April 15-19, 2016
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| Thank you to Ms. Janet for teaching us Mindfulness lessons! We will miss her! The crew presented her with thank you notes and Mr. Isaacs sent her the video that he made of the Crew reading the notes. We also saw the video! Impressive job, Ms. Isaacs! |
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| Our Mystery Reader was Lucas Barry (Mrs. Barry's son and my former student!) He read Dream Snow by Eric Carle. Lucas is also helping out in our classroom for National Honor Society. |
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| Teddy shared about his trip to Florida and all of the places that he visited. |
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| Look who came to visit and share a birthday treat with our Crew. Happy Birthday, Mr. Rinka! |
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| Nadia writes ideas during Crew about what kindness looks like. We worked on our crew goal; I will focus on kindness during and after recess." Each crew member also made an individual kindness goal and checked in every day with their accountabuddy. |
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| Aiko leads us in "Who's the Boss?" Our Crew is also learning to sing and sign "What a Wonderful World" to perform to the HarborChase residents. Click here for pics. |
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| Aiko and Tyndall use the EL protocol back to back, front to front to discuss kindness. |
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| Lauryn and Matthew find the phrase and definition that match each other. Some of the phrases were "mostly about/mainly about" or "right before or after" which are common phrases on assessments such as the Forward assesssment. Click her for pics. |
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| Liam, Tyndall and Tristan work as a group to match phrases and definitions that might be found on the Forward assessment. Our Crew also took ELA 1. Click her for pics. |
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| Jesse shared his Publishing Center story. |
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| Bennett, Tristan and Lauryn create one set of May baskets so they can help their buddies make their own. Click here for pics. |
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| Eleanor, Mary Jane and their buddy create a May basket. Our Crew will give May baskets to the residents at HarborChase and some to Shorewood residents. Click here for pics. |
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| Liam and Anna are looking for parallel line segments. Click here for pics. |
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| Liam, Nadia and Piper are creating dif- ferent quadrangles and polygons with rope. Click here for pics. |
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| Finn is categorizing quadrangles (quadrilaterals) into parallelograms and not parallelograms during math workshop. Click here for pics. |
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| Mary Jane and Cole peer critique each other's invasive species animal by writing a compliment and suggestion. Students created 3-4 drafts with peer critiques before illustrating their colored final illustration. Then, they self-critiqued their illustration using a rubric. This EL protocol is the High Quality Work Protocol. Click here for pics. |
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| Maya, Rose and Tyndall work on a copy of their invasive species animal. These illustrations are for their invasive species poster. Click here for pics. |
Betty Brinn Children's Museum is conducting research on how "maker" experiences help students learn. Students filled out a short survey about how movies connect to books and started to learn about the history of animation. Students will participate in a "Be a Maker: Animator Field Trip to learn about two types of animation. Students will also explore the museum and receive bus transportation for free!
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| Julia and Aiko help Nadia celebrate her birthday. Click here for pic. |
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| Lauryn and Cole help Teddy celebrate his birthday. Click her for a pic. |
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| Cole leads us in Mindfulness. Click here for pics. |
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| Brain Breaks! Click here for pics. |
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| Finn and Tristan think of "We're Going on a Picnic." |
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| Julia leads us in Seven Shakes. |
Notes for Parents:
It was a full EL Staff Development day today with Linda D'Aquisto! We reflected on our progress as an EL school with an Implementation Review and I worked with Meg Malloy on crew targets and cooperative group activities that encourage perseverance (our next PERK trait.) The afternoon was spent taking a gallery walk to look at high quality work from our own classrooms using attributes. My take-away from that was the amazing work from all grade levels and that I enjoyed seeing work samples from K-4 through sixth grade. Personally, I would like to work on connecting projects with more real life audiences. With EL, there is always time to discuss and share with colleagues from different areas and grade levels. It was also great to have lunch with the fifth grade teachers, Mr. Hamann and Mrs. Daniels.
At tomorrow's inservice, we will learn more about crew!
It was a full EL Staff Development day today with Linda D'Aquisto! We reflected on our progress as an EL school with an Implementation Review and I worked with Meg Malloy on crew targets and cooperative group activities that encourage perseverance (our next PERK trait.) The afternoon was spent taking a gallery walk to look at high quality work from our own classrooms using attributes. My take-away from that was the amazing work from all grade levels and that I enjoyed seeing work samples from K-4 through sixth grade. Personally, I would like to work on connecting projects with more real life audiences. With EL, there is always time to discuss and share with colleagues from different areas and grade levels. It was also great to have lunch with the fifth grade teachers, Mr. Hamann and Mrs. Daniels.
At tomorrow's inservice, we will learn more about crew!
1. Thursday bags, reading logs fact packet or Xtramath 3 times due by Wednesday.
2. With the cold and flu season, we are on our last boxes of tissues. I'll bring some in and if you have any to spare at home, we'd appreciate it! Thank you!
3. Practicing for Forward Exam: The link is below.
Both Rookies and Vets practice ELA Session 1 and 2 and Math. We took ELA 1 last week.
