handbook, and have books covered by 8/24. This week in Religion Ch. 1 God’s Goodness: God reveals himself to be one God in Three Divine Persons. There will be a test on Friday on Ch.1. Language Arts: In Reading we will read Yang the Youngest and our focus will be on sequence of a story. In Grammar we will learn about declarative and interrogative sentences. In Spelling our words will be short vowels that follow the vccv pattern. We will have our Language Arts tests on Friday. Also this week, students will be administered reading and math baseline assessments. In Science we will be learning about electricity. In Social Studies we will review geography and map skills and begin discussing California’s environment. Please check your child’s student planner every day.
Mrs. Altobell’s Fifth Grade: Welcome Back to School! We begin the first full week of school diving right into the fifth grade curriculum! In Math, we will work through the first eight lessons, reviewing many familiar concepts. In Language Arts, we will read the realistic fiction selection, The Red Kayak, and focus on the skills of developing character and plot, and predicting using cause and effect. Our spelling words for the week deal with short vowel sounds, and our grammar concept is identify types of sentences. Look for the Newsletter in your child's communicator with all of these details. We will have our first weekly test on Friday. Look for a "practice test" coming home on Thursday. In Science, we begin Chapter 5 dealing with water on Earth. In Social Studies, we delve in to Chapter 2 and discuss the different geographic areas of the United States. We begin Chapter 1 in religion and focus on God's gifts to us. Please be sure to return your student surveys to me by Friday. If you haven't already done so, please turn in $5 for your student planner. Have a great week!
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Mrs. Moniz:
Dear Parents, WELCOME BACK! I have truly enjoyed this past week working with our veteran 8th graders, the Great 38 7th graders, and the new kids on the block…6th grade. Thank you for attending Back To School Night. It was nice to meet new parents and visit with familiar faces! Grade 6, please remember the following: Yosemite payments (Aug. 31 installment 1) and signed paperwork, signed handbook paper, books covered, and please support the Magazine Drive! I look forward to your participation in all fund raising activities, and to a productive school year. GRADE 6: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: begin study of nouns…identification and usage. Literature: begin Jack London’s “The King of Mazy May”; the focus is plot analysis and character study.
Mrs Adamson: Thank you to all the parents who came to Back to School Night. How fun to start a new year! School pictures are tomorrow, the 23rd. We elected Josh Boe to be the 8th grade representative to Student Council for this school year. Congratulations, Josh. We still need a parent to volunteer for 8th grade Room Representative. An Auction Project Coordinator is also needed. Parents are needed to do Junior Achievement as well. Thank you to the parents who volunteered for the other tasks needed. I look forward to a great year with all your students.
GRADE 7: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: noun review: categories and usage. Literature: begin O.Henry’s “After Twenty Years”. The focus is plot analysis and characterization. GRADE 8: Vocabulary: Unit 1, exam TBA. Grammar: noun/ pronoun review and analysis. Literature” begin O.Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” with an emphasis on plot analysis and irony. Students were given their Literary Term packets; they are responsible for the first 12 terms. Quizzes are UNANNOUNCED, so studying daily is in their best interest! Each week a 6th grade student will be recognized, so please read your newsletter to see if you are the star attraction! This week a big CONGRATULATIONS to all 6th graders who have made it through their first week of Junior High!
Mrs. Hendry:
Welcome to ART SMART! Holy Family’s Student Learning Expectations include “appreciate the arts” and “recognize God-given talents” - the two primary objectives of our new art program.
The thematic unit for August and September is Landscape Artwork featuring four artists: Ansel Adams, Albert Bierdstadt, Georgia O’Keefe and Thomas Moran. Please see the school website for a slide show which will be presented to your child at the first art appreciation class.
It was great to meet the parents of my students last
week at Back-to-School. If you were not able to make it, please feel free to drop by my classroom some time and introduce yourself. This week, in all Religion classes, we will be getting aquainted with the textbook and identifying some key topics we will be covering this year. In 6th grade math, we will be discussing sequences, order and properties of operations, and hopefully begin solving for variables. In 7th grade math, we will review variables, properties of operations, and begin sequences. In 8th grade math, we will continue our discussion from last week on Real Numbers, and move on to variables and simplifying expressions and hopefully jump into some advanced order of operations. Weekly Mass begins this Friday at 8:30am.
Week One Requirement: a landscape sketch to be completed during class time.
Recommended literature: Ansel Adams, This Is The American Earth (available in our library).
Recommended Art Gallery: The Ansel Adams Gallery, San Francisco.
