4th grade teacher at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, NC. Passionate about teaching, building relationships, and life ✨ 🙌🏼 ✨

Joined July 2018
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Implementing Math Stations for the first time! Love hearing their conversations about Math. @IsaacDicksonAVL
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I taught a live Reading & Writing lesson using Zoom today... it felt so good to teach a mini lesson to my kiddos again! Teaching digitally is harder than it looks, though! If anyone else is doing this and has tips/advice for good live lessons, let me know! Thanks!! #zoom #4th
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S’s held a debate between the Loyalists and Patriots at the Second Continental Congress today! I was so impressed with how well they formed and presented their compelling arguments to represent their perspective! @bakerelembears @LucyCalkins #readers
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These Loyalists & Patriots have been preparing for our Second Continental Congress debate on Friday. S’s held mock trials to rehearse stating their position w/ reasons & evidence w/ an opponent in the classroom. @bakerelembears @LucyCalkins #journeytoawe #multipleperspectives
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These writers have been working on writing amazing introductions and transitions in their informational books! @bakerelembears @LucyCalkins
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Students are observing the sky and clouds to develop driving questions about how we can better understand the weather! #scientists @bakerelembears #journeytoawe
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Students went panning for gold and used their nonfiction reading skills to determine which were truths and which were lies about the California Gold Rush! #socialstudies @bakerelembears #journeytoawe
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Students brought their ideas for writing a historical fiction story to life by acting out their scenes on Friday. They really got into character. @bakerelembears @LucyCalkins
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The Little Mermaid play was such a hit! I’m so proud of all of these Baker Bears! @bakerelembears 🧜‍♀️
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I love seeing these students so engaged in their differentiated learning during our Math Workshop Stations. 😍 @bakerelembears
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Exploring with Cuisenaire Rods to recognize equivalent fractions. I love listening to their discussions! @bakerelembears
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Research teams exploring nonfiction texts to identify text structure to help identify what’s most important when note-taking! @LucyCalkins @bakerelembears
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S’s were so engaged with the equivalent fraction lesson on @nearpod today! @bakerelembears
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Yesss! I’m hoping to join to!
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Publishing their Opinion Essays on laptops today! @bakerelembears #journeytoawe
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Last week, we explored multi-digit multiplication using Base Ten blocks! I love how this deepened their conceptual understanding of place value relating to multiplication. @bakerelembears
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Career Day @bakerelembears is off to a great start with Performing Arts and our very own Maggie on stage!
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Happy Halloween! @bakerelembears
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