Greetings from Room 119! We had a very fun week packed with learning! We were having SO much fun that Miss Coe wound up with a cold and had to leave school early on Friday - bummer :-(. Thankfully Mrs. Doran was more than willing to take over with our first grade friends!
Miss Coe did get to join us for our field trip this week, which was very cool! We saw Shoemaker and the Elves at the Marquis Theatre in Northville. We sat in the audience and watched two shoemakers who were struggling through hard times get visited by elves who made them wonderful shoes to sell! The actors and actresses did a great job, and Bennett even knew one of the actresses in the play! THANK YOU again to the chaperones who were able to come with us and all who volunteered!!
As April came to a close this week we finished up poetry month by writing our own haikus! We did a fabulous job with our work and Miss Coe and will be posting lots of our poetry on our bulletin board in the hallway. Loon Lake staff and students will be so impressed!
This week we got new books to read during Reader's Workshop! We practiced finding the main characters in our books and identifying some of their character traits. Miss Coe has been reading Pippi Longstocking to us after lunch each day, and we practiced by identifying Pippi as adventurous, brave, dishonest, and silly!
In math we have been using what we know about equal parts to learn about fractions! When we talk about fractions we often talk about dividing things up evenly: pizzas, crackers, pies...it makes us hungry sometimes! Miss Coe is impressed by how quickly we are catching on to fractions - it must be the food relation! ;-)
This week in science we learned about solids, liquids, and gases. We talked about what kind of characteristics solids have, thought of different examples of solids, and then organized our solids into where we could find them: at home, at school, both place, or neither place. We found that many of the solids we thought of (like chairs, TVs, computers, tables) could be found at home and at school! We also got new science notebooks this week that we will use to keep track of all of our scientific discoveries! Fun!!
Miss Coe will be back in action this week in Room 119! Her last day with her 26 first grade friends is Thursday, and she is already feeling very sad :-(. Expect visits from Miss Coe after she leaves! Have a great week!
