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Dear parents, as the third month of the second semester comes to an end I want to take some time to inform you about what we have been doing so far. We are still continuously enforcing a positive learning environment that supports every student in the classroom. In spelling class the students learned a lot of new words and are [...]

Dear Parents, We are about halfway through the semester and the students have come a considerable way since we first began. Improvement is visible on all fronts, but most importantly, the students are better English speakers, writers, and readers. In Reading, we read a new story called “Why I’m Late Today.” A character-driven tale about a girl who is late [...]

Level 3A April 2018 Newsletter Another month has passed and things have continued to go well in L3A! Students have worked together to share and grow their knowledge on topics like Trees and Forests, Birds and Reptiles, Ocean Animals and Habitats. In Science students were challenged to use their critical thinking skills to interact with different science related activities in [...]

Dear parents, April is almost over. We’ve had an eventful four weeks! Everyone worked hard in preparation for the PTAs we had in the middle of the month. In Spelling class, we continued with our focus on compound words, learning about suffixes and prefixes. In Grammar, we reviewed adverb usage (as one of the spelling units targeted the suffix –ly, [...]

Dear Parents, We have continued our work with verbs in April. We focused on how to use helping verbs and auxiliary verbs. Our spelling units went over the prefixes re- and un-, the suffixes -ful, -ly, -er, -less, and -ness, and had a review unit. Students learned rules about how prefixes and suffixes impact the meaning of words they already [...]

Dear parents, April is nearly over, and the weather is finally starting to warm up a little. We spent the last month of Spelling class learning about prefixes and suffixes, particularly suffixes that turn certain parts of speech into other kinds, like –ly, -ness, and –less. In Grammar class we worked through several units in the book that focused on [...]