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Melissa Darrow 💙
@melissadarrow.bsky.social
Reading teacher👩🏼‍🏫 NBCT 📜
Mom 🩷🩷🩵 Wife❤️💍 Book lover📚Panthers 🏈UNC 🐏🩵 Happy Appy 💛🖤 Be Kind 💙
Eat well 🍽️ and travel often ✈️
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Hi Friends! I created a list to support my students with snacks/food. Learning is difficult when you’re hungry. Please share or consider donating. Many items are under $5 and every single donation is greatly appreciated! 🥰 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hi bluesky friends! It’s a Donors Choose match day!! My project is to get resources for my Kindergarten-5th grade reading club! I’m happy to RP projects today so drop yours & please share mine too! We love sprinkles on our project too! Even $1 helps so much! 🥰

www.donorschoose.org/project/book...
Books From Shelf to Self, a project from Mrs. Darrow
Help me give my students shelves, file holders, and take home reading bags to enhance our reading classroom. I am a reading teacher for grades Kindergarten-5th grade in a Title I school in Raleigh,...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Please share! Thank you! 😊
Hi! 👋🏼 Bluesky friends! Let me introduce myself.
I am a Kindergarten-5th grade reading teacher. This will be my 29th year in the classroom! 📚❤️ I am also a third generation teacher. My list has books, snacks and reading games if you want to take a peak! 🥰🍎

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August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hi! 👋🏼 Bluesky friends! Let me introduce myself.
I am a Kindergarten-5th grade reading teacher. This will be my 29th year in the classroom! 📚❤️ I am also a third generation teacher. My list has books, snacks and reading games if you want to take a peak! 🥰🍎

amzn.to/2GGA38e
August 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Hi BlueSky! I’m new and could use some new #teacher followers😊
I’m new to 4th grade, but this will be my 10th year teaching in Massachusetts! There are some hard concepts and I also want the room to be inviting. Can you help #ClearTheList ? Thank you from this

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August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@ms5thermann.bsky.social Hey friend! Thank you for sharing my Donors Choose project post. But it funded so I’m going to go delete that post. I forgot to delete it.😉
August 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@giufuliafa.bsky.social Hi Julia! I’m so glad I found you on this platform. ❤️ You generously sent me an air purifier for my classroom during COVID. I still use it every day. Hope you are doing well!
August 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I entered my school in a contest and could really use your votes. You can vote once a day. Click the link. Scroll to the bottom and click vote now. Then find North Carolina and my name, Melissa Darrow.  Thank you so much.

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July 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Hi Bluesky friends! Let me introduce myself:
I'm Melissa!
📚I teach Kindergarten-5th grade reading
🍎28 yrs teaching
🙍🏻‍♂️Married 33 yrs
🩷🩷💙 2 daughters & 1 son
🏖️📕✈️ I love the beach, reading & traveling🙍🏻‍♂️🙍🏻‍♂️
If #clearthelist is a thing here, I’m grateful for every donation or RP 🙏🏼

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June 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
When your fortune cookie knows you well…time to pack my bags and open my heart for making new connections. ❤️#impactretreat
June 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The seat on this one opened and closed! #noking
June 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
One of my favorite signs from our protest yesterday! People are so clever!
June 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Giveaway Time!

To celebrate the release of INTO THE RAPIDS this week, I’m giving away a set of 16 copies of THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN OCTOPUS, along with a ton of #TeamOctopus tattoos & bookmarks.

To Enter: Share & Comment that you’re interested!

#tlsky #edsky #booksky #Kidlitsky #giveaway
May 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A little bird told us it was #donorschoose Match Day and we are ready to break a world record for number of rockets launched!🚀🚀🚀 Drop a link to your project below and let's get this #teacherappreciationweek party started with a bang. #stillweteach
May 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Fun Fact: It possible to FOCUS ON and have CONCERN FOR an issue that doesnt involve you directly....
May 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
May 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Never
April 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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⚾️ Step up to the plate for learning! #Teachers can use baseball-themed activities to make math & ELA more engaging for students. 📚💡

Check out 5 fun ways to bring baseball into your classroom!

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#Education #Baseball #K12 #EdTech
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Teachers of @bsky.app ….make sure you follow @thinkfives.bsky.social ! They give away a $55 gift card every week and support #clearthelist! Give them a follow and subscribe!!
🚨 Teacher Burnout is Real! When your best efforts feel not enough, burnout sets in. It builds over time & pushes great teachers out. March brings summer’s light ☀️—but also 3 more tough months. Feeling it? Let’s talk! 🔄 #Top5 tips: thinkfives.com/edtrends/top...
#teacher
March 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Teachers of @bsky.app!!! Make sure you follow @alaneadams.bsky.social and share your book wishlist! 📚❤️
March is here which means it’s time for another year of #ReadingisAlanezing ! We have a mission to buy 5,000 new books this year to stock your shelves so share your book wishlists with us and our shopping fairies will do the rest!
March 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Another day of shopping checked off the list! We’re almost at 1,000 books…can you help us get there by the end of the week? Keep sharing your Amazon wishlists with us, and maybe the shopping fairies will pick yours next! 💕 Congrats to our most recent winners!
March 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM