January 11-14, 16
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| Welcome, Mr. Isaacs! We are glad to have you join our Crew! His daughter is a 5th grader at LB! He will take Mr. Rinka's position when Mr. Rinka begins student teaching with Mrs. Brown and Mrs. McMillan on January 25th. |
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| Parth, Finn, Zhi and Aiko completed Geography Hunts over Winter Break and received certificates! |
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| Thank you to our generous PTO for providing a grant for standing adjustable tables in Mrs. Malloy's and our room! We love our new special "seating" alternative! Thank you! |
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| Some of our Crew modified a crew activity to play during an indoor recess this week! |
Considering inside recess for three days in a row, our Crew was fantastic! I love watching what they choose to do during inside recess!
In Crew, we continued our focus and target on self-discipline with different activities. We discussed a quote "Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you" by Krystal Volney. It takes self-discipline to use mindset.
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| Eleanor and Tyndall greet each other during Crew. |
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| Cole and Bennett use the EL Gogomo protocol during Crew to share actions for "Who's the Boss?" |
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| Parth tries to guess "Who's the Boss?" during our Crew meeting. We discussed how self-discipline fits in with this. |
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| Rose and Cole are reading a nonfiction text and using the EL Protocol "Say Something." |
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| Cole, Tristan and Liam look at a book together during LibraryBook exchange. |
In Reading Workshop, students watched a short video and learned vocabulary for a Scholastic News about 3-D printing. They also studied maps and discussed everything they could learn from it. Then, students read the article together while using the EL protocol called "Say Something." After, students completed a note catcher about a problem and solution in the text.
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| Julia, Aiko, Jesse, Matthew, and Piper continue to research their invasive species for their "Unwanted poster." |
Students are continuing to work on Publishing Center stories, Words Their Way and cursive.
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| Nadia and Claudia toss ten coins to collect heads and tails data |
In math, in Mrs. Malloy's class, students continue to practice computation, especially decimals. They are also using math workshop during some math classes. Ms. Sakai's class is working on multiplication, division and probability.
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| We had many brain breaks this week with two Winter Sing practices and three days of inside recess. |
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| Aiko leads us in "I'm going on a picnic." |
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| We had an assembly to jump start us for Jumprope for Heart! Thank you to Mrs. Albrightson for organizing. Information was in the Thursday bag. |
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| Mindfulness-Body scan |
Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents
We spent most of the inservice day watching representatives from three different companies explain their math programs. We also met with the Lake Bluff teachers to discuss pros and cons to each program. It is always a pleasure working with the Lake Bluff third grade team!
On Monday, our inservice will evolve around Expeditionary Learning. Should be a wonderful day!
1. Thursday bags are due by Tuesday.
2. Please turn in the Reading Log (totaled) by Tuesday, January 19th. If your child misplaces his/her reading log, s/he can write the information on a piece of paper.
3. Important Math Fact information: Xtramath 3 times or fact packet due Tues. 1/19
4. Band lunch rehearsals begin on Tuesday-please bring your instrument.
5. Winter Sing Dress Rehearsal 9:00 am on Wed., Jan. 20th. Students do not need to dress up for the rehearsal but please avoid white clothes.
6. Winter Sing Performance: Wed., Jan. 20th-Please wear ALL dark and dressy clothes. ALL clothing should be dark. Please drop off your child in the music room at 6:00 pm and please take your child's jacket with you. The performance begins at 6:15 pm. Please pick up your child in the west hallway after the performance. Thank you!
7. PrinciPals: Thursday, Jan. 21st: Liam, Zhi and Julia
8. Book orders due by Friday, Jan. 22nd in school or midnight on-line
9. The Vets Spelling Bee is on Friday, Jan. 22nd and the Rookies is on Monday, Jan. 25th. Students can study the words that were sent home.
10. Gordon Korman author coming to Shorewood on Thursday, Feb. 11th. We will walk to Lake Bluff, weather permitting, to hear this wonderful author. Order forms for his books were in the Thursday bag. Orders are due Thursday, Feb. 4th.
Important Dates
Monday, January 18th: No School-Inservice Day for teachers
Tuesday, January 19th: Reading Log, Thursday bag, XtraMath or packet due, band rehearsal lunch,
Wednesday, January 20th; Winter Sing Dress rehearsal 9:00 am (You may attend if you're unable to attend the night performance. Students should avoid white clothes during dress rehearsal.)
6:15 pm is the 3/4 Winter Sing performance. (Drop off at 6:00 pm to the music room, take your child's coat with you and they should be in ALL dark and dressy clothes.) Please pick up your child in the west hall right after the performance.
Thursday, January 21st; PrinciPals: Liam, Zhi and Julia, orchestra lessons
Friday, January 22nd; Scholastic book orders due, Vets-Spelling Bee, Atwater Movie Night-7:00 pm (Inside Out)
Monday, January 25th-Thurs. bag, reading log and fact practice or Xtramath due, Rookies Spelling Bee, Penny Wars begins
Tuesday, January 26th: band lunch rehearsal
Wednesday, January 27th: Milwaukee Youth Concert
Thursday,January 28th: BOB check-in, MAP Reading assessment
Friday, January 29th:
Hope you're having a wonderful weekend!
Thank you,
Deb
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