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.