Post #38

May 30-June 1, 2017

Aiko receives a medal for scoring the highest
on the Word Master competitions for 4th
graders! Other students received recogni-
tion for their accomplishments at the Award
Ceremony. See pics. 

Nadia scored second highest on the Word Master competitions
for fourth graders. Owen, Geoffrey, Kaiden and Masha also
persevered all year on Word Masters!

A Shout Out to Auguste for completing a
XtraMath level!

Nadia, Geoffrey, Masha, Kaiden and Angela are Responsibility
Stewards and did not earn any late slips all  year!

Auguste, Nancy and Eliza were our Cafe Crew
this week!

Auguste, Cleo and Liam were also our Cafe
Crew this week!

Ms. Brown read Abel's Island by
William Steig as a Mystery Reader. She also
told us about her trip to Bora Bora. See pic. 

At Community Crew, Mrs. Shank's and Mrs. Bellford's Crew,
along with Mrs. Hayes, shared the colorful new PERKS banner
that they created with a Crayola grant. See pics of the CommunityCrew. 

Nancy shared her book that she researched and
wrote about bullet trains for her EL ELL case
study. 

Kaiden shared her Publishing Center story.

Kaiden, Masha and Angela shared a poster
that they created for our EL Design Principles:
The Primacy of Self-Discovery and The
Natural World.  See pic. 

Henry, Owen, Geoffrey, Eliza, J.P.. and Tristan during our
counting off greeting during crew. See pics. 

Petra shows Rock, Paper, Scissors during
a crew initiative. See pics. 

Janet Heller, an Atwater alumni and author read her book
How the Moon Regained Her Shape to our crews. It is about
her experience of being bullied as a child. She also read poems
and taught a creative writing lesson to the students. A few
students also shared their poems. Thank you to Mr. Karbel
for arranging this wonderful opportunity. See pics. 

Check out the bean plant! We will plant our
seeds this week. See pics.

Other Activities this week:

Publishing Center-thank you to Kelly Griffin for finishing with our students in the Publishing Center and to Shawn Brown who is creating all of the books, wrote the end of the year story writing prompt, took a cumulative math assessment and fact assessments, Liam attended the band pizza party, Mrs. Drzewicki from the Advanced Learning Dept. introduced Battle of the Books, passed out almost all 1,500 photos for scrapbook 

Notes for Parents

1.   XtraMath over the summer:  Your child received information on how to continue XtraMath over the summer in the Thurs. bag.

2. Connetedmath over the summer:  Your child can continue to use Connectedmath over the summer by using the same login information.

3. Battle of the Books (BOB):  The new BOB list was handed out in the Thurs. bag. Some crew members took it out to look at the list and to form teams. Students do not need to form team now as they meet and can also form teams in the Fall. It is helpful that the students start to read the books over the summer even if they are not in teams yet. Interested students had a packet in their Thurs. bag to help them take notes on about the books. 

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.  There was a note in the Thursday bag about it. Thank you Itsuko Levick for bringing popsicles to the beach!

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,June 5 -Thursday bag due and Spanish due

Tuesday, June 6-  Watching "Hidden Figures"

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

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

Thank you for reading,

Deb