Post #29

March 20-24, 2017

Congratulations to all of the "A World in Motion" teams that competed in the AWIM Competition as part of their case study! They should all be so proud of their hard work, perseverance and creativity! The teams in the pictures are advancing to the Regional "A World In Motion" competition on Saturday, April 8 from 2-3 pm in the SHS Arena. Mr. Sovol from Johnson Controls announced the teams. The other schools competing are Lake Bluff and a middle school. Please come to support our teams! Thank you to Johnson Controls for all of your work with our students this year and to Mr. Knight for helping with all of the communication!

Congratulations to The Winged Cheetahs who
won First Place for Distance.  A special
thank you to Mary Jane who helped Aiko.
Petra, Eliza and Daphne are also a part of the
team. 

Congratulations to The Elderly Zombies for
winning first place for speed. Tristan and Owen
represented the team. Henry is also a part of
the team. 

Geoffrey passed a XtraMath level-way to go!

Masha and Angela represented our crew at the PrinciPals meeting with Mrs. Russick about Reflection and Solitude.They took notes and also shared about the meeting. See pics. 

 

Mrs. Russick ends our Community Crew with Mindfulness.See pics. 

We had many discussions about reflection, solitude and mindset
this month. Here is the reading we used the week of the AWIM
competition. 

Owen displays his science fair poster before he
shares it. Students also ask questions, give compli-
ments and two peer reviewers fill out a form for
him. After each poster is shared, we stand and
create an energizer that relates to each poster,
before changing rows where students are seating.
A shout out to all of the Rookies for their hard
work researching their question, creating their
poster and presenting it! See pics. 

 

Nadia and Aiko are enjoying the science fair posters and projects.  The Rookies went in the morning and filled out an information sheet. Both Rookies and Vets went in the afternoon. It was wonderful seeing so many families at the  science fair at night. 
See pics. 

Auguste, JP, Tristan and Owen enjoy the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra concert related to our ACE theme: architecture.
Thank you to Lora Caton for this photo and for chaperoning.
See pics. 

Students answered a few questions about what they thought
they knew about autism, then each crew member received
 a slip of paper and had to find the other crew members with
the same information. They read and discussed the information 
with their group and shared it with our crew. 
We reflected on the new information that we learned. We are
learning about autism because of the main character
in Mockingbird, the First Stage play, that we are seeing soon. See pics.

Owen, Henry and Tristan make final changes to their JetToy
before the competition. See pics. 

Levi and Geoffrey prepare their JetToy during the "A World
in Motion" competition. See pics. 

Masha, Kaiden and Levi are enjoying a snack courtesy
of Johnson Controls on competition day. See pics. 

Mrs. Malloy's and Ms. Sakai's crew took the painter's tape
off the gym floor following the competition. Thank you
to Mr. Hamann for setting up the tape for the competition. 

Angela and Auguste are completing a fun car activity pack
on competition day while listening to music from the Disney
Cars movie. See pics. 

Damian, Forrest, Cleo and Levi practice questions and using
the tools for the Forward Testing in April. We also reviewed
the answers to the questions. The Vets took the Science and
Social Studies parts. See pics. 

Geoffrey, Forrest and Gauri are using fraction circles to find
parts of a fraction. See pics. 

JP, Liam, Henry and Finn on a Brain Break. See pics. 

Aiko, Nancy and Kaiden during Crazy Hair Day. See pics. 

Henry, Jacoby and Henry eating lunch in the classroom
on science fair day. See pics. 

Auguste, Finn and Levi enjoy a Medieval Times snack for our
spring party. Thank you to Owen D., JP, Kaiden, Aiko and
Tristan for bringing in treats. We enjoyed apples with honey
and cinnamon, baked pears with sugar and cinnamon,
bread (trenchers) with honey, a variety of cheeses, pudding
or jello, sparkling apple or white grape and apple juice.  There
was a tie into Medieval Times for each item and we ate in the
dark with "candles" while watching some of David McCauley's
"Castle" movie. The only utensils were toothpicks from Owen D.
and plastic knives. Then we went outside for recess. See pics. 

Daphne and Liam read a Dining Around the
World Announcement for the morning
announcements. See pics. 

