The AACPS Office of Elementary Curriculum & Instruction held their first CKLA Family Night at Severn Run HS to help families learn all about the new elementary literacy curriculum! #belonggrowsucceed

Let's go! Teaching our families about the importance of weaving words together to create webs for new vocabulary and knowledge to stick🤓🕸️ #BelongGrowSucceed

Our 3rd Graders at Mills enjoyed working in the operating room today as a culminating activity for #CKLA Unit 3-The Human Body. So many future surgeons! Mills Parole AACPSeril AACPS #BelongGrowSucceed

Students in Ms. Rode’s 5th grade class identified parallel structure in a poem and analyzed it to compare and contrast scenes. #BelongGrowSucceed AACPSeril Miss Rode

We kicked off #AmericanEducationWeek at Mills with Guest Readers! We are grateful for our community partners, AACPS colleagues, and MPES staff members who read to our students today. #BelongGrowSucceed Mills Parole AACPS AACPSeril National Education Association

In the 4th graders Poetry Unit, we are studying Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” Our Broadneck Bees write their own poem, “I Hear Broadneck Singing”! AACPS AACPSeril #belonggrowsucceed #togetherweshine

Our first grade students in Mrs. Ridgely’s class are engaged in Academic Enrichment! One group determined if two words rhymed given two spoken words. #BelongGrowSucceed AACPSeril

Let’s wiggle and wave with the letter W! From whales 🐳 to waffles 🧇 , what wonderful things can you write that start with W? ✏️ #writingfun #belonggrowsucceed AACPSeril Allison Webb

Time to link up your learning with chaining folders! ⛓️‍💥 Students in Mia Ferri Kindergarten class practiced letters and sounds, building stronger reading skills one step at a time! #BelongGrowSucceed AACPSeril

Making tricky words sticky in CKLA—turning challenge into mastery, one phoneme at a time at Fort Smallwood ES!

Supporting families and collaborating with our partners Title I AACPS #BelongGrowSucceed

Ms. Colaric’s first graders worked in partners to create informational posters about the Mayan and Aztec Civilizations. AACPS AACPSeril #belonggrowsucceed #BESJoy

Kindergarten loves partner reading! #belonggrowsucceed SolleyAACPS AACPSeril

We love our STAIR volunteer readers!❤️📚⁦AACPS C&I⁩ ⁦AACPSeril⁩

Literacy Night was a packed house! Thank you to everyone who came out tonight! Thank you Ms. Shanks and Ms. Kellett for hosting a wonderful night of reading! You are #aacpsawesome #belonggrowsucceed

Mrs. Ridley’s first graders are exploring the incredible Inca! 🏔️✨ From mighty Machu Picchu to clever canals, we’re writing paragraphs packed with Inca innovations. What fact amazes you the most? #IncaEmpire #YoungWriters #belonggrowsucceed AACPSeril

A court jester was even spotted outside one of the classrooms! AACPSeril

Kindergarten celebrated their recent CKLA literacy unit with a celebration fit for a king (and queens!) Royal fun was had by all in the Kindergarten Kingdom, a culmination of Kings and Queens knowledge! 👑AACPS AACPSeril #belonggrowsucceed #besjoy

Our fifth grade scholars demonstrated their artistic skills in CKLA! Grateful for the teachers who created this opportunity for our students. AACPSeril

Learning more about the Science of Reading alongside AACPS Board members. Engaging in the creation of Scarborough's Reading Rope during the board workshop.