Thank you both so much for joining in our digital fun! 🥳Highlight of our week! 💻

My ⭐️s took the lead today w/ their own sketch-📝s to dig deeper into learning about plants! So glad they are enjoying sketchnotes as another way to engage their 🧠s and actively process and OWN their learning! So proud of them! 😍🥳 @AFESStars #AFESStarsAligning

You are so incredibly kind @MissFordElem! I'm a better person and teacher because of YOU and our team of stars! So so grateful to learn from each of you and call you friends and teammates! 💕🥳#3rdGradeLoveFest

I BELIEVE that this is going to be another positively amazing year among the @AFESStars stellar ⭐️ staff! Especially grateful to continue the #3rdGradeLoveFest for another year with these amazing teammates! 🩷🥳#AFESStarsAligning Ready to take on year 2 together!

You’re so kind Jessica Coffey-Hanlin!! It brought me so much joy to show and share! 🥳Looking forward to more of the joy and learning together this year in all the things!

STEM, Teamwork, & Connections🔗, oh my! Building towers through finding commonalities to continue to build community in our classroom w/ only index cards! #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight on deepening relationships together and learning more! @AFESStars #AFESStarsAligning

More fun chalk artist 🎨creations full of positive messages-love seeing the new additions everyday & today I had a special surprise message from a previous ⭐️! 😍#ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight onto more positivity, loving, & learning with our 3rd grade ⭐️s! @AFESStars

🩷 introducing my ⭐️s to Canvas features 🥳💻! S’s learned about pages & ✈️ all around the 🗺️ to look at 🏫 s using Google 🌍 voyage! #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight onto to more adventures beyond our classroom walls w/ the power of tech! #AFESStarsAligning @AFESStars

The ☀️ was rising & shining so BRIGHT😎 over @AFESStars this morning! A breathtaking view to start the day. We are so lucky to have such a beautiful campus, but even luckier to have a galaxy full of stars that SHINE as bright as the ☀️! 🤩🥰

Hard working ⭐️artists 🎨 creating their Audiobook designs in prep for our 🍎Apples & Audiobooks🎧 event on Monday! So proud of how they have SHINED this 1st quarter. #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight on to sharing and celebrating with grownups soon! @AFESStars

Went star gazing🌌🤩, observing the INCREDIBLE Jessica Coffey-Hanlin!! 👀amazing small groups weaving many 📖 skills with 🐸 poems! 🤯 by her masterful application of LETRS learning in instruction! SO grateful to learn from her greatness daily! 👀 at her ⭐️s leading 2 find 🔑 vocab! 😍

❤️ how Canvas by Instructure has integrations w/ apps + platforms! Today, S’s explored in Discovery Education a 3-D interactive Skeletal System to later 🗣️& 🧑‍🎨 life-size versions of skeletons! #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight onto more blended learning to support instruction! @AFESStars

❤️ teaching w/ Lauren Maloney Sojka! Co-teaching together to introduce our next unit of 🐸 w/ jumbo gist finding charts! Grateful 4 spaces that bring our ⭐️s together 2 collaborate & learn! #ThirdStarsToTheRight & straight onto more learning for our ⭐️s (& us teachers!) @AFESStars

Matching w/ our stellar ⭐️ leader, @AFESStars! Double the Olaf ☃️! ALL the ⭐️s in our Apex Friendship galaxy are worth melting for on this Frozen Fri-Yay, and everyday! 🩷🤩

🩷 seeing all the ways S’s co-created 🗣️collaborative sketch notes✍️🗒️ 2 visually show & represent their learning + background knowledge they built! #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight on to more sketch-noting to help our 🧠s power up our learning! @AFESStars

🩷ed joining in for the Dash exploration fun in STEM with Mrs. Caruso with my S’s! The joy and engagement was amazing to see (& learned a tech tool I’ve been excited to try🤓)! How lucky are we to have her @AFESStars and all these tech tools 2 enhance learning!

BEST most joy-filled concert ever! ✨🥰🥳 Brightened my day. What creative stars we have @AFESStars!

Had a great morning collaborating w/ my team, our school, and other Apex area elementary schools to dig deeper into the new Science standards & implementation! #ThirdStarsToTheRight and straight on to more exploring & learning! 🥳🧠 @AFESStars ProfessionalLearning

2 enhance our EL Education Module 1-learning challenges, S’s are 🗣️ , & using creativity to find new ways 2 transport books with Dash 🤖. Lots of critical 💭 🧠 to create, build, test, & improve their designs. 🥳 So grateful to be able to collab with the AMAZING Apex Friendship Elementary Library! 🩷

So much fun bringing the Solar System to LIFE w/ Sandbox Augmented Reality Discovery Education & made even better because Apex Friendship Elementary Library joined to collaborate! 🤩We brought the planets to us before our eyes 👀 in our classroom! Students got to see, move, interact, and label 🪐s!