Patty Trustey

Jumping into one last research project before winter break! Love watching students collaborate and grow their ideas together. #ewlearns

What a fantastic morning! We enjoyed welcoming families into the classroom to view our Native American Village Projects! The kids’ hard work in researching, creating, and writing truly shined. #ewlearns

4th graders took part in an Indigenous Studies workshop, learning from Indigenous Long Island artists about different art forms and their deep cultural and historical significance. #ewlearns

🤖 Today we worked on crafting better AI prompts and thoughtful questions so we can get stronger, more reliable results in our Native American research. #ewlearns

👩🏼‍🏫Reading nonfiction is better when we teach others what we’ve learned! #ewlearns

💬 During reading, we debated whether our main character is strong or weak- and backed up our ideas with text evidence! #ewlearns

Kids Take Action Club is sending home flyers and zipper bracelets to remind everyone to unzip happiness and bring in a new T shirt for children with cancer! Help us reach our goal of 500! #Jzips #ewlearns ⁦@NorthSideEW⁩ ⁦@MrsTruskiewicz⁩

Students work in partnerships to figure out the dimensions of a rectangle with a perimeter of 22 and an area of 18 #EWlearns #4thgrademath

4th graders love leading the school each morning saying the Pledge of Allegiance! 🎤🇺🇸 #ewlearns

💡 Today’s science lesson was lit! The kids discovered how to light up their bulbs using simple circuits! #ewlearns #science

Nothing beats the sound of kids cheering each other on! Today our PLTW challenge was creating sails to move our wind-powered cars—so much creativity and energy! 💫 #PLTW #ewlearns

Today our mathematicians used a giant number line to see rounding in action- building a concrete understanding of higher place values! #ewlearns #4thGradeMath

🚗💨 Hands-on learning in PLTW! Our car experiments showed how potential energy transforms into kinetic energy in motion. #EnergyConversion #PLTW #ewlearns

Innovation meets tradition at North Side! Mr. DiGiovanni stopped by to introduce 'Round Table Discussions,' giving fourth graders a voice in making positive changes at our school. 💡✨ #ewlearns

Morning Meeting helps us build community each day. Today students loved playing Hello, Your Majesty and guessing our mystery speakers! #ewlearns #responsiveclassroom #4thgrade

STEM fun today! Our class took on the challenge of building bridges with just index cards and tape. The teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity were amazing to watch! #ewlearns #stem

Our crayons quit—but our writers got to work! ✏️🎨 Today we used The Day the Crayons Quit as a mentor text to explore the writing process. #ewlearns

🎉 First day of 4th grade = success! Can’t wait to see all the amazing things our students will achieve this year. #FirstDayOfSchool #4thGrade #ewlearns

Storytelling to work on verb tenses! #ewlearns

Learning about pollination, bees, and conservation in honor of our honeybee friends at N.S. 🐝 #ewlearns