Progress 🤩🤩! Last week, we looked at Mock STAAR writing samples and found the “glows/grows”. This week, students are working in small group to analyze their own writing, and making improvements using self, peer, and teacher feedback. So proud of their dedication to growth! 📝✅

Quickwrites here, quickwrites there, quickwrites quickwrites everywhere! 📝 #ComalAVID

Fluency matters! We love using our whisper phones to practice self-monitoring as we work on fluent reading 📞📖😊

Read 📖, write 📝, create🎨. We’ve learned so much and worked so hard on our Black History Month research! 🤩3rdGrade_FSES

We ♥️ Book Fair! These boys were so excited to score a copy of the new Amulet book! Kazu Kibuishi

Today we used the World Cafe method to answer our big question: How can one person make a difference in their community? It was so fun to watch students facilitate small groups, and the responses were impressive! Group leaders all agreed that being a teacher is a tough job 😂

In August/September, my class was full of reluctant writers. I had to start each writing lesson with students repeating positive affirmations after me. Now, there’s no more sighing or crying, and a lot of “LOOK HOW MUCH I WROTE!” These “little things” make me smile BIG! 😊

Shout out to our amazing counselor! She spends STAAR mornings gracing the hallways with a sweet smile and her self-care rolling cart, complete with snacks, mints, encouraging notes, stress relief lotion, and stuffies to hug. We love you Mrs. Dzierzanowski! ♥️ Farias-Spitzer Elementary

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! 🫶🏼