#tipfortoday for the first Fairfax Schools 🌟 snow day of the school year! Here are a few a fun ideas to help you engage in different self-care, mindfulness, and/or wellness activities today. What activity are you going to try out today? #snowday #mentalhealth #mindfullness

December 21 was the official first day of winter.❄️ Let's think about winter and create a mindmap to help us organize our ideas! 🌨️ Remember to share your ideas with us FCPS AAP #CCTSchoolChallenge #CCTatHome

Let's visualize a snow globe adventure! ☃️ Use your five senses to help you visualize the experience. 👀👃👂 Share your ideas with us FCPS AAP #CCTSchoolChallenge #CCTatHome

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway! 🇨🇳🎿❄️ Did you know that the snow for the winter events is all human-made? What might be some potential outcomes of creating fake snow? Stretch your brains and share your thinking! #CCTatHome

Coming February 18-February 24!

Let’s do some math together Woodburn Elementary School! LaTonya Floyd and I can’t wait to celebrate the 100th day of school all week with our mathematicians! FCPS Region 2 FCPSMathematics

Let's visualize and create an ABC book about YOU! Smithsonian’s NMAAHC created a booklet for younger learners called The Joyful ABC book, which can be found here: s.si.edu/3JsQrnt The booklet celebrates all of the unique character traits that can be a part of our identity. #CCTatHome

Who says 4th graders are too old to play with blocks? KEVA Planks brought out the contraption engineers! Woodburn Elementary School FCPS STEAM

Amazing fun with Young Scholars! Robotics Camp for the win 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇STEAM + collaboration! Woodburn Elementary School FCPS STEAM FCPS AAP

Happy TwosDay at 2:22 pm! Not only is it a special palindrome day, but it's a palindrome week. Try some critical and creative thinking exercises to help you celebrate this fun date!

It's National Awkward Moments Day. Embarassing and awkward moments can connect us because we all have that moments that we can relate to. It's a part of being human. Today we are going to use FOFE to think about how to respond when those moments happen. #CCTSchoolChallenge

Community Helpers Career Day has been a hit so far!

One week away!

It was all Ancient Greek in 3rd grade today ⁦Woodburn Elementary School⁩! The students had fun recreating the myths in togas of course!

In case anyone needs a good 15-minute (maybe 20) opening activity next week centered around retrieval practice, here's one of my evergreen go-to activities that works for any content area at any point. It goes like this... (Resource for you to copy and use at the end.) 1/

KAST is hosting a fun and summer camp this August! Sessions are two hours long and will include experiments such as slime, make your own ice cream, and sidewalk paint! Sign up here -> tinyurl.com/KAST-Summer-Ca… Schedule -> tinyurl.com/KAST-2023-SCHE… Flyer -> tinyurl.com/KAST-2023-FLYER

Third grade teachers! I've made Open Middle Depth of Knowledge matrices to show how a single math problem can replace an entire worksheet in third grade. Download it now here: robertkaplinsky.com/depth-of-knowl… #MTBoS