Blog #32

April 20-22, 2016

Bennett, Liam, Jesse, Zhi, Matthew, Cole, Parth and Tristan
picked up garbage at recess for Earth Day!

Teddy and Noah show their certificates from Mrs. Russick for
attending PrinciPals!

Cole talks about Ms. Wurtle, a 3-toed box turtle, while Zhi,
Aiko and Teddy look on. Cole's turtle is visiting us for a
while! The Crew created kindness expectations for her,
watched her eat and enjoyed interacting with her. See pics. 

Lauryn, Cole, Kaiden, Finn, Zhi and Bennett play La
Crosse at recess!

      Our Crew's target for this week and next is: I can focus on kindness during transitions.  Each crew member also chose a new individual kindness goal.  

Teddy and Noah took notes about kind-
ness examples before the PrinciPal's
meeting and shared what they learned
afterwards. See pics.

Our Crew does the EL protocol: Mingle
Mingle. See pics. 

Miss Herritz, a Marquette education
student, is fulfilling math required
hours by working with students
during math.  She is an Education
and Poly Sci major hoping to teach
3rd and 4th grade. Our Crew enjoyed
asking her questions and learning more
about her. 

    In Math, in Ms. Sakai's class,

students learned how to measure angles using an angle measurer. They also received their tic-tac-toe choice for homework.  Mrs. Malloy's math crew is working very hard on angle measuring and multiplication.

For the upcoming field trip to Betty
Brinn, students learned more about
the history of animation before starting
to create their own flip book. A kineo-
graph or flipbook was created in 1868.
See pics. 

     We also Forward tested for

ELA 2+3. 

1. For Earth Day and to
think about our garden plot,
our Crew used an EL
Protocol called Interactive Word Wall
to place a few words about our garden
plot on notecards and then add their
own.  Each group decided how they
would divide the words to put on each
card. Eleanor, Matthew and Noah are
working together to brainstorm words.
See pics. 

2. The EL Protocol continued when
each group created an interactive word
wall to show how the words are
connected to each other. Liam,
Tyndall and Parth show their word
wall.  See pics.

  

3.  Then the Crew took a Gallery Walk
to look at each Word Wall while look-
ing to see how groups connected their
words.  This was a silent walk.  Piper,
Julia and Rose look at a word wall.
See pics. 

4.  Mary Jane is explaining her part
of the interactive word wall to
another group. The students reflections
after we finished were
wonderful. See pics. 

Using EL Protocol fish bowl,
Jesse shows us one way to sit during a
tornado drill. The entire school
practiced a tornado drill.  See pic.

Liam leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Go Noodle-Baby High Five!

Nadia and Aiko create a "I"m Going
on a Picnic."

Piper and Maya try out People to
People Brain Break. See pics.

Parth creates "Seven Shakes."

We enjoyed the SIS/SHS band led by Justin Olson and
Nick Castonguay!

Thank you for reading our blog!

   Notes for Parents: 

    Our second day of inservice was led by Penny Rossoto. We learned about the Habits of Scholarship using different EL Protocols and made connections using the Interactive Word Wall protocol (the same ones your children used.) We also worked in teams to write Crew targets for perseverance (next month's PERKS trait.) Both days were active, enjoyable, educational and worthwhile.  It was a pleasure spending two days with our wonderful teaching staff, including Mrs. Russick!

1.  Thursday bags, reading logs fact packet or Xtramath 3 times due by Monday.

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 to Teddy for bringing tissue in!

3.  Practicing for Forward Exam:  The link is below. 

Both Rookies and Vets practice ELA Session 1 and 2 and Math.  We took ELA 2 +3 this week. 
Vets only practice science and social studies, too. 

https://wbte.drcedirect.com/WI/portals/wi/ott1

Dates for testing are: Vets and Rookies:  4/25 (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 there is still room and time to sign up.


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.  Thank you to Mrs. Levick for volunteering to chaperone our trip!


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.  Thank you to Aiko's family for volunteering to take care of our garden plot over the summer! If you are also interested in this, please let me know. 

Important Dates

Monday, April 25th-Thurs. bag, reading log and fact packet or Xtramath due, Forward assessment, book fair 3-5 pm

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, Family Night and + Math and Science Night, book fair 8-12 and 1-5

Wednesday, April 27th:  field trip to HarborChase with buddies (8:50-10:05 am), Vets-Spanish homework due with parent signature, book fair 8-12, 3-8 pm

Thursday, April 28th:  orchestra lessons, Forward assessment science-Vets only, book fair 8-10 am, 12-4 pm

Friday, April 29th: BOB pizza party (Bennett, Maya and Rose), Atwater's Got Talent show, Bring $1.00 to school to benefit the WI Human Society-receive a sticker and wear a crazy hat in school, book fair 8-12 pm, 2-7 pm

Monday, May 2nd:  reading log, Xtra Math or pack and Thursday bag due, last day of book fair 8-830 am

Tuesday, May 3rd: band

Wednesday, May 4th;   Urban Ecology field trip slip due, Forward assessment-SS (Vets only), Leitich Smith author visit

Thursday, May 5th;  orchestra lessons, Ms. Sakai out today (funeral in CA)

Friday, May 6th;   Ms. Sakai out today (funeral in CA)



Thank you for all of your continued support! 

Have a wonderful weekend,

Deb