Journaling with the Inchworms - Feb. 28

Topic: How do children change as they grow older?

Children change as they grow older because like if they don’t like Strawberys they will probly like them when they grow up. Even if baby’s don’t like oranges the will even like it when they turn seven years old. Children also change as they grow older because they GROW!! I do not like Mash patatos but I will like it when I grow up. I love orange juice but I probly won’t like it when I grow up TO! They could probly even grow if they go to country to the city. That’s my favorite part the city. Those are how children change as they grow older. - Carlysha

When child’s have there their birthday they get taller every time that they get their just a little taller every time. Everyone needs to eat healthy things and not bad things. If you don’t eat healthy you will still grow but it is still bad for your body. All baby’s will grow even baby’s that are not in this country or city. Every time a big kid or a small kid will soon be an adult even if it will take forever in their life even if there are a baby.  - By Krysti

When kids get older they start going to bigger grades and then collage. Collage is were you learn important things. Collage is sometimes hard for some people. Collage is when you work hard. A lot of times collage is when you grow up. I think it’s important to go to collage because if your plans fail you need a backup plan. Like if you want to be a singer and you do not get it you need a backup plan. When they graduate collage they will probably get a job - By Taylor

When children grow they start to have memory’s of what they don’t like now but did when they were little kids like if a teenage boy liked Star Wars and he doesn’t now that means he’s growing . When little girls liked dolls but now they like nail polish it means there growing . If they don’t like what they like now you know there growing . It’s important that there growing though .  When they where little and they liked dolls and blocks . Then now when they like nail polish and racecars . It means there growing . By- Delaney 

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Journaling with the Snails - Feb 27

Topic: WaCkY WeDnEsDaY! 

Once upon a time there was this little boy name Sam he all was goes to the beach he all was tans and swims or play in the sand .  The  bee came it  buzz buzz  he ran  away as far far  away he ran to his house he hide under his coach then he sat for a second  then he ran to his room and whent to bed . his bed was  snowy  so white you can see right though it.  By Lindy

Once a upon a time there was a bee. The bee was so small that no one could see him. There was a sinitist he was rely good at what he dose. The sinitist did not know his window had a crack. By Phoebe

Ones  upon  a  time there  was a kid ho  was  a  scence  kid. One day he was in his scary  scence  room . He  said its good  to be  here  again  he  has  never  ben  had  put  people  in his  room. Then  his mom  said  it  was  dinner  time  no body  came  so she  turned  out  the  power . every body  said  im  coming  they  said. BySam    

Once there was a big bee and I mean really big bee.  He was friends with a guy with an I patch because  he got hit with a ball.  Once  he was a mean guy and he was vary mean to people. The bee told him to be nice to people or people will not like him. So the next week people loved him and he was nice to people. The nice guy told the bee that  he was a vary nice friend to have.  The next week he was vary nice. That is my story. By Cheyenne.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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Parachute Day!!

The BUGS get so excited when they have a substitute in gym class because that means it is PARACHUTE DAY!!  (Don't we all remember parachute day from elementary school?!)  I promised I would post some pictures of the fun they had today!

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Journaling with the Bumblebees - Feb. 25th

Topic: Tell why it is important to always do your best

If I can be good I don’t have to flip my bee and I never want that to happen and if I be to bad I will be in detention that’s bad. I can do my best because I can do jumps on a ramp and backflips and frontflips and all kinds of stunts.  -By Larz

I can do my best because I can do jumps if  I go in a ramp And  I do a big jump.  By Moises

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Journaling with the Blue Spiders and Butterflies - Feb. 22

Topic: Friday FREE CHOICE WRITE!

My dad is so fun because he will race and he will win a lot  and it is funny he will be like a cat. My mom is a nice mom but I do not live with her and I miss her so much and she miss me so much too but she will pick me up we will go to her house and it is so fun we play together play with the dog it is fun. My Grandma is amazing of making cookies and I help her make them and they are so good when the are done my Grandpa likes them a lot me too. I am so luck that I have a good family that loves me so much and that is fun a lot and that is amazing. By Ryleigh.

