Post #20

April 16-20 and April 23-27, 2018

Our crew shared about our composting initiatve at All School Crew. Finn
and Masha shared about the Frank Lloyd Wright art expedition with Mrs.
Hayes. They did a fantastic job! Thank you to Mr. Stanco for the pics.  See pics.

Jacoby adds fruit peels to the compost. We leanred
a lot from Mr. Liberatore, the compost steward,
and from researching what should go into a compost.
Mrs. Malloy's and our crew are collecting snack
scraps and some other people have also given us
their scraps to add to the compost. See pics. 

Auguste, Owen D. and J.P. share their certificates
from Mrs. Russick after the PrinciPal meeting.
They discussed ideas for the Natural world.

A shout out to all of the students for completing a Xtramath level! 

J.P.

Sam

Petra

Levi

Angela

Henry T. 

Masha shared her Publishing Center story.

Finn read his Publishing Center story to the crew.

Guess who Henry dressed up as for Character
Dress-up Spirit day? Hint: It isn't a player on
the Brewers. See pics. 

Leo shared his biography slide show that he
made about Yo-Yo Ma in ELL. See pic. 

Maria shared her biography about Tammy Duckworth that
she created in ELL. See pic. 

Here's our Mr. Boyer with Mrs. Brown during
the tribute to Mr. Boyer at Atwater's Got Talent.
It was a beautiful finale song! A shout out
to Zoah, Petra, Leo and Charlotte for the wonderful
perfomances. I'm sorry that I missed a picture
of Charlotte because I was videotaping the finale
song. See pics. 

Isla discussed the items our crew can donate
to help the Nia Imani Family Inc. Our crew has
brought many items in and we have room for
more. Thank you! See pic. 

Isla and Petra help wish Maria a Happy Birthday.
See pic. 

Auguste and Geoffrey help Owen M. celebrate
his birthday. See pic. 

Henry T. and Sam start off the Happy
Birthday song for Finn. See pic.

Mrs. Honigman and the SIS Orchestra performed
for us. See pics 

Here's our crew on the bus to the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert through
our partnership with ACE. Thank you to
Mr. Christiansen and Ms. Richard for chaperoning
our trip.

Mr. Hughes and Mrs.Nolan introduced band
and orchestra to our crew. The Rookies will
see all of the band instruments and try the orchestra
instruments before they decide if they would like to
play one. See pics.

Cassidy is enjoying a book at the Scholastic
Book Fair. See pics.

 

Geoffrey and Owen M. help a K-4 crew member
in Mrs. Thoreson's crew make a May basket.
See pics. 

Michael and  Shirley from my Cross-age
Crew make a May basket. 

Masha, Henry C. Finn and Cleo make zebra
mussels. See pics.

J.P. leads us in Mindfulness. 

Eliza, Isla and Maria show their A World in
Motion (AWIM) team design. See pics. 

Xyella, Petra and Cassidy test their Jettoy car
using an 8" template and a pump to blow up
their balloon. They are testing for distance
and speed to collect data. They analyzed their
data to see which tubes they will use for the School
Finale. See pics. 

A Shout out to Zoah, Angela and Charlotte for
earning third place for distance at the AWIM
School Finale. All teams competed in distance
and speed. Thank you to Johnson Controls
for judging this event. See pics. 

Maria, Leo, Isla, Levi and Charlotte enjoy
cookies and juice boxes from Johnson Controls
after the AWIM School Finale. 

After the All School Finale, students started
to revise their Jettoy car's appearance by
changing the form and adding designs while
the function remains the same. See pics. 

Charlotte, Zoah and Angela did a wonderful job
representing our crew at the AWIM Regional
Competition on Saturday. They created this
poster, practiced with their vehicle and competed
for speed and distance.Thank you to all of the families
that supported them, to the Johnson Control engineers
for judging, to Ted Knight for organizing, Katelin Watson
for photographing and writing an article and my colleagues
at Lake Bluff and Atwater, plus teachers from Kluge
Elementary for helping.  See pics. 

Other Activities:

tested Jettoy car in the hallway, researched biographies in Social Studies with Mrs. Malloy and in reading workshop, reviewed and started to assess in math

Post #19

Post #19 

(April 2-6th and April 9-13, 2018)

Petra, Henry T. and Maria share their Princi-
pal certifcates from Mrs. Russick.

Cleo shared her Publishing Center story with
our crew. Questions and compliments followed.

Isla shared about a collection idea that she
has about donating items to an organization
in need. Specific information soon.

Thank you to Mrs. Dardis for being our Mystery
Reader and answering questions about your
reading habits. She read poems from Everything On It  by Shel Silverstein. Thank you
also for donating Crenshaw to our
classroom library. We love it!

Sam and Leo help Isla celebrate her 3/4  birthday.
See pic. 

Sa

Zoah and Charlotte help wish Cassidy a
Happy 3/4 Birthday! See pic. 

Happy belated Birthday and Congratulations
on your new family member, Mr. Coleman.

Henry C. shared about his rock climbing
competition in St. Louis and the National
Parks Service guide to National Parks.
See pics. 

A shout out to Owen D. for passing an
XtraMath level!

Charlotte advanced to another level in Xtra-
math. Great job!

Owen M. has completed another level of
Xtramath. Way to go!

Finn and J.P. do a "seed" greeting in crew. 

Angela, Cleo, Owen D. and Geoffrey during
Four Corners. 

Levi is doing a dance to "Car Wash" and then
receives compliments. See pics.

Charlotte and Maria share about their Spring
Break in an Inner and Outer Circle.

Maria and Henry C. create a card to a staff
member to let them know our A World In
Motion Expedition will begin on the 2nd
floor hallway. See  pics. 

Our crew signs 27 cards for AWIM, then
passes them to the other three crews to
sign. 

Cleo and Masha work on their team cover
design for the A World in Motion expedition.
See pics.

Levi, Leo and Jacoby put their prototype of a Jettoy chassis
together for A World In Motion (AWIM.) Each teams
member has a specific engineering job each day.  See pics. 

Geffrey, Owen D., Victor and Auguste test
their Jettoy car for AWIM to see if it goes
straight. See pics. 

Mr. Wood, an engingineer from Johnson
Controls and one of our experts, looks
at distance data with Zoah and Angela.
See pics. 

Hazel and Victor play Multiplication baseball
in math. See pics. 

Victor, Jeremiah, Finn and Alex play Beat the Calculator
in math. See pics. 

Maria, Xyella and Isla look for quadrangles
with specific traits in math. See pics. 

Alex and Finn play Multiplication Top-it
in math. See pics. 

Cassidy, Cat and Charlotte created this neat
design using pattern blocks in math. Students
also used tessellations (geometric shapes that
do not overlap or have any gaps.) The students
earned a creative math day after completing all
of their Forward Testing. See pics. 

Eliza leads us in Mindfulness. 

Cassidy leads us in Severn Shakes.

Other activities:

Starting to read biographies and watching Ruby Bridges in Social Studies, reading biographies in Reading Workshop, reading Scholastic News on "Track Your Trash" and we tracked our trash and recycling, we started a new design principle about learning from the natural world, Read a Scholastic News about "Where does all the trash go?", watched a couple short videos about the ocean's plastic bag island, what happens to recycling and how wax worms may help the plastic bag problem, Forward Testing practice and test taking, reflected on third trimester goals and continuum and practiced a tornado drill