Blog #20

January 19-22, 2016

Congratulations to Piper and Mary Jane for earning
Perfect Attendance Awards for first trimester! Way
to go girls!

Eleanor, Jesse, Noah, Lauryn, and Parth participated in the
4th Grade Spelling Bee!  Lauryn placed 4th place and
Parth placed 2nd!  They will participate in the All-School
Bee on January 29th!  Huge appreciations to these students
who exhibited positive sportsmanship and showed encourage-
ment to the other participants.  Mr. Nadolsky, Mrs. Maxwell
and I were very impressed!

Julia, Liam and Zhi show their certificates that they received
from Mrs. Russick for representing our Crew at the PrinciPal
meeting!

Congratulations to Bennett for earning a Xtramath Certificate!

**Please double click on any brown or bolded caption above or below for more pics.**

Mr. Rinka's last day with our Crew was Friday.  We wish
him the best as he student teaches with Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. McMillan.  We will miss him!

Eleanor and Kaiden help Aiko celebrate her birthday!

Liam and Finn pose for a picture with Noah 
for his birthday!

Julia and Maya help Rose celebrate her early July birthday!

Our Crew on Winter Sing night-what a spectacular job they did!  As you can
imagine, they participated in music classes,  two practices and a dress
rehearsal to prepare for the wonderful performance!  Thank
you to Mrs. Aldana, Ms. Brown, and Mrs. Travanty for helping in the music
room before the performance1 We also watched the first-third grade dress
rehearsal.

Zhi, Julia and Liam take notes as
students share about self-discipline
to share at PrinciPals. 

Lauryn and Teddy lead us in 
"Who'sthe boss?"

      In Crew, we continued to discuss self-discipline norms in different situations which came in handy with our busy week.  We are continuing to work on using self-discipline norms throughout the day.

     In Reading Workshop,

Cole and his group performs a Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. play.

students used the concentric circle protocol to list facts they knew about Dr. Martin Luther, King.  After read Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and we watched his biography on Pebble Go, students filled in the middle circle. Students chose parts practiced and presented plays about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Students listened for obstacles (people or things) that got in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s' way or prevented him from doing what he wanted to do.  These were added to the outside circle after each play.  Students also gave compliments to each group after they performed. Then, students discussed the character traits that he showed.  Students also did a wrap around share to tell us how they felt about participating in the plays and their take away from these activities.  It was a interesting discussion about history.  Thank you, Mr. Isaacs for your help!

Tyndall and Lauryn sort their words
at the standing table. 

Nadia and Sebastian do "Rock, Paper, 
Scissors" to see if that is a fair way
to decide who goes first in a game.

     In Writing Workshop, students continued to work on Publishing Center stories and visit the Publishing Center. Thank you also, to Mrs. Aldana for helping to publish our crew's stories.  Students also received a new Words Their Way list and sorted their words by patterns.

Using the Fishbowl protocol, we
watch Sebastian and Mary Jane
show us how to record information. 

Claudia and Aiko use the Gogomo
protocol to share multiplication facts.

     In Math in Mrs. Malloy's class, students worked on a review for their decimals unit.  Mrs. Sakai's class worked on probability and multiplication/division.

   

Matthew reads to a K-4 buddy
during our Reading Train.  Before we
read, our Crew chose a book and
practiced reading for fluency and
expressin. 

We took part in a PERKS Character
Assembly on Friday.  We sung theAtwater song, 
learned a PERKS chant,
watched a video and listened to
Mrs. Caton talk about "No TrashTuesday" 
and recycling. 

Our Crew organized the scarves for
Winter Sing a couple of times! It was
neat to see how each group chose to
do it!!

Bennett leads us in Mindfulness.

   

   



   

   













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Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents

Hi! I'm sorry this is late this weekend!  We celebrated Katie Adamczyk's (Kristopeit) and Tyler Kristopeit's wedding shower on Friday night!  I'm so grateful to work with such amazing people!
We also attended a birthday party yesterday and I managed to take a beautiful walk two times!

Last Monday, our inservice focused on EL!  We used the concentric circle protocol to learn more about EL as we worked with teachers across grade levels, including SIS and SHS.  Then, I spent time working on Crew targets and ideas with Mrs. Malloy and other teachers.  In the afternoon, Mrs. Malloy and I worked on realistic fiction writing learning targets. It was a productive day!

   

1.  Thursday bags are due by Monday.

2.  Please turn in the Reading Log (totaled) by Monday, January 25th.  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 Mon.

4. Penny Wars begins on Monday, January 25th!  Please bring in your pennies. Information and boxes were sent home about a month ago. 

5.  Mindfulness lessons begin on Monday, Jan. 25th for ten weeks. Thank you Atwater PTO!

6. The permission slip for the Milwaukee Youth Concert is due on Monday, Jan. 25th. Thank you for your understanding with the quick due date. 

7.  The Rookies is on Monday, Jan. 25th. Students can study the words that were sent home. 

8.  "No Trash Tuesday"-Please encourage your child to bring their lunches and snacks in reusable containers. 

9.  Milw. Youth Concert-Wednesday, Jan. 27th-Please dress nicely. We will eat lunch early at school.

10.  Spirit Day- Friday, Jan. 29th-Students may wear a sports t-shirt, outfit or uniform if they would like. Please leave hats and helmets at home. 

11.  Friday, Jan. 29th-Atwater All-School Spelling Bee for Lauryn and Parth-you can study from the word list

12.  Words Their Way-Students have new words. They will assess the circled words that were sent home on Monday, Feb. 1st.

13.  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 25th-Thurs. bag, reading log and fact practice or Xtramath due, Rookies Spelling Bee, Penny Wars begins, Milw. Youth Concert perm slip due

Tuesday, January 26th:  band lunch rehearsal, "No Trash Tuesday"

Wednesday, January 27th: Milwaukee Youth Concert (we will eat lunch early at school)

Thursday,January 28th:  BOB check-in, MAP Reading assessment, orchestra

Friday, January 29th: Sports Spirit Day, All School Spelling Bee

Monday, February 1st: Reading log, Xtramath or fact pack and Thursday bag due, Words Their Way spelling assessment

Tuesday, February 2nd: band, "No Trash Tuesday"

Wednesday, February 3rd;   Junior Art Docents Rookies and Mrs. Brown

Thursday,February 4th;   orchestra lessons, Gordon Korman book orders due

Friday, February 5th;  MAP testing (Math)

Hope you had a great weekend!

Thank you,

Deb