This week, we read a story called Little Gorilla. It was about Little Gorilla, who everyone loved, and one day he grew and grew... and everyone still loved Little Gorilla!

We did several pages of classwork reading exercises, as well as phonics. We did a lot of work on ending sounds.

We also learned new vocabulary from the Little Gorilla story, including: aunt, uncle, forest, through, everybody, began, parrot, etc.

Andrew has been better about focusing and completing his work, though he is still more distracted compared to the other students in the class. He wrote some very good sentences this week.

Aston needs to complete his written work. He is slow because he cannot focus. During a writing exercise, he managed to finish his worksheet around the same time as everyone else, which demonstrates that he is capable of doing the work if he just focuses long enough.

Benson continues to do good work. He is good at trying to sound out the words when he reads. He speaks and reads quietly but clearly.

Eason does his work well but has a bad attitude about doing it and is very disruptive in the classroom.

Gwen has been more distracted this week. As a result, she hasn’t been able to follow the reading as well.

Henry did a very good baseball illustration of a pitcher, batter, and catcher this week. He has the best handwriting in the class.

Irene is very eager to learn: she loves to read and work on her writing.

Leo is very eager to give answers in class. Sometimes he has trouble understanding the directions for classwork exercises, but after doing a few together, he understands the concept of what he should do.

Phil is always among the first to finish writing out his vocabulary words. But he has to work on remembering what the word means as he writes them so that he can remember them better in the future.

Yo-Yo likes to talk instead of doing his work. He has been better about finishing his work when it became clear that he would have to stay after class if he didn't finish his work during class time.