Katie Shanahan

Teaching at Neff Elementary School and enjoying life in our new home in Houston!

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Playdoh HFWs and read by the pool for a great end to summer school! 📚💕🏊‍♀️

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Thanks for the tickets @AstrosCares and @AlmarazAngie Go Astros! 🤩⚾️🇺🇸

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Loved meeting some local elected officials today and hearing from @HISDSupe on the exciting new chapter coming up for HISD. Thank you for hosting the Legislative Advisory Committee @HoustonISDGov and letting us represent our schools! ✅

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Thanks to some generous Book Fairies 🧚 every student in our class was able to pick out a book from the Book Fair to take home and discover the 🪄 magic ✨ of reading 📚 💕

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Camp Spark was in-tents this week! Students built reading tents, read campfire stories, practiced foundational math skills, and ended with a campfire s’more 🏕 🍫 📚

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

We are counting down to Winter break with a 12 days of kindness challenge! Yesterday, students helped their families with chores and families sent in photos to share. Today, we picked up around 9 lbs of trash during recess! 💕🥰🌟#kindnessallaround

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Over the weekend my pie-in-the-sky dream reading corner wishlist from @DonorsChoose was so generously fulfilled by one amazing donor. We celebrated by unboxing dozens of new books today in addition to a new reading bench and pillows! 📚🌟💕

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

“The true failure comes when you quit.” One of my students quoted @andreabeaty’s Rosie Revere, Engineer during our pumpkin tower challenge today. So so proud of all my little pumpkins 🎃 🧠

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Showing our sports day spirit! #RedRibbonWeek

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

What happened to my pumpkin?! Students got spooky in their creative writing today explaining what happened to their pumpkins 🎃 🤪

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Multiplication was poppin’ today in 3rd grade! Students represented equations in popcorn groups, pop tube number lines, pop it arrays, lollipop t charts, and with pop n’ roll practice dice #fluencyisfun

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Soooo excited to be appointed to the @HoustonISDGov Legislative Advisory Committee! Government policy at all levels impacts students, teachers, and staff on a daily basis. I can’t wait to dig in!

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

We had a great discussion about dyslexia in honor of #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth My students with dyslexia chose to share their stories and after a @brainpop video our class made connections about how everyone’s brains have challenges and strengths 🧠💕 #BeautifulMindsHISD

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Absolutely thrilled that my project was fully funded on @DonorsChoose ! Thank you to @Clorox for contributing to the project to get my students headphones and for supplying the wipes that keep us clean and healthy!

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Witch fingers make tracking our words on the page fun for emergent readers! 🧙‍♀️🧙🎃

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Check out my classroom on @DonorsChoose! I'd love your help to bring one of my three projects to life: https://t.co/qxysYcwLwq

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

“Read by the Pool” for the last day of a successful summer school session 🥳🏊 #literacyeverywhere

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Finally able to join @HISDMultiPrgms SIA training. Loved that we discussed brain breaks- language learning is exhausting and my students look forward to my brain break screens every day!!

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

My students have been loving multiplication!!!

[Katie Shanahan @ExcELLinthird]

Talking about elections in the classroom should not be taboo! We are educating future voters who need to decide for themselves the qualities that make a good president and think beyond one politician. These answers make me one proud teacher! #hisd #votereducation