Merry Christmas!

This week we studied water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, and how they all affect our earth in science class. We studied water cycles before, so it was pretty easy for everyone to understand; however, carbon and nitrogen cycles were a little bit more difficult for the kids to understand. We also reviewed vocabulary for next week’s test, and learned about writing complex sentences in grammar class. For a little fun we reviewed parts of speech by doing a mad lib. For those of you who don’t know, a mad lib is a story with parts of the story missing and you need to fill in the missing words with your own to create a silly story…

Hello everyone,

This week we read about the ocean and it's diverse ecosystem. Most of the kids are very good at reading, but I think that all of them need help with their writing, so we also started learning about writing in the 1st and 3rd person by writing persuasive, entertaining, and informative paragraphs. This was a little difficult for everyone in the beginning, but once they understood the concepts, I think they all came up with some great paragraphs!

Ellen is doing well in class. She's very efficient with her class work and is able to work both quickly and accurately.

Jessica is doing well with her reading and vocabulary. I hope she can try a little harder to improve her spelling though.

Andy has slowly made great improvements with his writing. He's becoming a very good writer, more importantly, he seems to enjoy writing and always has a lot to write about. He too though, needs to work on his spelling.

Raymond did an excellent job on Wednesday in the drama Christmas play. He's a very funny, talented actor!

Perry needs to take class a little more seriously. He's very smart and has the potential to do excellent in class, unfortunately he spends most of the class time not paying attention.

Like Perry, Kevin also needs to pay attention more in class. He always does well with reading and vocabulary, but he just can't stop talking in class.

Iris did very well this week!

Edward did a very good job on his writing assignment this week. He's a very good writer!

This week we learned about plural nouns in grammar class. In reading we read a short essay about how special effects have changed movie making. We also practiced writing, and reviewed vocabulary and took a vocabulary test on Wednesday. I was very proud with how well all the kids did on this weeks test!

Ellen, Andy, Edward, and Perry got into a fight on Thursday. I left the class room for a few short minutes and when I returned the four of them were in a heated argument. I'm not really sure who started it, but all four of them should have known better...

Iris did very well on her vocabulary test. She had a perfect score!

Jessica is doing very well in class. She's been making steady improvements and seems to be trying much harder than before.

Kevin has been talking a lot during class time. I hope he can try a little harder to not disrupt the class so much.

Raymond is doing well. He did good on the test, and has been making steady improvements in reading and writing.

Hi everyone,
This week in class we reviewed vocabulary for next weeks test, read the story "Grandpa's Covered Wagon", and studied ecosystems in science class. In addition to the regular class work the kids also worked on their commercials.

Andy and Ellen have written a very entertaining, funny commercial. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product once we film it.

Raymond's reading has been getting a little bad recently. I think he needs to spend a little time practicing reading out loud to improve his pronunciation.

Perry did an excellent job reviewing his vocabulary words this week.

Edward continues to do well.

Kevin has been doing great in science.

Jessica has been doing much better in class recently. She's been more focused and attentive.

Iris's reading is getting very good. She's also been more active during science class. She's doing great! Way to go, Iris!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear parents,

For this week, we read the story, "The paper dragon". It is rather an oriental story about a dragon who asks an artist what is the most powerful thing in the world, and the answer is, "Love is the strongest thing in the world". We wrote down some of the new vocabularies that we learnt and found out the meanings, and wrote sentences. Then, we also worked on the workbooks. For science, we learnt about "Interactions Among Living Things", which talks about what "food chain", "food web", "herbivore", "carnivore", "omnivore", and some other words are. We learnt that humans are the most important of most food webs, and any changes that occur at the bottom part of the food webs would definitely affect humans in their consumptions of certain foods. For example, if there were no cows, then there would not have beef or cow's milk, and we would have to find another food source. We have worked on the science workbook as well, and made posters of the land food web, and the marine food web. We also worked on grammar and learnt what is a "conjunction" and "compund sentence" by using "and", "or", "but" to combine two or more sentences.

This week,

Edward- He converses well, and has been talkative in class.

Andy - He likes to tell jokes to his classmates and make them laugh.

Raymond - He has a strong character and believes in what he is doing.

Perry - He cooperates well with his classmates, and he always has a friendly smile.

Iris - She does her work nicely and concentrates well.

Ellen - She is outspoken, and she finishes her work fast and at the same time, she understands them. She likes to participate and has been active in class.

Kevin - He does his work nicely, and friendly to his classmates. He concentrates well, and he reads aloud, well, and clear.

Jessica - Although she reads slower, she tries hard in class.

Have a great weekend!
Teacher Jennifer

Dear parents,

We started this week with reading the story "Marble Champ", about a girl who cannot play sports well, but she tried hard and created a sport of her own, she played with marbles, competed in a game, and she won the championship. We picked out some new vocabularies that students didn't know, such as, "trophy", "accurate", "referee",
"recital", "opponent", "previous", etc. And we made sentences with these words. We also worked on the workbooks. Then for Science, we went over "Interactions in an Ecosystem", and the meanings of some related scientific terms, such as,"ecosystem",
"abiotic factor", "biotic factor", "population", "community", "ecology", "habitat",
"niche", we also continued to work on the workbooks and made posters regarding "Ecosystem".

For Funday, we went to see a movie, "My sister's keeper". It is a touching movie, hope everyone enjoyed it.

This week,

Ellen, Edward, Andy, and Iris worked together on the Ecosystem poster, they cooperated very well.

Jessica, Kevin, Raymond, and Perry worked in a group to make the poster. Although they had little arguements, they were able to do the task well.

Have a great weekend!

Teacher Jennifer

Friday, November 13, 2009

Hello everyone, I am teacher Jennifer, I substituted teacher Scott's Saints class for the past two days, and glad to find out that each student is polite and pleasant.

On Thursday, we continued to work on writing a Commercial. When finshed writing, they read aloud and practised on acted them out. The motive of this project is that each child can be expressive and creative, also learn to be a good reader and confident speaker.

The students were put into groups and each group picked a product that they would write a Commercial for it.

Ellen and Andy were partners and their product was about a camera that has many cool features.

Kevin and Edward worked on an uncommon drink that provides lots of energy.

Raymond and Perry worked on a food product.

Jessica, Iris, and Kelly worked on a commercial about a special watch.

They all came up with creative ideas and wrote scripts about their products. They were very cooperative and worked closely with their partners. Then when they finished practising their scripts, they had a great time acting them out.

On friday, we did Arts and Crafts, each student did a painting. It was a free topic of the student's choice, so first they used pencils to draw on the canvases, then they painted the canvases with acrylic paints. They all turned out to be nice paintings.

It has been a pleasure to work with teacher Scott's Saints class.

Have a great weekend!
Teacher Jennifer