Room 210 Review: May 2017

Monday, May 29, 2017

Post #37

May 22-25, 2017

Liam and the Elementary Band, under the
direction of Mr. Hughes, performed a
wonderful concert for us! See pics.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Bergmann!

Thank you to Mrs. Knoernschild, Finn's grandma,
for being a Mystery Reader. She read When
The Wind Changed by Ruth Park and helped edit
word processed stories. See pics.

A closed eye greeting in crew. See pics.

Daphne and Henry demonstrate a greeting in the fishbowl.

After watching a short video called "Lessons
form an ant," Angela and Nadia discussed how
they can learn from ants to apply to their own
lives. The Natural World is one of our EL
Design Principles. See pics.

Owen, Liam, Jacoby, Tristan and Levi play Rock, Paper,
Scissors, and not the regular one. Once someone loses,
s/he goes on to cheer on the opponent until there is only
one winner. It's quite a fun and loud initiative! See pics.

As part of our EL Design Principle, The Natural
World, we went on a nature scavenger hunt with
our K-4 buddies. Levi and Geoffrey are here with
a K-4 buddy. See pics.

Finn and Auguste found a way to make our
Himalayan bowl resonate better for
Mindfulness. See pic.

Other Activities this week:

Publishing Center-thank you also to Nada Johnson who also trained and helped out in the Publishing Center, students visited the Publishing Center, read different Scholastic News with headlines that related to children accomplishing something significant, studied the text features and created ideas for their end of the year story, Ms. Sakai had a guest teacher on Tuesday for individual reading assessments and Thursday morning for Crew Committee, ELL students went on a trip to Audubon Nature Center, worked on time capsule and achievement sheets for scrapbook, watched a short movie about the Great Lakes

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. This is the last reading log!

2. XtraMath : XtraMath 3 times, packet or another way to practice if your child participated in

Free Week) This is the last week of XtraMath unless your child didn't complete it last week.

3. Hidden Figures movie permission is due on Thursday, June 1st.

4. Thursday, June 8th: Atwater Beach (1:00-3:25 pm:) We are walking to Atwater Beach for the last day field trip. Please let me know if you'd like to walk over with us or meet us there. Thank you!

5. Sendik's bags: If you have any large Sendik's bags that you're not using, we'll take them. We use them to hold art smocks for the year.

6. Summer Reading ideas from Brightly: Here is a link to a website that sends me wonderful lists and ideas. I am not endorsing them or suggesting that you purchase from them but the lists are by age level and are diverse.

http://www.readbrightly.com/summer-reading-central/?aid=randohouseinc46734-20&ref=PRHCE3730C70B10&linkid=PRHCE3730C70B10&cdi=124A1AB9CF662A05E0534FD66B0A493C&template_id=6327

Calendar:

Monday, May 29 -No School

Tuesday, May 30- Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due, band lessons and band pizza party

Wednesday, May 31-

Thursday, June 1- Orchestra lessons, movie permission slip due for Hidden Figures

Friday, June 2-No School-Record keeping day to work on progress reports

Monday,June 5 -Thursday bag due and Spanish due

Tuesday, June 6-

Wednesday, June 7-Shorewood Library Field Trip-students may bring library card

Thursday, June 8- Last day! Atwater Beach 1:00-3:25 pm

It's almost the end of the year-thank you for all of your support and cooperation!

Thank you for reading,

Deb

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Post 36

May 15-19, 2017

Liam, Daphne and Henry at Authentic
Learning Night! Daphne was actually
at both sessions! See pics.

Nadia, Aiko and Owen at Authentic Learning Night! These
six students practiced during their lunch time to prepare. They
shared with many people, answered many questions and always
with a positive attitude! They represented our crews well!
Thank you to the parents for supporting them, Cleo and
Nancy for attending that night, Johnson Control volunteers
who continued to be present throughout our entire case
study and to Mrs. Russick for her support, along with Mr.
Knight for organizing the event!

