Post #12

December 18-22, 2017

Isla, Cassidy, Xyella, Zoah, and Charlotte
sang carols at the Senior Resource Center's
holiday party. A wonderful way to show
caring and empathy. (I'm sorry this is a
week late, too!)

Auguste and Petra performed at the Dycora
Transitional Health and Living Center with a small
group of orchestra students. A great way
to show empathy and caring! (I'm sorry this
is a week late.)

Cleo, Nancy, and Xyella represented our
crew to discuss empathy and caring at
PrinciPals with Mrs. Russick. They
shared about the meeting. 

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

Thank you to Finn for treating our crew to
snow people lollipops!

Thank you to our Crew and families for the gift cards  to
Shorewood Shares for Mr. Coleman and Mr. Stingl! We are
so grateful they are in our crew! See pics. 

Thank you also to our crew and families, along with our
room parents, Mrs. Hirano and Mrs. Taylor for all of
the thoughtful holiday gifts for our crew! Here is the
diffuser already in use and pics of the the pencil sharpener
plus Himalayan chimes for Mindfulness. We appreciate
them and all of you! See pics. 

Our Empathy stewards are Nancy, Masha,
Isla, Angela, Eliza and Leo. They led a shoe
greeting, a reading, an intiative and debrief
questions. I love when our crew members
lead our Crew meetings! See pics. 

Our PERK stewards prepare for leading
a crew meeting while the responsibility
stewards brainstorm for ways to be caring
and empathetic. Henry C. writes ideas down.
See pics. 

Rock, Paper, Scissors iniative. Please ask
your child about it. It's one of our favorite
ones. See pics. 

Mrs. Nolan and the 4th grade orchestra held a Blues
Jam Celebration. It was wonderful hearing the talented students
play in such a neat environment. Some students also
chose to lead the orchestra! See pics. 

Thank you to the families that came to support and enjoy
our crew's music recital led by Mr. Boyer. The students were
amazing and it was a pleasure watching them perform!
See pics. 

The All School Crew which followed right after the Crew
Music recital focused on the design principles caring
and empathy. Ms. Braim's crew led the greeting, Mrs. Serath's
class led the reading and Mrs. Russick's Cross-age crew
(grades K-5-6th grade) shared about cross-age crew. Our
first meeting is in January! See pics. 

On the last day before Winter break, we watched Cool
Runnings with Mrs. Malloy's crew. Thank you to Isla, Cleo,
Henry T., Sam, Eliza and J.P, for providing the movie treats.
The students also had four recesses. Here are the girls
singing a song to remind me about something
I left on a table.  Also, Petra
and Nancy entertain us with music. See pics. 

Cassidy, Geoffrey and Charlotte act out
Show not Tell details for their personal
narrative stories. They added details and revise
their stories based on this activity. See pics. 

Finn and Julia play Multiplication Draw
 on the last day before Winter Break. See pics. 

Sam finds items in the classroom
that are about 1,000 grams. Problems like these are
reviewed in math boxes after the skills are
taught. See pics. 

Isla and Zoah work on a math journal page.
Partner work, often determined by clock
partners, are an important part of the math
curriculum. See pics. 

Victor and Xyella play Roll a Square
Number to practice multiplication.
See pics. 

Petra, Masha, Auguste and Victor complete
the Great Lakes rotations in a station
about human stressors that affect the
Great Lakes. See pics. 

Henry C. and Owen M. participate in an
Eurasian Ruffe scoot to learn information
about this invasive species affecting the
Great Lakes. See pics. 

Our crew participates in a Eurasian Ruffe Musical Chair
activity. They experienced how animals need water, food and
shelter, along with how perch are affected when the ruffes
have many babies. There are about ten scenarios and we have
a couple more to go. See pics. 

Jacoby, Xyella and Zoah use a concentric circle protocol
to brainstorm for traits to include on an invasive species
postcard rubric. See pics. 

Henry T. is our leader during Mindfulness
class with Mr. Anderson. See pics. 

