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