What? It has been over a year since I have posted here!? Wow. The new year has lit yet another fire under me and here I am again, grateful as always. Since it has been a while I am going to list the highlights from this school year so far. I am finally feeling at home in an elementary setting.
In addition to the highlights below, story time has been much better, and I feel more confident about how to select the best books for story time and get the most out of the books I share with the students. Making curriculum connections is now easier since I am more familiar with our elementary standards. One of my favorite books has been The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors. I also enjoyed reading chapters and passages from Wonder to classes.
We had an intern! It was amazing having Molly with us for a semester. We really miss her. Having Molly join us forced me to be more thoughtful of my practices. I have made a few changes because of this experience.
- Our Super Reader program has more participation this year and we've added online review forms and Schoology badges!
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Students created land bridge models, LED cards and gingerbread houses in the makerspace!
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Students enjoyed this fiction/non-fiction book sorting activity. This was a good springboard for locating informational text features in the non-fiction books.
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Hour of code week was so much fun! We broke out the ozobots, our new osmos and utilized our activpanel in addition to using the hour of code website activities.
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The movie release of Wonder was the perfect opportunity to revisit this book, read aloud passages and chapters to classes, and have a Choose Kind day at our school.
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Grandparents breakfast was followed by library time. The warm, fuzzy goodness of seeing students being read to and playing games with their grandparents makes my heart sing.
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This is one of my favorite bulletin boards of the year. I like it because it allowed for teacher, student and parent participation.
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