My mom is good so mach I love my mom so machi just a lot and My dad is a nice to me I love my dad so mach i will screm to my voes.  By Shayla      

My foocher  is  go to the navy  just  like   my  dad  . when  I old  enuf  I will  fight   for    cunshy     I   will    dead  for  my  friends  and   faimly .  by jack  

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Journaling with the Red Spiders - Feb. 21st

Topic:  Write a story about the wind

This is my story  about the windy  its very  windy out today .  It was super windy  yesterday.   Wind can get  very strong  so strong its hard to go through  it with out falling .  The braes can be gentle or not pretty  it can be really bad .That is how hard wind can get. By Lindy 

The wind is like a gentle braes in the summer air blowing across your face in a meow .By Nick.     

The wind is cool because it is a cool brese and I think it feels good all the time. I like the wind because it is the cool brese and I think it is a cool cool brese and I think it Feels realy good I like it always.I like the wwind and I pretty much liked it my whole life I realy like it and I like it all the time always and I like it all the time.My dad likes it to And sometimes he just stands there all the time and he likes it always in hisn life. By Trevor.

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Learning about Aquifers - by Eating One!

Today a team from the Village of Paw Paw came to teach us about aquifers.

They showed us a model of underground water, layers of dirt, clay and models of wells that go down into the ground to bring up water for our use.  

It was so interesting to see the model and to watch a "contaminant" like oil or chemicals as it flowed into the rivers and streams!  

We got to make "edible aquifers" when they finished, to practice what we had learned.  We used ice cream as a layer of clay, then poured Sprite over the top as the water.  We put crushed Oreos on top to be dirt, sprinkles to be topsoil, little marshmallows to be big rocks and boulders and then we used a nice big straw to be our well going down to find the water!  We even used a drop of red food coloring to demonstrate a contaminant in our system!  

We had no idea that learning about aquifers could be so...YUMMY!

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Journaling with the Dragonflies - Feb. 19th

Topic: Write about your best friend

 

My friends  Noah, Moises and Larz play with me  at  resess. We play games and do fun stuff. We do it all the time. A lot of times Larz is captan of the game.   By Dominick

 

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Making ice cream sundaes, sharing cards and laughs and playing BINGO...what a great day!

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Caught! (Reading, That Is!)

During snack time today, Nick was caught with his nose in a book! I love too see BUGS that are hungry for books!

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Journaling with the Snails - Feb. 13th

Topic: WaCkY WeDnEsDaY WrItInG!!

Today we rolled two Story Cube nouns and got the following as our story prompt:  

Once upon a time there was a dad . He was at work . His kid mist him but she knew that her dad has to . She knew he has to work so they could have money . Than that night he came home . the little girl did not no  home because she was sleeping . he has sent a letter. By phoebe

 

Ones  a  apon  a time  thar   was  a  envlopes . He was  different  to all of  the other  enylopes . He  was  a  talking  letter. He  said  hi  there you  there  no  talking  letter  he said. Then  he found  a  talking letter . Hi  there  the  little  letter  said to the  big letter hi the  big  letter  said . Do  you  now  any  other  letters  the  big  letter  replied  to  the little letter. No  just  you  now  the  letter  said  to the big  letter. By Sam  

 

Once apon a time there was an envelope  and a speech bubble that were friends.  There parens were friends to and that was how they met each other.  When they met they would ask each other queshtans to each other. This is my story. By Cheyenne.

Ones apon a time there was a envelope and it came to my house and it had my name and my papaws name on there to.

       I hopend the envelop and the first thing I sow was a speech bubble. It had a drawing with my papaw and on the top of his head was a speech bubble it said. Hi kk how are you doing? Are you having fun? Is the weather bad? Do you like Michagan ? Are you happy to move? That is my story. By-Kourtney

 

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Journaling with the Bumblebees - Feb. 12th

Topic: Tell about someone who makes you laugh

My big brother is so funny he has real funny jokes he is a good brother he is sometimes By Larz

Me and my little brother and my mom we play Tickle Tag also tickles us also that makes me laugh. When me and my little brother fight that makes me laugh so much. By Moises

 Today we are writing about something that makes you smile.  In  my case my little brother he smiles when  I say hi it is so cute . He makes me laugh.   by Hailey

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Journaling with the Blue Spiders and Butterflies - Feb. 11th

Topic:  Tell about a time when something unexpected happened to you.

