Morgan Kraus

4th grade ELAR/SS teacher at Castleberry Elementary!

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Our class won a 5 pound chocolate bar for being the top sellers in the school in the WFC fundraiser! So proud of my kiddos! 😁🍫 #WFC #worldsfinestchocolate #ceroars #CastleberryISD @CE_Castleberry

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

4th grade had fun working on reading our fluency passage to a partner! 📚📖We also practiced short/long a sounds this week and applied strategies to our fluency passage from the week. #ceroars #castleberryelementary

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Love doing my annual Glow Day to make reviewing the day before STAAR super engaging and as de-stressful as possible! #CEROARS #CastleberryElementary #Castleberryisd

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

What better way to de-stress from the Spring Benchmark? The classroom transformed into Starbucks Day. We love learning a Latte! Students got to enjoy a “coffee” (chocolate milk and fun toppings) for completing all work in class☕️ #StarbucksDay #ClassroomTransformation #CEROARS

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Decorated gingerbread houses and wrote about how we got trapped in a snowglobe for our party! 🌲❄️

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Honored to have the same elf name as the wonderful @mcphersonmichel on Elf Day!🧝 #muffinkissyface

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Today we had our book buddies meeting to make a thanksgiving craft, completed a Turkey Escape Room, and wrote a “Don’t Eat Me” Persuasive story. Nothing like incorporating the holidays into our academics after benchmarks!

#ceroars #CISDLeadingTheWay

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Had such a fa-boo-lous time with our book buddies today! We made a fun pumpkin craft and did a cool science experiment to make our balloons (ghosts) blow up! #ceroars

[Castleberry Elementary @CastleberryElem]

Mrs. Kraus’ 4th grade class and Mrs. Pennington’s 1st grade class did a special Halloween experiment with balloons filled with baking soda and water bottles filled with vinegar! Their excitement as the balloons filled with air was priceless!! #CEroars #CastleberryISD

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Yesterday, students had to make inferences using the Harris Burdick illustrations, title and caption for each story. Such a fun and cool connection on how we make inferences all the time in our daily lives! #CISDLeadingTheWay #ceroars

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Dot Day! ⚫️⚪️

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

We LOVED getting to help/teach the 1st graders by reading to them! Had a great time in @MrsPennington1 classroom today! 📚#CISDLeadingTheWay #ceroars

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Today, we organized these sentences in chronological order to build a summary of our mentor text! Love seeing the students collaborate with one another to ensure success! #ceroars #CISDLeadingTheWay

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

4th grade wearing white to support Pre-K! #ceroars #CISDLeadingTheWay

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Today, we worked on a plot diagram map with our table groups! We were able to identify the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of our mentor text for the week! #CISDLeadingTheWay #ceroars

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Today, we focused on the skill Point of View. Students were promoted to re-write the ending of our mentor text in their own point of view. We discussed what was the same and different about what they’d do and what the main character did! #ceroars #CISDLeadingTheWay

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@CastleberryElem So well deserved!! Happy for my bff!

[Morgan Kraus @Mrs_Kraus_Class]

Lunch bunch day! 🍴 students have the choice of purchasing coupons with their Kraus Cash and these kiddos chose lunch bunch! Out of all the other rewards, they want to eat with their teacher 👩‍🏫 love these special moments! #ceroars