Math Intervention Teacher Rebecca @Stowell28, Instructional Facilitator @RubelDanielle Rubel, and Gifted & Talented Coordinator Trina Newman formed MAC with nine 4th-grade students to focus on a mission statement of "Joy + Math = Our Mission" to engage all students.
Our mathematicians made a frog chart yesterday to practice counting frog eyes by 2s! They observed that the number of frogs doubled = the total number of eyes. And the total number of eyes doubled = the total number of frog legs! What a great conversation. 🐸 👀
Kindergarteners staged a dramatization of Chicken Little today. Here you can see our actors on the stage and our boomwhacker band in the orchestra pit. 👏🏻 🎭 #blairfinchproject https://t.co/8jkrvhmzDg
We were so excited to be visited by the second graders yesterday for reading buddies! Thank you so much for the excellent reading and book picks! @MsRin2nd
Congratulations to Westmoor School staff and students for being recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School today! Read about the award: https://t.co/o6uk0JTOvx
The Brooklyn Public Library is sharing its collection of banned books for all to read for free! See this in The NY Times and check out the link in the QR code!
We worked hard in the garden today pulling out and composting old sunflower and amaranth plants to make way for veggie planting. After their hard work our class enjoyed eating some carrots!
Ss in @MsRzewnicki’s class had so much fun reading @mutts “A Perfectly Messed Up Story” and deciding which objects were “no, no never” allowed near books and which ones were “yes, yes always!” #28empowers#bookcare
I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.”
Here are my new definitions I started teaching today:
▪️Nonfiction = learning through information
▫️Fiction = learning through imagination
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Yesterday we visited the garden for the first time! Everyone was so focused as they practice their photography skills. We are lucky to be able to learn in this beautiful space!