Mrs. Hessel

Grade 3 Educator🍎 STEM 👩🏽‍🔬 Collaboration 🎉 Kindness 🤍🤍

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

@sbruyns I love this!

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

@sbruyns @Mirvish @Alanis So fun! Miss you all!! 💕💕

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

So proud of our kiddos and their innovation with our first #STEM day! Scribble bots, STEM stations, pencil catapults and coding micro:bits. The energy in these classrooms was incredible @alicialeeusher @StefTurner97 @dtangred @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Love our team! @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

@MrsHolley_ @SACTVDSB I love this!!

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Ss were challenged through #STEM to build a strong and stable structure with @Makedo kits and then tested this through coding their @microbit_edu to alarm when movement occurred! Such meaningful and authentic learning for these Grade 3s! @dtangred @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Punctuation 101 @Wipebook style ❓❕⚫️ Love seeing the confidence it builds in Ss as feedback can be implemented on the spot! @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

@MissCBeattie @deanna_annett @TVDSB_STEM So cool!!

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Window fall art done with our grade 8 reading buddies. Thanks to @MrsFletcher13 and her leaders and just love seeing how excited our 3s are for reading buddy day! @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Year ✌🏼creating our mini monsters to test the strength and stability of our structures during this week’s Grade 3 STEM challenge! Love seeing the Ss so engaged in fun (➕learning 😊) @alicialeeusher @ @StefTurner97 @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

So neat to see collaboration between divisions and schools 💕 and sparking a love for art!!

[K. Van Hees @MrsvanHees]

A game of ☎ between Gr 3, 6 and 11! 6's drew a creature, wrote a poem and then read the poem to the 3's. 3's then drew based on the poem and then we sent the 3's pics to Gr 11's at Medway to recreate! One of the COOLEST projects! Mrs. Feehan @MrsHessel7 @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Water day was a success! Thanks to the amazing 6 team and our wonderful 3s for an incredible day of student leadership, fun and well… getting soaked 🥰 such a great way to finish our year ❤️ @kimanders0n @MsJCopeland @MrsvanHees @SACTVDSB

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

@LindsayElgersma @MissVegaRamirez @trembathkindie @MsTanyaMartin @avivaloca @mrslyonslibrary Slide decks!

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

To make our Science word wall more accessible, Ss constructed plant dictionaries and then did an outdoor word scavenger hunt to learn the key words of our new unit 🌻🍀🌵🌳@SACTVDSB

[Dr. Bryan Pearlman #MaslowBeforeBloom @DrP_Principal]

When I was a building principal, we had a group of boys who were consistently getting office referrals during lunch for aggressive and disruptive behaviors. In the past, these behaviors had led to increasingly severe consequences that did not reduce the negative behaviors (and caused some students to be sent home and to miss instruction). I sat down with the group and we worked together to come up with a plan on what to do during lunch. One of the boys asked if we could start a knitting club, since his Auntie had recently taught him how to knit. Since he was a leader of the group, the other boys agreed. I asked them to come back tomorrow with some ideas of what to knit. The next day one of the boys said that he wanted to knit little hats for the preemies at the hospital, since his little cousin was there and that a nurse mentioned that they had run out of the little hats. The boys knitted daily and we delivered the hats to the hospital. We received many heartfelt thank you notes from families, nurses and doctors (and even an in-person visit with a personal thank you and cookies from a newborn's mom). This group continued to grow as did our ability to create knitted hats for preemies. This became a huge success for the participating students. There was significant improvement in the students’ behavior, attitude, achievement, and attendance. It is so important to think outside of the box for “win-win” solutions. It really isn’t the WHAT you do that is important, it is the WHY you are doing it! Our knitting group become a team, family, and community.

#maslowbeforebloom

[Kristin Lynds @krislynds]

Never stop. ❤️

[Mandy Cleland @MandyCleland1]

Check out this creative and innovative twist on the traditional diorama @TVDSB_STEM

[Mrs. Hessel @MrsHessel7]

Ss designed Soil Sustainability dioramas where they built green cities showing how we can lessen or prevent harmful effects on soil. Vertical farming 🥬 Composting 🍎 Reducing GHG emission with electric 🚗 and ☀️ powered homes. Proud of these innovative kiddos!! @SACTVDSB

[Derek Tangredi @dtangred]

Witnessing student success was powerful! The @microbit_edu helps differentiate learning for all creating multiple paths to success. We explored the @bitesizeSDGs to address food scarcity & sustainability. Uncovering learning @SACTVDSB to foster empathy & purpose @MrsHessel7 #STEM