Open House

Hello everyone,
This week we read the story " Flight of the Zephyr " in reading. After reading the story, we did the accompanying work in the workbook. In Science we learned about Plants, mosses, and ferns. And for something a little different this week we did some creative writing. I was actually surprised how much hte kids enjoyed writing short stories, and I was even more delighted to see how well they all did!
I look forward to seeing everyone tonight for the Tree House Open House!

This week we learned about classifying plants in science class ( vascular and non-vascular ) As well as the function of plant root systems and the process of photosynthesis. In reading we continued reading the class book and worked on the work in the workbook. On Thursday we had a vocabulary test for week 1-2 vocabulary words. I'm very happy to report that all the kids did very well on the test!

Perry did excellent on his test! He's been a little slow on his classwork though; and I hope he can start to work a little bit faster to keep up with the rest of the class.

I hope Jessica is feeling better. We miss you in class.

Andy is doing great in class. He's doing great in science, he continues to excel in reading, and he did a fantastic job on this weeks test.

Iris did very well this week. She's been focused and working hard all week.

Ellen got a perfect score on her vocabulary test. Way to go, Ellen!

Raymond did great in science class this week.

Edward is doing very well. He's done especially well in reading class.

Kelly is doing well in class. She's new to the system, but she has adjusted very well and is doing great in both reading and science.

Kevin missed the test on Thursday, but took it a day later on Friday, and got a perfect score!

September 11

Hello,
This week we read the story "The Voyage of the Dawn Trader " in reading class, and did the follow up work in the reading workbook. In Science class we learned about classifying organisms . After doing the reading in the book the kids were divided into 3 groups and each group made a poster of :

1. Protist
2. Bacteria
   
3. Fungi
4. Plants
5. Animals

Kelly was very good this week. She did very well in both reading and science!

Kevin was very focused and put a lot of effort into the poster he made.

Jessica has been trying harder at improving her spelling and penmanship.

Edward is very talented at drawing. The poster he made with Andy and Ellen came out very well!

Perry was very well behaved this week.

Iris did very well in reading class.

Ellen also did a great job on the poster. She was very good at delegating the work and assigning work for her group.

Raymond asked a lot of questions in science class. He always has very insightful things to add to class.

Andy is also very talented at drawing. He put a lot of effort into the poster, and his extra effort clearly shows!

Welcome back...

It’s nice to see everyone back at Tree House. I hope everyone had a nice summer vacation and is ready to get back to work. We spent the majority of the week getting readjusted to being back at school.

On Monday we started by reading a story about a very wise, old Japanese woman, and followed up by doing the comprehension questions in the workbook.

On Tuesday we finished the workbook and reviewed writing sentences in grammar.

On Wednesday we learned about plant and animal cells in science. To make class a little more interactive, after doing the reading in the science book, the kids were separated into groups of two and each student made a plant or animal cell diagram/drawing.

On Thursday we didi the work in the science workbook, and afterward we were fortunate to be able to look at several plant, animal, and bug species under a microscope. To make it a little more interesting we played a game of 10 questions. each student choose a specimen while the other students had to ask a series of questions to guess what the specimen was.

Andy did great this week. He worked very hard on his plant/animal cell on Wednesday, and I personally think it was one of the best ones in class.

It’s very nice to have Edward in class. He’s a very smart boy.

Perry was good this week. He can ask silly questions from time to time, but for the most part he tries hard, and usually make class fun for everyone.

Kevin did very well this week. He’s always eager to read, and he’s also very willing to add to class discussions.

I hope Raymond is felling better. We missed him when he was out sick.

Ellen did very well this week. She’s a very smart, well behaved girl.

It’s great to see Iris back at school.She was very attentive and eager to learn this week.

Kelly has adjusted very quickly to being in class. Her reading and writing are very good; I’m sure she’ll do an excellent job this year!

Jessica was good this week. One area I hope she improves on however this year is her spelling. She can do very well when she sets her mind to it, unfortunately sometimes she make careless spelling mistakes ( often misspelling words in the books she has access to ).