Post #7

October 23-26, 2017

A Shout Out to Petra, Xyella, Charlotte, Cat, Rowan and
Allen for sharing about the High Quality Work protocol and
the process they used to create their self-portraits to the
School Board. They did a wonderful job sharing about what
 they learned!

A Shout Out to Zoah for performing in the
First Stage musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!"
It was a "fantabulous" show and Zoah was
amazing! It is one of the best shows I've
seen at First Stage. See pic of the crew hugging
Zoah. 

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

Congratulations, Charlotte, for  earning a
Xtramath certificate!

A Shout Out to Cassidy for passing a Xtra-
Math level!

A Shout Out to Angela for advancing to
another level in XtraMath!

Representative David Bowen visited our 3/4
and 4th grade crews this week! He explained
about his job, answered MANY questions and
challenged the students to find his seat in Madison. 

Zyella and Geoffrey wrote defintions to fanciful
words found in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The crew
also used thesauruses to look up synonyms, brain-
stormed for daily activities, then drew a machine
to help with that activity. We also learned about some
vocabulary in the show (Thank you, Mrs. Hirano!)
watched a few video clips from the 1968 movie to
prepare us for the show. The musical fit in perfectly
with The Having of Wonderful Ideas and our A World of Motion
case study later in the year.  See pics. 

Henry leads us in Bippitty Boppity Boo as
an initiatve for having wonderful ideas. See pics. 

Mrs. Schmidt announces the names of
staff at the All School Crew so everyone
can see who we are. Crews focused on
"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and there
was a fun fact quiz oabout a few teachers before
Mrs. Russick led us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

J.P. and Victor use the "Quiz Quiz Trade" prtocol to share defini-
tions that are in the book Sooper Yooper Environmental
Defender written by Mark Newman and illustrated by Mark
Heckman. The Crew also drew sketches next to each
definition as I read the the book. Mark Newman will visit
our crew in November to talk about invasive species
and we will have the opportunity to purchase this book,
plus another. He will also autograph
the books for your child. See pics. 

Owen stands behind one of the WI State
Representative chairs in the WI State Capitol.
The tour was wonderful! See pics. 

Geofrrey, Levi, Damian and Owen stand
on the Observation Deck of the WI State
Capitol building. Thank you for sharing
your photos, Mrs. Jiang! See pics.

A photo inside the WI Historical Museum. It was a very interesting
tour! Thank you for the photo, Mrs. Mclellan! It was a fantastic day!
Thank you to all of our chaperones for riding the bus, driving, and spending
the day with our crew: Mr. Christiansen, Ms. Jiang, Mrs. Dardis, Mr. Stingl,
Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Marks, Mrs. Talley, Ms. Guest, Mrs. Mclellan, Mr. and Mrs.
Hirano and Zoah's grandma. The trip would not have been possible without
all of you and the parents for ensuring that your chld had everything s/he needed
today. Thank you!  See pics. 

The crew also did a Scoot in Social Studies as a check for understanding with Mrs. Malloy.

 

Post #6 (Oct. 16-20, 2017)

Octobober 16-20, 2017

Levi, Eliza and Victor represented our crew
at the PrinciPal meeting for having wonderful
idease with Mrs. Russick. They also shared
with the crew what they talked about. They did
a great job!

Angela and Finn help Petra celebrate her
birthday! See pic. 

Charlotte and Cassidy help sing Xyella
Happy Birthday! See pic.  

Charlotte and Cleo help to wish Eliza
a Happy Birthday! See pic.

Auguste and Jacoby help Victor celebrate
his birthday! See pic. 

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Thank you to Isla for brining our crew a
sweet treat!

A shout out to Masha for earnding an Xtramath
certificate!

Way to go, Owen, for earning an Xtramath
certificiate!

Owen greets Geoffrey during a snowball greeting. See pics. 

Isla and Eliza do Rock, Paper, Scissors, 
thenproceed to root for the person who wins.
See pics. In our Crew meetings, 
we have also discussed seating norms, 
our Madison trip and respecting wonderful ideas. 

Nancy shared her book that she wrote and
published in ELL. 

Charlotte is finding objects that have a similar mass to 1 liter
or 1,000 grams. Ms. Sakai's math crew is also
working on solving two-step problems, persevering, and
being precise. See pics. 

Sam, Cleo and Masha use multiple sources to
complete a note catcher on  five vertebrate
classes. See pics. 

Eliza, Henry and Isla place vertebrate and invertebrate species
cards and animals on a chart to check to see if they undertand
animal classification. Students also watched a Bill Nye video
on invertebrates. See pics. 

The crew harvested the last vegetables from
our garden plot. Auguste is holding a white
carrot. We still have some green tomatoes
ripening in our room. See pics. 

