This Year in 4B

I have been writing the students' grade paragraphs this week and I realized how much this class has changed in the past four months. It is always hard to bring new students into our school because they usually don't have enough English to keep up.

At the start of the year this was a big problem. Many of our new students couldn't keep up with the lessons, couldn't use sentences to answer questions and understood very little. When we started with Spin D, there were only six students in the class that could do it without a lot of help. All of these students were with us last year.

I am happy to say that this week when we returned to Spin D for the first time in around a month, almost all the students were able to complete the work independently. We have finishe four pages and I expect to get through more next week.

While I was writing the grades I realized how much some students had improved. Looking at the work they did in September and the work they are doing now is amazing. You should be very proud of your children and how hard they have worked.

I wanted to mentin several students specially.

Ahmed Hejawi, Ahmed Quaraish, Maria, and Miqdam have all made great strides this year. Ahmed Q. might be the top student in the class now. He always works hard, his speech is improving and his writing is much better. Ahmed H. has improved in every area as much as any student in the class.

Miqdam is the most improved student in speech and in singing. He is always excited to participate and he has come so far this year. Maria studies as effectively as any student in the class. She always does well on material that we have covered and she has also made great strides this year.

These aren't the only students whose progress I am very happy with but I wanted to take time to honor them because of how much hard work they do in class and out.