We’ve been following Spirit’s growth since she hatched in March. She happened to leave her nest for the first time on our last full day of school. Perfect timing! 🦅

Books ✅ Rugs ✅ We’re almost ready for kindergarten!

Excited to be new kindergarteners at Westmoor! 💙 #NB28FirstDay

I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.” Here are my new definitions I started teaching today: ▪️Nonfiction = learning through information ▫️Fiction = learning through imagination …

Yesterday we visited the garden for the first time! Everyone was so focused as they practice their photography skills. We are lucky to be able to learn in this beautiful space!

Ss in Laura Rzewnicki’s class had so much fun reading Patrick McDonnell “A Perfectly Messed Up Story” and deciding which objects were “no, no never” allowed near books and which ones were “yes, yes always!” #28empowers #bookcare

The Brooklyn Public Library is sharing its collection of banned books for all to read for free! See this in The NY Times and check out the link in the QR code!

We worked hard in the garden today pulling out and composting old sunflower and amaranth plants to make way for veggie planting. After their hard work our class enjoyed eating some carrots!

Have you heard the news!? 💙

One of my favorite lessons in phonics - labeling our classroom!

We had a great Halloween yesterday! 🎃

Thankful for these little turkeys 🦃 🧡

We’re walking in a winter wonderland! ❄️

“The Snowy Day” on a snowy day! ❄️

We were so excited to be visited by the second graders yesterday for reading buddies! Thank you so much for the excellent reading and book picks! Ms. Rubenstein

Kindergarteners staged a dramatization of Chicken Little today. Here you can see our actors on the stage and our boomwhacker band in the orchestra pit. 👏🏻 🎭 #blairfinchproject instagram.com/p/Cnpxlz1JWb3/…

Happy 100th Day of School!

April showers bring May flowers! 🌧️ 🌸

Our mathematicians made a frog chart yesterday to practice counting frog eyes by 2s! They observed that the number of frogs doubled = the total number of eyes. And the total number of eyes doubled = the total number of frog legs! What a great conversation. 🐸 👀

Math Intervention Teacher Rebecca @Stowell28, Instructional Facilitator @RubelDanielle Rubel, and Gifted & Talented Coordinator Trina Newman formed MAC with nine 4th-grade students to focus on a mission statement of "Joy + Math = Our Mission" to engage all students.