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Newsletter 9.22.2014
www.hfgsglendale.org
Working in small groups, Kindergarten students are sorting math manipulatives by three attributes, size, shape, and color. Sorting and classifying are a critical part of children's
mathematical development, teaching children to think analytically and express their thoughts clearly while developing their logical reasoning skills.
This particular activity meets the California Common Core Standards: AF.1.0, K.MD2, K.MD3, and MR.12. – Mrs. Teresa Nelson, Kindergarten Teacher
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Important for the Weeks of September 22nd and 29th, 2014
Mon. 9/22/2014 – Start of ITBS, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (Standardized Tests) for 2nd through 8th Grades Note: Mr. Krikor Kiladjian and Miss Danielle Aranda will attend a session on Take Thinking Deeper with Project-Based Learning by the Rordan Foundation at the California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities, CA, CA. Substitute teachers will handle 3rd and 7th grade classes. Tues. 9/23 – CLASS PICTURES by LIFE TOUCH – STUDENTS IN FULL UNIFORM / ITBS – Day 2 8:00 a.m. - School Mass, HFCC 9:00 a.m. - Life Touch Group Pictures (Front Lawn) 3:30 p.m. - Faculty Meeting Note:
1. Mrs. Marietta Rogers and Mrs. Teresa Nelson will be attending the session from 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. for TK / Kindergarten Teachers’ Meeting at St. Bernard School, Los Angeles. Substitute teachers will handle TK and Kindergarten classes.
2. The school will be preparing a hard copy of each student’s Progress Report. The reports will be sent out to families.
Wed. 9/24 - ITBS – Day 3 8:00 a.m. - Student Assembly Note:
1. Please go through the contents of your family envelope and see the Progress Report(s) of your child(ren). Kindly encourage your child(ren) to continue performing magnificently in school.
Thurs. 9/25 – ITBS – Day 4 Fri. 9/26 – ITBS – Day 5 / SPELLING BEE 2014 / Jamba Juice and CPK HFGS Family Dinner
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. – Spelling Bee Set-up with the Student Council
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - TK and K
9:45 a.m. 10:15 a.m. - 2nd and 3rd
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. - 4th and 5th
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - 6th, 7th, and 8th Note:
1. If the parents and family relatives of the final participants would like to witness their child’s grade level Spelling Bee, you are more than welcome to acquire a visitor’s badge from the main office and to proceed to the GS auditorium where the event will take place.
2. Some members of our PTO Board will be serving Jamba Juice to the students who have already placed their orders.
3. Our first FAMILY DINNER out of 8 total dates during the school year will be at California Pizza Kitchen, 101 N. Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91203 on Friday. It is very simple to show your support, enjoy the dinner, and at the same time help our school. How this goes is that you bring in the flyer, present it to your server, and CPK will donate 20% of your check to our school. Purchases include dine in, take out, catering, and all beverages. Isn’t that cool? Please mark your calendars for CPK.
Sat. 9/27 – 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. VIRTUS TRAINING “Safeguarding the Children Program” Initiative
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Note: The session will start promptly at 10:00 a.m. You will need to arrive 15 minutes before the session begins for registration. If you are thinking of doing your first service hours during the Parish Fall Fiesta and other school / classroom activities, you need to have the VIRTUS Certificates copied and forwarded to the office. Please see the list of the first batch of attendees from the grade school. Thank you. Sun. 9/28 – Happy Feast Day of St. Lorenzo Ruiz! Note:
1. More parent volunteers and middle school students who are looking for service hours are encouraged to sign up and promote our Parish Fall Fiesta Raffle and Fiesta Breakfast Tickets.
Mon. 9/29 – ITBS Day 6 Note:
1. PTO Annual Dues of $25 and the Fiesta Raffle Tickets of $150 per family will be debited from your FACTS Account from Monday, 9/29 through 10/3 without any late charges. Thank you.
Tues. 9/30 – ITBS Day 7 8:00 a.m. – School Mass, HFCC 3:30 p.m. - Faculty Meeting, Faculty Workroom
Wed. 10/1 – ITBS Day 8 8:00 a.m. – Student Assembly Thurs. 10/2 – ITBS Day 9 8:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – 3rd Grade Field Trip at the Aquarium of the Pacific. 100 Aquarium Way 1 Long Beach, CA 90802 Fri. 10/3 – Loaves and Fishes Day / ITBS ends. 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – Government Funded Programs Workshop with Christine Hayashi and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, GSA Sat. 10/4 – 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – New and Current Altar Servers’ General Assembly, GSA
PTO Fundraisers:
This Sunday’s promotion of our Parish Fiesta Raffle Tickets was made possible by Mr. Steve Benedict, Mr. Chris Alejo, Mr. Ralph Shovlin, Mrs. Mary Ann Baluyot, Mr. George Brown, Mrs. Aileen Jamison, Mrs. Ruth Bala Kerr, Mr. Oscar de Jesus, Alethea de Jesus, Erika Consebido, Felicia de Castro, Jeremy Reyes, Kirsten Formento, Daniel Magahis, Vivien Baluyot, Katherine Shovlin, Gabbie Santos, and Dylan Brown. Thank you for your generosity of time and real hard work!!
FAMILY DINNER – Thanks to Ruth Bala Kerr, mom of Claire Kerr, 2nd Grade and our PTO Board! 1. California Pizza Kitchen - September 26th Family Dinner 2. Max’s Chicken of Manila - October 28th Family Dinner 3. BJ’s Restaurant - pending for December 17th Family Dinner 4. Souplantation – pending for January 6th Family Dinner
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5. Vegas Buffett - February 19th Family Dinner coinciding with Chinese New Year 6. Islands – pending for March 3rd Family Dinner 7. Leelin Bakery and Café – Tentative for April 21st Dinner 8. Baja Fresh - May 5th Family Dinner coinciding with Cinco de Mayo
JAMBA JUICE DAY – Thanks to Eva Capa, mom of Julian Jimenez, 3rd Grade, and our PTO Board!
Kiwanis Builders Club and Our Community Outreach
Do you know that there is an incredible duck splash that will be held on Saturday, October 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Lake Glendale at Verdugo Park, 1621 Canada Blvd, Glendale, CA? The Quacktivities will include games, food, preliminary Splash race heats at 10:30 a.m. and the final race is at 1:45 p.m. The benefit in joining is that the Splash proceeds will help numerous youth oriented non-profit organizations, programs, activities, and schools throughout the city of Glendale and other communities of Los Angeles County. This is exciting! How can we be part of this? Well, let us adopt ducks and become Duck Buddies. Adopt your ducks by making a $5.00 donation per duck or $25 per Quack Pack of 5 ducks. You can win a lot of prizes too ($10K, $1K, $500, iPad Mini Retina, and more). Your support if you adopt 9 ducks would pay for a child car safety seat donation to a needy family with installation and instructions on proper usage to protect a child’s life. If you adopt 20 ducks, that will provide a 3 month supply of rice and beans for 9 homeless families in Southern California. Every duck adopted helps in a significant way towards improving the lives of needy children, senior citizens and veterans in our communities. We will send you the Duck Adoption Forms through the Wednesday Family envelope and each adoption form has your lucky duck number. By the way, these are rubber ducks and you can win big bucks! For more information, please visit: www.ducks4kids.org
The ducks are coming. HFGS are ready to become Duck Buddies!!!
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Alphabet / Number Toss 'n' Play: Both activities wherein the boys’ group and the girls’ group take turns promote hand-eye coordination, encourage them to learn and master shapes, numbers and colors as well as letters and beginning spelling. The various games and activities are designed to enhance motor skills and to instill in them the love for active, physical play. Our TK class at HFGS
eagerly looks forward to this fun in learning part of the week. – Mrs. Marietta Rogers, TK Teacher
ITBS Testing Reminders for HFGS Families
Measurement and assessment of student learning in the area of academics is a significant component of
our Catholic educational program. It is on-going and multifaceted. Students’ comprehension of
concepts, their ability to solve problems, their degree of retention, and their repertoire of needed skills
to succeed scholastically are carefully monitored. One of the many tools the school uses to evaluate
student learning is a norm referenced test, such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS).
A norm referenced test is a unique form of assessment that gives you and the school staff information
other tests cannot provide. It allows for measuring the performance of a student or a group of students
against a national sample, called the norming population. Keep in mind, however, that this “once-a-year
norm referenced test” may not accurately reflect what your child knows or does not know. That is why
schools look at all learning indicators to evaluate student progress.
All students in grade two through eight will be taking the complete battery of the ITBS Achievement
Test. Students in grades 3, 4, 5, and 7 will take an additional 1-hour test, called the CogAT. This test
sheds some light on your child’s reasoning and problem solving abilities. The results allow you and the
teachers to access a set of strategies that will strengthen these abilities.
The greatest benefit of the ITBS is that it allows the school principal and teachers to look at the overall
performance of your child in light of the school’s curricular goals and programs. It helps the teachers
identify curricular strands that are well mastered or must be re-taught, thus preventing gaps in learning.
It also helps the school select the best instructional approaches and materials.
In order to prepare for the entire week standardized testing, please make sure that your child…
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Had enough sleep the night before each testing day or is well rested.
Had a good breakfast before coming to school.
Will come to school on time and will not be absent during the week; thus, any medical or dental appointment made prior will be re-scheduled.
Will know the importance of completing the test; reading and following the teacher’s instructions; will bubble in all answers on the answer sheet properly.
Thank you.
Lorenzo Ruiz - The First Filipino Saint
Canonized by Pope John Paul II in Rome on Oct. 18, 1987, St. Lorenzo Ruiz, whose feast day is Sept. 28, was martyred during the persecution of Christians in Japan during the 17th century while on a missionary expedition. Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. He is also the first Filipino martyred for the Christian Faith. Lorenzo Ruiz was a layman, married, and had two sons and a daughter. Born in Binondo, Manila, about 1600's, he was educated in the school of the Dominicans there. He served as an altar boy and later was a helper and clerk-sacristan in the church of Binondo. He was a member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. He made his living probably as a calligrapher, one who renders documents in beautiful penmanship for private or official use. To be sure, that work denoted an accomplished and educated person, especially at a time when many an illustrious personage was far from excelling in this art. An adverse event made him leave the Philippines in 1636. When he was in his late twenties or early thirties, he became involved or was accused of being involved in a criminal case, the circumstances of which are far from clear. Whether he was involved or not, one thing was clear, he was afraid that, as a consequence of a trial or mistrial, he might be given a death sentence. Upon landing in Japan where Christians were being persecuted, he was arrested and imprisoned together with his companions. He underwent inhuman tortures and valiantly confessed his Christian Faith. Refusing to renounce his Faith, he told his
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executioner that he was ready to die for God and give himself for many thousands of lives if he had them. On September 27, 1637, he was hung from a gallows by his feet, his body falling into a pit. After two days of agony, he died of bleeding and suffocation. His body was cremated and the ashes thrown into the sea. He and fifteen companions, martyred in the same persecution, were beatified by Pope John Paul II in Manila on February 18, 1981 and elevated to full honors of the altar by canonization on October 18, 1987 in Rome. Their feast day is on September 28th. Read more on: http://www.catholic.org/saints
Capital Projects Fee on October 15, 2014
The $300 amount per family for Capital Projects goes into a restricted fund that will enable us to pursue
long overdue and much needed renovation projects, such as our restrooms and fencing. For this year,
the fees are allocated to Technology. Please visit our Computer Lab, the classrooms, and the offices to
see how this year’s Capital Project fee has benefitted the school. Thank you.
Free Academic Tutoring Services for Any Grade Levels
From Clark Magnet School – (GMG) Global Mindset Group Free After School Tutoring Services Schedule: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Start Date: October 7, 2014 End Date: May 13, 2015 Venue: 6th and 7th Grade Classrooms Note: Please fill out the form if you are interested to avail of these tutorial services. Thank you.
Thanks to Fr. Jim for Graciously Blessing Our GS Faculty, HS, and the RE Catechists and to the
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In today’s blessing, our teachers have been designated formally in our catechetical ministry.
