After all of the love and labor we put into revising and editing our opinion pieces, we finally celebrated by reading them to our classmates! Each student shared their piece and their peers wrote them a compliment. #WritingCommunity #writingworkshop #1stgrade #wearewriters

When one of your students wins the School Charter contest and tells you ‘it’s a picture of you teaching our class..’ 😢😢😢 ❤️❤️❤️ #proudteacher #mademyweek RULER

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 so proud of you Kaylee!

What a fun week! We loved the author visit with Derek Anderson on Thursday and at our All School Sing on Friday Mason won the artist of the month and our class won the Golden Book!

Thanks Mrs. Z for volunteering and teaching us about Paul Klee! We loved learning all about him, his artwork, and creating our own! #meetthemasters #enhancingthestudentexperience

Congratulations to Mason, Tisdale's May artist of the month! Mason is always ready to lend a helping hand and share a kind word in the art room. His kindness and creativity are a wonderful example of this month's character trait friendship. @TisdaleSchool #WeAreTisdale🎨💛💙😊

Before another busy week starts, I have to post a few highlights from last week! Virtual Mystery reader, guest reader, STEAM assembly, and a friend getting caught making good choices at lunch/recess.. this doesn’t even include their phenomenal performance during the Spring Sing!

What a fun week! We had another mystery reader and it was Charlotte’s dad! Thanks Mr. N! In math, we are focusing on place value and learned a new math game called roll tens!

In reading, we discussed the lesson a character might learn in the story. We read one of my favorite books by peter brown! called You Will Be My Friend! We stopped midway through the book and these phenomenal first graders gave the BEST advice to Lucy about friendship!

Educator giveaway! Win a signed classroom set of my new #mglit novel, #Odder. 💙🦦 🌊 RT and follow to enter. 🤿 Tag an educator friend for an extra entry. 🦈 I'll choose and notify a random winner tomorrow, 10/25. Books will ship mid-November! MacKids Books

New Jersey is fighting back against fake news stories online... Moments ago, the state became the first to enact a law that will standardize media literacy lessons for students. Dasha Burns reports. Watch #NBCNewsDaily LIVE at nbcnews.com/NOW or wherever you stream.

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We’re bubbling over with excitement! Many of the dioramas for our Strega Nona exhibit have been installed, AND U.S. Postal Service is releasing the new Strega Nona stamp this Friday. 😘😘😘 📙: Strega Nona by Tommy dePaola (Simon Kids ) #StregaNona #WIP #wipWednesday

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, moms-to-be, moms trying to conceive, those who have lost their moms, step moms, those who stand in as a mom, and all the women who have professions that emulate a mom.. like a teacher!

Tennis icons Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova met as teenagers, forged one of the greatest rivalries in sports and then became close friends. After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can. When cancer came, they both knew where

Our world needs libraries (and librarians) more than ever. #librarymemes #memes #librarytwitter #librarians #sayanything

It’s my birthday, and I want to give 3 educators classroom sets of my MG debut, Nic Blake and the Remarkables. I’ll zoom with your classes too. US and Canada only. To enter, follow me, reply to this, and RT by 9/26. For a bonus entry, follow Nic Blake on IG (see below)

Great week co-hosting my very first Scholastic Book Fair in the library & media center with the Smith School PTO! Love helping to cultivate the reading culture at Smith School, and help each student build their reading interests and identities. #librarylife