Blog #39

June 6-9, 2016

Congratulations to Bennett, Maya, Tyndall, Julia, Nadia,
Taylor and Ashley for earning no late slips the entire year!

Congratulations to Aiko for earning the most
Word Master points for third grade!

Rose, Noah, Maya and Eleanor were active in Math Olympiad
Development (MOD) all year!

Jesse and Cole present Mr. Isaacs with a card from our crew!
We are very grateful for him!

Hank D., Mary Jane's brother, was our
Mystery Reader! He read Archie the
Daredevil Penguin by Andy Rash.

Mrs. Shanks read The Most Magnifi-
cent Thing by Ashley Spires as a
Mystery Reader!

Lauryn leads us in a Crew Activity.
See pics. 

Our Crew met with Mrs. Malloy's Crew on the last day of
school! See pics. 

Lula, Taylor, Rose and Maya create
a standing tower from spaghetti
and marshmallows. See pics. 

Our Crews take an EL Gallery Walk
to see all the towers. See pics. 

For our last Crew meeting, we wrote a
word on a Jenga Block that describes
what crew means to each of us. Expeca-
tations: build a structure as high as we
can, keep fingers from touching any
other block, crew members can go in
any order and if it knocked over, we start
again. Matthew and Nadia are adding
their blocks. 

Jesse added his block on the tower.
See pics.

Our Crew's Jenga tower-this was a great challenge-please ask
your child about it and what s/he learned from it.

Finn presents Maya her progress report
with a compliment. See pics. 

     

Cole, Liam, Noah and Bennett share
their Publishing Center story.

Aiko and Julia share their Publishing
Center story. 

                     

Mary Jane, Noah, Zhi and Liam partici-
pate in an EL protocol called Poster
Session. Every person is an expert about
his/her group's invasive species poster.
Noah is the expert in his group.  Please
ask your child about this.  See pics. 

Julia, Jesse, Nadia, Aiko
and Matthew show their
invasive species poster.
See pics.

Our garden plot

     Our crew also wrote thank you letters to Mrs. Fairweather, Stony Hill School teacher.

Dancing!

Piper, Mary Jane, Rose and Maya
are creating another flip book after
the Betty Brinn Children's Museum
trip (one of the requirements for
the free trip.) See pics. 

Tristan and Finn help Cole
celebrate his birthday!

Nadia and Teddy share Kaiden's
birthday with her. See pic.

Nadia and Julia start singing
"Happy Birthday" to Eleanor.
See pic. 

Tristan, Piper and Cole make a top
at the Shorewood Public Library
to learn about the summer reading
program. See pics. 

Lauryn, Kaiden and Teddy at the
Shorewood Public Library. Thank you
to Ms. Heide!

Piper creates her scrapbook. Thank
you to Jing Chen, Teddy's mom,
for binding the scrapbooks for us!
See pics. 

Mary Jane, Teddy and Finn are
gathering signatures for their
scrapbook page.  See pics. 

Finn, Zhi and Liam eat a
pizza lunch for 0 or no late
slips. See pics. 

Atwater Beach!  Thank you to Mrs. Aldana, Mrs. Kalkbrenner,
and Mr. Schroeder for chaperoning!
Thank you also to Mrs. Pendleton for being the guest
teacher and to Mr. Isaacs for all of the
pictures! What a great trip! See pics.

Marie, Eleanor and Tyndall at the June
Fair! It was a fantastic time workiing
with all of the parents!
 See pics.  

1.  IXL will be available to your child until August 9th if s/he would like to use it.  S/he should have the information to access it.

2.  XtraMath should be available through the summer if your child would like to use it.

3. everydaymath online should also be available to your child throughout the summer.




Thank you so much for an amazing year!

Have a wonderful summer!

Deb

Blog #38

May 31-June 3, 2016

A third grade student thanksPiper for her family's contribu-
tion to the playground at the Atwater Playground Dedication.
What an amazing event with community members, families,
staff and students involved!  Thank you to John Stanco for
most of the pics! See pics. 

Here's our crew after we planted our garden!  Thank you to
Lora Caton for making this happen for us!  

