Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Grant, Nathan, Caleb and Cadasia Keagan, Jayden, Drew and Abby Evan, Spencer, Devin and Mariela Ava, Blake, Jacob and Madelynn Vanessa L., Taylor, Sean and Carter Chan, Danielle, Katelynn and Vanessa S. The whole gang! Enjoying amazing goodies! Having fun with our friends. Checking out the goodie bags! A great day with great friends! Playing Halloween BINGO! Checking game...

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We Wondered...

Mrs. Koehn brought in a few pumpkins to decorate our room for the party.  We started to realize that we had a lot of things we wondered about pumpkins!  Caleb suggested we make a chart, so we used the KWL chart to see what we already knew, what we wanted to learn and what we learned at the end! To find information, we used a book about pumpkins.  It helped us to learn the answers to a lot of our questions, but we still wondered...

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Fire Safety

Today, a few of the members of the Paw Paw Fire Department came to school to talk with us about fire safety.  The Chief talked with us about when to call 911 (and when not to); what to do if our clothes catch on fire (Stop! Drop! and Roll!) and how important it is to have an escape plan at home! We also got to see and hear what a fireman would look and sound like if he came in our house to save us.  We know not to be afraid, even...

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First to 100!

Grant is the first student to get all 100 addition facts correct in 5 minutes!  He earned his choice of candy (Skittles, of course!) and a moment to celebrate his accomplishment.  Way to work toward your goal, Gra...

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Quick and Easy Activities for Home

Looking for more ideas of what you can do at home?  Try these! Reading: Ask questions!  Whatever your child is reading, ask questions.  Compare a character in this book to the last book your child read.  How is Marty like Horrible Harry?  How are they different?  What is the setting of this book?  Is that the same setting or different from Charlotte's Web?  How would you react if that happened to you?  Helping your child to think about the text, the characters and connecting a current book to life experiences,...

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We have been learning about prepositions and how they can really add interesting details to our writing.  We used a mentor text, "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert which is full of great prepositions to help broaden our understanding of these words.  We created our own sentences using prepositions and then created our own Leaf Man to demonstrate our writing! "Leaf Man is in the air and on the hill and glideing in the sky." by Madelynn "Leaf...

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Winners!

Today we were visited by Mrs. Newell, on behalf of the PTO.  All of our prowl participants who brought in pledge money are being recognized today at a special assembly.  Mrs. Newell stopped by our classroom to congratulate everyone and to share some special prizes with our top earners!  Jayden, Nathan, Grant, Keagan and Ava all get to have a special ride on a FIRE TRUCK!! Jayden, Keagan and Ava also get to have lunch with Mr....

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Synergizing!!

I sometimes wonder if other professions have the amazing moments that teaching holds.  Today during math, I challenged the students to read a particular math problem carefully (I'm always reminding them that good mathematicians are very careful readers!) and then to work with tenacity (a word we are learning about.  We call it "stick-to-it-ness"!) to solve it.  The problem looked like this: I gave the students time and I wandered...

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Are You Ready?!

Are you ready for November 13th?  The BUGS are working very hard on their writing!   Our first Sharing Day, "Authors are Artists (with words!)" will be held on Friday, November 13th in Room 18.  We invite all parents, grandparents, guardians, awesome neighbors and cool relatives to come see what we've been working on! ...

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