Merry Christmas! Still here fighting AL Leukemia but holding strong! Love you all! I wanted to wish Merry Christmas from my family yours! I love and miss everyone and especially teaching & inspiring!
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My husband surprised me during tonight’s news by posting my picture for teacher appreciation week to KFOX! I am truly blessed and proud to be a teacher at Bel Air Middle!
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Saying good bye to my classroom was bittersweet today! Goodbye BAMS, you’ll always be my first home! Thank you for the memories and friends! Hello Vista Hills Elementary! I’m excited for this new journey!
I was bummed I didn’t win the sketch notes contest...but then realized I left home with the best prize, a reminder of today’s Social and Emotional Learning Training! Putting this up in my classroom to remind myself of the positive impact I can make everyday! Thank you
@Coach_Rudy
Thank you Crusaders for a beautiful week! I am proud to be your ITT. Today I was blessed with a beautiful celebration! My journey here has just started and I love it! I can’t wait to see what is to come. I am proud everyday to be a Crusader!
@KarinaQSalgado
@JurassicGaby
Congratulations Veronica Ward, BAMS 2022-23 Teacher of the Year! A well deserved honor. We love, respect, and appreciate you so much!
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Amazing times as Eastwood Trooper Lady Basketball players due to my coach, Coach Diaz. Right before every game she would write heartfelt letters to every player...and till this day I still have those letters. ❤️💙
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Powerful moment again in
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When talking about best ever teachers
@rtorres_bams
shared story of her basketball coach and her supportive letters that she gave before games that she has kept for over 13yrs for inspiration. Her Coach Diaz from Del Valle HS was in the room!
Today I had to say goodbye to mybestfriend, myGuineapig Elvira. She was with me since the beginning of my teaching career. She knew how to comfort and cheer up any student. It hurts looking at an empty cage. My heart is broken.Thank you for all the beautiful memories. RIP ELVIRA
My husband is stuck at home doing dialysis 4 times a week. How do I keep him busy and positive? I use him as guinea pig to test Nearpod lessons mirrored on our tv while he works on it from his phone. don’t want to give him his grade 😂
@DDsaintsELP
@VeronicaRWard
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Bel Air Middle School has the best students! I’M SO PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS! Two placed honorable mention and one got second place! We are going to Regionals!
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Summer School Amusement Park Design Day 1 is done! Students did amazing today presenting their popcorn containers! They described pricing, features, dimensions, area and the volume of each container! Way to go Warriors!
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Beautiful turn out with BAMS families coming out for the NJHS Induction Ceremony. Ms. Sandy Johnston outdid herself with everything and especially the speakers! I am so proud of our NJHS students here at Bel Air Middle School!
Thank you to my amazing husband and our amazing florist/fellow amazing teacher/friend, Mrs. Ruiz for the anniversary flowers this past Wednesday. Going home sick after this picture wasn’t planned but my flowers made me so happy!
#readyformonday
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The lady teachers for our Pirates team at Bel Air Middle! This picture says it all how proud we are of our Warriors during graduation! It’s been a great year with an amazing team and students!
@Prater222
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Random act of kindness announcement! One of my amazing students surprised me with the most wonderful gift! A custom embroidered matching Bel Air Middle School Jacket! This is officially my favorite jacket I always want to wear! A great gift from a great student!
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I went to get lunch from our amazing cafeteria staff and decided I wanted to eat lunch with some amazing company today 🤗 thank you to Ms. Frederick’s 2nd Grade Class for the company during my lunch today! I felt very loved 🥰
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Today during Intersession, my students discovered whole beetles inside the stomach of their frog! I was very proud of how they were curious and respectfully inspected the frog today during dissection. # BAMS
My 8th Graders had such a huge impact on my life this year. I’m going to treasure all our memories together. Thank you to my students for accepting this weird and crazy Science teacher!
#blessed
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Last day of summer school is done! Students got to finish their supporting the environment shirts! We even got some amazing tie designs made (with no chemicals)!
