Hillary Tuerck

Educator at Sheffield Elementary. Mama of 3. Wife.

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[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

Taught my students to do Sudoku today! When something really stretches our brain (in a good way) we say "Oooh! Rompecabeza!" and today was just that! #SheffieldSHINES @sheffield

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

First day of 5th Grade Week was an absolute success! 🎨✨🪄 Today was Game Day (but it was craft day in my room) painting, slime and diorama building! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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The best thing about teaching is they're not just your S's for one year 🥰 Years later and I still get invited to their MS events! Tonight I was invited to attend a previous 8th graders orchestra concert+I got to see many other previous students!🙏 @SheffieldElem @PolkMSPanthers

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I absolutely love how creative my students are! 🥰😍⭐💙✨ #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

And we made slime today! Super fun Friday! ✨ We discussed non Newtonian fluids yesterday so this was an extension on that! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem I didn't get any pics other than this bc, well, my hands were sticky 🤣

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My S's love composite figures! We've been working on finding the area. Real life connection. "Let's pretend we're getting new floors for our home. This is a hallway and living room dimensions. Find flooring you like online and tell the me price for your sq. ft!" @SheffieldElem

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Fun Friday!!! We had so much fun today doing science stations to reinforce all the STAAR prep we've been doing!!! + A math scavenger hunt! ✨ Students were SHINING ✨ #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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@StefLRichard @SheffieldElem Visuals are especially important for my EB students! We love them! 😍

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Part of our STAAR review for science is reviewing ALLLL the vocab! So much vocab! Love seeing students refer back to their notebooks like they're on a mad dash treasure hunt to find the page they know it's on!🤣Training leaders of their education! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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Love seeing S's share their knowledge! Today a S showed her class how she efficiently solved her problem. She immediately eliminated an answer when she noticed a table was ➖ instead of the rule ➕ Then she checked the first of each table! (X,Y) #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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@MariaBo99 Obsessed!!!!

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

Created a model today of how sedimentary rock is formed! "Weathering" larger rocks into sediment. Then seeing erosion and deposition take place in action. Tomorrow we will observe and see how compaction effects it! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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These kids are working so hard at multiplying and dividing fractions+whole numbers! Today we finished a bit early so we did a Kahoot to practice some more with matching equations to representations! They were really shining! 🌟💙✨ #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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These scientists used a microscope for the first time today! 😍 They got to explore plant and animal structures! 🔬 I think I'll leave these out for the rest of the year as an early finisher station! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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This semester in Eco Wranglers club we voted on a spring gardening project or turning trash into treasures! They chose the latter! I love making dioramas, so 2 students started making them, too, from recyclables around their house! My heart! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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These mathematicians are learning to ❌ fractions! Representations are a huge part of that in 5th! I showed them a few strategies yesterday & today, they put them to work! Today, it clicked! They did them mostly solo! So proud of my scholars! #SheffieldSHINES @SheffieldElem

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These little scholars are LOVING the discussions about plant + animal structures and functions! 🌵🦆🦭🌲🐦 #SheffieldSHINES @sheffieldele

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

Everywhere******* I'm a tired teacher+ mom 🤣

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

@MsYLopezSalas has got our kids OBSESSED with Percy Jackson! They are carrying their books everyone and reading them ANY chance they get! Today a student was playing ⚽ with it gripped in his hand 🤣 The other was posted up during recess. AVID readers! #SheffieldSHINES

[Hillary Tuerck @HTuerck]

Lots of students out today due to the upcoming weather but we had a great, cozy day! Allowed the students to work on ⬆️ their grades before progress reports come out next wk + played a math game and a science game!l, bc, duh it's Friday and Fridays are for FUN! #SheffieldSHINES