Ms. Spinella

5th grade teacher in Berlin, CT. Loves gardening, sports, and my animals.

[Jarrett Lerner @Jarrett_Lerner]

EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS: I’m giving away 90 copies of the first three books in my Geeger the Robot early chapter book series, half here and half on Instagram.

To enter to win them here: RT this tweet + follow me!

Bonus entry: tag a pal who you think might like these books too!

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Ms. Spinella's class had a pre spring break zoom meeting- sunglasses and hats to wish everyone a happy, bright, and safe spring break!! #griswoldSOARS @GriswoldSchool

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Poetry in Math! Students use their knowledge of adding fractions and acrostic style poetry to describe themselves! @GriswoldSchool #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Tracking our hero's internal and external quests in our fantasy books. Great cooperation today!!! @GriswoldSchool

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Discovery strategies for finding volume. Kids are having so much fun with the blocks!! @GriswoldSchool #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Excited about the different games, cooperation, and fun the kids are having with Global Play Day!! @GriswoldSchool #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

5th grade enjoying their Global Read Aloud Day with their 3rd grade buddies! Thanks Mrs. Cloukey! @GriswoldSchool #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Celebrating Valentine's Day in 5th grade with Imagination Playground! So inventive!!

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Our class met with their 3rd grade buddies from Mrs. Cloukey's class to make little monsters together and then write about them! #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Students designed cakes to show what they know about prime factorization. #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Emaptico fellowship lesson 2: perspective talking... "It's just the tip of the iceberg." Students learned there's more to reactions than we can see. #GriswoldSOARS @EmpaticoOrg

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Students are rating mentor jots and then designing a progression as a group based off of those jots! #GriswoldSOARS @GriswoldSchool @lgjerpen

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Our class had our first video chat with our Pen Pal class from Illinois! Students learned just because we live in different parts of the country, we are more similar than we think! So excited to chat with them again- and continue to build empathy & understanding! #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Grade 5 students "making their mark" on National Dot Day!!! #dotday2019 #GriswoldSOARS

[Ms. Spinella @Spinellagrade5]

Fifth grade doing team building activities- robotic hands! #GriswoldSOARS