Building Reading Fluency and Expression

One of the ways we build our reading fluency and reading expression is by choral reading.  Our whole class choral reads the same story 2-3 times a week.  This repeated reading helps build reading fluency (speed and accuracy), sight word recognition, vocabulary familiarity and expressive skills!  Whew!  And we thought we were just having fun!  Here's a peek at what it sounds like!

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100% on Math Facts!

Congratulations to Christian and Benny!  They both got 100% on their addition facts today!!

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Everybuggy Blogs!!

If you were Charlotte, trying to save Wilbur's life, what word would you write in your web?

Lorn because wulbert cus he es luneng a lot. By Logan  

What I would put in the web to save whilbers life is cute. By Karleigh

I would write wonderful because Wieber is nice and friendly. By Jude

I will put good pig to save Wilburs life. By Kami

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Halloween Parade and Party

We had a great time on Halloween!  We loved the parade and the party!  We are very thankful that Mother Nature cooperated with our plans and gave us such gorgeous weather!

We played Halloween BINGO!

We loved laughing and having fun with all our friends!

We also had some amazing snacks!

Thanks to all the generous parents who supplied us with great food and wonderful help during the parade and party!  We couldn't do it without you!

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Extra Recess!

We did it again!
We earned another 25 compliments!
Mrs. Koehn took us outside for an extra recess to celebrate!!
(The next time we earn 25 compliments, Mrs. Koehn promised to bake us her world famous cookies!!)

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Fire Safety

Today, the Paw Paw Fire Department volunteer firemen came to the Early Elementary to talk with us about fire safety.  We know that if there is a fire, we need to GET OUT and STAY OUT!    We talked about making a plan with our families for practicing fire safety and for selecting a "safe spot" to meet in case of a fire at our home. 

We also got to see (and hear!) what a fireman would look and sound like if they came to rescue us.  Even though he sounds like Darth Vadar, we know he is a good guy and he is here to help us!

We learned that it's even okay to shout at him or to throw something at him so he can find us faster!

The firemen shared with us a very cool new tool!  They have a cool thermal machine that can tell where people are by measuring body heat!  This can help firemen find people even faster in case of a fire! 

We thought the images looked like ghosts!!

Thanks so much to all of the Paw Paw volunteer firemen and women!
We learned so much from you and we are so glad to have you in our community keeping us safe!

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Everybuggy Blogs!!

What makes the leaves turn such beautiful colors each fall?

I think the leaves change colors because in the summertime it's warm and in the fall it's cold so the leaves change colors. By Jude

I think why the leaves change because the tree bark gets bad and it makes the leaves change color. By Sophia

Leaves change color in fall because it is getting cold. By Abby

Leaves turn colors because when it is fall they are dropping it is coming to winter.The bark is dead. By Andrew

A tree turns coler’s because they do not get enough food and water.  By Natalie

They change because they fall to the ground. By Blayne

I think the leafs turn another color so we can see them turn cool colors . by Kami

I think that it’s because of the sun. by  Ezekiel

Liv Fs change color because the year es chigeeng. by Logan

I think the change color leaves because it is cold in the winter.  By  Bradley

The time of year they chag  green yellow red. By Karsyn

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