Abby Haydel (she/her)

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!

Thank you for taking the time to chat with and inspire our @GowanGators @kennethoppel ! #whycrane #gatorsareamazing

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.

My @GowanGators wrapped up our multiplicative comparison unit by scaling up an ice cream recipe. Obviously that meant we had to make said ice cream today! #gatorsareamazing #handsonlearning #whycrane #growgatorsgrow

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

Huge thank you to @ldoering3 for learning about the Colorado River watershed with our @GowanGators 4th graders! #whycrane #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

Thanks @FlipgridEvents and @Flipgrid for brining @TheAmandaGorman to our @GowanGators classroom! We loved writing a poem and hearing from her and Loren! #whycrane #gatorsareamazing

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

Before learning about the speed of sound and how it travels in different mediums, our @GowanGators timed themselves running 50 meters so we had a point of comparison before diving into a @DiscoveryEd interactive activity. #gatorsareamazing #handsonlearning #stem #edtech

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

Thank you to @MrsKemper for the amazing fractions activity! I loved seeing the how my @GowanGators chose different manipulatives and @AppleEDU apps to demonstrate understanding of fraction concepts #appledistinguishedschool #gatorsareamazing #whycrane

That moment when you turn around and your Ss are coaching each other during math 😍 I’m so fortunate to get to spend my day with such amazingly kind and compassionate 9 and 10 year olds! #gatorsareamazing #whycrane

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

One of our beloved custodians had his last day of work today. Our @GowanGators will miss Mr. Justin so much! Our school really is a family, and he made such an impact on our students. And he was the best sport today and took pictures with both of our 4th grade classes!

We were discussing prefixes and talked about how prefixes aren’t just random letters added before words, because we don’t usually do that in English. And then I remembered my dog’s name is Jcletus (Cletus with an optional J). There’s an exception to every rule 😂