When students become teachers!✏️ After writing their own how-to, students shared their writing and we followed their detailed steps to learn how to draw or make something! #happeningathowell

We love Fun Fridays! We play games to review our grammar skill of the week and improve our fluency with our readers of the week using Flashlight Friday🔦 #happeningathowell

After reading a folktale in our Wonders leveled readers about weaving rugs, we followed their steps and weaved our own paper mats! #happeningathowell

Such a productive staff meeting! We discussed scaffolding suggestions for all ENL levels. We became students in a Portuguese classroom led by @MsSousa5 ! Our teacher toolbox is filled with super strategies as well as everyone’s favorite goodies. Thank you Paula Barnick and @MsSousa5

Our Summer ENL Program has been on the GO! One of our parents shared his experience as an Uber driver to enhance our study of transportation!🚕 ValleyStream13UFSD Paula Barnick

Our Summer ENL Program has been on the GO with learning about transportation vehicles and traveling to several states to learn about the United States!🇺🇸✈️🚗⛴🚝 ValleyStream13UFSD

Hispanic Heritage Month was a blast! 2nd graders and 3rd graders read bilingual books like “Family Pictures” and “Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match” to learn about the Hispanic culture and participate in activities that celebrates our differences. #happeningathowell

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1st graders went on a fall scavenger hunt to learn about the season and acquire some new vocabulary! #happeningathowell

Favorite Sports Team Twins for Red Ribbon Week! Samantha Watson #happeningathowell

We learned the 5 parts of a letter to get us started on our next writing unit! 📝🎵Nancy Faccio #happeningathowell

Whistling While We Work! Happy Halloween!!! Kelly Wilcha @MsSousa5 Danielle Dodge SheMeika Charles Cathy Ricchiuti Susan Simeone #happeningathowell

Howell Road’s Multicultural Night🌎💚 Howell Road Elementary School Paula Barnick #happeningathowell

Leaf Exploration🍁 After reading books about fall leaves, we gathered our own and compared their size, shape, and color. We then recorded this information into a data table and used our leaves to make leaf prints with ink pads! #HowellENL #happeningathowell Howell Road Elementary School

Happy Holidays from Howell!@HowellRoadVS13 #happeningathowell

These writers have been working hard in 2nd grade! In Nancy Faccio class we worked on writing How-To’s and published them on Seesaw. In Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Langer’s class we did a research project on animal habitats. 📝 #happeningathowell

We joined our K and 1st grade groups in a winter language production project, where we explored how people and animals adapt to the winter! We read books, discussed adaptations, went on a winter walk, and made bird feeders to help the animals in our community. ❄️ Paula Barnick

April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month. What will you do to advocate for students?

Happy Halloween 🎃 #happeningathowell

Our ENL department had the opportunity to attend the 2025 Long Island Teachers’ Institute for a day of professional development on multilingualism🌎 #LITI2025 ValleyStream13UFSD Paula Barnick Howell Road Elementary School