4th Grade Teacher at Oak Street Elementary

Falls Church VA
Joined August 2013
Important website @LiteracyTalk. See important article below; see also "Reading Legislation: An Alarming Development." Both articles deal w/ importance of the 3 cueing systems--Does the word look right, sound right, & make sense? For comprehension of text, phonics is not enough.
Instruction in decoding is most useful when youngsters learn to function on their own when the teacher isn’t there to help. For some ideas on this, see “Decoding and Reading Independence” at literacytalk.info.
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It’s a total 4th Grade Eclipse! Here comes the sun! #osetigers
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We are Math - Amazing! We used protractors, rulers, gears and compasses to create art designs using math tools and strategies.
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Best evening ever celebrating Abby Ashbrook as the Global Down Syndrome Foundation Gala last night. The world is a better place because Abby is in it. ❤️ Truly Better Together.
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When you are Superintendent for the day, of course you visit your big sister in 4th grade. Way to go Superintendent Sam!
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Creating Art using campuses. Day 3 of math art challenge!
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4th grade is ready for spring break. #run4yourlives ⁦@os_tigers⁩
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What do YOU want to learn about? Room 313 researched topics they wanted to know more about! #studentagency
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Estimysteries are just a plain fun!
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This year’s trip to Jamestown did not disappoint! #myfortmyrules
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Reflecting on our Sharing the planner unit and connecting to the central idea: geographic resources support living things. Using our anchor charts to review. “Wow, we really learned a lot of stuff” 4th grade quote! #PYP
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Do you know what will happen? Room 313 is observing these flowers today. We will let you know what we find out!
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Taking a closer look at the parts of a flower. Fun fact: Flowers all have the same parts but some parts look different! @os_tigers
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Giant postcards from Virginia!
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Working on multiplicative word problems in a live workshop with Greg Tang today! We agree, Mr. Tang is the best! #gregtang #mathisfun
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Meeting Mrs. Pond and making connections to the book, “The Smart Cookie”. Room 313 is full of smart cookies! #fccpsrevitilized
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Our tech fairy at it again! Getting Room 313 ready for the year! #fccpsrevililized
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Getting ready for a great new school year! #revitalized #FCCPS
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Today is World Down Syndrome day and we celebrate our Girl Abby. She is reading a book outloud about Down Syndrome to our class! “Different, A great thing to be!” We clapped and cheered! #WorldDownSyndromeDay @os_tigers
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