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January 24-27, 2017

Winter Sing!  The crew worked so hard and presented a spectacular Winter Sing performance! Thank you to Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Travanty for helping with the crew that night. Thank you also to Mrs. Brown for your help with Winter Sing and to all of the families that supported your children!  The students also had a practice and dress rehearsal, plus watched the 4-6th grade dress rehearsal-busy week! See pics. 

A shout out to our crew for earning the Golden Spoon last week for keeping the floors clean and sitting appropriately for dismissal!

Levi, Henry and Jacoby took notes in crew and shared
their ideas about "Service and Compassion" at PrinciPals
with Mrs. Russick. They also reported to our crew after the meeting. 

Angela participated in the All School Spelling
Bee. Way to go! Thank you to Mrs. Brown
and Mr. Nodolsky for running the bee!

Petra participating in the All School Spelling
Bee. Great job!

Petra shared a key chain from
her trip to Washington, D.C. for the Women's
March. 

Daphne and Nadia dress up for Mismatch
Spirit Day!  See pics. 

Jacoby chooses who sits on our green wobble
stools as one of our weekly jobs. 

Our crew is creating greetings for our crew meetings.
Owen and J.P. teach the crew one.  Ms. Sakai also read
The Last Stop on Market Street by M. De La Pena. 

We have Fun Friday during our Crew meetings-here we
are playing mumball. 

Some our crew members before the Community Crew
about Service and Compassion. See pics. 

Cleo and Kaiden play games with their K-4 buddies. They
worked on playing fairly, taking turns and being a good
sport. See pics. 

Henry and Louis play a multiplication game during math.
We also discussed and handed out the science fair poster
information pack (in Thursday bags.) See pics. 

Mary Jane, Daphne and Tristan read books that they picked
out about Medieval Times. They are recording information
about Medieval Times and comparing it to today. They
are also looking for answers to questions that they wanted
to know. See pics. 

Tristan and Owen created a catapult that
flew a cotton ball for 16 feet! Students
revised their catapult or trebuchet and
 tested them  to see how far the cotton
ball flew. See pics. 

Auguste, Jacoby, Liam and J.P. add details to their Medieval
Lego castles. In art, the crew drew and glued their castles
together. The work on this unit with Mrs Hayes is part of
their ACE project. See pics. 

Daphne and Owen prepare to collect more data on playgrounds
for the AWIM "How does form affect function?
 case study. See pics. 

Geoffrey and Mary Jane collect data on a slide on the east
playground and on another slide on the west playground.
See pics. 

Emily and Masha collect data about a tire swing on the
east and west playgrounds for the AWIM case study. See pics. 

Angela leads Mindfulness. See pics. 

Cleo, Aiko and Kaiden at recess. 

The majority of the crew chose a dance party over recess
at the end of the day on Friday. See pics.

Other Activities


researchers adjusted desks to height of students, band and orchestra lunch rehearsals


Notes for Parents

Last Monday, I met with Meg Malloy, Kris Cryns and Mike Hamann to work on our "A World In Motion" (AWIM) case study.  We also met last Wednesday after the early release day. Meg and Kris will teach the crews about reading nonfiction text, taking notes, learning about people who contributed to the field of "form vs. function" and inventions. Mike and I will teach the crews the AWIM unit (same as last year) but with more learning targets, rubrics, data collecting, etc. Besides the connection to Johnson Controls employees, we are also working on bringing in other professionals. We have started data collecting, will work on team building and then begin the language arts and AWIM kits the week of February 6th.  Our AWIM competition is on Friday, March 24th.  We were grateful for the longer blocks of time to work with our teams, plus we are all working on our case study at other times, too! We are excited to make the AWIM case study the best it can be for our crews!


1.   Reading Log : Reading Logs are due totaled on Monday.   Please ask your child to total his/her minutes before s/he brings it to school.

2.  XtraMath :  practice three times a week

3.  Labeling Snow gear: PLEASE LABEL ALL SNOW GEAR with last name or initials :)  We have been spending time every day finding the owner of snow gear and we want to return it to the rightful owner.  Thank you so much!

4 . 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. 

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

6. Advanced Learning Dept. info:

 Word Masters (if your child chose to participate)

The new lists are in manila envelopes. I thought it would be easier to keep them in those. Your child should also add the "word posters" from the previous challenge to the envelope as those words are used again. There is a new word study sheet this time and extras are available in the classroom. Your child will have some time to work on it in class and the rest should be completed at home. Envelopes should be kept in your child's binder. They also received a crossword puzzle. 

 The next competition in in Feb.    Online practice: www.quizlet.com. Most students tried this at school so they know how to log in.

7.  Science Fair: new date is Thursday, March 23rd from 7:00-8:0 pm. Vets:  will not complete science fair projects. Our entire crew will participate in "A World of Motion" case study (like last year but more in depth and will include more reading and writing.)  Rookies:  will participate in the case study and will also complete science posters. Information was in Thursday bags.  

Rookies: Questions are due on Thursday, Feb. 2nd.

The science fair posters will be on display during the science fair.

8.  Recipe for salt dough from Mrs. Malloy: 2 c. flour, 1 c. salt and 1 c. water. Add more of the ingredients until you like it!

9. Penny Wars will begin on Monday, January 30th. 

Calendar:

Monday, January 30-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due

Tuesday, January 31- band lessons and lunch rehearsal

Wednesday, February 1-

Thursday, February 2- Orchestra Lessons and lunch rehearsal. Rookies: Science Fair ? due

Friday, February 3- 

Monday, February 6-reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thursday bag due

Tuesday, February 7-  band lessons and lunch rehearsal

Wednesday, February 8- 

Thursday, February 9-  orchestra lessons and lunch rehearsal

Friday, February 10-  Vets Junior Art Docents 12:20-2:00 pm

Monday, February 13-Teacher Inservice-No School

Tuesday, February 14- band lessons and rehearsal, Reading Log, XtraMath 3 times and Thursday bag due, Valentine Party

Wednesday, February 15- Band-o-rama rehearsal 12:15-3:00 pm, Band-o-rama 7:00pm SHS Arena
Thursday, February 16- orchestra lessons and rehearsals, BOB Battles begin
Friday, February 17-  Rookies Junior Art Docents 12:20-2:00 pm

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!  

Deb