Free Books For Kids!!

The Early Elementary PTO provides a free book for every student in the building twice year. We LOVE free book day!!  The kids are so excited about their new books they can't wait to start reading! Thank you PTO!!  We love our new books!! ...

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Being the New Kid - by Amelia

On the first day everyone wanted to be my friend I said sure so now I have a lot of firends . I like this school  it is fun everyone is nice well being new is fun. I did not have to do the math test  insted I  got to read.I read a book about bad kitty- by Amel...

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"Poem in My Pocket" Day

Today is national "Poem in My Pocket" day!!  We thought this was a great day to start our new writing unit on poetry!  To kick off our day, I shared a poem with the class that I had written (they will all start writing their own poems next week!!) and then throughout the day we are looking for more great poems to put in our pocket so we can share them with friends!   A Poem in My Pocket by Mrs. Koehn I have a poem in my pocket, It...

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Blogging with the BUGS!!

Last month we started a mystery bio and we interviewed a random teacher and ask questions and she or he would answer the questions and we would write them down and after that we would write them down on a piece of draft paper and after you ask four classmates and you fixed your draft we were ready to publish and when you were done you could start a new draft.   When i interviewed my teacher it was my first grade teacher!I was suprised when i saw it was my first grade teacher and I was happy that i was back in my 1 grade classroom.Plus...

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In Case They Ask...

We used an app in class today called "ColAR Mix" that took coloring pages (specific ones printed out from the website) and animated them.  The kids loved this (it's pretty cool, I'll admit) and will probably mention it a time or two at home.  You can find more information about the app here if you're interested in finding out more (it's $3 for several coloring pages that will then animate with the app)....

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BUG Authors

Double Trouble- by Avery Once upon a time deep in the woods was a big grey house and in that house was a family of seven.  There was a little girl that was three years old and her name was Macy. Macy was the youngest in the family and had two brothers and sisters. One of the brothers names are Bricen and the other is Braden. Bricen is 9 and Braden is 12 and they never fight.But there sisters do! There sisters names are Kaitlyn and Kelly and there 15. One day Kelly and Bricen went outside to play hide and seek,they played and played while...

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Funny Quotes from Apples to Apples Today

"Squirrels are creepy because they have those chubby cheeks!"  - Abigail (the word was "lively") - "I only had two people.  "boys" and "George Washington" and George Washington is very much dead."   - Orr...

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Reading Month Winners!

March is Reading Month and we have been putting extra focus on reading for the past four weeks.  We've had special activities each day and we've been keeping reading logs of all the books we've read during the month.  Prestyn was our class's GRAND PRIZE WINNER, reading 120 books this month!!  Tyler came in second place with sixty books!      The whole class together read 570 books this month and the school read over...

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Blogging with BUGS!

This is so awesome!!!Because I got to interview a teacher!Now we are writing about them and other teachers are guessing what the teacher is and going to this app and they see a video and they watch it and they will see if they are right or not. Oh and I almost forgot my class does is a illustration when we are done publishing and publishing is our final draft.The last thing is we make thank you notes for the teachers that we interviewed after all that stuff. - from Kolleana My class got to interview teachers and helpers that are in Paw Paw Early...

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Too Nice to Be Inside!

It was just too nice today to stay inside!  We've been WAITING for a day as nice as this one to go outside and just READ!!  We loved the warm spring breeze and the bright blue sky.  (We're also glad we were all out of school and back home before the storm clouds let loose!) Emma K. and Kolleana  Dylan Jose and James shared some giggles. Everyone had a great time reading outside this afternoon!&nbs...

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