Elementary Reading Specialist, Mamma to my handsome son Gabe, National Board Certified Teacher, Wife of an incredible teacher, Science of Reading enthusiast.

Sterling, VA
Joined August 2018
📖 A little fresh air, a good book, and a table full of neighborhood friends. 💕 Growing friendships and a love of reading, one chapter at a time. @CardinalRidgeES
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Falling for Books Where every chapter brings us together. 📚🍁 @GirlswhoRead @Eastgate @CardinalRidgeES
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Happy Father’s day to all who are celebrating, especially to my husband Ryan, whose unconditional love, empathy, compassion, grace, & work ethic we so appreciate. We love you and are proud of you all of our days!
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😊 Reading, learning, laughing, and growing—we did it all together! 🍎 You came in as scholars. You leave as stronger readers, thinkers, and friends. Not ready to say goodbye to these scholars but ready to enjoy summer time with my family! ☀️@CardinalRidgeES
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NEHS mail carriers picking up mail to sort and deliver. #yougotmail #weedeliver @CardinalRidgeES
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Letter writing and CRE Postal Service started in fourth and fifth grade! Next school year, it will include the lower grades. These scholars are excited for it to happen! @CardinalRidgeES
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Books-school year beginning & end- picked by him. He loved an old couple thought they would get a boy at the train station, & instead, it was Anne, Meant to Be! Favorite character in Wonder, Jack Will, who learned from a mistake & became Auggie’s best friend. @CardinalRidgeES
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A sub committee of NEHS has been working diligently on creating an in school Postal Service. These are a few of the fruits of their creativity and hard work! The idea of this project will also be submitted to be featured on the NEHS website! @CardinalRidgeES #greatnesslieshere
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Kindergarten and Esol level 1 work with digraph and blends. We got it! Proud of these scholars! @CardinalRidgeES #buildingastrongreadingfoundation
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Sorting adjectives from lowest to highest degree in a shades of meaning vocabulary activity. @CardinalRidgeES
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Scholars brainstormed other cause and effects and wrote their own lines to add on to a poem. They evaluated one another’s stanzas using a poetry rubric. @CardinalRidgeES
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Scholars enjoyed meeting the author of the book Trapped Inside a Video Game and asking him questions they prepared. The meeting was recorded for anyone who missed it. It will be watched to acquire background knowledge for the next group of scholars to read it. @CardinalRidgeES
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Fri-Yay’s Lunch Bunch- Lunch & Legos! @CardinalRidgeES
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Working on forming questions to ask the author of our book in an upcoming google meet. @CardinalRidgeES @dustinbrady
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Engagement-ESOL level 1-Bingo chips, wands, sand, pictures, words, silly sentence cards for correct letter formation & decoding. Practicing to form the letter Gg while saying the sound. Decoding to hear the difference in short u and short o with a sound zapper. @CardinalRidgeES
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Choosing base words and prefixes to create multisyllabic words and writing the new meanings. @CardinalRidgeES
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Scholars read and found cause and effects in a nonfiction story. They did a matching for the causes and effects. Then they read and found cause and effects in a fiction poem by Shel Silverstein by answering questions about the stanzas. @CardinalRidgeES
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NEHS voting for their first, second, and third choice for 4th quarter service projects! @CardinalRidgeES
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Shading in our Map growth! @CardinalRidgeES
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