These writers exemplified “sticking with it.” Multiple revisions later, they all were able to choose the strongest text evidence in their responses and requested proof sent home to their families! 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Halfway through 4th grade and we are tracking some big time growth on our IXL scoreboard! 🌟 Donegan Elementary

February is Black History Month! Join us as we honor the achievements, resilience, and innovation of Black individuals who’ve shaped our nation’s history. #BASDproud #BlackHistoryMonth

This is what goal getters look like! 🌟 Practicing our REWARDS passages with independent repeated reading before partnering up! Donegan Elementary

Wrapping up our study of biographies this unit by sharing our research on changemakers in history! 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Best of luck to Saquon Barkley in the Super Bowl! Did you know he got his start in the Bethlehem Area School District? #BASDproud #MarvineProud #saquonbarkley #superbowl Saquon Barkley Marvine Elem. BASD

So proud to recognize our shining and rising stars for the second quarter! ⭐️ How are we already more than halfway through the year??? Donegan Elementary

Watching Ben Rogers’s coaching in action at Lehigh Men’s Basketball this afternoon! A short scrimmage mid-game before their big game at Freedom on Monday night! BASD

Celebrating all the kindness this week with our Leader in Me lessons focused on honest and kind communication, compliment circles, Student Lighthouse kindness grams, and of course - Valentine’s cards! 💗 Donegan Elementary

Always one of my very favorite vocabulary activities is making semantic word maps collaboratively! Favorite tweak this time is intentionally leaving some cards blank for students to add their own 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Red carpet moments at the Donegan Elementary “Be My Guest” Valentines dance!

A new addition to our WIG Wednesday routine - designated time for emotional bank account deposits! ⭐️ Donegan Elementary

Loving our benchmark fraction number routine this week - so much awesome thinking, drawing, and accountable talk! Donegan Elementary

3 branches busy at work today in room 103! 2 bills passed both houses, were cleared by the judicial branch as constitutional according to our STARS expectations, and received my executive stamp of approval 👍 Donegan Elementary

Reinforcing our Wonders unit vocabulary using the game Hedbanz! Easy to set up, and most students already know how to play 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Hands on vocab is my favorite vocab! Word scaling to expand our vocabulary today! Donegan Elementary

An amazing first day of our Cohesion character building program! We can’t wait for the next four weeks! Donegan Elementary

Learning about how simple machines work with a series of simple, hands on tasks and short readings 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Answering practice book questions about statistics may not be the most exciting, but participating in the full statistical process is! Ss asked and answered questions, made a plan for collecting and organizing data, and compared their data to others! Donegan Elementary

Big day at Donegan Elementary tomorrow! BASD