Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween! I hope to see all of you this weekend. Please feel free to invite your friends to join us for the Saturday and Sunday events.

Irisa has been doing well this week. Congratulations on finishing the student focus project strong!

Iris has had a good week as well. We’re all getting excited about Halloween!

Perry has been more focused this week. Good work.

Jessica has been a little quiet this week. We should encourage her to speak up in class.

Kevin has proved again that when he focuses, he does excellent work. I’d like to see more good behavior out of him.

Jordan is more and more active in class. Keep it up!

Andy has been a little stressed about his mid terms at Chinese school I hope he comes back next week ready to work.

Exams are over and we're back in the swing of things preparing for Halloween. It's going to be a great party, I hope you all get a chance to stop by.


I had a conversation to Irisa the other day about the way she has spoken to teacher John. She often complains about doing student focus, but she always comes back with a smile on her face.

I was surprised to hear that Jessica has been complaining about her homework on the weekends. The work load hasn’t changed and is rather light, by comparison. Reading a short story and answering a few questions shouldn’t long if she sits down and focuses.

Iris has been having a great week. Keep up the good work.

Jordan has been contributing more and more. Great work on your exams.

Perry has been having a good week. He’s been getting better and better about staying on task during class time.

Andy needs to be more aware of his tone of voice. He often speaks out in frustration about not understanding something, but the way he phrases his question comes off as confrontational and disrespectful. We spoke about this the other day.

Kevin’s rewritten essay was quite good. He has the potential to be a strong student if he applies himself.

Exam Week

We’re in the middle of exam week. It’s never the most fun time but they are trucking through our work. Results, so far, are quite positive. We certainly are getting a feel for where we will need to improve over the rest of the semester. We have begun working on writing full, multi-paragraph essays. This is a very hard but essential skill to develop.

Irisa has been great this week. She’s been doing good work with Teacher John and it will pay off. Keep it up.

Iris has been studious and diligently completing her work. Keep it up.

Perry has been doing good work. He still goofs off a little too much in class.

Jessica has been well behaved in class but she often completes her writing assignments lazily. She should pay more attention to making careless mistakes.

Kevin’s discipline issues are getting worse. He is intentionally disruptive. I had to speak to him for the third time the other day about copying other people’s work and presenting it as his own.

Jordan has been doing great work. His reading has improved considerably. He is slowly beginning to speak up more in class.

Andy and another boy were arguing when we went to the bowling alley two weeks ago. He has been complaining and in a bad mood ever since. It’s a shame to see him reverse all the progress he has made. I hope he will bounce back next week.

Double 10 Day Week 10

Happy Double Ten Day everybody! I had a blast bowling last week. Everybody else seemed to be having fun as well. I hope you all have a pleasant three day weekend. We’ve been making great progress and reviewing for our first exams next week.

Iris has been doing good work. She’s always focused in class. She should work on her intonation and fluency when reading aloud. That will come with time and practice.

Irisa is still doing great work. I’m continually impressed by her intonation and fluency reading out loud. Keep up the great work.

Kevin still has an attitude problem in class. He is disruptive to his other students. I have spoken to him about this numerous times.

Andy has been doing great work and focusing in class. Great improvement here. Keep up the good work.

Perry has been a little too excited in class this week. We need to work on finding ways to settle down and focus on days when he has a lot of energy. If he focused all that energy on working hard instead of goofing off, he’d be a wiz kid.

Jordan has been doing solid work. He’s still quiet but attentive and on the ball when I ask him questions.

Jessica has been a little lazy with her workbooks and vocabulary sentences. She makes an awful lot of careless mistakes that she shouldn’t be making.

Creative Pictures

We had a great time taking creative pictures last Friday. A few of our best pictures are here on the blog. We’re all looking forward to bowling tomorrow afternoon.

Irisa has had a great week, as always. She’s been doing a great job with the Treehouse TV program and is on track academically. She was the only student to score 100% on her quiz last week.

Iris has also been doing good work this week. She did good work on her spelling test. Keep it up.

Perry is still behind on one or two assignments. He needs to settle down in class.

Jessica has been a little lazy about the way she completes her work. She often makes careless mistakes on her written work.

Andy has been have a very good week. He has been working efficiently and productively. I was sorry to miss him last Friday.

Jordan has been doing good work. He is still quiet but he answers questions accurately and astutely. His reading out loud is showing improvement.

Kevin has been a big distraction to our class this last week. Other students cant’ get their work done because he has been talking out of turn on all occasions and being disruptive.