Post #9

November 6-11 and November 13-17, 2017

Thank you to all the Veterans that were recognized at the Veteran's Assembly on November 10th. Levi's father and
grandfather were present. Thank you for your service. Jan Zehren presented a wonderful assembly filled with many
students from our district. See pics. 

Welcome, Leo! Leo attended Atwater for
part of first grade and now he has returned.
See pic. 

Masha, Cassidy and Angela represented
our crew at PrinciPals with Mrs. Russick
to discuss the Design PrinciPal:
Responsibility of Learning. 

Charlotte, Nancy, Eliza and Cassidy were
pledgers on Monday. 

Levi, Jacoby, Finn and Sam recited the
Pledge of Allegiance. 

J.P., Victor, Geoffrey and Owen were the
pledgers on Wednedsay. 

Petra, Henry T., Henry C., Zoah and Isla
recited the pledge over the loud speaker. 

Xyella, Angela, Cleo and Masha recited
the pledge during morning announcements. 

Check out the crew members that passed a XtraMath level and earned a certificate!

Victor

Zoah

Owen D. 

Petra

Nancy

Angela

Finn

Owen M.

Charlotte and Cassidy greet each other during
the dice greeting. See pics.

Auguste tries to find the poison dart frog.
See pics. 

Isla whipers the sentence she heard to Mrs. Bennett during
telephone. Mrs. Bennett led responsibiltily
activites that focused on listening.

 

We enjoyed an ACE Ensemble by Stas Venglevsk.

Cassidy shared about two swim meets and
answered questions about Swim Club.
See pics. 

Nancy shared a slide show that she created about her friends
and school in China.

Nancy and Victor help Leo celebrate
his birthday. See pics.

J.P. and Victor read during Reading Workshop.
See pics. 

Henry read part of Wonder by R.J. Palicio.
We finished the book on Friday and had many
wonderful discussions throughout the book. 

Masha and Petra give each other peer feedback on their personal
narrative before they revise. See pics. 

Cat and Sam play Divison Arrays after learning
vocabulary such as divisor and quotient. See pics. 

Andrew, Bituralp and Zoah use fraction
circles to find the fractions of pieces. See pics .

Bituralp and Xyella play odd or even to
practice odd and even numbers. See pics.

Kane, Victor and Xyella measure different
containers to determine if they hold less,
more or 1 liter of water. See pics. 

Xyella, Zoah, Henry and Auguste graph their results from
the beach clean up as part of their Great Lakes expedition.
See pics. 

Owen, Victor, Eliza and J.P. use a Looping
activity to determine the order of a food
chain. They are building background
knowledge for the Expedition. See pics. 

Cleo, Petra, Geoffrey and Jacoby are in the
fsh bowl to teach us a food chain game
that connects with food chains. See pics. 

Charlotte, Henry, Masha and Jacoby work on
an interacrtive Word Wall for a food web to
build background knowledge. The crew also
took a museum walk to view all food webs
while an expert from each group explained
their food web. The groups also revised
their food webs. See pics. 

A Conga Line brain break. See pics. 

Our crew taking out the vegetation from our
garden plot. We even enjoyed tomatoes this
week that were ripening on our windowsill.
What a great experience! See pics. 

Isla and Henry during a Go Noodle. 

Petra leads us in Mindfulness. See pics. 

Mrs. Hayes organized a wonderful trip to her
Frank Lloyd Wright home. Thank you to
Mrs. Caton, Ms. Forray, Mrs. Hirano,
Ms. Johnson, Mrs. Lutze, Mrs. Rosenberg
and Mr. Coleman for chaperoning our trip.
See pics. 

Post #8

October 30-November 3, 2017

Senator Lena Taylor signs Henry's Blue Book.
Since our class was the last in line, most of our
crew's Blue Books were personalized. A couple
fun facts Senator Taylor shared with us:  She
lives on the same street she grew up on,  out of
the 1,000 Senators in WI, she is the 20th woman,
the 5th African American and the 2nd African
American woman. See pics. 

The Student Council Vice-President, Max,
talked with our crew about
"Dollar for Honor" and bringing in $1.00 to help
a Veteran take an Honor Flight. We are
collecting money through Friday, Nov. 10th,
also our Veteran's Assembly. 

Way to go, Sam, for earning a Xtramath
certificate!

A shout out to Angela for passing a Xtramath
level!

Way to go, Charlotte, for advancing to the next
level in Xtramath!

Nancy shared a slideshow that she created about her life in
China. 

Sam and Finn shared one of their comics that they wrote. 

Masha and Cleo do the 'Burger, Fry and Shake
greeting (veggie, portabello mushroom, etc.
burgers, too!) See pics. 

Mrs. Bennett read Not a Box written and
illlustrated by Antioinette Portis for our Design
Principle: Wonderful Ideas. Students took their
first, middle or last initial and created a picture.
See pics. 

Henry, Masha, Jacoby and Charlotte share
their reading logs to make observations
about their reading habits for the Design Principle:
Responsibilty for Learning. See pics. 

The Rookies had a wonderful time at the Milwaukee Art Museum learning
about the Five Senses. They will now decide if they would like to be a
Junior Art Docent (information coming home soon!) Thank you to
Mrs. Hirano, Mrs. Marks, Ms. Spoto, and Mrs. Taylor so much for chap-
oning our trip. Thank you also to Mrs. Hirano and Ms. Spoto for pics
of their group. See pics. 

Ms. Sakai's math crew making arrays and
finding factor pairs. See pics. 

Cassidy and Jeremiah playing array top-it. See pics. 

Xyella giving peer feedback on math problems
using "I like..." and "I wonder...". Students
reflected on their math problems and received
peer feedback before they revised them. See pics. 

Cleo and Owen participate in Share-Share-
Trade (like Quiz-Quiz-Trade) to learn about the
setting and characters in Sooper Yooper:
Search for the Blue Crew by Mark Newman.
The students also heard the story and book orders
for both Sooper Yooper books were in the
Thursday bag. See pics. 

Eliza makes butter by vigorously shaking
heavy whipping cream in a container. See pics. 

Owen, Nancy, Isla and Auguste enjoy our WI Fall
Feast of cheese and crackers, cherry Kringles,
apples and caramel dip, apple cider, homemade
butter and sugared cranberries. Thank you to
Charlotte, Nancy, Jacoby, Owen D, Xyella and
Petra for bringing in party treats. See pics. 

Geoffrey and J.P. play
"beach ball" as a breain break. See pics.

Auguste plays the Himalayan Singing Bowl
during Mindfulness. See pics. 

Other Activities this week:

Vet Junior Art Doecent went to the Milwaukee Art Museum, students reflected on learning targets, Design Principles and goals for first trimester, MOD continues to meet every Monday, students are reading JR books and making self to text connections