Our crew singing "Step by Step at HarborChase after a wonderful recital
by some of our crew. There is so much talent! Thank you to Mr. Christiansen,
Mrs. DeWeerdt, and Mrs. Rosenberg for chaperoning. Thank you to Ms. John-
son who stepped in to tune the instruments and to the parents that came to watch.
We look forward to next year and our continued connection with HarborChase.
See pics.

Nadia, Nancy and Mary Jane attended PrinciPals with Mrs.
Russick to talk about our design principles: The Natural World
and the Primacy of Self-Discovery. See pics.

Maia shadowed Kaiden this week to check out
our school. Thank you Kaiden and crew for
welcoming her. We hope she attends Atwater!

A "shout out" to J.P. for earning a Xtra-
math certificate!

Way to go, Owen, for earning a XtraMath
certificate!

A "shout out" to Angela for passing another
level in XtraMath!

Angela and Masha model a greeting for our
crew in the fishbowl. See pics.

Kaiden leads us in Poison Dart frog to work
on observation skills. See pics.

Cleo, Mary Jane and Geoffrey work on a Boggle puzzle.
First, they worked individually, then in a group, and last
they discussed strategies before completing a puzzle in a
group. We debriefed afterward. See pics.

Aiko and Owen role playing what it looks
like when someone says, "hi" to you and you
don't respond. We discussed what this feels
like and what how we can be better at this.
See pics.

Tristan and Liam edit each other's writing after they word
processed it. Crew members are word processing their inventor
research. See pics.

Eliza and Nancy read Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Why Commas
Really Do Make A Difference by Lynne Truss. This was an
introduction to using parentheses in math. See pics.

Levi and Ryan play Name That Number to try to reach a
target number using addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division. See pics.

Petra, Tristan, Finn, Auguste, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Cherek
enjoying lunch by the lake outside of Discovery World. It was
a wonderful and beautiful day for a field trip. Thank you to
Mr. Cherek, Mrs. DeWeerdt, Ms. Forray,
Ms. Jiang, Ms. Johnson, Mr. Stingl and Mr. Talley for chaperoning
our trip and to Ms. Johnson for sharing her pics! See pics.

Henry waters his garden beans after he records
his observations. See pics.

Henry leads us in Mindfulness. See pics.

Cleo, Kaiden and Mary Jane ares dressed
for "Everything Spirit Day!" See pics.

Some of our crew in PE! Thank you to Mrs. Albrightson
and Mr. Coleman for the pics! See pics.

Other Activities this week:

Publishing Center-thank you to Mrs. Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Levick, Mrs. McLellan and Mrs. Vanderloop for coming in for training last week with Mrs. Brown to help publish our crew's stories, brainstormed for achievements for design principle: The Primacy of Self-Discovery and wrote about their own for the scrapbook, practicing song for HarborChase, step ups and shout outs

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 : XtraMath 3 times, packet or another way to practice if your child participated in

Free Week)

3. Janet Ruth Heller book order due 5/25.: Book order was in Thursday bags two weeks ago. She will also teach our crews in a writing workshop during her visit.

4. Thursday, June 8th: Atwater Beach (1:00-3:00 pm:) We are walking to Atwater Beach for the last day field trip. I hope that it's warmer! Please let me know if you'd like to walk over with us or meet us there. Thank you!

5. Sendik's bags: If you have any large Sendik's bags that you're not using, we'll take them. We use them to hold art smocks for the year.

6: Crew Garden plot: We will be planting our crew garden plot when it stays warmer at night-looking forward to it! Are there any families that would like to share the watering and weeding of the garden plot through the summer? In the past, three families have shared and you can pick whatever is available. Last summer, the lettuce grew very well! Thank you to Mrs. McLellan and Mrs. Griffin for offering to take care of the garden. Thank you also to the Caton Family!

Calendar:

Monday, May 22-Reading log, Xtra Math 3 times, and Thursday bag due

Tuesday, May 23 band lessons and rehearsal, band assembly 2:00-2:30 pm, band performance 7:00 pm

Wednesday, May 24- ELL trip to Audubon 11:00 am-2:15 pm

Thursday, May 25 -orchestra lessons, books orders due in school, author book order due

Friday, May 26-No school if we don't use it as a snow day, book orders due online