Bamboozled by a Teacher!!

Mrs. Koehn had a problem today.  She needed exactly 1,000 straws for the math lesson, but she forgot to count them out ahead of time!  The BUGS volunteered to help her get them counted so they could get on with the math lesson.  With so many helpers, it was quickly decided that it would be faster if they bundled the straws into groups of ten and then counted from there.

 The kids really synergized as they had some counting and some bundling!  Once all the straws were in bundles of ten, the BUGS quickly realized that when we counted by tens to a thousand we got off count and had to keep starting over!  It was so frustrating and was taking forever!! 



It was finally suggested that we take the bundles of ten and bundle them into hundreds!!  We counted out ten tens and put them into a bundle of one hundred straws!  When we finished, it was so easy to count up the hundreds and see that we had 1,000 in our bundles and six straws left over!!  (It was super cool to realized that we bundled ten ones to make a ten, ten tens to make a hundred and ten hundreds to make the thousand!!)



What was not so cool was realizing we had been bamboozled by Mrs. Koehn!!  She didn't "forget" to count the straws this morning!  She just wanted us to have some hands-on learning with counting by ones, tens and hundreds all the way to one thousand!!  That sneaky Mrs. Koehn...

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Everybuggy Blogs!

What are your three favorite things to do in fall?

Three things I like to do in the fall is to rake the leaves. Second is to jump in the leaves. Last is to rake nuts. By Hayden

Three things I like to do in fall is make a huge pile of leaves. Next I like to play with my dog. Finally I like to rake the leaves.That is what I like to do. By Addison

Three things I do in fall is rake the leaves, jump in piles of leaves, finally I make the leaves fly. That’s what I like to do. by Riley J

Three things I love to do in fall are jump in lots of leafs and throw leafs in the air and last but not least I love to get covered in leafs. By  Landon.

I like to jump into leve piles and ride my bike thru leve piles and run areond. by Dominick.

Three things I like to do in the fall is to play in the leafs. I also like to do is rake the leafs. Finlly  what I like to do is go to school. By Charlotte.

Frist thig that I do is I jump in leefs. Next I ride my bike. Theed I rake the lefs.  By Parker

I like to jump in the leavs. I like to rake them. I like to play with the leavs. By Brennan.

Three favorite things to do in fall jump in leaf piles and rake leaf and throw leafs up. By Chase

My favorite things to do in fall is jump in piles of leafs. Also I Love to play with my neighbors. Finally I also like to sometimes go shopping with my mom and Corinne.Those are my reasons what I like to do in the fall.    By Kit

I like to jump in the leves in the fall and I like to run in the fall and wok in the  leves with my dog Kiki.   By  Natalie

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Which is the Better Tool?

Today we spent time exploring two different tools for measurement. 

We wanted to know when would it be best to use a centimeter ruler...

...and when would it be best to use a meter stick.

We loved measuring objects around our classroom!

We also loved learning why they are called "CENTimeters!!" 

(Who knew Latin could be so cool!?)

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Paw Paw Prowl!!

What a beautiful day for the Prowl fundraiser!

The kids were super excited to run, walk and laugh as they earned money for our school!

The PTO volunteers sure did an amazing job! 
They kept us hydrated and jamming to tunes as we went around the track!

We collected bands for each lap we made so we knew how much money to collect from our sponsors!

Thank you to everyone who supported our school through this event!

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What is something you are not good at...YET, but you want to get better at? 

How will you get better?

One thing I am not good at yet is math. The stradjy that will help me is lisning and learning. By Charlotte

One thing I am not good at yet is getting all of my challenge words right on my spelling test. I will get better by practicing every week on my spelling test. By Hayden

I am not good at telling time yet. But I will get better at it if I keep on trying when we do it together. By Kit.

One thing I’m not good at yet is doing subtraction. But I can get better at subtraction by practising. By Riley J.

I am not good at jumping off the swings. But I will get better by practicing. By Addison

One thing I am not god at yat is spaling. I will get beter at spelling because I will practice at it. By Mayeli.

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One thing that I Am not good at yet is spec. I will practice by Jonathan.

I am not good at reading yet.  I will pracktis reading evere week. By Riley M.

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I am not good at spel yet and I am wreck on it. By Luke

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