Matthew, Cleo, Daphne and Mary Jane enjoy Dining Around
the World. Thank you to all of the families that came together
to enjoy each other's company and food. Thank you also to
Mrs. Trikha who worked so hard with me to put this event
together and to all of the people who helped (parents,
students, Mrs. Russick, Mr. Anton, Mr. Boyer, Ms. Noth and our night custodial crew, Emily Begel and Mary Kramer (for publicity), Mr. Stanco and Miya.) This is my last year helping with this event as I started to volunteer as a parent when Miya was in K-5 and now she's at  SIS.  It's bittersweet for sure. 

Nancy at Dining Around the World. See pics. 

Other events this week:

hanging up and taking down science fair posters. helping Mr. Hamann's crew peel the painter's tape from the floor (it's amazing how fast it is with 50 students helping out!), math assessment, discussed the buddy activity on April 10th (note in Thursday bag) about the Design Principle "Success and Failure", the crew also made one trip to the cafe to bring the Dining Around the World supplies down and one trip up the next day-it is safe to say that our week was jammed packed with so many wonderful activities!

Notes for Parents


Thank you so much to my crew-they are amazing in so many ways! I am looking forward to the rest of the year with them (and next year, too!)

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. This one is modified for vacation.

2.  XtraMath :  No Xtramath for this week or the week of vacation :)

3. HarborChase:   We have two more dates to visit HarborChase this year. Thank you so much!

Wednesday, April 26th (10:00-12:00 pm)  (Susan Forray, Patrick Hammerlund, Jen Rosenberg and Carrie Talley)

Friday, May 19th (10:00 am-12:00 pm.)    (Ben Christiansen, Anna DeWeerdt, Jen Rosenberg, and Erin Guest)

4. Forward Testing practice:  We are taking the math and language arts tests after vacation. If you would like to see what it is like or your child would like to practice, s/he can go to this link on my webpage and choose Forward Testing.  We have practiced or will practice in school but it's ok to do this more than once. :)

http://www.two4kids.net/room210review/Quick_Links_for_kids%21.html

5: AWIM Regional Competition-Saturday, April 8th-2:00-3:00 pm at SHS Arena- Johnson Controls is holding the regional competition in Shorewood this year. The teams that advance will compete against two other school's teams (LB and a middle school.) Please come to support the teams.

6. West African Drumming and Dance Party-4-6th grade: Friday, April 7 3:30-5:15 pm at LB

7. Word Masters: There is a practice on  4/7 (new date.)  The Word Master challenge is on 4/27. 


8. Monday, April 10th: K-4 Buddy "Success and Failure" egg drop activity, please bring in materials to use to build a device to keep an egg from dropping (no large than a tissue box.) Please see the note in the Thursday bag for more info. 

Calendar:

Spring Break-Saturday, March 25-Sunday, April 2nd (no XtraMath over spring break, reading log still active but shortened for vacation) :)

Monday, April 3-School resumes-reading log and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, April 4- band lessons and lunch rehearsal,  Forward Testing (10:30-12:15)

Wednesday, April 5- Mockingbird play-First Stage (9:15-12:00 pm)-Ellie Travanty and Susan Forray chaperone

Thursday, April 6-Forward Testing (10:30-12:15), BOB pizza party, orchestra lessons

Friday, April 7- Word Master practice (new date)

Saturday, April 8th: 2-3 pm-Regional AWIM Competition-SHS Arena

Monday, April 10-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due, Buddy Success and Failure activity (note was in Thurs. bag)

Tuesday, April 11- band lessons and lunch rehearsal

Wednesday, April 12- 

Thursday, April  13- orchestra lessons

Friday, April 14-No School

Monday, April 17-No School-Inservice Day for teachers

Tuesday, April 18- band lessons and lunch rehearsal,  reading log, XtraMath and Thursday bag due

Wednesday, April 19-  Forward Testing 8:45-9:45 am

Thursday, April 20- Orchestra, PrinciPals, ACE Family Night-6:30-7:30 pm in the cafe

Friday, April 21- 

I hope that the crew is having a wonderful spring break! Safe travels if you're traveling! We spent a couple days with my parents and extended family in Stoughton which was fun and relaxing.

