Happy Halloween!

A few pictures from our party today! (Special thanks to our "videographer", Mia for taking many of these candids!) A HUGE thank-you to everyone who sent in supplies and goodies for our party!! They were delish and the kids gobbled them right up! Happy Halloween everyon...

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"The Pinball Mishap" by Sophia (a Personal Narrative)

I was at the Classic Arcade (it had like 50 games) for my grandma's birthday.  When I was done playing Mario bros. (Mario is a guy that breaks bricks.) I went to find my dad.  I searched everywhere, but I couldn't find him.  In my head I said, "Where is he?" I said panicly.  I want to play the Sims.  Finally I found him playing pinball.  I thought that was strange because he usually doesn't play pinball.  I didn't know I made a mistake. So I went over to him and said, "Hi dad! Do you want to play the Sims with...

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"My Most Exciting Moment" by Christian (a Personal Narrative)

I was with my mom and dad n our way to ComicCon.  ComicCon is where people dress up and take pictures.  I was dressed up at Captain America.  It took forever to get there.  In the car I played on my phone.  I also read a book. When we got there, we had to wait in a line to go look around.  Then I saw an R2-D2.  He was moving forward and backward.  Left and right.  But then we saw a man with a remote control and realize that it was a robot.  After that I started to play with my phone. When we got...

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"A First Time for Everything" by Bella (a Personal Narrative)

December 22, 7:00pm It was silent but my heart still felt like it would explode.  We were eating.  I was seven and it was a late winter evening. In exactly 48 hours I would meet my grandma for the first time. December 23, 8:30am It was very early and my family had just passed through security.  It was my first time but my mom explained everything and I made it out alive.  We were all hungry so we headed to the food court.  Immediately my senses filled with the smell of fresh baked bread and hot pizza.  The chatter...

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TWO Clip Ups!!

Yesterday, in Music class, the BUGS went down in history as the FIRST CLASS EVER to receive TWO "clip ups" from Ms. Heasley!!!  Classes can earn a "clip up" for being awesome during music class and the BUGS were so amazing she just had to give them TWO!  This has never happened before EVER!!  WAY TO GO BUGS!...

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Afternoon Theater

As part of our review week for our new reading curriculum, the students get a chance to do some Reader's Theater.  Any student who has had me before knows how much I love Reader's Theater!!  Reading plays together helps build fluency, expression, prosody, build vocabulary, increase background knowledge and the experience is just FUN!!  There are fun plays for all reading levels so everyone can participate!  The kids really had a blast working on plays and we can't wait another six weeks before we get to do it again!  Here...

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Classroom Update - by Sophia

Hi! My name is Sophia and I’m here to tell you what’s up in our classroom. 1. Next week we will start unit 2 for our new Wonders program. 2. This week in Music we got two clip ups. (We are the first ever class to get two clip ups in the history of PPLE. No, more like the first ones in all of the Paw Paw schools.) 3. Halloween is coming soon so remember to wear your costume on Oct. 31,2018. Don’t forget to come to the parade at 11:15am. 4. Today is Arabella’s Birthday on October 26 2018.   So have a great weekend. This Sophia tuning out...

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Book Winners!!

TWO book winners this month!  Natalie and Victoria both won free books from Scholastic.  They entered reading coupons into a monthly drawing and they won! Congratulation...

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Wahooo it's Friday!!

We started something a little different today with GREAT success!!  For the kids who have worked hard, been responsible and turned in homework and school work all week long, Fridays during reading station time just got a bit livelier!  Those students now have even more choice over what they do during station time!!  On Fridays, the students may choose to write a blog post (see Bella's post prior to this about cats!)...   they...

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Cat Forever by Bella

Cats For Ever Have you ever wanted a cat? Do you already have one? If you’ve ever wanted a cat here are some things you’ll need to look for.does the cat you want have a nice friendly attitude or do you think it might bite or scratch you? You also want to check for heartworm or disease if so you could go to vet and have it checked. While looking into a cat you want to choose a breed that you like,for example if you don’t want hair all over the floor you may want a sphinx or a short hair. If you absolutely love fluffy furry adorable cats you may...

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Science Fair Information

Science Fair Information: Science Fair Presentations will be on Thursday, November 15th in the Later Elementary cafeteria. The project is worth 50 points (see point sheet that went home for details). The projects need to include: Experiment - all projects must be scientific experiments, not just models.  This means the students should be testing something and the results must be measurable.  No volcanoes, sink/float, yes/no,...

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Homecoming Spirit Week

This coming week is HOMECOMING!!  To help celebrate and get into the spirit, we have some special days next week.  Please do NOT go out and buy anything new or special for these days, just search for something you already have! Monday, October 8th - Comfy Clothes Day (pj's, sweats or comfy clothes!)Tuesday, October 9th - Mismatch Day (Do your best NOT to match today!) Wednesday, October 10th - Dress like your favorite character (TV, movie, book...) Thursday, October 11th - 4th grade wears as much WHITE as possible!! Friday, October 12th...

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Our Classroom Library

After the students helped me sort books for our classroom library, I spent the weekend at school putting it all together.  Putting together books I already had with our 300 new books as well as a move up two grade levels meant my system needed an upgrade! I created bin labels for all our categories.  Then I took all the books, gave them each a matching label so it would be easy to know which bin they belonged in. (Theoretically making...

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