Ss started paired reading today. Read with a partner for 10 minutes. Summarize after each page. Write down unknown vocabulary. Discuss vocabulary with a routine in whole group. Meriwether Lewis #3rd

Musical sentences for #fluency practice! Each day during Morning Meeting I write a new sentence using as many of our “sight words” as possible. I keep those sentences to use for games and activities in our phonics skill groups. #kindergarten #phonics Orton-Gillingham

I saw inclined planes, levers, and wedges.#3rdscience Meriwether Lewis

Quadrilaterals and not. Geoboard quadrilaterals. Meriwether Lewis #3rdmath

Superintendent announces 2-hour delay morning after Super Bowl wfmz.com/news/area/sout… via WFMZ-TV 69News

Ss designing habitats after researching and writing a script from the POV of a tour guide to include an animal and plant organism and their adaptations. This S is working on the taiga and a lynx here. Meriwether Lewis Katina Dudley #3rdscience

Tyler Anderson Very good point! And the reading wars don’t help—many have rejected the thought of core instruction for tier one being the same knowledge exposure for all students. I truly believe there is a massive equity issue with not having rich core knowledge they ALL kids have access to AT

Students at SPES took a deeper look at social studies than other elementary school students have before. Their classes used resources from Reframing the Narrative, a social studies curriculum that invites students to explore all sides of history. youtu.be/t0gHcPw3mrM

5.63 inches of rain on Afton Mountain this week sealed with a 🌈

Want to Boost Math Learning? Show Students the Wrong Answers edweek.org/teaching-learn…

Ivy ES AlbemarleCountySchls ACPS Office for School & Community Engagement getting ready to welcome 2nd wave of students and families during Open House!!!

A new study confirms that reading comprehension strategies work best if combined with background knowledge. And: the effect of 55 hours of instruction is the same as 1 hour. Kids get WAY more than 55 hrs in school. Daniel Willingham More in my Forbes post: forbes.com/sites/nataliew…

I am really excited to announce that we are finally releasing our FREE reading program. There was an entire team of people behind this release, with hundreds of hours of work teachingbyscience.com/_files/ugd/237…  1/3

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Yes, we want to ditch leveled reading groups, but we generally want to replace them with whole-class work with texts… And save small groups for kids that need special support. A blog full of explanation: eduvaites.org/2019/11/02/lev…

Hey Kindergartener Teachers—cool study. Co-taught OT-classroom teacher handwriting intervention! Not only improved handwriting but also letter naming and word reading. Handwriting is ESSENTIAL! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Hey Dictionary.com My third grade students want to know how you decide to list homophones and their defintions in the dictionary. So if you have bow for a violin and bow for bending over, how do you decide which one comes first? Third graders are pondering.

#crozet flooding in Greenwood

#crozet Roadways will be flooded thisAM Be smart, turnaround- it doesn’t take much to float a car map on the right is estimated rainfall amounts and much higher in amounts north of us in bright color areas- it’s still raining esp N of us 10”+ north along Blue Ridge!