Other Activities:

Library book exchange, cursive and reading historical fiction with Mrs. Malloy as part of the Great Lakes expedition

Post #11

December 3-7 and  10-15. 2017

Pajama Day-they are so fun! See pic.

Please keep scrolling down. :)

Leo and Victor play a game.

Impromptu band concert during an extra
recess. Students and parents enjoyed it!
See pics. 

A Shout out to the following students for earning a XtraMath Certificate and moving to the next level!

Masha

Levi

J.P. 

Henry

Angela

Zoah

Charlotte

Finn

Sam

Auguste

Sam and Henry teach the crew the "Nanu"
greeting in the fishbowl during crew.
See pics. 

Auguste and J.P. share about their weekend
in Concentric circles during crew. See pics. 

Jacoby and Sam share about the caring and
empathy quote duirng "Stand up/Pair up."
See pics. 

Geoffrey tries to guess the "frog" during our
crew iniative. See pics. 

The girls won the first round of "Four on the Couch" during
our iniative on empathy and caring. See pics. 

Sam and Owen help Henry celebrate his
birthday. See pics. 

Zoah and Nancy start off the Happy Birthday
song to Cleo! See pics. 

Leo gives Nancy a compliment and her
progress report. See pics.

Sam and Finn share a comic they created with
our crew. 

The crew enjoys browsing in the Scholastic Book Fair.
Thank you to Kim Mackowski and all of the parent
volunteers for organzing this for us. Thank you also to the
Atwate PTO for giving every teacher money to spend at the
fair to add books to our classroom library. See pics. 

Kane and Zoah give peer feedback after
completing a problem solving question in
math. See pics. 

Zoah and Isla play "Shuffle to 100:"
 which involves estimating, addition
and subtraction. The math crew also
played "Shuffle to 1,000." See pics. 

Charlotte shares one of the Word Master
questions with the class. 

Mr. Craig Helker, from the DNR, was an expert
for our Great Lakes expedition. He shared how
importatnt it is to collect and analzye data,
along with different instruments that he uses.
Here is Allen with a net that Mr. Helker uses to
collect aquatic samples. He also talked about
invasive species. See pics. 

For our Great Lakes expedition, the crew is answering, "How
do humans impact the Great Lakes?" Six rotations helped
them learn more about that, reviewed food chains and food
webs and built background knowledge. Xyella, Jacoby and
Zoah learn about the internal and external parts of a fish
before playing "Go Fish" with Wisconsin fish species.
See pics.

Victor, Masha, Petra and Auguste try to guess
animals using Mystery Animal slides and
earn an extra point for determing the "class"
each animal belongs in. 

Geoffrey, Cassidy and Charlotte are creating
a Great Lakes food web using information
from the Creature Cards. 

Charlotte, Cassidy, Geoffrey and Henry play
"Go Chomp" which focuses on a food chain.

Leo, Owen and Sam persevere to learn
different knots that people that work on
boats need to learn. 

Cleo and Owen compare the Great Lakes from
2012 and 2017 to determine the impact of
"stressors" on the Great Lakes. They also
learn about and sketch some of the stressors.
The crew also completed a debrief question
after each rotation.

 

Our Stewards of Responsibility challenged
the crew to a large marshmellow during the
day. They could choose to eat it early or save
it until the hot chocoalate later in the day.
It was actually warm though. Angela, Owen
and Levi enjoy their warm chocolate! See pics. 

Mr. Anderson taught us about the different
parts of the brain and how they related to
Mindfulness. He also played the ukuele.
See pics. 

Recess! See pics. 

Brain break-volleyball! See pic. 

Other activities: Mrs. Malloy is leading reading workshop with book clubs, reading books about WI history and reading responses for the Great Lakes expedition, cursive, reading responses with JR books, reflecting on first trimester goals and creating second trimester goals, read The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena, reading Auggie and Me, the companion to Wonder by R.J. Palacio and more