Miss+Lauren

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Lauren! I am a student from URI and a classroom volunteer in room 125 through the South Kingstown CARES program. I have been with my first grade friends in room 125 with Mrs. Rosen for the past two years. However, after this Friday (January 20th) I will be taking a break for a few months so I can complete my student teaching. I will use this page to keep in touch with all of my wonderful friends from room 125 until I return in May.

January 20, 2012: Today was my last day for a while with all of my wonderful first grade friends in room 125. Thank you for such a fantastic FAB Friday; you all really filled my bucket today! The book you made for me is perfect and full of beautiful illustrations and words, I have really enjoyed reading your thoughtful letters. I hope that you will continue to be a fabulous class and I am very proud of each and every one of you! Since the beginning of the school year I have been so lucky to visit you every week and see the progress and growth you have made in first grade. I cannot wait to come back in May and see how my friends are doing! Keep up all the hard work! :)

January 24, 2012: Today was my first day of student teaching with my 6th grade friends. Thanks to all the wonderful gifts from you I now have a nicely organized desk! I even took a picture so all my first grade friends can see! :) Thanks everyone!!



February 17th, 2012: I went in today to visit all of my friends in Mrs. Rosen's classroom before everyone went away on February vacation next week. It was wonderful to see all of you and how well you have been doing in the past month since I've been gone. I hope you all have a wonderful vacation and have fun with all of your adventures with your family and friends! I will be going to Spain for the week and knowing how much my friends like to learn Spanish words and I will be sure to update you throughout my trip! :)

February 18th, 2012: I arrived in Spain today. I am in the northern part of Spain in a city called Santander, it is right on the northern coast of Spain. Here are some pictures from my first day as I walked around with my friends. :)



February 19th, 2012: I thought that you might like to learn some new Spanish words. One you may already know is hola, it means hello. However, in Spanish they do not pronounce the 'h' sound so hola is said like 'o-la.' Another important word is adios which means good-bye. Adios is pronounced like this: 'Ah-de-o-s.' Two other important words are how to say thank you and you're welcome. Thank you is gracias in Spanish and your welcome is de nada. These words are said like 'grah-ce-us' and 'day-nah-dah.' Now you can try to practice some more Spanish with Mrs. Rosen in class! :)

February 21st, 2012: Today we went to Pe <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">ña Carbaga, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">it is a mountain that overlooks the whole city of Santander. Isn't it a beautiful view!



<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> February 22nd, 2012: <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> Today is my last day in Spain, for this trip, and today I am leaving to go to Italy to see the cities of Rome and Florence. Before I left I spent the morning playing with my friend's two puppies. Aren't they adorable! The big one is a Spanish Mastiff and is only four months old! He is so big though!! The other one is a Boxer and she is only three months old. Their name<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">s are Orión and Venus.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">February 23rd, 2012: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">We arrived in Italy last night. This is map of what it would have been like to drive from Spain to Italy. We flew so our flight flew directly over the Mediterranean Sea.



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">When we got to Rome last night we walked around a little to find a place for dinner and saw the Trevi fountain, it is a very famous place in Rome and is very beautiful! We stopped and ate some gelato, an Italian treat like ice cream. Today we also went to the Vatican and the Pantheon. The Pantheon was built by the ancient Romans and is almost 2,000 years old!! Today the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome! I liked the Pantheon so much that we ate dinner right across from it.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">February 24th, 2012: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For our trip today we decided to take the train to Florence, it is further north in Italy in a region called Tuscany. It was a three hour ride! But it is a city known for its art, so it was worth the long ride. One of the prettiest buildings was the Duomo, the main cathedral in Florence. I also really liked the paintings of an artist called Botticelli and the statue of David by Michelangelo. I liked the statue of ll Porcellino too, it is a statue of a boar and if you drop a coin in it's mouth it is supposed to bring you good luck, if you rub it's nose it's supposed to mean you will return to Florence again one day. After a long day of touring the city, and eating lots of pizza and pasta, we took the train all the way back to Rome. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">February 25th, 2012: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It was our last day in Italy, tomorrow I will fly home. Today in Rome we went to the Roman ruins. We saw the Colosseum, a giant stadium for the entertainment of the ancient Romans, and the Roman Forum (all the ruins were around the same time as the Pantheon).

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">May 15th, 2012: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Miss Lauren is back in room 125! :)