Donut you just love ClassDojo 🍩🤎 #dojodonuts

No printers? No problem! Students got in groups today to show their comprehension and visualization 📸✏️🖍️🩵💛 they are creating their own covers for our literature anthology story! Happy Friday!! Donegan Elementary

Our Student Lighthouse leaders collect classroom LEAD measure completion information every Monday and prepare for a building-wide WIG Wednesday share-out! The Leader in Me BASD Sam Dartouzos Katelin Bush

Today we played a game from McGraw Hill PreK-12 🚶🏼 one student gave a tour of the classroom using only prepositional phrases! We heard things like “on the wall” “across the room” “below the sink” #futurerealtors? Donegan Elementary BASD

Would our 4th stop of the day be defined as a flash mob?? We surprised the Donegan Elementary staff during their inservice! We love that they joined us in singing to form one big Southside Schools Family and BASD Community! 💙💛

Today we learned how to play Chinese Checkers during recesss - a game I used to play all the time with my mom. 💙 Donegan Elementary

Accountability partner relationship building - playing four in a row and creating a team pizza! 🍕🍕 Donegan Elementary

The students earned their December class reward today - flashlight day!!! 90% or more positive points on Dojo and this is what they picked! ClassDojo Donegan Elementary

Some of our students were absent and missed math yesterday, so I gave the honor to our “student” teachers to teach them and provide note taking strategies! 📝BASD Donegan Elementary

After doing our readers theatre, the students had to answer some comprehension questions. Their responses to “Was there a lesson or theme…?” were my favorite 😍 Donegan Elementary BASD

🎉 Last night's BASD Chopped Challenge was a culinary showdown to remember! Huge congratulations to all the talented participants from Broughal MS EastHillsMS BASDNitschmannMS & BASDnortheast ! Video recap soon! 🌟 #BASDChopped #FutureChefs BASD Media Jack Silva

Our recent vocab practice routine in 5th grade! On Day 2 of reviewing our words: students write the word, definition and sentence and then groups go around and add matching drawings! We leave these up throughout the week to extend our vocabulary knowledge! 💙📝Donegan Elementary

Getting to spend the day with a literacy legend, Dr. Anita Archer. ⁦Kim Harper⁩

Some of Katelin Bush stars have been working hard on an e-book all about the angel fish.🐠 They came to present their final copy to me, & I couldn’t be more proud of these past 4th graders. 🌟 Donegan Elementary

Our first week of school has been the best week of school ever!! Partner reading, team (and tower) building, and shades of blue with the best team 💙 Donegan Elementary BASD

Today we practiced our Keys to Literacy strategy #twocolumnnotes 📝✏️🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Students had to research and document their classmates favorite color and snack! Donegan Elementary BASD

Our very first #AccountabilityPartners activity! We used our The Leader in Me books to discuss some of our favorite passions and interests! A great ice breaker to introduce attentive listening and speaking skills with our partners! Donegan Elementary BASD

Thrilled with how our kindergarten superstars are learning to Turn & Talk! 🌟 They’re using our essential question to spark thoughtful conversations with their partners. #shinebright Donegan Elementary Erin Martin-Medina

Yesterday I had a bunch of pollinators buzzing and flying around my room to collect pollen and disperse it to various flowers! Learning about #pollination 🌺🐝🦋🐧🦇 #lifescience BASD Donegan Elementary

This Friday morning, my students used their recording skills to record themselves reading our weekly story - this allows them to hear themselves and what they can fix to read more fluently. 📖🙉 BASD Donegan Elementary #fluency #wondersgameswhendone