Friday in Ellen's Room

• A United States Coast Guard helicopter landed on the Hillcrest playground.
• Before it landed, a Coast Guard member let himself down from the hovering helicopter as students watched and cheered.
• The helicopter made a lot of wind as it landed. Some of the students nearly blew away!
• Reggie's teacher held onto his shirt.
• During ELL time, students retold the stories they read this week by using the large picture cards.
• Other ELL students added comments at the end of each classmate's talk. They are learning to be a good audience.
• Students finished reading The Life-Size Zoo. The teacher brought toy animals to play with as the class read and studied the book.
• We learned that a red panda is not really a panda. It looks more like a fox, and is related to the same family as the raccoon.
• We also learned that a rhinoceros uses mud as a kind of sunblock.
• North Bend High School graduation is tonight. Hillcrest congratulates them.