Post 35

May 8-12, 2017

A Shout Out to the crew for earning the Golden Spoon award!
They earned it by being sociable in a respectful way. 

Thank you to Angela, Masha and Kaiden
for helping to clean up the cafe after lunch
all week-our cafe crew!

Aiko and Kaiden share a greeting at crew.

J.P.  moves through a hula hoop during crew while both of
his hands are occupied. See pics.  Our Design Principles
are "The Natural World" and "The Primacy of Self-Discovery"
so we've watched a short video about Canada Geese and discussed how we can learn from them. We've also discussed what we've dis-covered about ourselves and what we can do that we didn't
realize we could do. 

Kaiden and Cleo shared a story that they wrote together. 

Cleo, Daphne, Mary Jane , Daphne and Geoffrey work on
their Mother's Day/special person cards. The crew brainstormed
for words for a Mother's Day poem, then wrote one and added
fingerprint pictures. (The paint didn't work very well, so some
tried stamp pads.) A "Success and Failure" lesson for me!
 Happy Mother's Day!  See pics. 

Henry, Jacoby and Rowan play "Beat the Calculator" to
practice multiplication facts. See pics. 

Forrest and Petra play "Multiplication Baseball" to practice facts
and extended facts. See pics. 

Aiko leads a Brain Break. 

Mr. Hughes plays the sax during a band
introduction. He plays MANY other
instruments, too. See pics. 

Other Activities this week:

observed plantings and wrote/illustrated in journal, word processed writing in the computer lab, Vets took survey with Mrs. Malloy, Publishing Center, Scholastic News, illustrating picture to accompany inventor research using High Quality Work Protocol

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 Screen Free Week) 

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

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

4.  HarborChase Music Recital: Friday, May 19th: 

The recital will start about 10:30 am as we are taking the HarborChase bus and two trips. Families are welcome to hear the recital, too! 

 Performers: please bring instrument, music and music stand (I will have one that someone can use or share. I'll talk to the crew about the stands.)

5. Discovery World field trip: Monday, May 15th-Please bring a disposable bag lunch and drink.  Chaperones: Anna DeWeerdt, Nada Johnson, Kyle Cherek,  Jon Talley, Claire Jiang and Ben Christiansen.  Thank you!



6.  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.



7: 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. We could still use one more family to help out, too!

Calendar:

Monday, May 15-reading log and Thurs. bag and XtraMath due, Discovery World field trip-please bring a bag lunch and drink (8:40 am-2:20 pm)-please bring a disposal bag lunch and drink

Tuesday, May 16- band lessons and lunch rehearsal, Authentic Learning Showcase-SHS Arena (6:30-8:30 pm)

Wednesday, May 17- Vet Orchestra Recital 6:00 pm

Thursday, May 18-Orchestra lessons, PrinciPals (Mary Jane, Nancy and Nadia)

Friday, May 19- HarborChase music recital: 10:00-12:00 pm-please bring music, stand and instrument), Classy Class order due

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

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

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

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

Monday,June 5 -

Tuesday, June 6- 

Wednesday, June 7-

Thursday, June 8- Last day!

Happy Mother's Day and hope you enjoyed the weekend!

Thank you for reading,

Deb