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@LucianoAlcala2
@DDsaintsELP
had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful young lady from
@DVHSYISD
. During yesterday’s preparations I saw her Science Board on Kidney Disease and thought one of my husband’s artificial kidneys could help her project in the future (he does dialysis at home)Her smile made my day!
Kindness chain advisory challenge! Students were given a different color a day with different kindness tasks. They got to know other fellow students and staff that makes our school run!
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My students got to make their own ugly Christmas Science sweaters! Moon phases, topographic maps, to even Force and Motion! Students got so into it, they wanted to stay during lunch to complete them! I love my students!
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@ZubiateSteve
Way to go 8th Grade Bel Air Middle School Girls Soccer! Your science team loves y’all! Proud to see when a player got hurt the others step in to help right away!
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@VeronicaRWard
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My students proved today they could get through many obstacles! Today we learned about series and parallel circuits to light up amusement park signs! I am so proud of this student’s work after numerous tries to fix wires to light up his sign!
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Proud moment! Students created blueprints of their very own amusement park then transferred it to a large grid paper. They had to find the area of their facilities, the entire park and empty space. After, students had to identify the coordinates of each facility!
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Got a huge surprise visit from one of my students and his family!!! I’m overjoyed with love, happiness not just because of his gift but because I actually got to see one of my students...from afar but I still got to see him!
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Moments like these are what make everything worth it! After school program students saw me setting up after school for Frog Dissections, they volunteer to wash, dry, stay late and come in early in the morning to help clean and set up! I’m very blessed to have amazing scientists!
Thank you to the amazing
@MeshaDaniel
for visiting Vista Hills Elementary today and helping our Crusaders get started with Mined Craft Education Edition!
@Minecraft
I told my students I didn’t want to open their cards in front of them because I knew I would cry...then they wanted me to read them even more! I feel so special. These cards are so priceless to me that I will forever treasure. I have amazing students💙
Had a great time with Mrs. Ruiz selling popcorn at Warrior Music Takeover for our Bel Air Middle Community. Great music and even better friends and students!
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Already been a week since my wedding and went back to work this Tuesday. As soon as I showed up students congratulated me on my wedding and wanted to know how it went! Then 2 students gave me BEAUTIFUL wedding presents that I will always treasure! I’m going to get these framed!
Late tweet from Friday’s Career Day! We were very fortunate to have students from Bel Air High School’s HP program present to our students and get them excited not just for the HP program but for high school as well!!!
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Representing
@JohnstonMarkA
Mr.Johnston’s Robotics class with the new awesome Bel Air Middle School’s Robotics T-Shirts! Way to go Mr. Johnston!! Plus congrats on their win this past weekend!
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Yesterday’s birthday surprises!Thank you to my amazing friends, familyand students!One of thebest surprises yesterday was getting a visit from one of my very first students who heard it was my birthday!SO happy to see him and proud to hear he okays for the Locomotives youthteam!
My students never like me taking pictures 😂 but I was so proud they volunteered to help me every Friday clean Elvira’s cage. One student waited all week to join us today afterschool to learn how to handle and clean guinea pigs to convince his mom to get one! 👍
#blessed
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Celebrating his soon to come baby girl! Congrats Mr. Lopez! We luv ya!
@Burndizz
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@VeronicaRWard
big thanks to Mrs. Ruiz, Ms. Childress, Mrs. Marin, Mrs. Ulloa, Mrs. Nuñez, and Ms. Tonche!
This morning was the first time Elvira gave my students the biggest Guinea Pig compliment a piggy could give....laying down and sleeping as they pet her! These students have watched her grow since 7th grade when I brought her to school as a baby a year ago!
@teacher2teacher
I create google forms that forces student to figure out the answer. It won’t move on until they enter the correct number or term and if they succeed in submitting it at the end it’s an automatic hundred. Great for practice.
Love my after school hard workers. They stayed last year during 7th Grade as well. Worked on other classes homework, cleaned and play with Elvira and helped me prepare for lessons and class! I am thankful everyday for my hard workers!
Loved today’s activity on understanding the importance of interdependent relationships between abiotic and biotic factors of a food chain through a card sort and table graffiti! I always love how my students look when they can’t believe I want them to write on the tables! 😂