February 8-12, 2016
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| Our Battle of the Books (BOB) participants! Bennett is a member on "The Fearless Guinea Pigs" and Rose, along with Maya, are on "The Loco Lizards!" They have competed in one competition so far! |
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| Zhi and his brother, in Steamboat, CO! Zhi shared about his vacation! |
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| Do you recognize the person on the right? It's our own Mr. Isaacs! We watched a car commercial that he was in. |
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| Students took a brisk walk to Lake Bluff this week to see author, Gordan Korman! He has published many books including the Swindle series , 39 Clues series and the newest series Masterminds. It was a wonderful experience! |
Please click on any bold brown or blue caption for more pics.
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| Julia shares her precept that she created on responsibility during Crew. |
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| Piper, Finn, Rose and Julia discuss a stanza from a rockin' Responsibility song that Mrs. Shanks shared with us. |
We are continuing to focus on the different aspects of responsibility in Crew, including "what responsibility looks like" norms. Each Crew member is choosing a quote or creating a precept to share in Feb. or March.
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| Rose shares her Publishing Center story with our Crew! |
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| Nadia, Mary Jane, Aiko and Eleanor read a realistic fiction book together while completing a note catcher. |
In Reading Workshop, students chose their top five picture realistic fiction books (from an assortment), then read one of their top two, to practice inferring skills to record on a note catcher. Students also read other realistic fiction books with various themes.
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| Ashley, Paul, Tristan, Kaiden, Claudia and Nadia create large place value numbers. |
In Math with Mrs. Malloy, students are working on extended addition and multiplication. Ms.
Sakai's crew is reviewing large number place value and beginning decimals.In Social Studies, with Mrs. Malloy, students are reading nonfiction text about mammoths and writing opinion paragraphs about mammoth cloning.
In Science. students are continuing to participate in "A World of Motion."
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| Mr. Caldwell, a mechanical engineer, from Johnson Controls, visited our crews. He discussed his job, educa- tion, and answered many questions. He also talked about the importance of team work and what he does when he's tackling a challenge. |
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| Tyndall and Nadia revise their vehicle to make sure it runs straight and smooth with weights. |
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| Noah, Bennett and Liam reflect ontheir data. They also learned about the scientific process, listened to songs and created a controlled experiment hypothesis with one variable. |
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| Parth and Kaiden during a Mindfulness lesson. Miss Janet reviewed Take Five, anchor spot and Flower hands. |
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| Matthew leads us in Mindfulness. |
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| We're going on a picnic |
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| Telephone |
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| Brain Break |
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| Julia and Maya decorated our room for Valentines! Our Crew also made Valentine bags and passed out Valentines. |
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Special Notes and Friendly Reminders for Parents
Thank you to all of our Crew for such thoughtful and "sweet" Valentines! The Valentine party is by far my favorite with many thank you's throughout, snacking and conversations.
Students do not have school on Monday or Tuesday, Feb. 15-16th. Teachers and administrators will watch the movie "Most Likely to Succeed", followed by a discussion and an EL Mid-Year review on Monday. On Tuesday, we will spend the morning on EL Crew and the afternoon on EL learning targets.
1. Thursday bags are due by Wednesday.
2. Please turn in the Reading Log (totaled) by Wednesday, February 17th. 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 Wed.
4. Quote or Precept for February (Responsibility) or Empathy (March)
5. Orchestra permission slip and $3.00 for pizza party are due on 3/2.
6. Thank you so much to all of the families that signed up to donate snacks for our 100th day celebration with our kindergarten buddies on Friday, Feb. 19th. Please feel free to send the snacks in early. Also, thank you to the families for helping to replenish our tissue stock. This is a busy time for runny noses!
7. Please sign up for Spring Conferences on March 10th and 11th. (Please click on "Spring 2016 Conference Schedule" and my name.) All other teachers that have an online sign-up are also posted on this page. Thank you to John Stanco for this!
8. All band students should bring their band instrument, concert music and band folder, along with a music stand (if you have one) on Wednesday, Feb. 17th. They will be walking to SHS in the afternoon.
Important Dates
Monday, February 15th: No School for students-teachers at inservice
Tuesday, February 16th: No School for students-teachers at inservice
Wednesday, February 17th; Reading log, Xtramath or fact pack and Thursday bag due, Band rehearsal at SHS and Bandorama (Please see #8 above)
Thursday, February 18th; orchestra lessons and lunch rehearsal, MOD
Friday, February 19th; 100th Celebration with buddies, BOB Competition, Adv. Orchestra lunch rehearsal (Julia)
Monday, February 22nd-Thurs. bag, reading log and fact practice or Xtramath due, BOB competitions
Tuesday, February 23rd: band lessons and lunch rehearsal, "No Trash Tuesday"
Wednesday, February 24th:
Thursday, February 25th: Orchestra lessons and lunch rehearsal, PrinciPals (Mary Jane and Nadia)
Friday, February 26th: Advanced Orchestra at lunch (Julia)
Thank you,
Deb
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