Christine Giampietro (@cje310) profile picture

Mom of 3 awesome kids. First Grade Teacher! Teachplus MA Policy Fellow. Carb and Tea lover!

Newton, MA
Joined November 2009
Book arrivals from very special authors-our second grade teacher @gitavarad1 and our awesome librarian at our school up north @LisaLJRogers ! Mrs Rogers- kids were giggling during Hound Won’t Go and just loved the ending! We cant wait to read Save Me a Seat for our read aloud!
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So important! Love this and whoever created this!
Tried Axe Throwing for the first time for our anniversary at @burythehatchet8! So much fun and finally got it down by the end of our session!
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#PPLBookFest was excellent today! Thank you to all the authors who came and shared their time with the children! Our kids had a fab time and we’ve been reading all day! @smagoon @ArtieBennett @rescueboston
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In love with this mural at my kid’s school in Princeton, NJ! Hopes and dreams for the world—so powerful!
Trying to tease out what are important big parts to mention when retelling a story and what are tiny little details that we might like but are not pertinent to understanding the story.
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Engineering design challenges to learn teamwork and collaboration. We used @PBLWorks K-2 teamwork rubrics to introduce expectations and self reflect. @IDODI
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From my amazing first grade colleague—we used this for an end of unit celebration where the first graders read to 5th graders and talked about the characters in their books using this anchor chart! @TCRWP @NinaKahn1
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Hope all you teachers are getting some relaxation in this weekend!
Learning how to solder for the technical challenge! @IDODI
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Love having kids turn and talk to review #fundations concepts in our morning meeting message! @wilsonlanguage They often pick up on parts of words that I don’t even notice! #firstgrade
Looking for a celebration idea? Have kids choose a detective strategy they want to remember, find a word in one of their books to teach how to do the strategy, then create a strategy card to leave with the child they teach! @TCRWP @NinaKahn1 #firstgrade
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Looking for a celebration idea? Have kids choose a detective strategy they want to remember, find a word in one of their books to teach how to do the strategy, then create a strategy card to leave with the child they teach! Visiting K tomorrow! @TCRWP @NinaKahn1 #firstgrade
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Great visit today by @jerrypallotta! Kids were furiously writing Whi Would Win books after your visit! Thank you!
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Nearing the end of our word detective unit! Learning how to try it different ways until our reading sounds smooth! @TCRWP @NinaKahn1 #firstgrade
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Looking forward to author @jerrypallotta visit next week!!! Want a way to hook your readers with nonfiction? These books are it! #firstgrade #firstchat