Levi helps to make kale chips. We made five
pans and they were all eaten. See pics.

Cassidy adds beans to the beet hummus.
Thank you to Mr. Stingl for all of his  help.
See pics.  

Jacoby and Zoah enjoy our healthy snack. We
ate fresh veggies from the garden plot and
Farmer's Market. We also enjoyed kale chips,
beet hummus with chips and some even
tried the beet stem and leaf salad. (I'm trying
to cook with more parts of the vegetable.)
Thank you to Mr. Coleman for all of his help.
See pics. 

Masha leads us in Mindfulness with the
Himilayan Singing bowl. See pics. 

Other Activities this week:

writing personal narratives and Publishing Center stories, Word Masters, BOB and MOD all met, checking on "JR" just right levels

Post #5

October 2-6 and October 9-11. 2017

We are crew, not passengers.

Nancy and Petra help Angela celebrate her
birthday. See pic. 

Mr. Anton joined our crew one day to tell
about himself and answer questions.  (I
have known him since I started teaching at
Atwater!) 

Shout out to Nancy for passing a Xtramath
level!

Sam passed a XtraMath level!

Yeah to Finn for passing a Xtramath level!

 

Way to go, Cassidy, for passing a Xtramath
level!

 

Shout out to August for passing a Xtramath level!

 

Way to go, Nancy, for passing a Xtra-
math level!

Yeah for Sam for passing a Xtramath
level!

Nancy shared a story that she wrote in ELL.

Henry and Cleo lead us in a greeting during
Crew time.

Henry leads us in Bippity Boppity Boo for a
crew initiative to share creative ideas.
Our crew is also using the same squiggle
to create a different picture for
our design prinicple: The Having of
Wonderful Ideas. See pics. 

Some of the crew stands between the "always" and "sometimes"
on a continuum to repesent how they feel about different things.
Then, they reflected and marked on a continuum how they felt
they are doing on their learinng targets, design prinicples and
PERKS. After, they wrote first trimester goals. See pics. 

Masha reads to Cleo and Angela during Library
Book exchange. 

Victor and Lillian measure the mass of different objects
using a balance scale. See pics. 

Xyella holds the chimes to see if it has a similar
mass to a 1 liter bottle of water. (1,000 grams.)
She and Bruce were also finding objects
that had a mass of about 1 large paperclip or
1 gram. See pics. 

Cat, Andrew and Cassidy were showing how long 10 meters
is which is the length of a python. Both math classes reviewd
and assessed Unit 1. We also took our Math MAP assess-
ment. See pics. 

Kane and Finn are meauring the mass of different objects
using a balance scale. They also chose each other as
clock partners. See pics. 

Isla and Zoah duirng a math brain break.
See pics. 

The Northshore Fire Dept. and an officer
from the Shorewood Police Dept. spoke to
the crew during safety week. We also practiced
a tornado drill and soft lock down drill. See pics. 

Owen and Cleo look at a graph to figure out what it reprsents.
It was a graph about the number of vertebrate and invertebrates pecies. They also looked at a graph to figure out the number of species in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Last, they looked at an organizer comparing vertebrates and invertebrates. See pics. 

Owen leads us in Mindfulness. See pics .

Charlotte leads us in an energizer that crosses
the midbrain. See pic. 

Owen and J.P. on the way to Atwater Beach for our case study
kick-off. Miss. Torie and Miss Alex from the Urban Ecology
Center, led our activities. Students discussed the beach clean
up procedure. See pics. 

Petra releases a monarch butterfly that was tagged with a
sticker. If the butterfly is caught when it reaches its southern
destination, it will be traced to our crew. See pics. 

Each team marked a grid in the sand. Here Jacoby,
Isla, Owen and Angela are collectintg data.
Students took turns collecting garbage, tallying
the kind of garbage on a data sheet and holding the
garbage bag. They also learned how to comb the
beach for more garbage in their area. There are
many pics here. 

Henry, August and Xyella compile their data
after the garbage was collected. See pics. 

Our crew taking a decomposition museum
walk. Thank you so much to all of our
chaperones: Mrs. Caton, Mr. Coleman, Ms. Forray,
Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Marks. We learned so much!
See pics. 

Masha, Eliza, Isla and Angela look at their object cards to figure
out how long their object would take to decompose. Then they
stood at that spot on a rope. See pics. 

Nancy and other ELL students spent a fun
morning at an apple and pumpkin farm. See pics.

Other Activities:

Walk to School Day, learning about government and its branches in Social Studies, continuing to read Wonder by R.J. Palacio, read some Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World by G. Shannon, reading nonfiction and learning about text features, analyzing graphs and maps and learning what we can learn from them, writing personal narratives