The Celebs Celebrate with Compliments and Pancakes!

The celebrities celebrated the holidays with a compliment party. The celebs wrote a compliment for each cast and crew member. They also added their creative touches to their gift wrapped compliment box. The celebs added their compliments to the gift boxes. The celebs enjoyed holiday doughnuts while they read their compliment cards. Then the celebration moved to the Cafe on the Curve. The celebs enjoyed a pancake bar breakfast with chocolate chips, sprinkles, syrup and whipped cream. We want to tell all our family helpers a HUGE thank you! Our pancake breakfast was a success because of you!Check out he paparazzi pics below...

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Now Showing: Gingerbread Puppetshows

The celebrity's holiday premiere of "Gingerbread Puppetshows" are ready for your enjoyment. The celebs worked in groups to create their own versions of the Gingerbread Man. The celebs were responsible to write their story in the format of a script, create the puppets and props, and practice and perfect their puppetshow. The celebs gave special performances to Kindergarten through 3rd grade classes. You can view these spectacular shows below.

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Twas the Week Before Christmas Break

The celebs took a break from all the hustle and bustle of the holidays to share their holiday writings with the 1st graders from Mrs. Groves class. The celebs created their own versions of Twas the Night Before Christmas and enjoyed reading them to the other students. Check out the paparazzi pics below.

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Tour Harkreader-wood Celebrity Holiday Homes

The celebrities of Harkreader Hills have designed and decorated their GEO-Homes for the Holidays. They used geometric shaped candy as their decorations and added their own personal style to their homes. Be sure to grab your coat and mittens and enjoy your Celebrity Holiday Home Tour.

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C-elves excited about Winter Break!

Celebs Explore the New World

The celebs have been studying about Colonial America and the New World they chose as their new home. America became known as the melting pot when people moved here from so many other countries like France, Germany and Great Britain. The celebs used their best baking skills to bake New World Candy. Each type of candy represented a different culture of people that came to the New World. These countries brought with them their knowledge, traditions, culture, and ways of living. Over time these have all "melted" together to create the America we have today. Check out the Paparazzi pics of our cooking experiences.

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Celebs go for the gold!

The celebrities have gone worldwide! They just finished representing various countries in Winter Olympics 2011. The celebrities showed star sportsmanship throughout all the competitions. It was an experience they will never forget.
Canada: Gold with 17 medals
Great Britain: Silver with 15 medals
Japan: Bronze with 13 medals

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Harkreader Hills Tree Lighting

The Celebrities of Harkreader Hills were recently spotted by the Paparazzi preparing for the holidays. The celebs designed a tree that reflected their Superstar status! The tree was decorated with personalized clapboards which included their most famous headshot. Disco balls from Rodeo Drive adorned the tree and added glitz and glamour to the Christmas Tree to the Stars. Check out the latest paparazzi pics of the official tree lighting below.

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C-elves starring role in "Ready for Winter Break"

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Celebs Celebrate Thanksgiving

The celebrities had a fun-filled month of November. They learned how to write persuasive paragraphs and change the traditional turkey feast to that containing deer meat, pizza and even bacon! You can check out our turkey writings below. Also, the Cast and Crew enjoyed lending their expertise to Mrs. Groves's first grade class. The first graders were putting on their first production, Twas the Night before Thanksgiving. The Harkreader Hills cast and crew assisted in creating the props and even had rolls in the production. To celebrate the success of the play, the celebs created Turkey Treats for the 1st graders. You can find the recipe and paparazzi pics below. The celebs also enjoyed other fun, turkey activities by playing roll a turkey and creating scrapbook turkeys at the Turkey Store. They only had $ 5.00 to spend and had to do some planning and calculations prior to adding their creative touch. Check out these adorable turkeys in the paparazzi pics below.

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Turkey Treats with First Grade

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Thanksgiving Fun

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Celebs present their 4-H Speeches!

The celebrities have all worked hard to write a great 4-H speech. They began by brainstorming topics they knew a lot about. Next, they began their 1st draft. The celebs had to make sure they had an introduction that stated their 3 main points and had a catchy way of engaging their audience. They developed their speech further by expanding on their 3 main points and adding connections to 4-H. Finally, they added their conclusion by restating their 3 main points. The celebs spent time getting familiar with the speeches by practicing on stage and with their family. Check out these great 4-H speeches below!

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Celebs spotted at the Zoo!

The paparazzi caught the celebrities on an excursion to the zoo. The celebrities enjoyed celebrating their Halloween exploring the animals at the Nashville Zoo. The animals were also very excited about Halloween and were actively enjoying their pumpkin treats. Check out the great paparazzi pics of all the superstar fun!

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Star-studded Spooktacular Celeb-ration!

Check out the paparazzi pics of our Spooktacular Halloween Celebration!

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Celebs discover Fossils!

During our study of endangered and extinct animals, we always make room for some tasty edible fossils! The celebrities begin by using their excavation skills and dig for fossils via a chips ahoy cookie. Next, the celebs helped create sedimentary fossils. We used rice crispies as our bits of stone, candy corn as animal teeth, stick pretzels as bones, and mini chocolate chips as animal poop. Amber fossils were the next exploration for the celebs. By using jello, gummy bugs, and plastic eggs, the celebs created edible amber. The final fossil food were cast cookie fossils. We used sugar cookies as our base and used spiders to make our fossil imprints. After baking the fossils, the celebs enjoyed the yummy fossil treats.

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Celeb's Spider Schema!

Earlier this school year, I introduced the celebrities to the concept of their schema. They really latched on to this concept and have consistently referenced their "schema files" throughout the year. I decided to incorporate some spooky spider fun into our schema learning. I gave the celebs a few minutes to write down what information they already had in their schema file on spiders. Next, they worked in trio groups to read non-fiction texts about spiders and to find three additional facts to add to their schema files. The celebrities were more than enthusiastic about finding out more creepy details about these creatures. Students were asked to record their 3 new facts on the "New Schema" strips. We even had a spider creep in to visit while the celebs were conducting their research.
Talk about spide-y senses!!
After the research was complete, the celebs shared their old and new schema with the cast and crew. They celebrated their new learning with spider rings and could now easily tell one spider fact for all 8 spider leg!
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Celebs spotted at Fall Ball!

The 3rd annual J. W. Wiseman Fall Ball was a huge success. The evening was filled with the scary Haunted Hall, the Halloween Dance, and Costume and Dance Contests! The Paparazzi caught lots of great photos of our Harkreader Hills celebrities. Check out the Spook-tacular shots below...

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New Guest Star: Billy Joe Bob the Pumpkin

Pumpkin carving is a long, lasting Harkreader Hills tradition. You can't have Halloween in Harkreader Hills without a jack-o-lantern. The students secretly created their ultimate jack-o-lantern designs. We then voted on which design we liked the best. Jacie's cat design was chosen as the jack-o-lantern winning creation. The students named him, Billy Joe Bob and we have enjoyed having him as part of our celebrity cast!

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New Release! Celebs first Poem Publication...

Who knew the celebrities were also such talented poets? The celebs shared their best Fall and Halloween experiences in their 5 Senses Poems. They wrote about the sights, sounds, feelings, tastes, and smells they enjoy and remember the most during fall and Halloween. Then they added their superstar flair to their final poems. Be sure to check out this 1st publication.

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Spooky Celebs Sport Sensational Symmetry Masks!

Prior to going on their much deserved Fall Break, the celebrities began preparing for the upcoming Halloween festivities. They created spook-sational symmetry masks. Check out the paparazzi pics below.

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4-H Celebs Show-Off their Creativity

The celebrities of Harkreader Hills have put their creative talents in high gear! The celebs designed 4-H posters to help promote what 4-H means to them. Check out the paparazzi pics of all the creative poster projects!
Thanks celebs for the 100% participation! You ROCK!

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Yummy Math Munchies!

The celebs have enjoyed some tasty math munchies during our new math station rotations. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons the celebrities visit Math Munchie Snack Stations. Okay...no there is no reall food--instead there are great math activities individually designed to fit each celebrity's math need. Students visit the Orchard station and enjoy online math learning that fits their math brain perfectly. Study Island is another great online source that, again, provides online math games designed to meet each celebs math need. Study Island games are played on the laptops we check out from POWER teachers. Dyna-math is a fun math magazine that combines current pop culture with math computation. Word of Math is all about math vocabulary. This time they were creating Polygon Pockets filled with geometry words and symbols. Yes, we have a Guest Star! Patrick is a senior from Portland High School and is so SUPER SMART. He meets with groups and leads great math brain games. Noodle #'s is a station that also requires students to use strategic moves in be successful with their math games.Finally, Team Time is a station that requires students work in teams to solve math word problems. I have seen the celebrity MATH MINDS really growing thanks to Math Munchies. Check out our paparazzi pics below.

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Last week some of our Celebrity 4th graders spent some time lending their math expertise to Mrs. Groves first graders. During 1st grade's Math Madness day, the celebs helped the 1st graders with apple math activities and read books to the class. We look forward to helping Mrs. Groves class with math again soon. Check out the paparazzie pics below.

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Celebs spotted visiting with Native Tribes!

The paparazzi caputured some great photos of the celebrities exploring Native American tribes. They learned about their homes, food, traditions and history. Check out the great snapshots of their explorations.

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