Blog #14

November 28-December 1, 2016

Our first Community Crew with different crews leading parts of the crew
meeting. Please see pics (thank you to John Stanco for most of them!)
It was amazing!  See pics.

Congratulations to Masha for earning a XtraMath certificate!

 

Congratulations to Owen for earning a XtraMath certificate!

Angela, Kaiden and Masha worked hard to
go around the climbing structure without
touching the ground, grappling and
when it became easier, they went
 on the inside. A great example of
personal best (competition with
herself.)

Mary Jane and Petra help Masha celebrate her birthday!
See pic. 

After counting by 6's to make groups, each group made a
collaborative LEGO structure without talking but they
could use hand motions. After mixing the
groups up, they tried again. This time, they could not
use hand motions or talk, plus they had to take turns.
Here are Mary Jane, Aiko and Owen. This activity
also links with the next Guiding Principle: The Having
of Wonderful Ideas. See pics. 

 

Our Guiding Principle: Collaboration and Competition ended and we debriefed about it using front to front, back to back.Here are Daphne and Mary Jane. Ms Sakai
read the Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker. 
See pics. 

Levi shows us where he visited in Germany, along with
sharing some items from his trip. See pics.

Allen, Forrest and Jacoby use fraction circles to explore
fractions. See pics. 

Cleo and Owen use different volumes of water to measure
how far each one filled a 1 liter container. See pics.

Evan, Geoffrey and Eliza draw the area of different rectangle
objects in square cm and square inches. See pics. 

Tristan and Liam help their kindergarten buddy create an
invitation to his Three Little Pigs play. See pics. 

Auguste leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Finn is waiting to catch the Koosh ball during mumball.
See pics. 

Go Noodle! See pics. 

Other activities:

writing and continuing to word process a personal narrative in a Google doc, continued to read Stone Fox by J.R. Gardiner and write about character's feelings and reading yourself awake, Ms. Sakai read One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to listen for personal narrative characteristics, the crew is learning about landforms in Social Studies



Notes for Parents:

Today teachers spent the day meeting with resource teachers about our shared children and working on progress reports. It was wonderful to have some time to meet and work!

1.   Reading Log : Reading Logs are due totaled on Monday.  The minimum amount of days is five days and students should read at least 140 minutes.  Please ask your child to total his/her minutes before s/he brings 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.  Book Fair: Monday, Dec. 5-Friday, Dec. 9th-see schedule in Thurs. bag. Our Crew is visiting the book fair on Tuesday, Dec. 6th so your child may bring money if s/he would like to.

4.  Vets-Spanish Homework due-Thursday, Dec. 8-after your child completes the homework, please sign it

4. Rock, Mineral and Gem Gallery Walk: Wednesday, Dec. 14th:  Please see note in Thurs. bag. This is an opportunity for students to bring in up to five specimens to share if they would like. A note catcher needs to be completed by Friday, Dec. 9th on each specimen in order to share.  It's not much but it will help students decide which specimens (up to five) they would like to share.  

Note catcher due: Friday, Dec. 9th (All students received reminder note last Tuesday.)

Specimens due: Tuesday, Dec. 13th

5 . No School and Conference Dates: There is no school for students on Thursday, March 9th and Friday, March 10th.  The district calendar says differently. Your child is leading the conference so please plan to have your child join us. 

6. Box Tops: If you have any Box Tops, please send them in. We are collecting them! Thank you!

7. HarborChase -Young Reader's Program-Tuesday, Dec. 20th (10:30-12:30 pm) We will be walking to HarborChase to start a Young Reader's program with the residents and continue our wonderful relationship with them. Our plan is to visit once every month. This time, they are also providing us with a pizza lunch. If your child does not like pizza, s/he can bring along another lunch.  If you would like to walk to HarborChase with us, please let me know. Permission slips forthcoming.

Calendar:

Monday, December 5-Reading log, XtraMath three times and Thurs. bag due, book fair, Public Hearing on 2017-2018 School Start Date-7:30 pm SHS Lib.

Tuesday, December 6- band lessons, Vets-Spanish homework due, book fair visit-may bring money

Wednesday, December 7-book fair, Technology Safety session-Shorewood Public Library 6:00 pm

Thursday, December 8- orchestra lessons, book fair

Friday, December 9-Vets-book fair, note catchers due for Rock and Mineral Gallery Walk, Vet Junior Art Docents to Art Museum

Monday, December 12-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due

Tuesday, December 13- band lessons, specimens due for Gallery Walk

Wednesday, December 14- Rock and Mineral Gallery Walk, BOB Check-in

Thursday, December 15- Orchestra Lessons, PrinciPals-Petra

Friday, December 16-

Monday, December 19-Reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, December 20-  band lessons, HarborChase walking trip-10:30-12:30 pm (perm. slips upcoming)

Wednesday, December 21- 

Thursday, December22-  orchestra lessons, Winter party

Friday,December 23-No School-Vacation 

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Thank you,

Deb