October 12-14, 2015
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| Parth running through an apple orchard during the ELL field trip to Barthel's Fruit Farm! Thank you to Mrs. Tibbits for the pictures! |
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| Rep. David Bowen, from the 10th Assembly District, spoke with the 3/4 and 4th grade classes. |
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| Mr. Coleman entertained 100 students with Charades while they waited for our guest speaker. |
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| Julia shares during our morning Crew. |
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| Zhi and Kaiden greet and share during a Crew activity. |
It was a short and beautiful Fall three days for our Crew! We used an apple to show how we can bully it (say mean comments and drop it on the floor) and the inside is bruised while the outside looks the same. We also shared in an Inner and Outer Circle.
In Reading Workshop, students continued to read their JR books while looking for an idea, explaining it and finding evidence in the text.
In Math in Mrs. Malloy's class, students are continuing to use numbers in different ways, including learning different algorithms. Ms. Sakai's class took their assessment and learned about Math Menus.
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| Matthew shares his thoughts during an activity with Rep. Bowen. One of the activities involved students trying to pass a bill about whether there should be school all summer. Please ask your child about the wonderful learning experience. Here is also a short video clip. http://www.two4kids.net/room210review/videos/Pages/my_videos.html (Please click on Rep. Bowen) |
In Social Studies, with Mrs. Malloy, the students continue to learn about government and she prepared the student sfor Rep. Bowen.
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| Bennett is hold the insect we found in our classroom. We are trying to determine the species. |
In Science, students found an insect in our classroom. We found a dichotomous key and used it to narrow down the type of insect it was. Check it out and students, please read about it and its taxonomy. (It's in the leaf-footed family.) There is also another link below to check out. Which one do you think it is?
http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Helmeted-Squash-Bug
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/western_conifer_seed_bug_or_brown_marmorated_stink_bug
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| One of our Brain Breaks was learning the Cupid Shuffle. |
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| Nadia and Noah doing Body Scan during Mindfulness. |
Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents
Thank you to all of the parents for meeting with me during conferences the past two days! I am truly grateful to share time with you talking about your child and learning more about him/her. I've said this before, but I enjoy hearing stories about your child and learning about how s/he describes his/her life in school. I look forward to meeting with the rest of you next week!
1. Thursday bags are due by Monday (or the first day of the next week.)
2. Please turn in the Reading Log (totaled) by Monday, October 19th.
3. I am happy to announce that a new crew member is joining our Crew on Monday! Her name is Lauryn and she is a Vookie (a 4th grader new to multi-age.) We will all get to know each other
during Crew. :)
4. Important Math Fact information: Please enroll your child in Xtramath by Monday. Letters and passwords were sent home in Thursday bags (not yesterday but the week before.) Starting next Monday, your child can choose to practice XtraMath three times per week or complete a packet of 100 math facts. I am changing all Rookies Xtramath from 3-seconds to 6-seconds to give them more time. If your child completes 6-seconds, I will move the time to 3-seconds.
5. JR Books and Book Wizard: Thank you for your cooperation in helping your child read a JR book at both home and school. If your child would like to look up a level, please go to http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard, choose "Guided Reading A-Z" and type in the book title. I reviewed this with the students this week. If there isn't a level, they can write a ? on their log and I can help them at school.
6. On Wednesday, November 11th, we are taking a trip to the Bradley Center in Milwaukee to see an Admirals Hockey Game and participate in some STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) activities. We could also use at least two other chaperones on this trip. Permission slips for the trip are due on Friday, Oct. 23rd.
7. Mr. Karbel is looking for library volunteers Mon.-Thurs. from 9-11 am and Tues.-Fri. 1-3 pm. If you would like to help, please contact akarbel@shorewoood.k12.wi.us and he will connect you with the volunteer coordinator. Thank you!
Important Dates
Monday, October 19th-Thurs. bag, reading log (totaled) due
Friday, Oct. 23rd-Box Tops due and Bradley Center permission slip due
Thursday, Oct. 29th-Fall Party (If you are scheduled to bring a treat, you received an e-mail from Ellie Travanty, Monster Mash 5-8 pm
Friday, October 30th-No School-Teacher Inservice Day
Tuesday, November 3rd-Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 4th-Atwater Open House
November 10th-Veteran's Assembly
Wednesday, November 11th-Bradley Center field trip from 9:30 am-2:00 pm-Please bring a cold bag lunch and drink.
Monday, November 16th-No School-Inservice Day
Friday, November 20th-New date for Madison field trip-Please bring a cold bag lunch and drink
Wednesday, Nov. 25-Friday-Nov. 27th-No School
Friday, December 4th-No School-Record Keeping and Planning day for teachers
My parents are visiting this weekend since they picked up Miya and took her to dance while we were holding conferences. I'm hoping to take a walk with my mom in Lion's Den (Grafton) between dance drop off and pick up for Miya. :)
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!
Deb
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