Post #23

May 29-31st and June 4-7, 2018

Our words on our Jenga blocks.  Crew is ....

Ms. Dryzwicki and Mr. Nodolsky
presented certificates for Advanced Learning
activites this year. 

Congratulations to our MOD participants:
Geoffrey, Auguste, Owen M., Masha, Angela.
Jacoby, Henry T. and Henry C. (pictured below.)

A Shout out to our Word Master participants:
Charlotte, Casssidy, Finn, Victor, Zoah, Isla
and Xyella.

Way to go, Jacoby, for completing a Xtramath
level.

J.P. won the library drawing for 4th grade
for turning all of his library books in on time.

Happy Birthday to Auguste and Jacoby!

Happy Birthday, Geoffrey!

Leo and Levi help J.P. celebrate his birthday!
See pics.

 

Eliza and Isla help wish Charlotte a
Happy Birthday! See pics. 

Charlotte and Jacoby do rock, paper, scissors
while the crew cheers them on. 

Xyella puts her "crew" block on the Jenga
tower to help build the tallest tower possible.
The crew also had to do this in silence and
without any predetermined order. We debriefed
often and PERKS was evident. See pics. 

The crew passed around each other's The
important thing about ....... which is in
your child's memory book. 

How we sign 25 cards in less than ten minutes.

Thank you to Mrs. Bennett for being a part
of our crew and bringing us a treat.

Levi taught us an initiative starting with an egg.
See pics. 

Cassidy presents Victor with his progress
report and a compliment. See pics. 

Owen M. is passing a balloon back during an
initiatve with Mrs. Malloy's crew on the last
day of school. See pics. 

The crew provided a service and showed
compasstion by helping to organize the room.
Henry C. Auguste, J.P. and others checked
for dried out markers. See pics. 

The crew checked out the Living Wall at Shorewood Public
Library. The Rookies and ELL students helped with this
project. 

Geoffrey and Owen D. at Shorwood Public
Library. Ms. Heide explained the Summer
Reading program. See pics. 

Eliza and Sam are reading a Publishing
Center Story. See pics. 

Henry C. shared his Publishing Center story.

Sam, Finn and Victor share a Doofy Duddy
comic. 

Ms. Dryzwicki tells the Rookies about Battle
of the Books. 

Auguste, Owen M. and Geoffrey work on
their memory book. We also wish Owen M.
a fabulous year in Hawaii and Australia!

Mrs. Schmitt introduces the crews at All
School Crew about Service and Compassion.
See pics. 

Xyella, Maria and Alice play Factor Bingo.
See pics. 

Isla and Charlotte share their slideshow
about Thomas Edison that they created
with Mrs. Malloy. See pics. 

Levi and Sam collect data on  playground
equipment at Atwater. See pics. 

Rowan J. and Owen M. collect data on playground
equipment at Possibility Playground. See pics. 

A group of boys by Quarry Lake at Harrington Beach
State Park. It was a beautiful day! Thank you to Mr. Cao,
Mrs. Marks and Mrs. Vanderloop for pictures. Also, thank you
again to all of the chaperones that joined us! See pics. 

Finn, Petra, Charlotte and Henry T. analyze
their data from Atwater and Possibility Play-
ground. The crew shared their information
and voted on the piece of equipment they
thought would be inclusive to add to Atwater's
playground. They listed multiple reasons in
the letter to the PTO. See pics. 

The crew voted to ask for these red swings
to add to Atwater's playground.

Thank you for turning in so many Box Tops!
The crew earned popsicles and an extra
recess. Here are Zoah, Cleo, Masha and
Angela enjoying their popsicles. See pics. 

Cassidy, Xyella and Henry C. are enjoying lunch in the class-
room. See pics. 

Masha is adding peelings to the compost while
Zoah replants some seeds in our garden plot.
Thank you to Henry T., Jacoby, Isla and Zoah
for taking care of the garden plot this summer.

Thank you to Mrs. Kelly for our end of the
year push-up popsicles!