Thank you to Mr. Callahan for reading Sylvester and the
Magic Pebble by William Steig as a Mystery Reader.

Teddy and Jesse do the EL protocol
 "front to front"during crew time.
See pics. 

Aiko leads our crew in an activity.
See pics.

Mr. Nodolsky and Ms. Grafmeier
talked with the crew about Battle of
the Books.  A letter and a new list was
in the Thursday bags. 

Kaiden and Lauryn share their Publishing
Center story with our crew. 

Bennett, Teddy, Finn and Jesse are
scrapbooking with pictures from the
year.  Thank you all for contributing
money to help with printing the photos.
See pics. 

Bennett, Kaiden, Eleanor, Rose, Maya,
Cole and four of our  K-4 Buddies
celebrate their summer birthdays.
See pics. 

Thank you to Mrs. Thoreson's crew
for the popsicle treat. See pics.

Nadia and her buddy build Legos.
See pics. 

Maya and Cole plant seeds in our garden
plot.  We planted cucs, green beans, carrots,
radishes, lettuce, beets, jalapenos, sweet
peppers, kale, tomatoes and okra.
Thank you to Aiko and Rose's
family for taking care of our plot over
the summer. See pics. 

Nadia leads Mindfulness. See pic.

Rose, Julia, Maya and Mary Jane
eat lunch in our room before our field
trip.  See pics. 

Mrs. Brown and Tristan use Monkey
Jam to create an animated movie
at Betty Brinn Children's Museum.

One group learns how to create images
to see animation on a zootrope. 

Piper, Nadia, Eleanor, Lauryn, Finn,
Teddy and Rose at BBCM. See pics. 

Piper is at the broadcasting station at
BBCM. Thank you so much to all of
our chaperones: Mrs. Aldana, Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. DeWeerdt, Mr. Evans,
and Mrs. Travanty. Thank you also
to Mr. Evans for sharing his pictures
with us. 

Liam and Finn help Zhi celebrate his
birthday. See pic.

Notes for Parents: 

1.  Thursday bags due by Monday.

2.  Wednesday, June 8th-we are walking to the Shorewood Public Library to learn about the summer reading program.  Some crew members received letters about library cards.  Please return by Monday, June 6th so we can send them over before our visit.


3.  Wednesday, June 8th-If your child received 0 or no late slips for third trimester, s/he received a letter in the Thurs. bag. Mrs. Malloy and I will provide two pieces of pizza each. S/he may bring extra food, a drink and dessert if s/he would like. Please remember about the food and drink rules at school. After eating, every will go outside for recess. 

3.  Thursday, June 9th-we are going to Atwater Beach from 1:00 pm-3:15 pm.  I will have a half personal day that afternoon because I'll be attending Miya's 6th grade recognition ceremony.  I will have a guest teacher plus Mrs. Malloy's crew are also going to the beach.  I'd love to take some extra parents. If you are interested, please let me know. (If it rains, the crew will watch a movie.) Renae Aldana, Amy Kalkbrenner and Patrick Schroeder are joining us so far-thank you! Thank you to Carrie Talley for bringing popsicles to the beach!


4.  Thursday, June 9th-June Fair-Here is the Sign-up Genius for the many volunteer opportunities for that night if you would like to help.  There is something for everyone. :)  

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e49acae2da31-june6

5.  Go Noodle:  Here is a parent letter, Bingo Game and link if you'd like to sign up for GoNoodle over the summer! 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/nash-production-assets/parent_invite_pdfs/gonoodle_parent_invite_en.pdf

Important Dates

Monday, June 6th:   Thursday bag due, Shorewood Public Library letters (if you received one) due, band pizza party

Tuesday, June 7th: Trash Free Tuesday

Wednesday, June 8th:  Shorewood Public Library-may bring library card to check out books, Pizza party for 0 or 1 late slip

Thursday, June 9th;  Atwater Beach (1:00-3:15 pm), Last day of school for students, June Fair-5:00-8:00 pm

Hope the crew is enjoying the long weekend!  I am grateful for our work time on Friday to work on progress reports and meet with teachers.  My parents are visiting this weekend to see Miya in her dance recital.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Thank you,

Deb