Thank you Katrina Ayoub Hansen for taking us on a tour of the library! 3SS was so excited to explore their new upper elementary library & finally go book shopping! A highlight for me was when a student said “This is the best day ever! I love books!”. 🥰💙

This year DAA Elementary we are focusing on reading….. and reading hard copy books to be specific! It’s so encouraging to see our Ss fall in love with reading as they explore our libraries and page through books! Thanks Surbhi Sachdev Katrina Ayoub Hansen Tooshna Gandhi

Our first published author of the year from KG2CH Clare Hibbard! Love the agency this learner demonstrated. He made up his mind that he would create a book and it would be published in our ES Library and he made it happen. Made my day! DAA Elementary GEMS DAA #LeopardPRIDE

That is just brilliant! It makes my heart so #happy! Here’s to all future little authors and to their inspiring teachers Clare Hibbard Katrina Ayoub Hansen DAA Elementary! What a great start to the year!

Today we read the book That's Not My Name - each student got to say their name to their classmates to ensure we are all saying them correctly. Respecting our uniqueness. We then recognized which Capital our name should go under - spelling out their name to us. #Kindergarten

1SC spent the week sorting and building our classroom library by genre. Ss dove right in and filled their book boxes for next week. Thank you Katrina Ayoub Hansen for the idea! The excitement was real! DAA Elementary #raisingreaders #leopardpride #scienceofreading

During Friday Reflections, 3MW Ss agreed highlights this week include touring the AI Center and Green Screen Studio with Tara Frost and checking out library books with Katrina Ayoub Hansen. So many fabulous teachers DAA Elementary GEMS DAA

Excited for our first book club of the year! Love our ES team’s enthusiasm. Within 10 minutes of sending out the email we already have a ton of signups! DAA Elementary GEMS DAA #scienceofreading #bookclub

Hey students DAA Elementary! Don’t forget to checkout the #StudentCouncil applications for the 2022-2023 school year! Show your #LeopardPride

Our final masked photo as DAA Elementary! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s smiling faces tomorrow!!

Shifting the Balance #bookclub with the most thoughtful educators! Loved meeting with these reflective teachers for our first book club meeting of the year. We examined the first shift in #ShiftingtheBalance and explored it’s impact on our teaching. #DAAreads DAA Elementary

Today we had our first in person Follett conference for the first time in 3 years! What a pleasure it was connecting with Librarians from around the region and learning more about how to best use Destiny Follett. #professionaldevelopment #backtogether #Librarians DAA Elementary

Katrina Ayoub Hansen making a difference to get 1DL to genrify our classroom library! They were so focused and hard at work. Truly amazing to work with you! #genrifyyourlibrary

This week we read “Luli and the Language of Tea” by the brilliant @AndreaYWang. We celebrated what makes us different and the same, then created a diversity flag with handprints of our country’s flags for #UNDay2022! DAA Elementary

Inspirational visit with the incredibly talented @AndreaYWang! All day our DAA Ss stopped me to tell me how much they enjoyed the visit and how excited they were to write about their own memories. We can’t wait for round 2 with our littlest leopards! #authorvisit DAA Elementary

Brilliant minds at DAA! I had a blast with our book club today. Each member always brings such insight to our readings. “Shifting the Balance” is definitely worth the read. Way more fun to do it with this group of lovely ladies! #shiftingthebalance DAA Elementary #bookclub #read

I adore you and your sweet class! ❤️💕

Thank you for the gift of time this week DAA Elementary generously offered by Katrina Ayoub Hansen 🙏🏻 Who’s better to teach 5th-grade readers how to determine a theme in literary text, and compare themes in more than one text, than our librarian! #literacy #appreciation #wellbeing

Our incredible Student Council is working tirelessly to create care packages for Ramadan for our support staff. We have such a supportive community! I love how everyone is coming together to give back. DAA Elementary GEMS DAA #RamadanMubarak #studentcouncil

Thank you DAA Elementary student council for your efforts , Mrs. Amal & Katrina Ayoub Hansen for your seamless coordination and continued support of the #RamadanCarePackage initiative this year GEMS DAA! You helped bring so much joy to our amazing #supportstaff today ♥️🌟 #Joy #Pride