Other activities:

read poetry books, wrote end of year story, band pizza party, read Awful Ogre's Awful Day poems by Jack Pretlusky

Post #22

Post #22

May 14-19 and May 21-25, 2018

Jacoby, Henry C. and Leo represented our crew
well at the Service and Compassion PrinciPal
meeting with Mrs. Russick. 

Some of my Cross-age Crew members picking up trash around
Shorewood. This was our last meeting-what a wonderful time!

Thank you to Mrs. Hirano, our Mystery Reader,
who read Judy Moody by Megan MacDonald.

Julia, Louis, Hazel, Ryan and Bruce share
a service initiative they started in the cafe. They
are collecting plastic wrappers and Mrs. Malloy
will recycle them at her grocery store.

Thank you, Mr. Stingl, for being an amazing
aide and crew member!

On aide appreciation day, we also thanked
Mr. Coleman for being a wonderful aide and
crew member. 

Leo reading a biography about Mrs. Lysakova during the
ELL Celebration of Learning. 

Maria reading a biography about Mrs. Bennett
at the ELL Celebration of Learning. They inter-
viewed important immigrants. 

Maria read her biography about Mrs. Bennett
to our crew. 

Leo read his biography about Mrs. Lysakova
to our crew. 

Mr. Hughes and the 5th and 6th grade bands performed a
lively performance for us. 

K-4 students from Mrs. Thoreson's crew inter-
viewed Cleo, Jacoby, Auguste and Petra about
PERKS. Then the K-4 students are making
posters for our school.  See pics. 

There were so many acts of service and compassion. This is
the Rookies and ELL students from Mrs. Malloy's and
our crews, helping people from the Senior Resource Center
put in plants for the Living Wall at the Shorewood Public
Library. Thank you to Ms. Heide for askng us! See pics. She also gave our crews a butterfly house made by LB 6th graders!

Ms. Nakia, Mrs. Curry and Ms. Shataqua and her
baby visited our crew to talk about how the Nia
Amani Family works and how it provides help
to those who need it. Ms. Nakia and Ms. Shataqua
were so grateful for all of the items that were
donated to them. They also gave wonderful advice
to our crew. A special thank you to Isla for wanting
to do something to help and to Mrs. Marks for
helping to connect them with us. A wonderful
showing of service and compassion! Thank you
all for the contriubtions! See pics. 

Goeffrey tells Owen D. the "telephone" message
while J.P. waits his turn. See pics. 

Sam, Masha and Geoffrey use a concentric
circle to write what they know about fruits
and vegetables, along with the differences. Then
they watched a few videous before they added
more information. See pics. 

Herny T. and Angela are planting seeds
in the garden plot. See pics. 

Victor and J.P. are collecting data from their
seed packet to put on a note catcher to help
them plant their seeds. See pics. 

Geoffrey adds peels into the compost. This
is another great example of service and
compassion. 

Eliza listens to Daphne share about her space
colony blueprints during the 5th grade
Celebration of Learning. See pics. 

Isla, Owen M. Zoah, Cleo and Auguste donated
money to the Puerto Rico Relief Fund and could
wear a hat if they chose. Thank you all for the
contributions! See pics. 

Victor and Henry T. are collecting data on play-
ground equipment in connection with our AWIM
form vs. function expedition They will also
collect data on similar equipment at Possibility
Playground. See pics. 

Thank you to Cassidy and Mrs. Shanks for
watering our garden plot on Saturday and to
Auguste and his family for watering it on Monday.
Hopefully we will see sprouting soon! Jacoby's
family is also helping out with the garden plot
this summer! Thank you all so much!

In math, we have practiced math facts using
games to review for end of the year math
assessments. We also took the MAP math
assessment, End of Year math assessment
and finished our fraction unit. Cassidy and
Xyella are playing a multiplication game. 

Other activities 

thank you notes for the Nia Amani Family using friendly
letter format, used buddy biography facts for fun activity
about our crew, read How Full is Your Bucket for Kids,   readpoems, worked on biography slideshows