Vets only practice science and social studies, too.
https://wbte.drcedirect.com/WI/portals/wi/ott1
Dates for testing are: Vets and Rookies: 4/21 (ELA 2 + 3) (new date) and 4/25 (math) , Vets only- 4/28 and 5/4 (science and ss)
(Testing dates may change if something comes up or someone needs to switch.)
4. Here is a rec. class that our wonderful aide, Mr. Isaacs, is offering called Mindful Acting. It is for grades 3-6. It begins on Monday, April 25th and you can still sign up as the class is starting later.
https://shorewoodrecreation.org/ViewCourseActivityDetails.aspx?id=C39857
5. We are taking a buddy bus field trip to HarborChase Assisted Living Center on Wed., April 27th (8:50-10:05 am) with Mrs. Thoreson's class. Our Crews made welcome cards for the residents and we are invited to meet them! The permission slip was due on Friday, April 15th. We could still use 1-2 chaperones if you would like to join us.
6. Mr. Karbel has arranged an author visit from Greg Leitich Smith on Wed., May 4th. Order forms for his books are due on Tues., April 26th.
7. We still have four bus field trips to go! Field trips slips upcoming for three of them. Thank you for keeping track of it all-the end of the year will be busy and fun!
8. I'll be in CA on May 5th and 6th for my grandma's memorial. She passed away at the end of last year, at 102 years old, and the family waited for the memorial/celebration. I'm only mentioning this because if there's anything you'd like me to know for those two days (vacations, doctor appointments, leaving school early, etc.) please let me know as soon as possible so I can write it in my sub plans. I'll be on planes Thurs., May 5th, and Sat., May 7th, plus with family on Friday, May 6th.
9. We're looking forward to planting our class garden plot next month and would love to have a few families water and weed it over the summer. Last year, Piper, Maya and Rose's family did this and they are Vets. We will plant summer harvest veggies (you're welcome to them) and ones for the Fall so we can enjoy them with our crew. If you are interested in this, please let me know.
Dates for testing are: Vets and Rookies: 4/21 (ELA 2 + 3) (new date) and 4/25 (math) , Vets only- 4/28 and 5/4 (science and ss)
(Testing dates may change if something comes up or someone needs to switch.)
4. Here is a rec. class that our wonderful aide, Mr. Isaacs, is offering called Mindful Acting. It is for grades 3-6. It begins on Monday, April 25th and you can still sign up as the class is starting later.
https://shorewoodrecreation.org/ViewCourseActivityDetails.aspx?id=C39857
5. We are taking a buddy bus field trip to HarborChase Assisted Living Center on Wed., April 27th (8:50-10:05 am) with Mrs. Thoreson's class. Our Crews made welcome cards for the residents and we are invited to meet them! The permission slip was due on Friday, April 15th. We could still use 1-2 chaperones if you would like to join us.
6. Mr. Karbel has arranged an author visit from Greg Leitich Smith on Wed., May 4th. Order forms for his books are due on Tues., April 26th.
7. We still have four bus field trips to go! Field trips slips upcoming for three of them. Thank you for keeping track of it all-the end of the year will be busy and fun!
8. I'll be in CA on May 5th and 6th for my grandma's memorial. She passed away at the end of last year, at 102 years old, and the family waited for the memorial/celebration. I'm only mentioning this because if there's anything you'd like me to know for those two days (vacations, doctor appointments, leaving school early, etc.) please let me know as soon as possible so I can write it in my sub plans. I'll be on planes Thurs., May 5th, and Sat., May 7th, plus with family on Friday, May 6th.
9. We're looking forward to planting our class garden plot next month and would love to have a few families water and weed it over the summer. Last year, Piper, Maya and Rose's family did this and they are Vets. We will plant summer harvest veggies (you're welcome to them) and ones for the Fall so we can enjoy them with our crew. If you are interested in this, please let me know.
Important Dates
Monday, April 18th: No School-Inservice Day
Tuesday, April 19th: No School-Inservice Day
Wednesday, April 20th; reading log, fact pack or Xtramath 3 times and Thurs. bag due
Thursday, April 21st; orchestra lessons, Forward assessment, PrinciPals (Noah and Teddy)
Friday, April 22nd;
Monday, April 25th-Thurs. bag, reading log and fact packet or Xtramath due, Forward assessment
Tuesday, April 26th: Trash Free Tuesday and band lessons and lunch rehearsal, class book fair visit-students may bring money, author book order due, Ms. Sakai's math crew fact practice
Wednesday, April 27th: field trip to HarborChase with buddies (8:50-10:05 am)
Thursday, April 28th: orchestra lessons, Forward assessment-Vets only
Friday, April 29th: BOB pizza party (Bennett, Maya and Rose), Atwater's Got Talent show
I hope you enjoyed some beautiful weather outside! I took a long walk in a nature preserveonly a two minute walk from Miya's dance studio while she was at lessons. Bring on the spring!
Deb
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