Ideal qualities for which we as catechists strive hard to the fullest are to respond to the call,
witness the Gospel, minister the Word that we are committed to the Church, foster community,
become servants of the community, attain certain knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully
carry out this ministry in our faith-based education at HFGS. Thanks to Fr. Jim, the Sisters of
Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the members of the Clergy, our faculty, Ms. Sandra Rodas,
Ms. Nancy O’Sullivan, our families, students, and everyone who witnessed this morning’s
presentation.
Attachments:
Academic and Extra-curricular Clubs (The information on club names are in alphabetical
order. The list also includes each schedule, venue, fees, start/end dates, and moderator.
We appreciate our Club Moderators and Mrs. Leonora Bautista for compiling them.)
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Middle Schools Handbook – FOR Grades 6, 7 and 8 only. The acknowledgement form
has to be returned to the Homeroom teacher.
GMG Academic Tutoring Services
CPK Flyer – Pizza with a Purpose!
VIRTUS TRAINING on SEPTEMBER 27th – List of of Grade School Participants
Thanks to Mrs. Marirose Martinez for compiling and recording all the names. The names were
submitted to Mrs. Elizabeth Jareno, VIRTUS Facilitator. If you have not turned in your
attendance or someone else from your family would like to be certified, please call up the office
or e-mail [email protected] and / or [email protected]
1. Aguayo, Elizabeth 2. Aguayo, Stephen 3. Albazi, Richard 4. Aquino, James 5. Aranda, Danielle 6. Flores, Maria 7. Melendreras, Janeris 8. Atienza, Jonalyn 9. Gomez, Iraiz 10. Cabral, Maria Cristina 11. Cardenas, Dayzer 12. Casquez, Sandra 13. Lujan, Chenoa 14. Cortez, Freddy 15. Cortes, Rosalva 16. Diaz-Chacon, Johanna 17. Cruz, Luis 18. Cruz, Karen 19. Del Mundo, Jett 20. Faustino, Romarie 21. Faustino, John
22. Flores, Novelito 23. Gagne, Kris 24. Gagne, Sharon 25. Cabotaje, Paul Ryan 26. Gamero, Blancy 27. Gamero, William 28. Graham, Dayana 29. Khoury, Lyn 30. Krishnan, Sean 31. Krishnan, Savita 32. Laus Jr., Manuel 33. Laus, Shelby 34. Bayani, Rene 35. Lua, Rhea 36. Lua, Simoun 37. McCaffery, Megan
38. Nicola, Anna 39. Nicola, Joseph 40. Ongyiu, Raymond 41. Ongyiu, Rose Anne 42. Orial, Sabrina
43. Orial, Joel 44. Pascual, Ma. Agnes 45. Salcido, Shaney 46. Casillas, Cesar 47. Perez, Tera 48. Perez, Alex 49. Perez, Jody 50. Perez, Brenda 51. Perez, Yolanda 52. Carrillo, Maria 53. Ramirez, Cesar 54. Ramirez, Grace 55. Ramirez, Joshua 56. Reynaldo, Louverne 57. Reynaldo, Raymond 58. Rodriguez, Miriam 59. Sanchez, Jesse 60. Tanghal, Diosaodo 61. Tanghal, Imelda 62. Yoon, Soojin-Baty
For our Scripture Meditation for the Day
God is generous in opening the doors of his kingdom to all who will enter, both those who have labored
a life-time for him and those who come at the last hour. While the reward is the same, the motive for
one's labor can make all the difference. Some work only for reward. They will only put as much effort in
as they think they will get back. Others labor out of love and joy for the opportunity to work and to
serve others. The Lord calls his disciples to serve God and neighbor - his heavenly kingdom and our
earthly community - with generosity and joy. Do you perform your work and responsibilities with
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cheerfulness and diligence for the Lord's sake? And do you give generously to others, especially to those
in need of your care and support?
"Lord Jesus, may I serve you and my neighbor with a glad and generous heart, not looking for how much I can get but rather looking for how much I can give."
Many amazing things are happening at Holy Family Grade School. We hope to give you more
and feature other grade levels in our next Newsletter.
Happy Catechetical Sunday to you ALL!
Miss Fidela Suelto, Principal
