Maria Small

Teach, Love, Inspire! 5th grade teacher at Panther Run Elementary! ❤️

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

This week, we took time to learn about the events of 9/11 and honor the many heroes and lives lost that day. As a class, we also created a piece of art together, inspired by the countless people who used art to express their emotions and keep the memory of that day alive.

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Watching our year-long “Food Trucks Around the World” project come to life again was amazing! I have the most incredible teaching partner & together we put together this special project that integrated all the subjects! We are so incredibly proud of our students! @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Our class “Invention Convention” was a huge success! Students researched & created their own invention, made a model/prototype & created a pitch video. The inventions were amazing! The top 4 projects will be moving on to compete at the state level!#InventionConvention @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

The students loved reviewing our poetry unit with a surprise Poetry Cafe! They shared their original poems about technology and the Industrial Revolution while enjoying tea and treats! @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Thank you to all the Veterans who have served our country! We are so grateful for you all! Our classes performed Fifty Nifty at the Veteran’s Breakfast on Friday. They did a beautiful job singing & signing for many of the veterans & their families at our school. 🇺🇸❤️ @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Another amazing vocabulary parade! We loved all the posters and the creativity of the students! Our classes theme was the human body and it was a great way to review everything they had learned about the human body! @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Our end of the unit integrated fall themed celebration was a success! From escape rooms, math bats and building catapults to character trait pumpkins, Mad Libs and glowing Oobleck, these kiddos had a blast! @RisaSuarez

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Heroes for Education Run! We won the top participating school!! A special thank you to everyone who came out to run this morning! It was a fantastic morning!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

We will never forget where we were on 9/11/2001 when we heard the news. I am grateful for the opportunity to teach my 5th graders the importance of 9/11, the many heroes who we will never forget & how our country came together to help one another regardless of their differences.

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

@MrsCushmanPBC @RisaSuarez We are going to miss her so much!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

I am thrilled to begin another year of teaching gifted 5th grade with my incredible teaching partner! If anyone would like to help us bring our exciting integrated projects to life, your donations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

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[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Watching our year-long “Food Trucks Around the World” project come to life was amazing! I have the most incredible teaching partner & together we put together this special project that integrated all the subjects! We are so incredibly proud of our students!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

This week the students presented their inventions at our in class “Invention Convention”! They researched an inventor & then created their own invention! They even made a commercial to convince their classmates why everyone should buy their product. I loved their creativity!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

When your students write some amazing poems about technology & the Industrial Revolution, you put together a surprise Poetry Cafe & give them the opportunity to share their poems with the class. I loved their creativity & it was such a fun way to review before their Unit 5 test!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

We have had so much fun during literacy week! The students enjoyed dressing up for each themed day, reading outside and even reading to some little cuties in a VPK class!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Celebrating the 1,000th day of school for our 5th graders on the 100th day of school!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Last month the students learned about the Native American culture! During this unit they researched their family history, chose 4 symbols to represent their family, created a totem pole & wrote an essay about their connections. The final class totem poles were amazing!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Surgery Day was amazing! We surprised the students with a review day that integrated science, math & ELA! They performed context clue dissections, transplanted prefixes/affixes, reviewed the parts of the body by playing Operation & BINGO & created models/diagrams of the body!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

Fall fun day was a huge success! We integrated ELA, math & science in all the fall activities. They experimented w/ catapults, discussed matter & made glowing oobleck, created character trait pumpkins, completed math activities about bats, finished a pumpkin escape room & more!

[Maria Small @MrsSmallPBC]

We had a fantastic week celebrating Red Ribbon Week & ending the week with the Vocabulary Parade! We loved the posters the students created and they enjoyed presenting their human body vocab word to the classes after the parade. Operation Human Body Vocabulary was a success!