Blog #10

October 31-November 4, 2016

Our Crew earned "The Golden Spoon Award!" Please ask your child why they earned this. 

Congratulations to Petra for earning an XtraMath certificate!

A "Shout out" to Kaiden for reading the read aloud for me
last week!

Levi, Cleo, Nadia, Mary Jane and Kaiden represent our
crew for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Daphne, Angela, Finn, Owen and Tristan recite the
Pledge of Allegiance.

Henry, Kaiden, Petra, Daphne and Mary Jane said the
Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday. 

Owen, Liam, Henry, Geoffrey and J.P.  were the pledgers
on Thursday. 

Masha, Cleo, Petra, Eliza and Auguste recited the Pledge
of Allegiance. 

Eliza teaches her buddy the "Firecracker" greeting during
our buddy crew. Our crew worked very hard to lead a
buddy crew meeting and to teach them how to play
pumpkin number games. Half of the crew was in Mrs.
Thoreson's room. Thank you to Mrs. Thoreson for
sharing her pictures! See pics. 

  In our crew, we also greeting with "What the Haps?" and started "step-ups and shout-outs." We
also debriefed the buddy crew meetings and reviewed manners for door holders. The crew also role played and practiced introducing their families to Ms. Sakai at Open House.

J.P. and Owen discuss their answers in math. The math crew
also started working on contracts during math. The focus
is problem solving and all used the computers.
See pics. 

Rowan and Henry take a "1, 2, 3" brain break during math.
See pics.

Finn, Owen and Mary Jane put together the ingredients
for their rock. They also added three mystery minerals,
a shell (fossil) and the fossils that they brought in.  The
crew also learned about the three different types of rocks
and how they are formed. They also watched a DVD
on Rocks and Minerals. See pics. 

The students are continuing to work on their
map in Social Studies.

Nadia and Cleo looks at rock specimens at the Urban
Ecology Center. Thank you to Jen Rosenberg
for sharing her pictures. See pics. 

It was an absolutely amazing day at the Urban Ecology
Center. Miss Alex and Miss Tori are rock stars!  Students
had a lot of time to explore nature and play! See pics. 

Here is half the crew on a cairn from
the Three Billion Year Walk. It was
amazing!  Please check out the link
for information.
http://urbanecologycenter.org/blog/introducing-a-walk-of-3-billion-years.html

The other half of the crew.  Thank you to Mr. Christiansen,
Mrs. Rosenberg and Mrs. Travanty for chaperoning our trip.
I was with one group so that's why there are so many pics
of them. See pics. 

Aiko leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Go Noodle!  See pics. 

Other activities this week:

Vet Junior Art Docents went to art museum,
Word Master practice, prepare for Open House,
Standing Desk surveys, Milwaukee Piano Quartet with Theater Gigante ACE Ensemble,
read nonfiction text











Notes for Parents:

Thank you to all of the families for coming to Open House last week!  I loved watching your children show you their projects and to see how proud they were to show you. I know the crew was tired from the Urban Ecology trip (and the World Series game!)  My grandpa was a Cubs fan and I'm originally from IL. If you couldn't join us last week, please let me know if you would like to stop in another time.

1.  Reading Logs: Reading Logs are due totaled on Monday.  The minimum amount of days is five and students should read at least 140 minutes.  Please ask them to total their minutes before they bring it to school on Monday. An example reading log is in the Parent Orientation booklet. 

2.  XtraMath:  Mrs. Malloy's and Ms. Sakai's crew-Please practice Xtramath three times (three different days) each week. The week runs Mon.-Sun.


3. Picture Retake Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8th: If you would like a retake  or didn't have a picture taken at Picture Day, Picture Re-take day will be Tuesday, Nov. 8th. If you already purchased a package, your child will need to bring the complete photo-package to have the picture re-taken and a new photo-package printed at no cost.   

4.  Word Masters:  Your child should have brought home his/her Word Master packet home with a note attached with important information and dates. Your child will have some time to work on the "word posters" at school and may also work on them at home. Some students are working spltting the words up so I'll give them time to teach the words to each other. Their packet should be kept in their binder so they can work on it at school.   The challenge is on Nov. 28th during Guided Study.

5. Veteran's Day Assembly: Thurs., Nov. 10th at 1:45 pm.  Please see the note that was in the Thurs. bag with important information, especially about honoring Veterans at the assembly. Please also consider donating to the "Dollar for Honor Fundraiser" to send a Veteran on an Honor Flight. Wear red, white and blue on Nov. 10th.

6 . No School and Conference Dates: There is no school for students on Thursday, March 9th and Friday, March 10th.  The district calendar says differently. 

Calendar:

Monday, November 7-Reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, November 8-  band lessons, Picture Retake

Wednesday, November 9- 

Thursday, November 10-  orchestra lessons, Vets: Latino Arts  Spanish field trip (9:00-12:00 pm), Veteran's Assembly-1:45 pm (wear, red, white and blue)

Friday,November 11-

Monday, November 14-Reading log, XtraMath three times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, November 15- band lessons

Wednesday, November 16-BOB check in

Thursday, Novermber 17- orchestra lessons, PrinciPals (Daphne and Kaiden)
Friday, November 18-Rookies-Junior Art Docents to art museum

Monday, November 21-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due

Tuesday, November 22- band lessons

Wednesday, November 23- No School

Thursday, November 24- No School
Friday, November 25- No School

I rested my voice quite a bit so hopefully I'll be all set for this week!

Thank you,

Deb