Katy

7th grade ELA Teacher AACPS/Passionate Educator 📚📖 Former Literacy Coach VBCPS 📊 Reader, mother💙💗, and humanist.

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

Our Gr 7 students shared incredible insights into the powerful and courageous souls of two extraordinary young women for our Q3 novel unit study in the form of literature circle discussions and body map projects this MP. @SevernRivAACPS @AACountySchools

[SevernRivAACPS @SevernRivAACPS]

Kudos to Mrs.Orourke& Ms.Jones' 7th graders. They prepared posters to highlight the life& accomplishments of Malala Yousafzai #AACPSAwesome @AACountySchools @orourke_kela7 @AyoSmith10

[SevernRivAACPS @SevernRivAACPS]

Mrs.O'Rourke & Mrs. Twentymon's, 7th graders had an escape room experience while practicing what they learned about A Christmas Carol! What a fun way to learn!
@AACountySchools #AACPSawesome

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

@SevernRivAACPS @AACountySchools @Karendonovan33 Thanks again, Ms. Mauro! My students and I loved meeting them all. 🐢🖤💛🤍❤️

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

Is there anything more exciting than book fair season? I think not. 😏🙌🏼📚📖 @SevernRivAACPS @AACountySchools @AACPSReads

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

@TheRock @DCSuperPets @SevenBucksProd @DCComics Hey @TheRock I tweeted you last week for a request for my students. They keep asking me every day if you’ve replied 🥺. C’mon, man!

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

@TheRock Our Homeroom class at Severn River MS in Arnold, MD survived this entire covid school year by sharing your Pledge of Allegiance every Friday morning. 🇺🇸 We want to end this school year on the best note -can you give us our own pledge of allegiance shout out? 😎🤞🏼We ❤️ ya

[Ms. Siok @TeachMsSiok]

@SevernRivAACPS ELA stands strong to celebrate Unity Day! #UnityDay2020 #AACPSAwesome #projectunity @msbrittsela @MsBerstein @McDermottHolly

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

@MsPeeJay I see you, Raiders!!! ❤️����🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

#VBSummerBingo: Morning included a workout at #burnbootcampVB, then me and my little one spent the afternoon with a colleague and her little one identifying fish, turtles, and sting rays! 🐢🐠🤝 #vbtots #momswhoteachatthebeach
#oursummerschoolkids😂

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

Summer reading, here I come! 🙋🏻‍♀️🤓📖 https://t.co/30Wc6RwuDQ

[Matt Miller 🗑️ @jmattmiller]

20 books by teachers, for teachers to inspire your teaching

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#ditchbook #edchat #tlap

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

How to raise a kind child: https://t.co/8RsGNFFn3e

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

This girl, this shirt 🙌🏼💪🏼💯🤘🏼 @BaysideMSVBCPS #BaysideGirls #BMSAmazing

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

7th grade students are officially in SOL prep mode as they begin their “Reading Around the World” skill review rotations. Students have visited Egypt, Costa Rica, England, Mexico, Jamaica, France, Japan, Australia, and Switzerland!📖🌎🇬🇧🇯🇵🇯🇲 @BaysideMSVBCPS

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

@BaysideMSVBCPS @MsPeeJay @senorajenmorris @KarenBeebe14

We greeted someone very special this morning in the Bayside Middle House @kwamealexander 🙌🏼📖🏀💪🏼 #crossover #rebound #alwayssayyes #nevergiveup

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

BMS 8th graders spent the day touring the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond. So many connections were made to their social studies class, as well as their reading of @eliewiesel’s Night 📖✡️🕯#HolocaustEducation @BaysideMSVBCPS @holocaustmuseumrich @VaHolocaust

[Katy @orourke_kela7]

They pretended to be CIA agents solving clues, and we pretended not to notice just how much they enjoyed this activity 🤓💯🔎🔓 #Breakout #HolocaustStudies #FirstToWin #LiteracyLooksLike🙌🏼

[Sue Schneider #ElizaFletcher #LakenRiley @Grade5Schneider]

"Give what you https://t.co/67khYpzePh someone it may be better than you dare to think." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bayside MS PBL held a food drive for Seton Youth Shelters! Goal: Identify, then help solve a community problem! @SetonYouth85 @VBGifted @BaysideMSVBCPS @MsPeeJay

[Bayside MS-VBCPS @BaysideMSVBCPS]

It's Book Fair time!
WHEN: April 16-24
WHERE: BMS Library
ONLINE: April 11-24 (https://t.co/r24Wcv5c7C) The Book Fair will be open from 5:30-8:00 on Tuesday, April 24th during the Portfolio Showcase.