@ptrustey

4th Grade Teacher

 East Williston, NY
Joined August 2022
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Jumping into one last research project before winter break! Love watching students collaborate and grow their ideas together. #ewlearns
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What a fantastic morning! We enjoyed welcoming families into the classroom to view our Native American Village Projects! The kids’ hard work in researching, creating, and writing truly shined. #ewlearns
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4th graders took part in an Indigenous Studies workshop, learning from Indigenous Long Island artists about different art forms and their deep cultural and historical significance. #ewlearns
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🤖 Today we worked on crafting better AI prompts and thoughtful questions so we can get stronger, more reliable results in our Native American research. #ewlearns
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👩🏼‍🏫Reading nonfiction is better when we teach others what we’ve learned! #ewlearns
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💬 During reading, we debated whether our main character is strong or weak- and backed up our ideas with text evidence! #ewlearns
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Kids Take Action Club is sending home flyers and zipper bracelets to remind everyone to unzip happiness and bring in a new T shirt for children with cancer! Help us reach our goal of 500! #Jzips #ewlearns ⁦@NorthSideEW⁩ ⁦@MrsTruskiewicz⁩
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Students work in partnerships to figure out the dimensions of a rectangle with a perimeter of 22 and an area of 18 #EWlearns #4thgrademath
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4th graders love leading the school each morning saying the Pledge of Allegiance! 🎤🇺🇸 #ewlearns
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💡 Today’s science lesson was lit! The kids discovered how to light up their bulbs using simple circuits! #ewlearns #science
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Nothing beats the sound of kids cheering each other on! Today our PLTW challenge was creating sails to move our wind-powered cars—so much creativity and energy! 💫 #PLTW #ewlearns
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Today our mathematicians used a giant number line to see rounding in action- building a concrete understanding of higher place values! #ewlearns #4thGradeMath
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🚗💨 Hands-on learning in PLTW! Our car experiments showed how potential energy transforms into kinetic energy in motion. #EnergyConversion #PLTW #ewlearns
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Innovation meets tradition at North Side! Mr. DiGiovanni stopped by to introduce 'Round Table Discussions,' giving fourth graders a voice in making positive changes at our school. 💡✨ #ewlearns
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Morning Meeting helps us build community each day. Today students loved playing Hello, Your Majesty and guessing our mystery speakers! #ewlearns #responsiveclassroom #4thgrade
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STEM fun today! Our class took on the challenge of building bridges with just index cards and tape. The teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity were amazing to watch! #ewlearns #stem
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Our crayons quit—but our writers got to work! ✏️🎨 Today we used The Day the Crayons Quit as a mentor text to explore the writing process. #ewlearns
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🎉 First day of 4th grade = success! Can’t wait to see all the amazing things our students will achieve this year. #FirstDayOfSchool #4thGrade #ewlearns
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Storytelling to work on verb tenses! #ewlearns
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Learning about pollination, bees, and conservation in honor of our honeybee friends at N.S. 🐝 #ewlearns
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