Mrs. Howell's Class

Adventures in learning, growing, and much more!

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Partner reading our holiday gift books! 🎁📚

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Practicing our PBL presentations for Thursday 👩🏽‍🏫👨🏼‍🏫

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Beetle mania as we study the body structures of our new class pets!

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Using our BIG magazines to search for and label non-fiction text features.

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Building water filters this morning through trial and error #PBL #resilientlearners

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

@DunnDolphinsAP I love the variation of responses to such a “simple” question. They are rockstars!

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Some fabulous thinking happening during #numbertalks today!

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Back to work in Reader’s Workshop to find and identify non-fiction text features! 🔍📚

[Dunn Enrichment @EnrichmentDunn]

Trip trap trip trap! @howell1stgrade Engineering bridges to help the billy goats cross the stream on our birds eye view setting. #BillyGoatsGruff #EnrichmentForAll #Fairytales @dunn_jcps @DunnPrincipal @JCPSKY

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Constructing our bridges for the set of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” 🐐🐐🐐 #stem #fairytalePBL

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

“Scooting” around the room to find fall words and sort by syllables 🍂🍁🐿

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Collaborating to plan our Thanksgiving feasts. First steps: agreeing on a guest list, and a first draft of menus with a budget 🦃🍗🍽💲#productivecollaborators #resilientlearners

[Katie Tegge @teggedunn]

Check out these super smarties in @howell1stgrade. They started working with coding today on the super cool app Code Spark! @codesparkapp @codesparkceo #codespark #coding #dunndolphins #tegge2018 #STEAM

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Retelling “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” with our story rocks and set designs. 👧🏼🐻🐻🐻 #fairytalePBL #enrichmentforall @EnrichmentDunn

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Reflecting on some of the things for which we are thankful...love the variety of thinking! @DunnDolphinsAP

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Creating story rocks to retell 👧🏼 and the three 🐻 #fairytalePBL #enrichmentforall

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Such fun with my fabulous team on Book Character Day!

[Megan Reedy @kinders_rock]

Great fun! @druley_first @howell1stgrade

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

More pumpkin races in action 🎃💨

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Pumpkin races were a success! We learned a lot about engineering and had tons of fun!

[Mrs. Howell's Class @howell1stgrade]

Our engagement was off the charts with our engineering challenge of building Cinderella’s carriage! #fairytalePBL