Ready or not here they come… on Tuesday! Can’t believe this is my 13th year teaching and 7th in kindergarten! It is going to be a great year for our youngest learners! #Empower95 Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95

So glad I tried this! My EL #boyerkindercubs loved hearing the book in a language they could understand. The smiles were worth 1000 words! Now if only Google could match my expression. 😂 #BetterTogetherD95 #technologyrocks #weareSL Marie Rothermel Kristin Herrick

Yep… we even practice using clipboards! Week one done in K for #BoyerKindercubs , many more to go! #BetterTogetherD95

Found a way to bring fun to our Gingerbread week: gingerbread desks and homemade gingerbread playdough. May not be the same as we have done before but it is exactly what we need for the last 8 school days before break! #makethelist #wearesl #boyerkindercubs

#boyerkindercubs have taken creativity to a whole new level... Zoom breakout room “hide and seek” was a huge hit during play today! 🤩 #weareSL

What an amazing opportunity for #boyerkindercubs to meet Author Carmen Agra-Deedy! Thank you District95 Foundation for bringing such a fun and engaging experience to our eLearning day! #weareSL

#boyerkindercubs in virtual playrooms: art, building, and dance! Yep that’s a thing during full day eLearning. #onlyinapandemic #weareSL #makingitwork Kids Bop Zoom

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Finding ways to make it work... modeling resilience each day for #boyerkindercubs ! This is surely a year I will never forget to remember. #growthmindset Zoom #onlinemathmanipulatives #weareSL

Fun new way to practice sight words (or pick names, vocabulary, etc) virtually! Thanks to Zoom remote control feature #Boyerkindercubs can spin the wheel on their own! Just over here figuring it out as I go! #virtualteaching #wheelofnames

This👇🏻... maybe we could reallocate the dollars to fund the formula (any of them State, Title Grants, IDEA to name a few), just saying. 🤷🏻‍♀️

This eTeaching would be so much harder without my entourage of devices... this is my everyday! I just started using @zoom_us white board in a breakout room to assess students ability to write letters and create CVC words...game changer. #boyerkindercubs #weareSL

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What is explicit about explicit instruction? Anita explains it the best! #scienceofreading youtu.be/i-qNpFtcynI

It may have taken a bit of time to organize but the excitement #boyerkindercubs had about making 4 and 5 letter words made it worth it. #remotelearning #weareSL #makingwords

So thankful for this little inbox surprise today! Thank you @LZ95DataJosh .... I plan to pay it forward!

Weekly iSpy in my MM. A #boyerkindercub describes where a hidden 🐼 is and another annotates to circle it. If wrong, the spy gives more clues to the guesser. We all 🎉 for both students once it is found. Speaking and Listening Standard ✅ #weareSL #eLearningKinders

Always wanted to be in 2 places at once... not quite what I imagined! #boyerkindercubs are excited for small group reading & seeing their teacher everywhere! Now to remember to unmute in the right device!😂 @zoom_us #breakoutroomsforthewin #doinghardthings #weareSL Reading A-Z

While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.

Technically I am also wearing my panda costume. This day has felt the best yet because I’m able to allow the kids to be kids and enjoy a fun day with real hands on kid activities. Themes and fun NEED to come back to K! This is how we can engage and enjoy learning esp. online!