Mrs. Sutton

Former 4th grade ELA teacher at Conroe Independent School District

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Book clubs creating timelines of their subjects: Not only a timeline of their life but also big world events that connect to our subjects!

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Look at my engaged writers! Makes my heart happy.❤️ The “cool thing” lately with my students are their flair pen collections, so I told them to feel free to write with their flair pens today. I mean…. writing with flair pens make me happy, so I want to make them happy!

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I absolutely L❤️ved the healthy debate about a character in their book that happened in this book club last week!

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Biography Book Clubs in ACTION! 📚

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Research teams’ presentations in ACTION!

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Synthesizing our research notes and writing about the information we gathered within our research teams! I have to say, I’m impressed and PROUD of their responses! ❤️

Since they will be presenting their information, we made it real world by writing our notes on index cards!

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More use of our one to one Chromebooks! Utilizing Padlet and Jamboard for our stop and jots! The Ss love it, and I get instant feedback!

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LOVING being one to one with chromebooks! Life changing! 🙌🏻 Research is in full effect! Students began working in teams to research subtopics of different extreme weather topics! They 👏🏻 were 👏🏻 excited!

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A little bit of a late post, but last week we began our Nonfiction Unit with a book tasting to find out Just Right books! Took session 3 up a notch! 🍽

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Using stage directions to gain insight about characters in Drama! Students enjoyed sharing their thinking!

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I love making “book plans” with my students, setting goals for them towards finishing a book!

[Mrs. Sutton @mrs_rsutton]

Common and proper noun sort! Is the noun capitalized correctly or not? The Ss discussions when defending their responses with why certain nouns had to be capitalized were amazing! Proud teacher!

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Today we worked on choosing our perfect reading spots for when we independent read during workshop! Students learned today, and each and every day, they will go off to their reading spots and get right to work!

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Research project presentations began yesterday, and they did not disappoint!

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Today, we celebrated our writing! Students shared their favorite essay they wrote during our Writing STAAR mini unit. They were proud of their work! ❤️

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One final push before the big day next week. Setting and reaching towards those final goals for our writing!! So proud of my writers and their growth this year!

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When your student uses boxes and bullets to write you a sweet note! 😂❤️

[Mrs. Sutton @mrs_rsutton]

Passing my teaching torch to students in my class as they help me teach our daily review for our upcoming state exam! Teaching is the best way to learn and builds confidence!

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We revised our essays for conclusions!

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Engaging in weathering, erosion, and deposition with a relay!

Take a piece of your dice tower (rock), crab walk it to the other side, drop it at the end, run back and tag a teammate to “break” another piece = weathering, erosion, and deposition! @SnyderStallions