Samantha Hank

Strutting on our red carpet after becoming “BOOK STARS” 🤩 we had a wonderful book tasting, posted a book snap on @seesaw and now we are ready to engage into D.E.A.R time! @RogersElementary @Rogers4th @getyourteachon #OurFISDStory #RogersFrisco2019 #rockyourschool #FISD4

December Read Aloud: A Dragon for Hanukkah 🕎 a sweet student brought her own dreidel & gelt to play with the class 💙 @SemElementary @FISD_EB

first day of co teaching & we did a jigsaw activity with shape vocabulary using the Frayer Model! 🟪🟡🔶 loved watching students these speak & listen with their group!! @FISD_EB @SemElementary

TELPAS goal setting has begun for these 5th graders 🥳 so excited to work along side these students to help them achieve their goal! @SemElementary @FISD_EB

The @SemElementary coaches had a blast during our "Touchdown with the Coaches" learning today! Thankful to our amazing teachers who popped in to learn and get some yummy treats! @FISD_TnL @FriscoISDTech

The one and only @PaulaPolk built the ESL department’s capacity on Culturally Responsive Teaching! 💚🌎 @FISD_EB

ESL EXIT CELEBRATION PARTY 🎉 so proud of their hard work & dedication!!! cheers to never taking TELPAS again 🥳 @SemElementary @FISD_EB

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop, and look around once in a while, you could miss it!” @SemElementary Coaches are ready for a great year! @MrsHankLC @LisaBane_IC

celebrated the end of a co teaching cycle (a few weeks late) with these 4th graders! during our historical fiction unit we read ‘Number the Stars’ & learned how items were rationed - so to celebrate the learning we had our non rationed 🧁 @SemElementary

monthly read alouds are back!!! 📖 read Lailah’s Lunchbox to learn all about Ramadan 🌙 @SemElementary @ReemFaruqi

got invited to listen to some of the best 2nd graders present all about their insect! 🐜🐞🦋 they had to research, write their learning & use the academic vocabulary to present! so so proud!!! 🥹

such a great day of learning 🤩 can’t wait to teacher teachers these new strategies!!

FEBRUARY READ ALOUD: Ruby’s Chinese New Year 🧧 I have loved watching students share about their culture & teach their classmates about where they come from!

Loving the @Seidlitz_Ed & @adrianmendozaed! Thanks @FISD_EB for sending me & @MrsHankLC to #Math4ELs.

THE BEST TWO DAYS ❄️ mini coaching cycle complete with winter vocabulary, a QSSSA & a real snowball fight!!! thank you @SemElementary Kinder for inviting me into your classroom 🩵🩵🩵

multicultural night @SemElementary 🤩 it was so fun getting to learn about the different cultures that make up our school!

When it’s National Peanut Butter Day. AND National Compliment Day, you celebrate SEMbly the best staff. ☺️@SemElementary @LisaBane_IC @MrsHankLC

what a TREAT this morning listening to #MausMiddleSchool - choir, band & orchestra performing their holiday music 🎶

DECEMBER read aloud: my favorite narrative nonfiction book, Christmas from Heaven 🎁 @SemElementary

won some swag this evening at the Science Adoption Committee Meeting 🧢 @ci_elem

spoiled our staff because they are ‘SEMply the BEST’ 🤩 fueling them up to make it to Thanksgiving break!! @SemElementary