AltonBoydElementary

Brightening our Minds. Growing as Leaders. Building our Future. It all Starts Now! And remember, attitude is everything!

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Ms. Autumn Jones’ 1st graders our learning about point-of-view with our new HMH resources! The teacher is doing a shared reading from the digital book while the students follow along in their books! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs.Holle’s 1st grade class is working on their stations while students are working at teacher table. These kids know exactly what to do and taught me how to work at their stations! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs. Butler modeled how to revise the beginning ,middle, and end of her story. Now it is the student’s turn! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Who doesn’t enjoy having a story read to them?!! Mrs.High’s 6th graders are enjoying our novel “Walk Two Moons”! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs.Blackman’s kindergartners are busy using our new HMH resources to learn new vocabulary and sight words. We are also turning-and-talking to share our thinking about our shared reading! @BoydBlackhawks @AISDLiteracy

[Melissa Pursifull @M_Pursifull]

It’s always a great day when I can visit classrooms. Dr. Lutrick and I enjoyed checking out what these kiddos are learning about! 💙 @BoydBlackhawks @StoryFalcons

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs.Holle’s 1st graders are celebrating being authors of their first book! It was on Storybook Character Day too! So fun! @BoydBlackhawks @AISDLiteracy

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Second grade had a special reader! Mr.David Hicks, Allen ISD Chief Communications Officer! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Allen Reads Together! Mrs.McQueeney aka Piggie is reading Hooray for Books to kindergarten on Storybook Character Day! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Ms. Autumn Jones’s 1st graders are following a procedural text to learn how to make a bat with cookies and frosting! Such a fun Halloween treat! @BoydBlackhawks @AISDLiteracy

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

6th grade is learning about flashbacks in Walk Two Moons. Ms.High’s class is SUPER engaged with this story! There are all kinds of theories percolating! @BoydBlackhawks @AISDLiteracy

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

Culture is not just one thing; it’s everything. Culture drives expectation and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits. And habits create the future. It all starts with culture.

📷 PG 16 from “The Power of Positive Leadership”

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Ms.High’s 6th graders are writing a constructed response to our Springboard text “Thank You a ma’am”. @boydblackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Ms.Autumn Jones 1st graders are turning and talking with a partner and sharing their question about the text. @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs. Holle’s 1st graders are working on their foundational skills. We are working on short vowel sounds and had a peer lead us in decoding a word with short e. @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs. Butler’s 1st graders are getting a quick check who can spell our most recent sight words. Great job kids! @BoydBlackhawks

[Finlee @FinleeWilliams]

Great time helping little Black Hawks in PE!! 🧡🤍@BoydBlackhawks @Lowery_Pals

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Our birthday girl, Ms.Griffith is teaching her students about text features and how they help us as a reader! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs.Wolf’s second graders are reading independently and working on stations while a small group reads at the teacher table! @BoydBlackhawks

[Laura Lee McQueeney @readmcqueeney]

Mrs. Riyan Jones is using her new HMH Rigby books with a reading small group while her students are busy working on their stations! @BoydBlackhawks