4th Grade Teacher with CCPS
Joined September 2021
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Today, all three of my 4th grade Reading blocks worked together to build a Consensus Map. 📚
Students collaborated, discussed their thinking, listened to different perspectives, and used evidence from the story to move from plot → character change → theme.
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Meet the Teacher Year 6! This Reading Teacher is ready to inspire a new group of students to love reading 📖 as much as she does!
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Robyn Cruz retweeted
A fabulous Kagan Training from these two superstar teachers!! 🥳🍎❤️ @collierschools @PoincianaCCPS @CruzCrewEdu @Ms_Ruggiero1 @AJMicieli
Turned a “meh” assignment into a full-on Capture the Flag 🏳️ challenge today - and the result? %100 Engagement 👏🏻.
Every student thinking, moving, collaborating and actually excited to show their work!
The energy was high today!
Wrapping up Book Club Season 2 with Matilda! 📚 Students loved comparing the book to the movie—spotting differences, debating favorites, and backing up their thinking with evidence. Ultimately…they agreed with Mrs. Cruz’s motto #thebookisalwaysbetter !
We are deep into season two of our book club on Matilda! Today we spent almost the entire time discussing WHY Mrs. Trunchbull is the way she is. We have so many thoughts! This book has been a great example of Mrs. Cruz’s motto #thebookisalwaysbetter
Compare and Contrast sources….sounds boring! 😴😴 You know what’s not boring? TRASHKETBALL! 🗑️🏀 Students worked together to answer questions that compared and contrasted sources - if they were right, they got to take a shot 🏀 at the 🗑️! Way to get students motivated Mr. E!
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So proud of our @fgcu_coe intern for designing an assessment that challenged & motivated students! Students who scored 80% or higher earned lunch & snack with the teachers - and so many met the goal that we had to split the reward into TWO days! 🎉#studentsuccess #futureeducators
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Book Club season 2 is underway! This time we are reading Roald Dahl’s Matilda! Most of us have seen the movie but they know Mrs. Cruz’s mantra, “the book is always better!” It has also given us the opportunity to make comparisons between the book and movie!
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My awesome @fgcu_coe intern Mr. Essig launched his POV lesson and immediately had students hooked! By using examples that they related to - like Mario Kart and football - they were immediately engaged in explaining the difference between first-person and third-person POV!
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Hands-on poetry learning! Students sorted critical vocabulary by definitions and examples to build deeper poetry comprehension 🔍📝 #ActiveLearning #PoetryWorkshop
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Addison loved her Middle School Honor Band experience! She has been so fortunate to have had the best music education at the hands of #ccpsfinearts . It made her day when her former elementary school music teacher came to support her as well! @LaniMastrangel3 @collierschools
Today @Ms_Ruggiero1 and I paired our classes up for some Kindergarten Buddy time! First buddies 🤝designed a gingerbread house other - then the fourth graders read 📖 to their buddies! We had a BLAST with our buddies and can’t wait to do it again!
These Pelicans were Positively Powerful and exceeded their iReady growth goals for the entire year on their winter diagnostics! We celebrated at lunch with Positive Referrals and a note home to parents to make sure their parents knew too!
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I am incredibly thankful to the @CESCorkyBear , @pmepelicans , and @LaurelOakElem Media Specialists for sending these my way! And thank you to my own Ms. Panella @PoincianaCCPS for helping to secure them! My Book Club is going to be so excited to start reading!
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Thank you for all the love and support!
HUGE shoutout to @CruzCrewEdu for being the November Positive Pelican! Endlessly grateful for you! 🧡🥳🎉 @collierschools @PoincianaCCPS @AJMicieli
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We’ve been working hard at exploring the connection between text features and the text. Today we worked on creating Thinking Maps 🧠 that show which important details can be found in the text 📖the text features 🗺️, or both 2️⃣.
Today was the final day of our Book Club! Students spent the last 6 weeks reading The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe! They gave up their time to eat with me and discuss the book with their peers! Today we celebrated with cookies, certificates, and personalized bookmarks!
A huge thank you to @LindyGeorge444 for coming out and spending all day teaching my classes how to use Adobe Express! Learning how to integrate technology and our reading standards was a great way to spend our learning time! @PoincianaCCPS @CCPSPLII
Robyn Cruz retweeted
Students in @CruzCrewEdu class write their own theme for the story they read.
Students than work in groups to collaborate and determine who has the best theme.
Students worked together to gather evidence to support the theme.
Ms. Cruz creates thinking and measures learning.
