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!