Such an awesome day at San Antonio Book Festival!! These kids are rockstars… they got to meet Greg Foley, and the book fairy gave them some extra “good luck magic” for their STAAR tests!

🚨TOMORROW🚨 I sent these invites home with my students on Friday. Glow Day is my favorite way to practice skills one final time, wind down, and have some fun before STAAR.

Ms. Kane’s class is in full swing this morning—practicing skills and getting STAAR-ready! These students are determined and ready to “TACKLE THE STAAR”! Ms. Kane Doctor.H 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Dr. Kimberly Gilmore-Madkins Edgewood ISD Roosevelt Dual Language Academy

There is nothing I love more than hearing my classroom full of laughter & seeing them dance and just “be kids” after a hard couple of weeks of test prep. Excuse the off-key singing in the last video… but we had to have a sing along. Glow Day 2025 ✅

At all EISD ELAR teachers… good luck today! They’ve got this. Breathe easy… you’ve prepared them!

Bluebonnet competition was fun as usual! They did a great job working together!

My amazing student teacher is teaching our 5th grade students some conversational Spanish for the next few weeks. She’s also explaining the importance of being bilingual.

Practicing research skills with an internet scavenger hunt about Macaroni and Cheese.

Teacher Appreciation Week starts tomorrow… so to all of the teachers I know… thank you. Our job isn’t easy, but you’re all rockstars. Sending extra love your way this week!!

Dancing into Teacher Appreciation week with my mom! Thank you M. Esquivel for the hype vibes this morning!

Such a fun book!

For our “Dragons Love Tacos” Literacy Night, 5th grade made “dragon snot” (slime)… it was a blast! I was also very proud of my sign featuring a sneezing dragon.

Many days I question why I continue being a teacher… and then I sob in the hallway with my 5th graders on their last day of school.

Asking our Roosevelt Dual Language Academy staff what they’re teaching on the last day of school. Ps: the last day was for hanging out with our students. No instructional time was harmed in the making of this video or in their responses 😂

This year’s Amazon wish list is ready to go if anyone is able to support my classroom 😊 amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls…

Started painting banners because it looked fun. I still have to do touch ups, finish outlines, and put finishing touches on them… but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out! 😊

Finished another banner… this one for Roosevelt Dual Language Academy! Have to tidy up lines once it dries… I don’t know how I managed to paint the falcon, but I’m happy with how it turned out!

Got to know my new classes today using Play-Doh. The excitement on their faces when they got to sculpt their favorite subjects, animals, and foods was awesome. 5th graders only get to “be little” a few days a year, and today was one of those days!

Vocabulary routine teaching day. Students worked in groups to research their word, define it, illustrate it, and then teach it to the class. Now they’re up on our module wall as we kick off our first HMH Education story.

Go little rockstar ✨ I have my awesome clinical teacher back for this semester, and then she will be off on her own!! Proud of her for jumping in week one and taking on some reading lessons!