October 16th

Hi everyone,
This week we continued doing 3 number addition in math class. I'm pleasantly surprised how well everyone is doing. I was sure the kids would struggle to understand the concept, but to my amazement they are all doing great! In reading we started the new story " The Farmer in the Hat" about a class that plans to put on a school play about Old MacDonald...We've also begun learning new vocabulary for each story and this week we learned the new words ( could, be, old, paper, and horse ) In addition to learning the spelling and meaning of each of the words, we also practiced writing sentences for each word. In Phonics we've been practicing fill in the blank sentences with words we've been learning ( does, our, then, about, other, where ) In Tops we're still studying ( I'm he's, she's, you're, we're ) This week we also started learning about adding S to plural nouns...boat=boats, bike=bikes. And finally in art class on Friday we made spiders for Halloween.

Albert, Devon, and Rain have all been very sensitive this week about playing with each other. Some days they all play together, and other days Rain and Devon won't want to play with Albert, or Albert and Devon won't want to play with Rain. I've talked to the three of them many times and tried to get them to understand that they can be friends with everyone...I hope they can start playing together better....

Claire is incredible at math! She's very talented at addition... not only is she very quick at doing her work, she's also always correct! I wish my math was as good as her's....

Estella is getting much faster at eating at lunch time. She was a little slow on Thursday but did pretty well the rest of the week. She's also doing great with her classwork. She's made steady improvements in reading, phonics, and math. Way to go, Estella!

Kyle made a great spider in art class. He was also very helpful decorating the classroom for Halloween this week.

Hanna did very good this week. She's been improving a lot in both phonics and reading!

Irvin had a nice birthday on Thursday. We surprised him when I sent him to the office to get some tape, and when he returned we pretended to sing the song " I Can Fly" but instead sang "Happy Birthday"