Erin Murray

5th grade teacher in MO and working on my Master’s in Curriculum & Instruction

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Building relationships is so important. I have a couple “difficult” students this year and I’m really working on building that relationship with them in hopes they will work with me easier.

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

This is important! 🙌
📷 @helloliteracy

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

2nd year of doing this activity on the first day of school and it is so beneficial! I know what my students are hoping to receive from me this school year.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Room is all ready for year 2!

[Justin Tarte @justintarte]

Don’t predetermine a student’s future success by what you’ve heard about their past struggles.

Each student deserves the chance for a fresh start.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Field Trip to the Aquarium at Union Station in St. Louis. I love giving my students experiences they normally wouldn’t have!

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

This week and next I’m doing rotations during ELA for the first time ever and I’m so nervous about it

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Connect Four for math review today was a hit!

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

To my surprise, I am not the first educator in my family. My great-grandpa graduated with a BSEd from SEMO in 1924

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

@melissaacarr First year 5th grade teacher

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

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[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

In one day I had a discussion about how it’s not always a good idea to discuss politics and I had to tell a student he was not in fact a human roomba.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

I may keep changing my ways of doing things but I have successfully completely first quarter teaching 5th grade and had great parent teacher conferences this week.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Some carved and some painted but they all pulled the seeds out of their pumpkins. I was so happy to give this experience to some of my students who would have never been given the chance.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Never did I imagine I’d be allowing 21 5th graders to carve their own pumpkins but here I am.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

I’m very lucky to be teaching in person and honestly it all just feels like the norm now. I don’t think it’s been as hard on me as it has veteran teachers because I’m not stuck in any kind of way or system

[Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher]

With a simple question, a bulletin board and some Post-it notes, T @ms_murray19 learned how she can best guide the #StudentLeaders in her classroom!

What back-to-school activities do you love doing with your Ss? #EduTwitter #EdChat

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

So happy I did this activity the first week of school

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

I learned so much about my student from doing this simple activity

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

Preparing for my first year teaching during a pandemic is not going to be what I had envisioned. At least my classroom is coming along nicely.

[Erin Murray @ms_murray19]

My summer school kiddos learned about Force and built a maze for a ping pong ball to go through using the force of air. The level of engagement is always so much higher when you give them a hands on activity!