We’ve been hard at work researching our favorite singers, authors, and athletes!! 3rd graders agree that research is fun, especially when using Book Creator! Thanks Peggy Hall for helping us get started! #todayincomal #cisddigitallearning 3rdGrade_FSES

Kicking off Read-A-Thon week with mystery readers! Thanks for visiting our classroom and sharing your love of reading with us! #todayincomal Farias-Spitzer Elementary

We celebrated GROWTH today with lunch bunch! So proud of these kiddos who met or exceeded their EOY MAP goals! 🌟 #todayincomal #thefsesway

📸 Say POPSICLES! 📸 “Team Rodfrey” has been working hard at sticking with our social contract, even with the all the end-of-year excitement. Today, we celebrated our success with a cold treat and extra recess! ☀️😊

These kiddos have been anxiously awaiting their butterflies to emerge after studying life cycles in science, and today was the day! 🐛🦋

These chains adorned our hall and sparked motivation during STAAR prep/testing. Each link = 1 correct answer to a math problem! Today we stretched them around the entire upstairs, down the stairs, around the library, and into the 1st/2nd grade hallway! These kids are BRIGHT! 🌟

Spent today training on all things Pear Deck Learning!! Thanks to ComalEducationFoundation, our entire campus will have premium access for the upcoming school year, and I’m excited to help my colleagues implement and watch student engagement soar! 🍐💻💫 #ComalDigitalLearning #TodayinComal

Today’s lesson: Our class is a family! Each student has unique qualities that play an important role in completing our class puzzle 🧩💖 3rdGrade_FSES

“What’s in my bag” presentations and a little fun FriYAY time to celebrate an amazing first week! These 3rd graders are ROCKING it!! 🤩

Growing confident readers by working on fluency every single day 💪🏼. I just LOVE when my classroom comes alive with the buzz of little voices actively reading! ❤️

After reading and analyzing “Scaredy Squirrel” this week, students enriched their learning with puppets and reader’s theater!! It was a fun FriYAY indeed!

We filled our BARKboard! This MTSS tool helps keep me accountable for giving specific positive feedback, and students love getting to sign it for a job well done. When we fill it, we CELEBRATE! I’m always flattered when students choose to celebrate by having lunch with me! 🫶🏼

We had so much fun welcoming Mrs. Threatt’s class to collaborate with us during our Pear Deck lesson this morning! 2 teachers, 34 students, and 100% engagement as we visualized, read, annotated, discussed, and wrote about our poem of the day! 📖📝✨ #bettertogether #todayincomal

We had some special guests today! These 3rd grade Bulldogs have been working hard to receive positive feedback for acting responsibly, and chose a stuffy day to celebrate filling their feedback board! 🧸🐰🐶🐼🐷

Small group writing practice- where the magic happens! ✏️🪄📝😊

We love having guest readers! 🤩📖

Working on writing, and progressing each day! I’m so proud of these 8-9 year olds for the grit they show and the thoughtful responses they produce. My teacher heart melts hearing their conversations as they read through responses and look for ✨glows✨ and 💪🏼grows💪🏼

STAAR Camp is underway! These 3rd graders are working hard to review in fun and engaging ways, and also independently practicing and refining skills based on their individual data. There’s no doubt they’re going to ROCK the test! 🌟

Staying engaged these last few weeks with a little help from our favorite tools….Flashlight reading for the win today! 🔦📖

Lunch Bunch! Today we had lunch together to celebrate students who passed 60+ iReady Reading lessons! BIG shout out to Anayah and Luis, who also earned pizza for passing over 100 lessons! 🥳🍕👏🏼