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 ).