Mrs. Gillions & Mrs. Teague’s 4th gr classes held their 1st Socratic Seminars today! These Ss engaged in Seminar in 3rd grade, so they picked right up with using quality talk & active listening to create authentic, student-led discussion around the book Tuesday. McNair Upper ES

We had a wonderful time practicing our visualization skills with Mallory Janofsky/Mrs. J today! What do you see in your mind when you read “watermelons falling out of a yellow van in a flood”!

Today at recess, we saw bats (we think?) and a rainbow! It was thrilling! 🦇🌈

Favorite “first substitute of the year” activity. Loving the creativity!!! (I was visiting family!)

☔️ or ☀️ our McNair Upper ES McNair Elementary (PreK-2) AAA Patrols are Ready to help our Mustangs! 😁👍 Fairfax Schools 🌟 FCPS Region5

Feeling excited to have our first SMILE Award recipient hung up on the wall in the front of our school! Way to go Aradhya 👏🏼 McNair Upper ES

Design the tallest tower using 50 index cards (no tape!!) that can support the load of a cell phone for 1 min. Which tower do you think won? Using habits of mind and following the Engineering Design Process, these engineers took on the challenge! Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary FCPS AAP McNair Upper ES

First lunch bunch of the year and we had a tie! Congrats tables 1 & 3 👏🏼 McNair Upper ES

Hike it, Bike it, I Like it! Join McNair Upper ES & schools across the 🌎 tomorrow for Walk, Bike & Roll to School Day! Start your day off 💪 with Exercise, Energy & Fun! 😉 Look 👀 for our bright AAA Patrols who will be giving out a prize! FCPS SRTS @restonbikeclub VDOT Safe Kids Worldwide

Digital Citizenship Week is next week! We will be promoting balanced technology use and online safety. Be sure to participate in our daily spirit days!

Happy Veteran’s Day! Thank you to all our military personnel, past and present, for your service! Today we celebrate you!! Special shout out to our own Mustang Veterans, Mrs. Bradner (Navy) and Ms. Dailly (Marines)!

Congrats to these awesome Mustangs for running in the Run with Santa 5K this past weekend!🐎🎅🏅McNair Upper ES Cliff Credle

Practiced finding words that match the sounds I give! So much fun & showed off their creativity! “Find a word with the /s/ sound” “Mopping is /s/ad” “/s/oda can” McNair Upper ES

Students went on a line, line segment & ray scavenger hunt in our classroom today! Some ideas: - Line: our number lines, our fraction number line - Ray: a pencil (they made the argument), our light - Line segment: our hanging lights, our speaker, our whiteboard

It’s the final round of our ST Math Educator? Follow us on MINDEduOrg! March Madness Tournament! Who will be our school champion?? #FCPSSTMath

Mathematicians exploring standard and nonstandard measurements with feet! McNair Upper ES FCPS AAP #insearchoftheyeti #M3

Parents, we invite you and your family to join us for "BINGLO- A Night of Neon Bingo Fun!" Sign up by completing the form on the event flier sent home last week, and then return it to MUES by this Friday (4/26)!

Mark your calendars! #runwiththebest

Had an amazing year with this crew of now 4th graders McNair Upper ES! 💖🥳