Medary Blue Team

No one should care how a kindergartener compares on a standardized test with kindergarteners around the country. They should care if the child feels cared for, valued, successful, and actually enjoys coming to school to learn.

It’s sheer insanity to expect teachers to implement both differentiated learning and standardized testing. We must choose one or the other; you can’t effectively support diverse learners while enforcing a one-size-fits-all assessment system.

Our students need recess, unstructured play, physical education, all the Arts, and their extracurricular activities! That's how we make their social/emotional health a priority.

🍬 Your Ss will love this “sweet” activity from @MissVerityIn3rd!

School should be a place where: Kids want to go Staff want to go Families are proud to send their kids

One last picture with one amazing group of kids. 💙 We hope you all have an amazing summer! ☀️

One of our favorite ABC countdown days - Liquid Liftoff! 🚀💥😊 It’s hard to believe we’re down to only 2.5 weeks left with our learners!! 💔 It sure has been a year to remember! 💙💙

What an awesome day! ☺️ Pretty special to live in a community where your college basketball team will come spend time with our learners at school! 💙💛 Thank you @GoJacksMBB for making memories for these kids that they’ll never forget!! 🏀🫶🏻 #CEO #hulahut #jackswin

Just a couple of veterans showing the kids how to rock out the egg drop challenge for letter E day! 🥚🤩🥳👏🏻

Thanks to Mrs. Shepardson’s class for sharing their symbols projects with our younger learners today! 🤩👏🏻🇺🇸🦅🗽We love connected learning opportunities! 💙

Congrats to Flat Cat on taking home the 2023-2024 Tournament of Books championship! 🏆 The kids had so much fun listening to all sorts of new stories and voting along the way for their favorites! 🗳️📚

It’s one of our favorite times of the year! 🗣️The Tournament of Books! 📚🤩 We have some of the best children’s books of 2023 battling to see which will be voted as the tournament champion! 🏆

Thank you @DebraDeBates1 for coming to read to the Blue Team yesterday! 😊 We love listening to a good story! 💙📖

Our team absolutely LOVES teaching these to our kids!! 💙 The success we see from our learners who are implementing them everyday is truly something special! 🫶🏻

A huge thank you to all of our mystery readers that came in to celebrate Read Across America Week! 🙌🏻📚 Our learners loved seeing the new faces each and every day! 😊

We will never pass up on a multiage connected learning opportunity! 🧠😊💙 Thanks to the olders for sharing their posters about different famous Americans! 🇺🇸⚾️🏩 They were amazing!!! 🤩👏🏻

Thank you to the Brookings High School FFA for putting on yet another AMAZING petting zoo for the kids!!! 🚜🐣🐮🐷 They absolutely LOVE going every single year!! 🥹💙🫶🏻

We love connected learning!! 💙 Thanks to Mrs. Shepardson’s class for sharing their AMAZING maps with the youngers yesterday! 🤩🌎 They were so proud of all their hard work and they did an outstanding job!!! 👏🏻👏🏻💯

Today we had a special guest come and visit our team! It was…@MissSouthDakota!! 👸🏼🤩👑 She read us her very own book that she wrote! 📖🐱 It was so good! 💯 Thank you for joining us and also staying to learn about the 16 Habits of Mind! 😊🧠