Riley Preston

IB PYP Educator | Houston, TX | Frankfurt, Germany

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Foil Art - northern lights inspired!! 🌌

Engaging art lesson using foil, markers, and water. 👩🏽‍🎨 Students used their research skills to find photos and videos of the northern lights. They drew on that inspiration to create these beautiful pieces!

Hall display = student created!

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

An inquiry into the evolution of inventions! 💡

Unit: How the World Works
Central Idea: Inventions alter society.

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[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Best field trip ever! We had so much fun learning about reptiles in their natural habitat at @armandbayou 🐊🐍

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[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Investigating Inventions! 🔨💡⚙️ Our unit, How the World Works, is an inquiry into inventions and their effects on society.

Today’s question: What purposes drive humans to invent?

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[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Support from teammates like this makes everything better! Thanks for shopping with us and making every group feel special 🖤

[Sarah Hassan @sherdhassan]

Today was @briarmeadowK_8’s 3rd grade market! I made sure to get there when shops opened! I am in love with my loot this year! Students led the work in creating product, setting prices, and running their own shops!

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

BCS Third Grade Market was a MASSIVE success! Our class earned $865 to donate to @WWF 🥳

These kids have spent the past month earning $ w/ class jobs, saving to buy materials, manufacturing goods, and creating engaging marketing for their business 💙💛

@briarmeadowK_8

[Briarmeadow Charter @briarmeadowK_8]

❄️ We are so excited for our annual 3rd grade Winter Market next week! ❄️

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Preston’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 🦃🍁 Such a fun activity connected to the read aloud, Balloons over Broadway. Happy Thanksgiving Break!! 🧡
@briarmeadowK_8

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

It’s not a holiday in Ms. P’s class without a door display 🧡👻💛 Happy Halloweekend from our class!

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[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Exploration Stations 🔭🗺️🪨 Our unit provocation for Where We Are In Place & Time was a huge success!

Central idea: Exploration can lead to new discoveries. 💡

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[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Such a great way to close out our Who We Are Unit about beliefs and values! We did a gallery walk showcasing an item connected to a specific belief or value. 🖤 Big connections were made between our personal values and the people in our lives who influence them! @briarmeadowK_8

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

@BrishaunS @briarmeadowK_8 So much fun! I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t having a blast along with them.

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

@RonithEpelbon @briarmeadowK_8 Miss you so big!!! 🖤 And miss your magic EVERYTHING.

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

We’re having fun over here in Ms. P’s class! 👩🏾‍🔬🔬🧑🏼‍🔬Exploring the states of matter and how they change with root beer floats. An engaging and delicious learning experience! @briarmeadowK_8

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Such a delight having our first mystery reader of the year!! And of course @sherdhassan perfectly tied it in to our fairytale unit. 🧌🏰🪄

[Sarah Hassan @sherdhassan]

I had such a good time being @Ms_Prest0n’s mystery reader today! @briarmeadowK_8

[Jennifer Radcliffe @jenradcliffe]

Such heart-breaking accounts of how the first week went for some HISD teachers who say they are fearful, stressed out and unable to build relationships with kids under Miles' leadership: 'Every day, I'm crying' https://t.co/FYByiPfuvd via @houstonchron

[HoustonCVPE @HoustonCVPE]

Yesterday, #HISD Central Office staff demanded that NES/A teachers dismantle their classroom libraries

Libraries turned into zoom discipline centers. NOW classrm libraries and comfy reading books called “clutter.”

Save the children
#NoHISDTakeover

[Dan Dawer @Dan_Dawer]

According to HISD Superintendent Mike Miles—and by extension, the Texas state leaders who appointed him—this is what it looks like to “prioritize resources” in a school serving low-income Black and Latinx children.

[Riley Preston @Ms_Prest0n]

Counting down the last 10 days of school with my well deserving, hard working, one-of-a-kind, darling class! Thank goodness for looping and that I get to keep ‘em for another year. 🖤

@briarmeadowK_8 @TeamHISD

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

This is America. This is the cost of inaction.