Post #16

Blog #16

February 12-16th and February 20-23, 2018

As part of Black History Month, Sista Strings
returned for another wonderful performance.

Four SHS students, Calisssa, Alisha, BJ and Ali,
 from the group, Youth Rising Up, read
stories to our crew for Black History Month. They read
Whoosh:Lonnie Johnson's Sooper-Soaking Stream ofInventions by Chris Barton and Dancing
in the Wings  in the Wings in the Wings by Debbie Allen. Thank you also to
Mr. Nelson Brown from SHS for organizing this for us!
See pics. 

Xyella's art work is part of the Shorewood
District Art Show at the Shorewood Public
Library. 

Auguste's art work is part of the District Art
Show. Please stop in to see their art work
and others through April 3rd.

Here are Masha S. and Masha M. at the
Regional Spelling Bee. Thank you to Mr.
Sizova for adding to the pics. Mr. Nodolsky
was also a judege. See pics. 

Petra and Eliza share their ribbons from the
All School Bee and Classroom Bee. 

Masha and Charlotte show their ribbons
from the All School Bee. 

Geoffrey and Owen M. represented our crew
at the PrinciPal meeting with Mrs. Russick
about Collaboration and Competition.

Levi and Finn help Sam celebrate his
birthday. See pic. 

These students advanced to the next level
in XtraMath. Charlotte

Victor

Henry C. 

Ms. Sakai's Cross-Age Crew creating a
flag. All Cross-age Crews are making a
flag to represent their crew. 

During the All School Crew, the Sudent Council, presented
a check to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
for $4,471.94. Please check out the photos. 

Xyella is dressed as Punky Brewster for
Flashback Friday. Students flashbacked as far
as the 1800s. See pics. 

Eliza and Zoah research African Americans
for Black History month using Pebble Go.
See pics. 

J.P. and Geoffrey share their research about
Michael Jackson and we also enjoyed some
of his music. See pics. 

Henry shares his research about Kadir Nelson,
an author. 

John August, author, visited our schoool.

Finn, Vicvtor, Sam and Henry T. are tewards of self-
discipline and led a crew meeting with a reading, greeting,
initiative and debrief. See pics. 

Owen D., Cassidy, Owen M. and Angela
create a tall tower during the self-discipline
steward's initiatve. See pics. 

Auguste and Petra lead us in pass the clap.

Charlotte and Petra get ready to dance down
the aisle during an ACE ensemble, A
Rare Privilege. See pics. 

Leo, Sam and Levi play Beat the Barrier, a
game about sea lampreys and the kinds of
barriers used to prevent them from entering
the Great Lakes. See pics. 

J.P. leads us in Five Shakes during a Brain
Break. 

Cat and Maria use fraction circles to figure out math problems.
See pics. 

Cleo leads us in Mindfulness. 

Isla, Henry C., Charlotte and Jacoby enjoy
the Valentine party. Since we had so many
crew members absent and so much food left,
we all ate again the next week. Thank you to
all who brought in treats! See pics. 

The Band-O-Rama performance by the 4th-12th graders was amazing! 

Other activities:

Battle of the Books competitions, band and orchestra lunch reheaarsals, review and assess math units, MAP assessment for Rookies, Scholastic News about Jackie Robinson, assessing goals and continuum, working on group project in SS, Mrs. Mallloy reading Traders in Time, cursive, reading responses, students starting to write out the daily note to practice writing with quotations

Post #15

January 29-February 2 and February 5-8, 2018

Mr. Stanco explains what makes a good flag
at our All School Crew.

Kiku (Aiko's sister!) and Parker greet each
other with the rock greeting at our second
meeting. The cross-age crews are working
on creating a flag that represents their crew.

Jacoby and Victor take a Gallery Walk to see
what teams wrote on their iceberg for Success
and Failure. About 7/8 of an iceberg is under
water. Success is the 1/8 at the top and the 7/8
below (the iceberg) are the ideas and hard work.
The students wrote ideas such as perservance,
growth mind set, practice, hard work. failure,
and more. 

Owen M. leads us in Mindfulness with our
Mindfulness Reset teacher, Mr. Ansderson. 

Maria creates her Valentine's bag. See pics. 

Isla and Petra lead us in a greeting during
Crew. See pic. 

For Success and Failure, Charlote, Cleo and J.P.
pick up mini marshmallows with chop sticks.
See pics. 

Levi, Leo and Sam use chopsticks to practice
picking up marshmallows for Success and
Failure. Studens also tried to make snow
people with mini marshmallows.  

Ms. Penny,  from EL joined us for Crew.
Ms. India shared about a time that she met
Shirley Chisholm. "Shirley Anita Chisholm
was an American politician, educator, and author.
In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the
United States Congress, and she represented
New York's 12th Congressional District for
seven terms from 1969 to 1983."Wikipedia

Geoffrey and Owen D. during Rock, Paper,
Scissors while Sam and J.P. encourage them. 

A shout out to Auguste for passing an Xtramath
level!

February begins our Design Principle: Collabor-
ation and Competition. We collaborate with each
other and compete with ourselves to grow.
Henry T. earned an Xtramath certificate. Way
to go!

A Shout out to Masha,
she is advancing to the
Regional Spelling Bee!

Petra and Cleo help Henry C. celebrate his
birthday! 

Leo shares a book that he worte in ELL!

Cassidy shares her ribbons from a recent swim
meet!

Henry C. brought in delicious chocolate chip
cookies for his birthday. Hope the crew
enjoyed his birthday party today (all were
invited!) 

Here is our crew hugging Nancy good-bye before she left
for Changsha. We miss her! See pics. 

Xyella, Lillian, Alice and Bruce play a Perimeter
and Area game in math. See pics. 

Alice, Maria, Hazel and Cassidy fill one square yard
with square feet. See pics. 

Finn figures out the perimeter of a 5X8 foot
rectangle. We also figured out the area. See pics. 

Eliza illustrats the earthworm, an invasive
species, using a checklist and rubric. See pics. 

Zoah and Angela give each other peer feedback
writing"I notice" and "I wonder" statements
about the illustrated invasive species.
They use specific and kind feedback to help them
grow on their next illustration. See pics.

Other Activites:

band and orchestra lunch rehearsals and lessons, finished reading WI Historical books with Mrs. Malloy and starting a collaborative project about the books, peer book recommendations, collaborate poetry writing, daily oral language sentence revising and editing, many Advanced Learning Dept. activities