Thank you for reading,

Deb

Post #28

March 13-17, 2017

Nadia, Kaiden, Mary Jane, Daphne, Aiko, Finn and Tristan practiced and
performed in three concerts last week, including the District Orchestra
Festival. See pics. 

Geoffrey earned a XtraMath certificate!
Way to go!

Masha earned a XtraMath certificate!
Great job!

Thank you Aiko and her family for donating
a stability wobble cushion to add to our
alternative seating! 

I'm sorry that I forgot to show the pictures
of the stability wobble cushions that your
families donated to our class as part
of the winter gift! Thank you!

Levi is showing the other cushion.

Eliza and Henry wrote and read a Dining
Around the World announcement before
reading it on the announcements. See pics. 

Cleo leads Bippity Boppity Boo. See pics. 

Auguste leads us in a frog themed activity
for Fun Friday. See pics. 

Geoffrey, Owen and Henry practice reading a book for our
visit to HarborChase. Many of the books had a St. Patrick's
Day theme. See pics. 

Kaiden and Mary Jane read to a HarborChase resident.  See pics. 

Levi gives George a high five after he bowls during our
HarborChase visit. It was so much fun! Thank you to
Ben Christiansen, Nada Johnson and John Spheeris for
chaperoning and to Nada for taking pictures of the other
group. See pics. 

Mr. Sovol and Mr. Simon, Johnson Control volunteers
talked with our crew about their job, the engineering design
process and working as a team. 

Aiko, Daphne, Petra and Eliza discuss how they would
like to design their JetToy vehicle for the competition.
They also wrote their plan in the AWIM packet. See pics. 

Nancy, Masha and Mary Jane test their JetToy car. See pics. 

Jacoby, Auguste, Liam and Owen show their Lego castle.
See pics. 

Kaiden explains her castle to JP and Mary Jane during the
Gallery Walk. We also discussed similarities and differences
after the walk. See pics. 

Liam leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Auguste leads us in seven shakes. 

Other events this week:

The 25 Rookies in Mrs. Malloy's and our crew shared their science fair posters during crew, math and other times of the day. They each had two peer reviewers, questions and compliments. I will post the pics next time.  Mrs. Johnson gave us signs about whole body listening and explained how we can use them. Vet orchestra students had rehearsal and we watched the 4-6 grade orchestra concert plus reviewed in math.







Notes for Parents

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 :  No Xtramath for this week or the week of vacation :)

3.  Science Fair: new date is Thursday, March 23rd from 6:30-7:30 pm.  **** 6:30-7:30 pm is a new time.****

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

4. HarborChase:   We have two more dates to visit HarborChase this year. Thank you so much!

Wednesday, April 26th (10:00-12:00 pm)  (Susan Forray, Patrick Hammerlund, Jen Rosenberg and Carrie Talley)

Friday, May 19th (10:00 am-12:00 pm.)    (Ben Christiansen, Anna DeWeerdt, Jen Rosenberg, and Erin Guest)

5. Dining Around the World: Wednesday, March 22nd from 5:00-7:00 pm-If you like to try foods from diverse cultures, you're welcome to attend the pot luck. There was a note in the Thurs. bag two weeks ago and you can also sign up on-line.  

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4ba9a628a3fc1-dining1


6. Castles: When you come to school, Mrs. Hayes said you are welcome to pick up your child's castle or your child can bring it home. 


7. AWIM Competition: Friday, March 24th (8:30-10:30 am)-The crews will compete in the AWIM competition for distance and speed. I will give more specific times later on. We are waiting to hear from Johnson Controls. The top two teams in distance and speed (4 teams total) will advance to the regional competition. 



8: AWIM Regional Competition-Saturday, April 8th-2:00-3:00 pm at SHS- Johnson Controls is holding the regional competition in Shorewood this year. The teams that advance will compete against two other school's teams (LB and a middle school.) Please come to support the teams.


