Week 36 in Review

Greetings from Room 119! We had a busy week with so much left to squeeze in in these last weeks of school. Of course we made time for our most important work - to spread kindness. We sent love to the family of a former Thoughtful Thursday recipient. Sadly, Mr. Marc (from the fall) passed away so we made a project for his wife, 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son. You can see that project HERE.

 Speaking of Thoughtful Thursdays, Yvette (former recipient) sent us a sweet thank you for the love we sent her. We loved these cupcakes. Mrs. Doran was out for learning at Oakland Schools but Mrs. Olsson took some pictures since she knows how Mrs. D. loves to share these sorts of things with you.

A very happy birthday to our friend, Austin. He turned the great eight! Sto Lat!

Reading, reading, reading! We took our iReady test in reading and continue to read The Secret Zoo. If you haven't heard about it, ask us about it! Next week we'll be learning about and exploring fairy tales!

We've been writing personal narratives this week that went along with what we've been learning about "the past" in Social Studies. Mrs. D. didn't take any pictures of us writing but she did snap some pictures of us voting for Room 119's next LLE Leader of the Month. Each month we nominate someone and explain WHY we think they should be chosen.

We had a few different focuses this week in math. We continue to work on fractions and also measured to the nearest half inch. In addition we are learning how to subtract by "borrowing", not as you probably remember it, but by using base ten shorthand to help us visualize the process. It was an easy transition then for most of us to start the trade-first method to subtract.

In social studies we've been looking at where things come from. We split into groups to research and learn about a product and how it was made. Next week we'll be sharing our learning with the rest of the class. We can't wait!

Mrs. Richards has been visiting us this year from the library to share with us some of her favorite books. This was her last visit. We have really enjoyed her time with us this year. Thank you for coming in!

Our Mystery Reader this week was a former Room 119 student who came back to read to her sister (a current Room 119 student). Lily did a great job reading to us and I'd say Gwen really enjoyed it too! Great job!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. For those who may not have heard, I ran my first half marathon this weekend after starting running last October.  I didn't die and was even able to smile for a moment at the finish! Thanks for all the encouragement!

Week 35 in Review

Greetings from Room 119! We hope you all had a great week! We were busy in Room 119 but made time for our most important work, to lift someone up. You can see the Thoughtful Thursday project we made for Liz by clicking HERE.

We had a lot to celebrate, including these two great kids turning 8! Gwen actually had a crown last week on our field trip day so Mrs. D. forgot to take a picture. We sang to both Gwen and Tyler and wished them both a great 8th year! Sto Lat!

Ramadan Mubarak to all our Muslim families! We've enjoyed learning about the holiday and have been reading some great books! We even were able to share some of our books with others around LLE. Ask us what Ramadan is all about.

LLE turned 50 this year! We all went outside and got a cool picture taken by a drone! Every class also made their own stepping stone. Someone suggested we make a "119" on our stepping stone. We voted and everyone agreed. We did a great job! Everyone placed one stone.

We love reading! Ask us what's happening in the Secret Zoo! We're learning about the past in social studies so we tied it to our writing. We loved writing personal narratives about a time in our past. Ask us what we wrote about.

Did you know we had a real meteorologist come to teach us this week for science? We learned all about weather and even were able to see some cool equipment meteorologists use to predict the weather!

In math we're learning all about fractions. We're finding that each day things are becoming a little more clear! It helps that some of our peers are great at sharing their thinking with the rest of us! We have great math minds in Room 119!

We ended the week with a special Mystery Reader. We were so excited to hear a "dad" was coming in to read to us. Gwen was really excited to learn it was HER dad. He did a great job and read two really cool books!

Have a great week!

Week 34 in Review

Greetings from Room 119 and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! We did not take any pictures of writing this week because we made "top secret" books all about our #1 teachers... Our mom!!! Speaking of teachers, Mrs. Doran was so thankful for all of the love you showed her this week for Teacher Appreciation Week! Our Thoughtful Thursday project went out to the family of Kat. You can see her project by clicking HERE.

This week we celebrated going screen free! We had the class with the most participants!  We earned a free recess and treat from the PTA. Limiting screen time has GREAT benefits. Thanks to all who participated!

We had some amazing visitors this week. A couple years ago, Room 119's students lifted up Ms. Cleveland in a Thoughtful Thursday after she suffered from a stroke. This week she was well enough to come in and talk about the experience and taught us things to look for if someone is having a stroke. Ask us what FAST stands for.

Read, read, read! We continue to inhale books. We finished "The Secret Zoo" and are now reading the second book in the series. We've really enjoyed our read-alouds and all the great thinking we do during them. Ask us about the book!

We began our science unit learning about air. We enjoyed exploring and talking about what air is. In this unit we will learn all about air and weather!

In math we enjoyed learning another strategy to solve multiplication problems called arrays. We also took our Unit 8 test and will take our cumulative test next week before starting our final math unit!

On Friday we had a great time at our field trip to Legoland!  We had a lot of fun and enjoyed being creative in our lego building and our lego writing! Special thanks to all of the chaperones that came with us on the bus and those who met us there. We had a great time!

Week 33 in Review

Greetings from Room 119! We had a great week and many of us went SCREEN FREE! To be true to those going screen free, we skipped our screen time and other activities that involved screens. Mrs. D. had to use screens a bit to put together the video we made for Mr. Mitch. You can see it by clicking HERE. We also heard from THREE former Thoughtful Thursday recipients this week who also happened to send sweet treats! This is proof that kindness spreads kindness!

Donuts from Ms. Morris

Ice Cream from Mr. Matt

Cupcakes from Gigi

We also earned the most PBIS class tickets from other teachers in the building for the month of April to be LLE's PBIS class of the month!

We had so much celebrating this week, why not add more! We had two of our friends turn the great eight! Happy Birthday to Annie and Peter!

If we haven't yet told you about the Secret Zoo, ask us about it! Talking about what we're reading, making connections and predictions is what great readers do! It's also why reading to us is a great way to help us become better readers.

We are transferring the skills we learn from our read-alouds into our own reading experiences and we love sharing them with others.

We paired our writing this week with our studies in social studies. We're learning about economics and with it comes a lot of new vocabulary - like producers, consumers, goods and services!

We started the week reviewing what we learned about 3D shapes and were still amazed that learning about shapes was considered math! This conversation prompted Mrs. D. to read us "The Math Curse" because yes... everything could be a math problem!

Our favorite thing in math this week was learning multiplication. We have learned many strategies to solve these problems that aren't as hard as we thought they'd be. Early in the week we wrote in our reflection journals that math was a little tough, but by the end of the week we wanted more! What a great week of learning!

We ended the week with TWO Mystery Readers. Peter's mom and sister came in and read to us and we had a great time. Thank you for coming in to read to Room 119!