Hello Tree House Parents,

This week we covered:

Phonics

We focused on the T and L sound. We also spent a lot of time on words that are used quite often. (I.E. He, She, On,Like, and It)

Reading

We read "Reading Jig and Tap" and "What does Pig do?" These stories allowed the students to focus on short i sounds and continued repetition of the short a. The stories also emphasized calendars and why they are useful. For example we use them to remember what we did and what we are going to do in the future.

English Second Language Book

We covered the chapter on growing and changing. Which told us about the different parts of us that get bigger and taller as we get older. And also the different abilities we learn thanks to these growth spurts.

Student Comments

Irene is steadily increasing with her phonics ability. I would like for her to put more effort though in participating with our discussions.

Gwen loved the finger paint activity and shined when we were going over our vocabulary.

Andrew did well this week and was a great help illustrating how growth works. I want him to make sure to keep it up and work a bit on speaking out of turn, since at times he can distract others.

Yo-Yo had a fantastic week, I believe this is the first week where he really took control of his focus and he did great. He finished all his writing and contributed a lot to the verbal parts of my class. He and I will both be sure to continue his improvement in and outside the class.

Devon improved a lot with his writing speed, lets hope he keeps it up!

Julia's English speaking is unfolding very quickly now, and its great to see that she is taking it on her own initiative to ask when she doesn't understand something.

Hanna is continuing to work hard on her vocabulary comprehension! She just needs to keep working on not talking out of turn.

Timmy was sick this week, I hope you feel better soon and hope to see you in class next week.

Tony is doing great with the vocabulary and I love that he enjoys reading and answering questions in class. He still needs to work on how many outside comments he makes in class since at times it can distract other students.

well, hope everyone enjoys their weekend! Next week is Open House!!

T. Jason