To strengthen our conceptual understanding of the relationship btwn multiplication&division we played the @Inv3_Math game: Missing Factors. Achieving expertise of our basic facts helps us use the distributive property efficiently! Hewlett Elementary Dr. Kimberly Mattes Academics HWPS @TLT_HWPS

Crossgrade writing celebration. 4th grade fiction shared w/3rd grade personal narrative; leveraging school community culture to inspire learning&reflection. Our writing had an authentic audience: purpose&meaningful talk. Hewlett Elementary Academics HWPS TC Advancing Literacy Melanie Wagner Krauss

✅✅✅Publishing TC Advancing Literacy Extreme Weather Research w/ class culture in mind using Canva infographic templates. Each group member researched a subtopic&is using synthesis skills to create a page for their group’s own non-fiction book to add to our class library. Hewlett Elementary

4th Grade Argument Essay Workshop: Should dogs be in schools? Should schools have dress codes? Should schools include art education? Research, synthesizing in partnerships, angling evidence, and drafting a position using persuasive transitions. Hewlett Elementary TC Advancing Literacy @TLT_HWPS

The work of literary essay is layered w/a synthesis of literacy & self management skills. We push ourselves to say something remarkable yet grounded in text evidence about various complex short stories. Expectations were high but our thoughts were deep! Hewlett Elementary TC Advancing Literacy

Given the criteria of lighting a bulb w/ 1 wire and 1 D-Cell energy source during a FOSS Science inquiry launch, this team was the 1st to light up with success! They’re beaming✨w/growth mindset and teamwork. Tomorrow we dive into content of electric circuits. Hewlett Elementary @TLT_HWPS

Dr. Dina M. Weiss is setting expectations from day one! Students shopped for just right books and then enjoyed silent reading time. Practicing sustained reading is vital to building stamina!

My favorite Class Family start of year activity: Using personal artifacts to discover what we have in common and what makes us unique. Cultivating a positive social/emotional climate is key to year-long success! Hewlett Elementary Heather Sosnovsky

STEM&Habits of Mind: Save Wendell the Worm from his capsized boat! Constraints: no hands, just 2 paper clips; he can’t touch the water (desk)! Get him into his life jacket in his boat w/ his oar working ingeniously and collaboratively. Learn from mistakes. Hewlett Elementary Heather Sosnovsky

Reading partners referencing my small group reading binder of anecdotal notes of them. Making reading instruction transparent builds community, cultivates literate identity, &engages ownership in learning. “She taught us this so remember to try it today.” Hewlett Elementary Heather Sosnovsky

I teach a reading group a strategy for deeper comprehension, then I step away availing a student in the group to continue leading the lesson. Total engagement, ownership, yielded from instruction focused on building a literacy identity. Less me,more them. Hewlett Elementary Heather Sosnovsky

Incredibly excited to be a presenter at #NCTE24 Annual Convention in Boston, next week! I’m looking forward to sharing learning theory in practice, and learning from others! 💜🖤💚🩷 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Honored to have been a presenter with Ted Kesler, Lindsey Moses and Meredith Ogden at #NCTE24 sharing our work on cultivating literate identities in our students through communities of practice, authentic experiences, and student-voice empowered assessments. HWPS

Honored to be a presenter of Building Literate Identities, and share this wonderful moment with Lucy Calkins, my longtime inspiration for studying sociocultural theory in practice, at #NCTE24 Hewlett Elementary MossflowerRWP

Routines to Build Reading Community: Every time we gather as a group of readers we sit in stillness for several minutes reading our independent books beside one another creating a reading energy that then allows us to be ready for new learning, PRIOR to the mini lesson. Hewlett Elementary

🌟Cultivating Literate Identity: Student led writing workshop small group rereading for literary essay details. Engagement. High level academic talk. Productive. Hewlett Elementary Academics HWPS Heather Sosnovsky

True Community of Practice: Unprompted students supporting and relying on each other to learn and create, mediated by the work of literacy. The beauty of a student empowered workshop. 💫Heather Sosnovsky Hewlett Elementary TC Advancing Literacy

#WorldReadAloudDay2025 “It all begins with the opening of a book.” My favorite part of instruction is performing an interactive read aloud. Today, I had the joy of sharing a favorite text with Melanie Wagner Krauss third grade scholars. Heather Sosnovsky Hewlett Elementary

⚡️Electrifying and energetic learning with FOSS Science as we worked collaboratively in lab groups to test materials for conductivity using a motor circuit with a switch, pushing ourselves to use Tier 3 vocabulary. Heather Sosnovsky Dr. Brian H. Terry Hewlett Elementary

Using @INV3_Math , 4th graders are creating a deck of 40 fraction cards that each evidence fraction numeracy using visual representations and equivalency. Deep math talk + working collaboratively= a whole lot of learning success✅ Hewlett Elementary Heather Sosnovsky