Thursday, March 29, 2018

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Ava, Landon and Jayden all returned their Book-It forms from Pizza Hut and earned a free personal pan pizza for a month of reading...
Posted by Mrs. Koehn On 3:47 PM
We celebrated a month of reading today with some crazy dancing to songs about animals! "Who let the dogs out?!?!" Then we curled up with some books (and maybe a furry friend) to read! We all love finding a cozy spot and a good book! What a great way to spend some time! All the students who completed their reading month calendars got to pick out a brand new book to keep!  Finally, Mrs. Mayne read the class a great book...

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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For part of our "Paws for Reading" Reading Month events, today we had some amazing frisbee dogs come visit the Early Elementary! These dogs were sooooo cool!! They did way more than just catch frisbees!  They could jump so high and balance and run so fast! We really enjoyed seeing them and learning about the training they go through to learn these amazing trick...

Friday, March 23, 2018

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Yesterday, we were learning about stems and we talked about what we already know about stems.  We realized that scientists have to be able to PROVE what they know or think through experiments.  We thought long and hard about what we could do to PROVE that stems take water and nutrients from the roots or the ground to the leaves or fruits.  We all decided that putting the stems in water would be a great first step but we couldn't think...
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Paws came to visit us today as a special Reading Month treat!! He was super awesome and fun! Thanks for visiting the elementary schools today, Paw...

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

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For our unit on plants, today we were learning about the function of roots. We talked about how roots help bring food and nutrients to the leaves and fruits of a plants and how the roots help hold a plant in the ground so it doesn't fall over. We decided the BEST thing scientists could do when discussing roots was to actually LOOK at some roots! We didn't think one of our classroom plants would mind too much if we gently took it out of the...

Friday, March 16, 2018

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Truman the Newfoundland therapy dog came to visit our class today!! As part of our Reading Month activities, therapy dogs are visiting our classrooms so we can take time to "pause for books".... ...with some "PAWS for books!!" Thank you to our handler, Sue for bringing Truman in to visit u...

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

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Addison and Kit both earned the candy bar of their choice for getting a perfect 100 on their addition facts!  They have been working so hard to be able to fluently add! This skill helps them solve math problems faster and to dedicate their thinking to higher-order portions of problems rather than the more basic computational part! Awesome work, girls...

Monday, March 5, 2018

Posted by Mrs. Koehn On 10:25 AM
Mrs. Koehn is going to learn about ways to use technology in the classroom this week. What are some ways you think we should use iPads in the classroom for learning? If I were a teacher, I would use Raz Kids because it is reading.  By Riley J. If I were a teacher, I would use the iPads for math games and reading games like Raz Kids.By Addison If I were a teacher and my kids had trouble and I didn't know what to do I would use...

Friday, March 2, 2018

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Hayden, Ava, Caylin and Natalie all earned a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut for reading at least 20 days in February!! Aiden, Carter, Kit and Jayden did too! Way to read BUGS...