Congrats almost 6th graders!! ♥️♥️

Heritage School Staff end of year picture!

Great conversation starters for discussions about the protests.

A fun morning playing “Are you smarter than a Heritage 5th Grader” on a grade-wide Webinar! #weswarmtogether

So fun to share our last class meeting with our LOFT students! We shared a class slideshow, gave out awards, and read The North Star by @peterhreynolds to send them on their journey to SMS! ♥️ this was a special class we’ll never forget! #covidclass #whatayear #heritagelearn

The #KidLit4BlackLives rally recording is here. What a powerful statement to how imperative a role literature plays in our students' lives. facebook.com/watch/live/?v=…

Learning from the amazing Jennifer Serravallo this morning about powerful reading conferences with students! #tyhocon

This message on repeat for me and my students! #graceandpatience #wegotthis

Ready for day 2 with my new Fifthies! VASD_K12

Today readers were transported to Cafe Houghan to taste our many delectable genres. This helped us find books that were “just right”. VASD_K12 Sugar Creek Elementary School

Today we read about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and did a super fun directed drawing from @thebookwrangler ! A special way to honor her legacy. ♥️

I have a student who comes into the zoom meeting 10 minutes early and entertains us with a new magic trick each day 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The rest of the kids are now researching magic tricks and signing up for a morning meeting to show them off! Love these relationships!

Virtual teaching may be tough, but at least we can still gather around picture books to be transported into worlds different from our own! So thankful for #classroombookaday and Mrs. Heise amazing book lists!

Today’s moment of joy-a spooky read aloud and fun directed drawing from @thebookwrangler. I was very impressed with their creepy carrot creations! #virtualteaching

Today was a good day. We introduced the “Lucky Duck” who gets to help with tasks over zoom and we found a typo in our math student book. We used it as an opportunity to learn about having grace and that nobody’s perfect-even math companies! #findthegood #virtuallearning

Two sweet surprises in my mailbox this morning! 1) A book from my Scholastic wish list from a very kind family 2) A Michigan mask from a secret gift-giver! Feeling thankful for kindness from students and families during distance learning!

Thankful for Epic for Kids for having a great book to launch our conversation about yesterday’s events. Talking about these topics with our students is difficult, but so necessary to help them process and understand!

Made some updates to my pegboard as we prepare for Concurrent Learning to begin second semester. Together, we really can do anything! #youcan

Opening day with VASD_K12 and Sugar Creek Staff! #atimeforhealing

No better way to spend a Saturday morning than with TCRWP and @peterhreynolds