Hapy Chinese New Year!

We've been wrapping things up this week. Everybody has made such great progress this year. We should finish decorating our ginger bread house later this week. Happy New Year everyone!

Mountain trips and gingerbread houses!

My apologies for posting the blog late this week. I was a little bit sick yesterday so I stayed home to rest and recover. We had a great time visiting the mountain on Tuesday. We learned all about how to make bamboo sticky rice, Beatles, went for a walk and lots of other fun activities. It was cold out but we did our best to stay warm. We've started working on our ginger bread house. It has been a very educational activity and we have been using cooking as a practical way to review and improve on what we have been learning about fractions in math class.

Esther hasn’t had the best week. She hasn’t been focusing in class and she’s been getting into trouble for misbehaving. I hope her behavior will return to normal next week.

Lily has been doing well this week. We’ve been learning about fractions and she picked up everything very quickly.

Sunny has made such great improvements this semester. Her attitude has improved greatly and she has been making great progress in class. She really is a very smart kid.

Lauren has been doing good work. I think she has a firm grasp of the new math material we have been covering. She has surprised me once or twice by answering questions that none of her classmates could understand. Keep it up!

Jerry has been doing good work. He continues to be outgoing and take advantage of every opportunity to use the language.

Frank has been coming along. New material takes him some time to grasp but he is working hard and improving. His reading has improved drastically over the last few months.

Eliza and Tricia are a real joy to have in class but they have both been chatting with each other a little too much. I recognize that they are the only two older girls in the class and very bright. They both do good work. I would prefer not to separate them because they clearly have grown to be good friends. If they both wish to continue sitting next to each other, they will need to stop focus more in class.

Samson’s behavior has begun to deteriorate in class. He got into big trouble earlier this week. He needs to focus and stay on task. He also needs to stop flipping to the back of his book and looking at pictures while we are working.

Carson has made great progress. His reading has improved considerably and his comprehension is very very good. Keep up the hard work!

Henry needs to focus in class. I can’t stress this enough. He is at great risk of falling behind.

We have been reading a lovely story about firefighters and learning about fractions in math class. We learned about halves, thirds and quarters the other morning. Some of the students’ handwriting has gotten a little messy so we did a demo this morning going through the stroke order of each letter and working on forming full, round, fat, pretty letters. We are going to spend our arts and crafts time over the next 2-3 weeks working on building a ginger bread house from scratch. I’ll be sure to post some pictures when we’re done. Happy New Year everyone!

Lily has been doing great work. She seems a little bit under the weather with her stuffy nose but her attitude is still positive.

Sunny is also a little sick. Her cough sounds better than before, but she’s still, clearly, a little under the weather. Her attitude has been productive and she has been on task in class.

Lauren has been doing good work though she has been a little too chatty with her classmates. We did some good work on improving her dexterity.

Esther has been on task though she, also, is a little too chatty with her classmates. She is rarely naughty when she thinks I’m looking, but if she thinks I’m gone she sometimes misbehaves.

Jerry has also been a little too excited in class this week. I’m glad that he is happy and interested in our work but he needs to work on not speaking out of turn.

Frank has had some trouble concentrating this week. Maybe it’s because he has been a little bit sick.

Carson came back to class on Wednesday with a very positive attitude. His listening comprehension is really quite good. When I ask the class questions about a reading, he almost always has the answer.

Eliza is still very quiet in class but she’s doing good work. It seems like she’s the most talkative when she is chit chatting with Tricia.

Tricia should put an effort into keeping on task and not chit chatting with Eliza too much.

Samson does read extremely well and has great comprehension but he needs to work on speaking with complete sentences and with correct grammar.

Henry has not has a good week. He didn’t do his homework over the weekend. In class, he has not been concentrating. He has trouble so I give him a lot of leeway as far as reading and comprehension, but he needs to try. If he isn’t trying, then he will continue to get into trouble.