Birthday Highlight! Meet Carson. His favorite subject is math and he is looking forward to eating cake this weekend! Mary B. Austin Elementary #happybirthday #AimForExcellence #TeachingLeading

Birthday Highlight! Meet Jayce. Her favorite subject is reading and she loves to draw. Mary B. Austin Elementary #AimForExcellence #TeachingLeading #happybirthday

Students are working on the revising stage of writing and adding in details to sentences today. #AimForExcellence #LearningLeading Mary B. Austin Elementary

We are game day ready for this long weekend! Mary B. Austin Elementary

Students are working on classifying and categorizing birds and beasts. Mary B. Austin Elementary

I’ve never seen my class so excited about redeeming Dojo points. Students adopted desk pets and were able to buy items for their pet today during fun Friday. This is such a fun way to encourage great behavior! Mary B. Austin Elementary

My class sure was packed with grandparents, grownups, and honorary grands! A big thank you to my amazing classroom participation. Mary B. Austin Elementary

My class sure was packed with grandparents, grownups, and honorary grands! A big thank you to my amazing classroom participation. Mary B. Austin Elementary

My class sure was packed with grandparents, grownups, and honorary grands! A big thank you to my amazing classroom participation. Mary B. Austin Elementary

My class sure was packed with grandparents, grownups, and honorary grands! A big thank you to my amazing classroom participation. Mary B. Austin Elementary

The anticipation for our experiment today was high! After a week of learning about volcanos, we had to make sure our 2nd graders were able to view an explosion. We were able to tie in the scientific method making a hypothesis and testing our results. Mary B. Austin Elementary #LearningLeading

Practicing addition and subtraction strategies for fact fluency within 20 this week! #AimForExcellence #LearningLeading

Working on classifying numbers as even and odd today. Mary B. Austin Elementary #AimForExcellence #LeadingLearning

🚨 STAFF ALERT🚨 Today we started a new way of practicing our letters, high frequency words, and vocabulary. If you see any of my students with a tag, please ask them what their word is and what it means. Practice makes perfect! Mary B. Austin Elementary #LearningLeading #AimForExcellence

Our work this week sure was sweet! Students completed a fun opinion writing on whether they preferred Skittles or M&Ms. Mary B. Austin Elementary #AimForExcellence #LearningLeading

2nd graders in Mrs. Golden’s class had a blast exploring augmented reality with QuiverVision while incorporating their 1st semester PBL. Mary B. Austin Elementary

The MBA Purple House participated in the Lemon Face Challenge today in honor of Aubreigh Nicholas who battled a terminal brain cancer. We challenge, @allentown_alligators, @knguyen703, and the UMS Bulldogs where she teaches, and Mrs. Golden’s children’s school St. Ignatius.

Students are learning about erosion and weathering this week in science. We checked out a Mystery Science activity to explore why we have sand at the beach. What a great hands on way to learn about rocks breaking apart. Mary B. Austin Elementary #AimForExcellence #LearningLeading

National Pumpkin Day was a blast. How many seeds are in your pumpkins? We had a grand total of 536! Mary B. Austin Elementary #teachingleading #aimforexcellence

Here are T Britt's favorite strategies to support Ss in productive struggle – what would you add? #StudentEngagement