This week was test week. We had our Science and Reading tests and the students did very well on them. I am especially pleased with their results with the Reading test. Next Monday will be the Chapter one VOC test. Please remind your children to study for it as well as finish their homework.
Ben had a bit more trouble on the reading test that the others but still passed with an 80%. I will work with him and the rest of the class on how to find the answers to questions in a text.
Shawn is doing well. I had to talk to him a couple times this week about his laughing too loud at inappropriate times during class, but he did very very well on his test.
Ashley is also doing well. She reads very well in class activities and has a lot of good writing ideas.
Harrison is aware of his grammar when writing stories. He uses the past tense when he writes, but still sometimes forgets some of the verbs. It is great that he is trying.
Jordan's past tense in his writing is excellent. It seems to come to him naturally.
Joe had some trouble on the last VOC quiz and needs to study before the quizzes if he wants to do well. It is obvious that when he studies he does it very well because he did so well on the first test.
Richard need to think about what tense he is using when writing. He is writing the same way he talks. He has a great vocabulary and is a very fluent speaker that is easy to understand, but he almost always uses the base verb with no -s, -es when talking and so when he is writing e makes these same mistakes. Don't worry about it, it is my goal for the class to get them to speak and write in the proper tense. (at least most of the time)