Today and yesterday  I wonted to get  my medisin dun today and yesterday because I don’t like it because it is vaery yuky  but I didn’t caer by Ethan

  I will be writing a story for you today that is unexpected. When I got my 3ds games this week I was so happy that my Grandma got it for me and she was happy too. On Christmas I was so unexpected because my Grandpa and Grandma got me a 3ds and also I because my brother got a ds form me.  When my Grandma got me a puppy I got to name it and his name Gavin and I like that name. that is my story for you today about something that was unexpected happened to me. By Ryleigh.

I was men to my sisters so on chirsmis and I was so I trid to do it and I did so I was rile happy to be nice and one more thing I rile love to be nice to my sisters. Yesterday me and Carlysha played with me on the swens and that was nice av her to play on the swengs to I like Cerlysha vaer mach and she will be my bff for ever time she cams to my  hows. By. Shayla    

The  holy time that some thing happin is  thir    time.  Was on Christmas  in  2012.  I    got a  m  4  bb  gun . it was the same one  in magsin.  By  jackson

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Happy Birthday, Audrie!!

Happy golden birthday, Audrie!  Thanks for sharing cupcakes with us today!

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I Wonder...about APPLES!!

This week we started an inquiry-based cross-curricular lesson on apples.  The students shared their "wonder" questions about the fruit.  We talked about ways we can find answers to questions that we wonder about.  The class suggested we use the internet, read books, ask an expert and use the knowledge we already have.  These were great ideas!  We decided to use as many resources as we could to find answers to our questions.  

In the end, we had students think of ways they could share their new knowledge.  A few decided to blog about our final projects!

I am writing  about  posters that kids are making. We  are doing apple projects. It is fun. They are still doing  it. They  are awesome. They are working hard. They are painting now.  Some  people are not painting. They are putting apples on the poster. They are doing a good job. So kids can learn about apples that they did not  know.  I am blogging right now. Some people are done. By Dominick.

I can look on the Internet to search for apples and to how to make allot of  things to make with apples like applesauce  and apple juice  also apple pie. I can put facts on the apples so I can tell about the apples.  By Moises

The apple math problems are kind of easy but most are hard. The math problems are really apple problems because every station is about apples and we have to make it and we have to write the math sentence words is what the kids read in our school they have to read the sentences and solve the problem and that’s something how second graders do it. The math problems maybe hard for the kindagardenes. By Larz 

 

Of course, we all wondered about how different apples TASTE!!  We decided to do a taste test to decide which kind we liked the best.  We compared Fuji, Yellow Delicious, Granny Smith and Honeycrisp apples.  We looked at color, size, skin, and of course deliciousness! 

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Finally, we wrapped up our week by making notes about our favorite parts and what we learned from our investigation!  We can't wait to set our minds to wondering again!

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Journaling with the Red Spiders - Feb. 7th

Topic: Tell about the life cycle of a frog

This is my life cirle  of frogs. First they  start from a egg then they  will  brake open the egg . If the egg  gets dry the tadpole in side could die. When they  turn into a frog  thay can not breth. By Audrie

This is my story of a frog . first it starts out as a tadpole  then it grow and grows in till it’s a grow  in to a frog it can live for a lot of years  so  when they die they all was die  then the next frog will do the same thing  then  the next frog   so when they have baby they will have there own spawn . If the eggs get dry the tadpole will die .  Then  if they live they will grow up to be a grown frog . By Lindy

Frist the ther is frog spon. Then they tern into tadpols. By nick

This is the life stages of a frog. A frog can hop ten feet or eleven feet or thirteen Feet.When the frogs see the enemys  they stick they’re long sticky tungs at the Flys  and then they swolow  them and not chew on the bug they . The tree frog looks cool. By Trevor.

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