Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Fashion Disaster

Written by Guest Bloggers: Gianna & Natalie

Have you seen the new fashion trends at Howe Manning School? These glamorous and eye-catching outfits are sure to blow your mind. Below are some of our top high fashion picks. Which one is your favorite? There’s a sports player, a butterfly, and just a speechless-worthy fit! You should come swing by to see some of the most fashionable, breathtaking, bold outfits in town if we must say.
As we walked down the red carpet, fans clapped along to the music as we posed our way down the runway. At the end we turned, showing our sass, hitting all the poses. Also if you ever wanted some slay fashion inspiration, we got you! Just wear these inspirational outfits inspired by the people above.
In Ms. Klipfel’s class, Levi won the first place title. Mykela won second place rocking the butterfly outfit. And then in third place was Addison, looking like every single 4th-grade boy. Then from Ms. Week’s class, Austin won, and Natalie and Gianna tied for second
Now we will explain what this day was really for. This day was used to make opinion writing about how we liked our outfit and how we turned our everyday objects into a classic mismatched crazy outfit that would win the best dressed at fashion week. We loved making these outfits and it was very fun to dress up into everyday things all put into one.
 
It was super duper cool and fun! You should buy some of these outfits! You will surely stand out! Who knows you might see these outfits at the mall, school, supermarket, or even wedding attire. See you on the runway.

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Nonfiction Surgery

Welcome to Howe-Manning Hospital! 4th-grade doctors earned their medical license (nonfiction medical license that is) and performed a day of surgeries. Upon entering Howe-Manning Hospital and Teaching Hospital, medical students took their Medical Board Exam to obtain their surgical license. Medical students needed to apply everything they have been learning about nonfiction text features in order to pass their "exam". After congratulations, handshake, and official job offer from the chief of surgery (aka Dr. Klipfel) doctors scrubbed in and dressed for surgery.

 Once surgical teams were ready it was time to meet patients, read patient charts to learn their symptoms, and determine a diagnosis. Symptoms included confusion on finding where to locate information in a nonfiction text, complaints of not knowing what sections were about in nonfiction, and even difficulty knowing what words in nonfiction texts meant. Luckily patients were in the right place and doctors were ready to help. 

Doctors determined which nonfiction text feature organ patients needed. They prepared organs with scalpels (scissors) and stitched them back up (with bandaids). They then made sure to complete their post-op reports.
Luckily every patient made it through surgery and no doctors suffered any malpractice suits.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Nonfiction Book Tasting

Chef Klipfel whet appetites for nonfiction this past week when we opened Klipfel Cafe and served up scrumptious nonfiction courses. During our book tasting, patrons were able to get a taste of their interest level for our upcoming nonfiction unit and even find some books for future reading.
Even though our ocean animal table was a little salty and mummy course a little dry, we are happy to report that our opening afternoon of Klipfel Cafe resulted in a 5-star Yelp rating.
Everything was delectable right down to the last nibble!

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Poetry Cafe

Roses are red, violets are blue. Miss Klipfel's Class says, Thank you! Thank you all for attending and helping make our poetry cafe a HUGE success. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your warm smiles, feverish snaps, and uncontainable chuckles. Without our wonderful audience, our poetry cafe wouldn't have been such a success. Congratulations to all the 4th graders for taking a risk performing their poems, sharing their musical abilities, artistic skills, and hidden talents. Impressive is an understatement! We also can't thank you enough for your kind words, emails, and comments of encouragement. We hope the rest of your February is filled with chocolates, hearts, and lots of love. Make sure to check out all our published poems here & here: