Post #3 (Sept. 18-22, 2017)

September 18-22, 2017

Zoah, Charlotte and Isla represented our crew at the PrinciPal meeting with Mrs. Russick.Design Principle: The primacy of self-discovery."I am here to discover what I can do."

A "shout out" to Jacoby for completing an XtraMath level over the summer!

Ms. Starck's crew shared a reading during the All School  crew. See pics. 

Owen and Auguste do an EL protocol called
Back to back, face to face. The stand up
pair up protocol is also in the pictures. See pics. 

Owen shared a "9" puzzle for the crew to solve using the document camera.

Eliza and Zoah work collaboratively on a
tall tower initiative. Students grappled to create
towers that could hold two cups and five
pennies using a specific set of materials.
Learning Target: I can work collaboratively
to create a tall tower and I can explain
what my role is while building the tower.
They worked with their Rookie/Vet buddy(ies.)
See pics. 

Geoffrey, Xyella and Masha share their
tall tower with the crew. They received
an "I like" and "I wonder" comment (the same
as our peer critique protocol.) See pics. 

Ms. Sakai's math crew forms equal groups for
multiplication. See pics. 

Charlotte, Isla and Kane work together to solve equal group
problems. "I can calculate accurately."
"I can represent real world situations with graphs and
drawings." See pics. 

We also started to brain storm writing ideas for personal narratives. Band and Orchestra began this week. Ms. Sakai has been reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio.

Finn and Sam during a math brain break.
See pics. 

Some of the crew using a "Scoot" in Mrs. Malloy's Social
Studies class. See pics. 

Angela and Zoah working on a BBK (building
background knowledge.) This is the mystery
reading. See pics. 

Petra and Jacoby finding each other. They have
the same animal and then they talked about
animal groups as an introduction to animal
classification. See pics. 

Finn and Henry used the High Quality Work
criteria sheet to give each other feedback for
their peer critiques. The crew also added
one more role that they want to do this year
and then wrote final copies of their notecard
which will be displayed with their self-
portrait. See pics. 

J.P., Owen and Geoffrey took the feedback

from their partner's peer critique and are working

on their final self-portraits. Design Principle:

solitude and reflection. They are sitting at a lowered

table on the floor, one of our new seating

areas. We also have more standing work 

areas and four standing desks around the room

(three which face out the window.) See pics. 

Brain breaks! See pics. 

Post #2 (9/15/17)

September 11-15, 2017

Petra and Auguste help Nancy celebrate
her birthday. Her mom made delicious
dumplings for her treat. See pic. 

J.P. and Levi greet each other during Crew.
We have many different greetings. Please
ask your child to teach you one. See pics. 

Angela and Masha participate in a "Likes" initiative led
by Mrs. Bennett. See pics. 

Ms. Heeley explained about herself and answered
questions so we could get to know her better.

Mrs. Russick reviewed school-wide expectations with us
using sign language. Ask your child to show you how
to sign walk, run, clean, finished, no, yes, toilet and water.
See pics. 

Cassidy and Victor demonstrate the Number
Grid Difference Game in the Rookie math
class. See pics. 

Charlotte demonstrates her Summer Mystery
Project. Each mystery objet was displayed
via a document camera on the Promethean
Board while crew members wrote their
guesses for each object For sharing,
each mystery object could have up to three
guesses and then the person shared his/her
mystery object. Crew members also answered
questions from our crew. See pics. 

Rookie math crew moved to different parts on a continuum
to answer questions as a review to rounding numbers on a
number line. See pics. 

Math energizer. See pic. 

Go Noodle/Brain Breaks. 

Cassidy and Levi give each other feedback
on their self-portrait using a peer critique
guide before drawing their self-portrait
again. They will go through the process one
more time before their final self-portrait
producing high quality work. This is the high
quality work protocol. The crew also wrote
notecards which included what crew means
to them and what role they play in crew for
the Design Principle: The Primacy of Self-
Discovery. See pics. 

Nancy, Henry, Petra and Sam work on coloring
their Wisconsin posters from Mrs. Malloy
that connect with our SS unit on WI. See pics. 

Owen is picking cherry tomatoes from the
garden plot. See pics. 

Jacoby helps food process the tomatoes for the

salsa. The crew also made kale chips. The

vegetables from the garden plot inlcuded

cherry tomatoes. kale, jalapeno peppers,

cucumbers, green and red lettuce. Each

crew member shared their role in making the

healthy snacks (some were from last spring!)

See pics. 

The crew enjoyed a healthy snack of kale chips,
salsa and chips, red and green lettuce with orange
balsamic dressing, carrots, cucumbers, radishes
and cherry tomatoes. Some veggies were from
the Port Washington Farmer's Market. See pics. 

We also had a fire drill this week and have
also had closing crew meetings to reflect
on the day. (Monarch gathering nectar from
goldenrod in Harrington Beach SP today.)

Thank you to the crew again for such a
thoughtful birthday and to Zoah's mom
for sending in popsicles for a birthday
treat. 

Post #1-2017-2018

September 5-8, 2017

Mrs. Bennett, support teacher,
and crew member. 

Mr. Stingl, instructional aide,
and another crew member.

Mr. Coleman, instructional aide and crew member.
We spent time getting to know each of them.

The shoe greeting during Crew. See pics. 

Henry and Henry leading a crew greeting.

Masha and Zoah during Crew sharing with an elbow partner.
We created a t-chart with what crew members do and what
passengers do. See pics. 

Isla and Eliza during  Gogomo, an EL protocol.
They shared interests and things they would like
to do this year.  See pics. 

Owen reading a JR book. See pics. 

Our crew checking out the garden plot. Thank you to
Geoffrey, Auguste, Owen M. and Henry C.'s families for
watering and weeding the garden plot over the summer.   

See pic. 

Finn, Catalina and Xyella share why they wrote a favorite
number on their name tag during math. We shared in the
whole group and created math norms. See pics. 

The first week was fantastic and we had so much fun getting to know each other and building relationships. The crew labeled many materials, got used to pencil pouches and switched for math. Mrs. Malloy teaches the Vets and Ms. Sakai teaches the Rookies.

We also started to share our summer mystery objects. 

Cassidy, Bruce, Hazel, Julia, and Victor practice
skip counting. See pics. 

Sam, Lillian and Jeremiah use marker boards to doodle for a
few minutes (done the first time they use the materials)
 before answering problems. See pics. 

Cleo leads  Five Shakes for a Brain Break.

Mr. Blanchett, head lunch supervisor and instructional aide,
explains about himself before reviewing lunch expectations.

Ms. Drzewicki, accelerated learning aide,
explains Battle of the Book (BOB) to our
crew. This is for Vets. 

Mr. Hughes, band teacher.

Mrs. Nolan, orchestra teacher.