9. Medieval Times Snack: Friday, March 24th in the afternoon: Owen D., JP, Kaiden, Aiko and Tristan are bringing treats- we're eating a vegetarian snack to culminate our unit

10. West African Drumming and Dance Party-4-6th grade: Friday, April 7 3:30-5:15 pm (there was a note in the Thurs. bag for Vets)

11. Word Masters: The new packet was in the "Wednesday bag." There is a practice on  4/13. The Word Master challenge is on 4/27. 

Calendar:

Monday, March 20-reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, March 21- band lessons, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra field trip (11:20-1:30 pm)-Lora Caton and Ben Christiansen chaperoning

Wednesday, March 22-  Forward Testing (Vets only-SS), Dining Around the World Pot Luck-5-7 pm

Thursday, March 23- Orchestra, PrinciPals (Angela and Masha), Forward Testing (Vets only-Science),  Science Fair during the day and 6:30-7:30 pm

Friday, March 24- AWIM Competition 8:30-10:30 am, Medieval Snack party pm (Owen D, JP, Kaiden, Aiko and Tristan) and Crazy Hair Spirit  Day

Spring Break-Saturday, March 25-Sunday, April 2nd (no XtraMath over spring break, reading log still active but shortened for vacation) :)

Monday, April 3-reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, April 4- band lessons. Forward Testing (10:30-12:15)

Wednesday, April 5- Mockingbird play-First Stage (9:15-12:00 pm)

Thursday, April 6-Forward Testing (10:30-12:15), BOB pizza party, orchestra lessons

Friday, April 7- 

Saturday, April 8th: 2-3 pm-Regional AWIM Competition-SHS

Monday, April 10-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due, Buddy Success and Failure activity (note will be in Thurs. bag)

Tuesday, April 11- band lessons 

Wednesday, April 12- 

Thursday, April  13- Word Master practice

Friday, April 14-No School

The District Solo/Ensemble Competition was in Sussex on Saturday-it was wonderful to see so many Shorewood students participate in it!

Thank you,

Deb

Post #27

March 6-8, 2017

Petra earned a XtraMath certificate!
Way to go!

Auguste earned a XtraMath certificate!
Great work!

Cleo and Petra wrote a Dining Around the
World Announcement and read it on
the announcements.

Jacoby, Eliza, Angela and Aiko play four on the couch.
See pics. 

The number greeting. See pics. 

Daphne gives Petra a specific compliment with
eye contact, a smile and her progress report.
 Petra returns with a "thank you." See pics. 

Tristan and Levi find a tabletop partner and share ideas
during crew. See pics. 

The Juli Wood Quartet entertained us for an enjoyable
ACE Ensemble. 

On International Women's Day, students watched the Google
slideshow Doodle featuring 13 female pioneers who paved
the way. They are from a range of professions, backgrounds
and countries. They also read a short child friendly paragraph
and shared it with the crew.  This also ties in with our
case study and learning abut people.  See pics. 

Angela, Masha and Levi stand near their castles that they
created in art class with Mrs. Hayes. They are a part of
our Medieval Times unit. Please pick up your child's
castle or your child can bring it home. They are in the
the hallway below the main office. See pics. 

Owen and Rowan lead the math crew in a
2X12 array which also represents area. 

Working in clock partners, Levi and Owen grapple to
figure out rectangles that have a perimeter of 24, then
calculate their area. See pics. 

Henry and Finn complete formal testing on their JetToy
vehicle using different sized nozzles and a weight. See pics. 

 

Cleo, Angela and Nadia write about patterns that they observed
in their testing. They also completed a team evaluation form.
See pics. 

Masha and her buddy create a dinosaur from
recycled materials. Thank you families for
sending in so many recyclables! See
many of Mrs. Thoreson's and my pics. 

Brain Break

Masha leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Other events this week (3 days):

BOB competition, desk study surveys, reflect on second goals and wrote about it, self assessed different areas such as "grappling and persevering", "showing empathy and compassion"and "listening to the person talking",  continued to work on opinion writing Medieval Times and visiting the Publishing Center with Mrs. Brown






Notes for Parents

Thank you parents for meeting with me for conferences last week! I enjoyed sharing and learning more about your child!

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 3 times a week

3.  Science Fair: new date is Thursday, March 23rd from 6:30-7:30 pm.  **** 6:30-7:30 pm is a new time.****

 Vets:  will not complete science fair projects. Our entire crew will participate in the "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.

