Catherine Dean

Drumroll please! Please help me congratulate our amazing 2024-25 Teacher of the Year, Ms. Lauren Harris, 2nd grade teacher extraordinaire! She’s deserving in every way.

Team Second and Ms. Hendricks ❤️ are united in wearing our Red for Ed this Wednesday! #supportpubliceducation @Yates_Mill @ReneAlfordAP @MsHarrisYMES @Ms_CatDean @MrsRash2nd @MrsWatts2nd

Go pack! #MYHORIZON

Love our 2nd and 3rd grade hall! It was a long day but oh so fun🤗🎉 @mrs_gordiano @MsHarrisYMES @MrsRash2nd @MrsWatts2nd @AmyHenricks4

And just like that, we are ready to welcome a new group of 2nd graders! 🤗

Kicking off another year in 2nd grade with my amazing team! Saw some familiar faces and welcomed new ones at Meet the Teacher night. Ready for another great year!🍎✏️🗒️ #OneTeamOneGoal @YM_FROGS @YMESPTA @mrs_gordiano @MrsRash2nd @MrsWatts2nd @MsHarrisYMES

This awesome 2nd grade team certainly has something to smile about! 88% of their students were proficient on their end-of-year Number Knowledge Test. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Talk about #Leveling Up! ⁦@wcpssmathelem⁩

@NCState represent for our college spirit day! ❤️🐺 #attendancespiritweek #gopack @MsGoldenYMESPK @Ms_CatDean @AprilMendzef @Yates_Mill @ReneAlfordAP @YMESPTA

Team Second is starting off the festive December month with our red and white candy cane colors ❤️🤍 #holidaycountdown @Yates_Mill @ReneAlfordAP @Ms_CatDean @MsHarrisYMES @MrsRash2nd @MrsWatts2nd

@MrsWilsonBMESE @M_McKinley30 @BrentwoodMESE Awh it looks great! He did a good job😊

Logan love creating his space themed float with his team for Balloons over @BrentwoodMESE. I have heard about this at least once a week since last Thanksgiving.

An apple a day keeps the boredom away in 2nd grade! 🍎 After diving into apple research during EL, our young scientists had a blast with hands-on experiments, including making homemade applesauce. 🍏🧃 #LearningThroughFun"

We loved seeing families at our “2nd grade Cozy up for Reading Night!” It was fun seeing students in pjs practicing fluency games with their families 📖 We are leveling up by building our fluency 🔈 @MsHarrisYMES @MrsRash2nd @MrsWatts2nd @Ms_CatDean @Yates_Mill @ReneAlfordAP ⭐️

Save the date! @YM_FROGS @mrs_gordiano @MrsWatts2nd @MrsRash2nd @MsHarrisYMES

We sent our chicks back to NC State yesterday! They will be greatly missed☺️

Cheeto doing his thing at Free Moms. #ncsufreemoms #cheetodean

More Hispanic Heritage fun with Sube Ritmo - the Latin Dance Team at NC State! Thank you for the salsa performance and workshop! We have some talented dancers in 2nd grade😄💃🏻

We invited a guest speaker from the community to share about Mexican culture (visible/ invisible) for Social Studies and Hispanic Heritage month. Thank you to @CeciliaDean12, the best mom ever, for doing such a great job. The students haven’t stopped talking about it!!

Thank you to @CeciliaDean12 for giving an awesome presentation about Mexican 🇲🇽 culture for Hispanic heritage month. We learned about music, clothes, and special traditions @Ms_CatDean you have an amazing mama! @Yates_Mill @ReneAlfordAP @MrsRash2nd @MsHarrisYMES @MrsWatts2nd

Today we used Pop-its to graph the sounds we hear in our weekly letterland words! I loved seeing how excited, interested, and focused they were today :) #learningisfun