Adventures with Mrs.Allen

Inspired by Shel Silverstein, my young poets created a poet-tree! What does one do when low on ideas for a poem? Take a leaf from our poet-tree! 🍀🌳 @heronscrossing #rvsed

Creating lobster traps to learn about Nova Scotia’s economy and resources…and just having fun! #rvsed @heronscrossing

I’m no artist, but these self-portraits look amazing! Well done Grade 2s! @heronscrossing #rvsed

We practiced our sentence writing skills by rearranging words and drawing pictures! @heronscrossing #rvsed

Our classroom was buzzing with excitement for our first write-the-room activity to practice place value! @heronscrossing #rvsed #rvsnumeracy

Working on our number sense by playing with 100s chart puzzles! @heronscrossing #rvsed #rvsnumeracy

Working on fine motor skills and playing with words this week! Kiddos played with stamps, magnets, beads, pipe cleaners and stencils to work on “o” words. #rvsed @heronscrossing

We started talking about the importance of Remembrance Day and the poppy this week. Then kiddos created these beautiful ripped paper poppies. @heronscrossing #rvsed

@LearnWithLepine This is so cool!!

Fun at the farm! We are so fortunate to have a farm behind our school where we can explore questions about small crawling and flying animals and interact with them!

Started our unit on bats this week with a great nonfiction book and discussion about what we know and what we wonder about bats! 🦇@heronscrossing #rvsed

We continued our work with patterns by working through NRICH Maths School Fair Necklaces problem! #rvsed #rvsnumeracy @heronscrossing nrich.maths.org/9692

How do we learn about a growth mindset and things we can’t do yet? By talking about a few of my favourite words! @heronscrossing #rvsed

I made cookies! 🍪 Well, paper cookies. But it still counts, right guys? Let’s find all the ways we can evenly divide 30 cookies into equal groups! @heronscrossing #rvsnumeracy #rvsed

@MrsLepineGrade1 This is such a cool idea!

Our classroom smelled so good today! As part of our senses unit, we tried painting with spices mixed with water. We used turmeric, cinnamon, and cumin.

After learning about the different types of bridges, kiddos built them out of building materials around the classroom. This was a tricky challenge but they did great! @heronscrossing #rvsed

We designed and painted Ukrainian pysanky eggs for Easter this week. The artists in 3A did a wonderful job! @heronscrossing #rvsed

Continuing to grow our multiplication skills by building arrays. Students played the teacher and checked one another’s math! @heronscrossing

@KateBollum @MissMassey_ Me too! Where did you get those??

Which One Doesn’t Belong Wednesday! ➕ / ➖ There’s always gotta be one thats SUS #rvsed #rvsnumeracy

Practicing our multiplication skills by playing “groups of” dice games! #rvsed @heronscrossing

After learning about geodesic domes and their strength, kiddos created their own! This teacher was so proud and so happy at how well they turned out (and they really are strong!)! @heronscrossing #rvsed