What do you do after testing all morning when it’s a beautiful day out? Take your @GowanGators on an angle and line scavenger hunt outside and mark them with Photo markup! Such a fun way to start our geometry unit #gatorsareamazing#appledistinguishedschool#whycrane
We’re working on a challenging math project this week & I wanted to give up today bc my Ss just weren’t getting it. But I’m determined! Excited to revamp, restructure, and try again on Monday. Messy learning is still learning!
Our @GowanGators 4th graders got to @Zoom with author @kennethoppel today after reading Silverwing in class! We love how technology allows us to extend our learning in such meaningful ways.
Life hack, elementary teacher edition: if you want to be called “the best teacher ever”, don’t worry about planning engaging and exciting lessons. Just play the @EncantoMovie sound track during class instead of your normal instrumental covers.
Working with our 8th grade buddies to create an animation showing the layers of the earth. Hanging out with our buddies gives our Gators a chance to build community and practice using new apps in a low pressure way that we can then use in our classroom!
My favorite part of math class is when we are able to look at real world numbers and apply our learning! Today, we sorted running times with decimals. I loved hearing the conversations when they disagreed… and seeing them use math to support their arguments! #gatorsareamazing
We had so much fun hearing from @TheAmandaGorman. We loved writing a poem with her! So grateful for amazing technology that gives our Ss opportunities to hear from incredible world changers! #whycrane#gatorsareamazing
Thank you so much to everyone who joined me and @lorenlong for our @Flipgrid live event for Change Sings! I had such a great time with you all 💛 @PenguinClass#TeachChange
On Halloween, we discussed the character traits of one of the characters in our class novel, Silverwing by @kennethoppel . Then, we built a model of that character and tested to see how far it could fly! #handsonlearning#stemchallenge#iteach4th#gatorsareamazing#whycrane
My heart is so full after working with our 8th grade buddies today! Our @GowanGators 4th graders learned how to use a new app and they had the BEST time! @AndiMartinez they cannot wait to see their buddies again! #whycrane#gatorsareamazing
Would you rather have 1/2 or 3/4 of a treat? These sweet girls said 1/2 because it would be two equal shares of a treat. They made an awesome animation with @AppleEDU#keynote#magicmove#gatorsareamazing
@a_schindy I did art with my 6th graders one year on the last few Fridays. We did things like tesselations and creating scale pictures using the grid method to make an image larger.
We met our 8th grade buddies today! Building relationships is so important and I’m so excited for our Gators to make connections with other students! #gatorsareamazing#whycrane#secrethandshakes