Officer Sam

Officer Sam visited our classroom today for one last visit this year.  Today he spoke about being prepared for an emergency.  Students thought about how they might be prepared in case of a tornado, storm, blizzard or fire.  They thought about what items they might want to have on hand and where to go in each situation.  The students had a great discussion and Officer Sam helped them to all understand how being prepared can...

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Synergizing!

The BUGS have been working very hard in math.  They have learned several different ways to represent numbers.  We know: standard form (156) expanded form (100 + 50 + 6) unit form (1 hundred 5 tens and 6 ones) word form (one hundred fifty-six) We are also learning how to compare numbers.  We just learned how to use the symbols, <, > and = to compare numbers that are larger, small or the same as another number.  Today...

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Everybuggy Blogs!

What are three things you can't wait to do over Christmas break? Why are you so excited about these activitie...

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AR Buttons

The BUGS were pretty excited about earning more AR buttons today!!  Vanessa L, Jayden (with his first!), Carter and Caleb celebrate their accomplishments! Madelynn (with her first), Spencer, Cadasia (her first!) and Ava were all excited, too! Way to read, BUG...

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Voices of the Future

Today we enjoyed the "Voices of the Future" choir from Paw Paw High School.  They came and sang several holiday songs for us.  They were amazing!! (Maybe some day, some of the BUGS will be in this choir?!...

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Learning Past Tense

This week we are learning about the patterns of "regular past tense" verbs.  We learned that these are "regular" because they follow a pattern.  We learned that past tense means it is something you do that already happened!  Students first challenged themselves to find as many regular past tense verbs as they could in 15 minutes.  Blake and Vanessa L. were our top detectives!  Blake found 30 and Vanessa found 29!!  Way to go! I sent students home last night with a challenge to see if they could figure out what sounds...

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AR Buttons!

It's been awhile since we got our AR buttons (the machine was broken for a little while) so we got all caught up today!  Wow!  We had a LOT of buttons to give out!!   Awesome reading, BUGS...

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Everybuggy Blogs!

What is your favorite fairy tale?  Why is it your favorit...

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Lion King

Today we got to go to the Later Elementary and see the LE students' performance of "The Lion King".  It was AMAZING!!  Mrs. Goodenough and her crew did a fantastic job!  We really enjoyed all the songs, the costumes, the dancing and the funny lines! What a great example of what we can do when we SYNERGIZE!!  This production took so much work by so many people.  We are so grateful as we really enjoyed the...

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