Nora Elementary

Nora Elementary School

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All of our students in Mrs. Shelby’s art classes have been working on clay pinch pots thanks to a grant from the @WTSFoundation. We love that our students gotten this amazing hands on learning experience and can’t wait to see the finish products soon! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Students in Mr. Hoffman’s 4th grade reading classes celebrated the end of their poetry unit with a poetry cafe where they could share the poems they wrote with each other! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Today our high school ENL students visited our 2nd grade ENL students for a special reading event. Our older students shared books, modeled reading strategies, and encouraged our younger learners to keep practicing and growing! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers #WhyWT

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Our 2nd grade team spent time discussing and reflecting on student proficiency across standards during their weekly PLC meeting. Team collaboration is an important part of ensuring our students thrive in the classroom! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Last week, 4th grade students completed a STEAM activity where they put their engineering brains to work on making obstacle courses all out of paper to go with the book “The Great Turkey Race”. 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Whole group instruction, small group instruction, and partner work around the building this week. So many ways to teach, learn, and grow our Panther cubs! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers spent time after school today unpacking and aligning standards for the ILEARN checkpoint #2. We appreciate our teachers commitment to purposeful planning in order to help our students be successful! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Earlier this week our 4th grade students had the opportunity to visit JA Biztown to put into practice what they have been learning about financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship. 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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4th grade students in Mr. Hoffman’s class are working to go back in the text and answer both literal and inferential questions while using text evidence. These panther cub readers are working hard to grow their knowledge and understanding of what they read! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Welcome to our new Kindergarten teacher Ms. Pruitt! We are so glad to have you at Nora to teach our youngest panther cubs! 🐾

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A big thank you to Earth Rangers for visiting Nora Elementary and sharing their amazing message with our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders!

Students learned about ecosystems, conservation and endangered species. 🍃🐾
#NoraPanthers #EFutureChangeMakers #WeGrowPanthers

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Mrs. Lamkin has been sharing some fun and festive stories in the library this week and our students have been loving them! We love seeing our students excited about reading! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Today is National Custodian Appreciation Day and we are so grateful for our team here at Nora! Thank you Mr. Pollock, Ms. Antoinette, Ms. Anjelica, and Mr. Amos…we would be a mess with out you all! 🐾 @msdwt

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Thank you to our superintendent, Dr. Taylor for coming to read to our students this week! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Earlier this week, students in Ms. Kelly’s 1st grade class did a review their learning about the human body. They became doctors & did check ups on stuffed animals, eye exams on their sight words, made healthy plates of food, and wrote about their body systems.🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Third grade students have been working on writing narrative fiction in class. Keep up the great work Panther cub authors! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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5th grade students on Mrs. Camp’s class have been working on finding text evidence with character traits. Inactive activities that allow students to move throughout the room ans work together help them apply what they are learning each day! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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5th grade students in Ms. Sego’s class used their writing offices to help them revise their narratives this week. We love seeing the writing process in action! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Thank you to all our families who joined us for Back to School Night! We love each opportunity we get to connect with our parents and families as we work together to grow amazing panthers! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers

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Engagement in the classroom results in students learning and applying concepts. Engaged students ask questions, share ideas, and care about what they’re doing — and that’s where the magic happens! 🐾 #WeGrowPanthers