Rookies:Posters are due on 3/13

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

4. HarborChase:   We have three more dates to visit HarborChase this year. Thank you so much!

We could probably take one more person on Friday, March 17th. Please let me know if you'd like to join us. Thank you so much to all of the chaperones!

Friday, March 17th (10:00 am-12:00 pm) (Ben Christiansen, Nada Johnson and John Spheeris)

Wednesday, April 26th (10:00-12:00 pm)  (Susan Forray, Patrick Hammerlund, Jen Rosenberg and Carrie Talley)

Friday, May 19th (10:00 am-12:00 pm.)    (Ben Christiansen, Anna DeWeerdt, Jen Rosenberg, and Erin Guest)

5. Dining Around the World: Wednesday, March 22nd from 5:00-7:00 pm-If you like to try foods from diverse cultures, you're welcome to attend the pot luck. There was a note in the Thurs. bag two weeks ago and you can also sign up on-line.  

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4ba9a628a3fc1-dining1


6. Castles: When you come to school, Mrs. Hayes said you are welcome to pick up your child's castle or your child can bring it home. 


7. AWIM Competition: Friday, March 24th (8:30-10:30 am)-The crews will compete in the AWIM competition for distance and speed. I will give more specific times later on. The top two teams in distance and speed (4 teams total) will advance to the regional competition. 



8: AWIM Regional Competition-Saturday, April 8th-2:00-3:00 pm at SHS- Johnson Controls is holding the regional competition in Shorewood this year. The teams that advance will compete against two other school's teams (LB and a middle school.) Please come to support the teams.

9. Vacations: Please send me an email if you mentioned taking days off around spring break and right after Spring Break. It will be easier for me to forward the dates to the attendance office or you can include Katie Kristopeit and Elizabeth Miller, too. If you've already sent me an email, thank you!

10. Progress Report Envelopes: Please keep the progress report, sign the envelope and return with your child by Friday, March 17th. Thank you to those that have already returned them!

11. Word Masters: The new packet was in the "Wednesday bag." There is a practice on 3/16 and 4/13. The Word Master challenge is on 4/27. 

Calendar:

Monday, March 13-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due, Rookie-Science Fair poster due

Tuesday, March 14- band lessons 

Wednesday, March 15- orchestra rehearsal at SHS (11:30-1:45 pm), Concert 7:00 pm SHS, Symphony permission slip due

Thursday, March 16- Elem. orchestra assemblies and pizza lunch (Orchestra students drop off at LB at 8:00 am), Word Master practice

Friday, March 17- HarborChase 10:00-12:00 pm (Ben Christiansen, Nada Johnson and John Spheeris), First Stage play permission slip due. progress report envelope due with signature

Monday, March 20-reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, March 21- band lessons, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra field trip (11:20-1:30 pm)

Wednesday, March 22-  Forward Testing (Vets only-SS), Dining Around the World Pot Luck-5-7 pm

Thursday, March 23- Orchestra, PrinciPals (Angela and Masha), Forward Testing (Vets only-Science),  Science Fair during the day and 6:30-7:30 pm

Friday, March 24- AWIM Competition 8:30-10:30 am, Medieval Snack party pm

Spring Break-Saturday, March 25-Sunday, April 2nd (no XtraMath over spring break, reading log still active but shortened for vacation) :)

Monday, April 3-reading log, XtraMath 3 times and Thurs. bag due

Tuesday, April 4- band lessons. Forward Testing (10:30-12:15)

Wednesday, April 5- Mockingbird play-First Stage (9:15-12:00 pm)

Thursday, April 6-Forward Testing (10:30-12:15), BOB pizza party. orchestra lessons

Friday, April 7- 

Saturday, April 8th: 2-3 pm-Regional AWIM Competition-SHS

My parents and nephew are visiting this weekend so we all visited the Port Exploreum, a beautifully cozy restored museum that opened about two years ago and focuses on the Great Lakes. It is is downtown Port Washington. Adults are $5.00 and children 5-17 are only $2.00! 

Hope you're enjoying the sunshine!

Thank you,

Deb