1st grade retelling The Turtle and Tortoise Are NOT Friends by Mike Reiss using Stop Motion Studio. #mymisd #mymisdreads VegaElem PTA

These 3rd graders were so excited to check out books for our “Read Around the World” reading program. Their teacher sent me the sweetest pictures of them reading their books! #mymisd #mymisdreads VegaElem PTA @vegaelementary

Loved learning how to use @Nearpod to engage students while preparing for STAAR! “It’s a process not an event.”#TCEA24 #mymisd

Love my #Tinkercat! Thank you McKinney GT teachers for a great session at #TCEA. Shana Prugh Shana Prugh Rico Sneller #mymisd

Kindergarten read Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme by @averymonsen and then practiced identifying rhyming words (and persistence) with @Ozobots. Thank you CoServ & McKinney Education Foundation for the Ozobots! #mymisd

On March 4, at 2:30 mystery readers read to classes at Vega Elementary to celebrate #ReadAcrossAmerica. Thank you to all of the readers and Harvey Oaxaca for volunteering to read! #mymisd #mymisdreads #WeAreMcKinney

So proud of first graders and kinder students VegaElem PTA. They used problem solving skills and creativity to code their Ozobot. Thank you again McKinney Education Foundation and CoServ for the grant to purchase some robots for our school! #WeAreMcKinney #mymisd

Mrs. Pena’s class read the “One and Only” series and completed cross curricular activities. Then they got to meet the author herself!Thank you Katherine Applegate (kaaauthor.bsky.social) for making their day! This was an experience that they’ll always remember! VegaElem PTA #mymisd #WeAreMcKinney

Kinder read Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal and used different materials to construct their names! #TeamMcKinney #vegaelem #HispanicHeritageMonth #mymisdreads

1st grades read If I Built A School and designed a blueprint for each floor that they constructed. They did a great job persevering and collaborating! VegaElem PTA #teamMcKinney #mymisd

This and so much more! Teachers, partner with your LMS. They’re available to serve and support you and your students and your curriculum goals. 👏🏼👍🏼❤️📚 #mymisdreads #mckedtech #wearemckinney #misdlearns

Thank you CoServ for coming to Vega Elementary! Our 5th graders had so much building circuits with you! #everystudenteveryday #TeamMcKinney #mymisd #WeAreMckinney

Kinder listened to The Clover Thief by Elise Parsley and then constructed their own clover thief traps. They had to use complete sentences to describe how their trap worked. #mymisd #mymisdreads #TeamMcKinney #Everystudenteveryday #WeAreMcKinney

Vega 2nd graders are citing their sources from PebbleGo and Britannica School like pros—and showcasing their learning with Book Creator from Kami! Proud of their research and creativity! Capstone 📚 Britannica Education #EveryStudentEveryDay #MyMISD #WeAreMcKinney

These 5th graders VegaElem PTA built an impressive train engine out of KEVA® Planks—all before the first bell rang! Creativity in action! #Makerspace #MyMISD #EveryStudentEveryDay

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It was a busy week in the Vega Library! 3rd graders learned about plagiarism v. paraphrasing, 2nd graders incorporated life cycles with coding using Ozobot, kinder created code sequences, and we had multiple classes visit the makerspace! #mymisd #everystudenteveryday #MakerSpace

Hi teachers & friends! To celebrate the upcoming release of my 25th book, I am giving away 2500 copies of I Survived the Dust Bowl over the next 10 days. Today: 10 class sets of 25. To enter, like this post & retweet. Winners announced tomorrow am. ❤️