October 26-29, 2015
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| Tristan, Eleanor, Matthew, Liam, Mary Jane and other students smile for a pic at the Monster Mash! |
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| Rose, Jesse and Tristan share their precept about self-discipline. |
**Please click on the bold (brown) captions for
more pics!**
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| Zhi and Cole participate in "Back to Back and Front to Front." |
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| Lauryn and Julia role play the second part of the "I Can"statements before our crew practices. |
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| Maya and Tyndall show "full body listening" during our Crew meeting. |
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| Finn leads us in a Crew activity called "When the waves roll." |
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| Maya, Eleanor, Parth, Kaiden, and Liam read a nonfiction text about zebra mussels. They each choose one paragraph, read it to themselves and share what they learned with the group. |
In Writing Workshop, students finished word processing their personal narrative stories and revising.
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| Piper shares her illustration so Jesse and Kaiden can compliment and critique it. |
One of our learning targets is "I can produce quality and detailed illustrations." Students illustrated a small picture that zoomed into their most important part of their personal narrative.
We brainstormed for compliments and questions that they could use to critique each other's illustrations. They met it partners/trios to discuss this and then drew another illustration. Later, they formed tables by "balancing the boat", then critiqued the illustrations again before drawing their illustration a third time. You will see the amazing results at Open House!
In Math in Mrs. Malloy's class, students started to work on multiplication and division. Ms. Sakai's class is working on different types of problem solving questions (e.g. start, change, end.) They are also working hard at writing why an answer makes sense.
In Social Studies, Mrs. Malloy simulated how a bill becomes a law by making each student a "representative." Please ask your child about this neat activity!
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| Julia and Matthew do "Quiz,Quiz, Switch" to learn vocabulary before they hear the books. |
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| Eleanor and Parth make a zebra mussel. |
In Science, students listened to two nonfiction books by Mark Newman, author of Sooper Yooper: Environmental Defender and Sooper Yooper: The Quest of the Blue Crew.. Both books are
beautifully illustrated and share information about invasive species in the Great Lakes and what is being done to help eliminate them. An order form for the books was in the Thursday bag. Mark Newman will speak to our Crew in December and autograph the books.
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| Kaiden leads us in Mindfulness. |
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| Brain Break! |
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| Nadia, Noah, Aiko and Cole make butter for our WI celebration! |
Cole, Finn and Julia for providing treats for our WI
celebration (connected to SS!) We enjoyed apples with caramel dip, hot and cold apple cider, cheese curds, pumpkin muffins and sugared cranberries.
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| Piper, Bennett and Mary Jane enjoy the WI treats! |
Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents
It was fun to see so many families at Monster Mash and great fun working with the parents!
During our Teacher Inservice today, we spent the morning at Lake Bluff reviewing and revising Learning Objectives for math. In the afternoon, we reviewed four math curriculums. It was a very productive day! My "take-away" as we ended with a sharing circle was collaboration as it was wonderful to work with the third grade staff from both Lake Bluff and Atwater.
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, November 2.
3. Important Math Fact information: All Rookies and Vets should be enrolled in XtraMath. Rookies and Vets: You have chosen to complete Xtramath 3 times or complete a packet of math facts. These are due every Monday.
4. Friday, Nov. 6th-Social Studies assessment-Study information is in a red folder. Please remind your child to bring the folder to school every day and I'll give them time to study.
5. 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 one other chaperone on this trip.
6. Rookies: All Rookies received a permission slip to the Milwaukee Art Museum. The Rookies and I (along with Mrs. Malloy's Rookies) will attend this first trip together. After, if you are interested, you may become a Junior Art Docent. There will be information about this before you decide. Permission slip is due on Friday, November 13th.
7. Vet Junior Art Docents: Your permission slip will come home soon (unless they already went home!
8. Word Masters-An informational packet about Word Masters for all interested students went home last week. Students must complete the attached crossword puzzle by November 23rd in order to participate in the event. Students nay bring their crossword puzzle or play a practice computer game during Guided Study.
Word Master Quizlet for Rookies: https://quizlet.com/99563992/2015-16-atw-lb-3rd-grade-words-meet-1-flash-cards/
Word Master Quizlet for Vets: https://quizlet.com/99885124/2015-16-atw-lb-4th-grade-words-meet-1-flash-cards/
9. The Atwater Crew is collecting non-perishable items to help the Hunger Task Force. There are boxes in front of the office.
Important Dates
Monday, Nov. 2nd-Thurs. bag, reading log (totaled) due, Xtra Math 3X's or fact packet due
Tuesday, November 3rd-Picture Retake Day
Wednesday, November 4th-Atwater Open House 6:00-7:30 pm- Hope to see you there!
Friday, November 6th-Social Studies assessment
Tuesday, 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.
Friday, November 13th-Rookies-Milwaukee Art Museum permission slip due
Monday, November 16th-No School-Inservice Day for teachers
Friday, November 20th-New date for Madison field trip-Please bring a cold bag lunch and drink
Monday, November 23-Word Masters crossword puzzle due
Wednesday, Nov. 25-Friday-Nov. 27th-No School
Monday, Nov. 30th-Thursday, Dec. 3rd-Atwater Book Fair
Friday, December 4th-No School-Record Keeping and Planning day for teachers
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!
Deb
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