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Team #aWESome • 5th grade teacher • “Always ask WHY” @FCSVanguard 📚💻🐶🧇

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@mrsuremovich @WESWildcats2 @STEMSLC @STEMGeorgia Yay!! Congratulations!! 🎉

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It’s always a good time to learn 😊 I signed up for the @UMich course on “Storytelling”- using stories to affect change through empathetic communication! Educators- these courses are free! Check them out! @WESWildcat

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@CommonLit @WESWildcat @ElizabethSapp4 @MicrosoftEDU I use your content almost every day 😊 Thank you for the valuable resources!

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Things that made me happy today:
✅ collaboration
✅ high level texts
✅ reading integrated in social studies
✅ engagement

Love using CommonLit and Teams breakout rooms for shared reading challenges! @WESWildcat @ElizabethSapp4 @CommonLit @MicrosoftEDU

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@WESWildcat 💕 they are amazing!

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@WESWildcat @ElizabethSapp4 @rawls_WES Loving these word study units from @readwritemike ! So effective at building specific word knowledge and transferable vocab strategies! @TCRWP 😊

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I love memes. They are useful for students to show a nuanced understanding of content.

And they crack. Me. UP. 😂
@WESWildcat

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I love seeing students get creative with Social Studies topics! @WESWildcat

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@iTeach_Karleen @padlet @EJJaguars It worked great! They write their initial arguments, then leave feedback for each other, then revise their arguments, then finally vote with the “like” button. Strongest argument wins 😊😊

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Whoa. Where have virtual classroom debates been all my life?! @padlet @WESWildcat

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Starting our reading lesson with meditation helped us prepare to think about our thinking! #Mindfulness

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Thank you @calm for the teacher subscription!!

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💃🏼 Learning to dance”The Charleston” while exploring our essential question: ”How does America change after World War I?” @WESWildcat

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@hodgeclass @WESWildcat @ArtWithMsG @Flipgrid @padlet I need that book for sure!

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Kicking off our study of the Harlem Renaissance by learning about Langston Hughes this week!

We...
💛explored his role in the movement
💛examined his poems
💛studied spoken word poetry
💛performed one of his poems on Flipgrid!
@WESWildcat
@ArtWithMsG
@Flipgrid
@padlet

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Pretty cool to watch our Padlet fill up with summaries written by groups who are researching their passion projects! @ElizabethSapp4 @WESWildcat

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@FergusonSTEM @mrscmills14 Love your bitmoji!

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📚12 students in person + 20 students online + 4 book clubs meeting = 1 very proud teacher!

Side note- has anyone else noticed book club best practices changing in simultaneous teaching? I’m finding it now works better to have bigger groups to prompt discussion! 🤔

@WESWildcat

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Soo excited for the integrated engineering ahead in Unit 2!!

💡Informational Texts
💡7 Habits of Effective Kids
💡Engineering Design
💡Self-Guided Research
💡Real World Experts

#advocacy
@WESWildcat @ElizabethSapp4 @mrscmills14

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@hodgeclass We are starting informational writing too!

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History is a story. But it’s much more fun to tell it like it’s piping hot tea ☕️ 😂#dramatic