Happy Thanksgiving

Hi Everyone,
This has been a really fun week! Teacher Peter is on vacation this week and next, so the Armadillo class has joined ours in the mornings. We made Thanksgiving hats on Monday, and the rest of the week we practiced for our Christmas celebration on December 19th. We've only practiced a short while, but so far all the kids are doing very well. Because we only have a few weeks until the play, I hope you can spend a few minutes each night practicing the play and Christmas songs with your kids. ( We'll be singing "Up on the Housetop", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and
"Jingle Bells" ) I'll send the lyrics to each song home with the kids on Friday. On Thursday we started doing addition without items to count ( ie: 3+2=5, 2+3=5 ) So far the kids have done well...
In the afternoon this week we've been doing the short O in phonics class; as well as blended sounds -og and -ot. In reading class we've been reading a story about vets and the job they do. It's been a fascinating story and we've had many discussions about how a vets job differs from a doctor. We've also continued studying what people do in school, and the different responsibilities of everyone at school.

Kyle is doing well. He's done especially good in reading this week.

Aston has been doing much better in class recently, but he still struggles with writing his abc's and numbers backwards.

Claire has been doing and incredible job in math class. She picks up the new material very quickly.

Bonnie has the lead role in our Christmas play. She'll be the Gingerbread Woman. We've practiced a few times this week, and I think she should do very well.

Devon is doing well. He's been crying more than usual. It never lasts long, but I think he just been a little sensitive this week.

Serena is doing a fantastic job at both math and reading. She's made tremendous progress so far this semester.

Albert has been falling behind a lot in math class. We are doing very difficult work in math class, and I worry that he will fall too far behind to make up the work.

Irene is doing well in both reading and phonics.

Benson did very well in ESL class.

Eason is doing very well with his classwork. I just wish he could behave a little better in class. I talked to him about making good choices, hopefully he'll start to think before he does things.

Phil is doing very well. He's still quiet, but he tries very hard and is always in a good mood.