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. 

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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