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We can't do your recess supervision, but we can write your lesson plans. For 12 years we've been writing lessons that address Canadian curriculum standards and focus on Grades 3-6 in Alberta. Save your planning time and just teach!
We are two teachers with over forty years of combined teaching including teaching multiple groups and grades of students. We teach in an inclusive model, meaning students with varying needs are included in our "regular" classroom.
We have spent the majority of these years teaching combined grade levels or working with multiple groups of children.
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Healthy Relationships Anti-Bullying Conflict Resolution Friendship Worksheets
Help students learn about fostering positive relationships as friends and peers to help prevent bullying, respond effectively to peer pressure, and develop skills to deal with conflicts in this complete unit that takes just minutes to prepare each lesson. This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.This engaging unit includes:eight complete and detailed lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.a
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Classroom Community, Health
Earth Day Bulletin Board Project Collaborative Poster Art Activity Colouring
Use this collaborative poster with your class to celebrate Earth Day while working together to achieve a common goal. This colouring activity takes your students 10-30 minutes to colour. Just print and use it. It's a great activity to calm the mood or leave with a substitute teacher. This resource is part of our Holiday Collaborative Poster Bundle. It is also part of our Big Collaborative Poster Bundle.This seasonal activity includes:a collaborative poster you can use any time of year, but we us
3rd - 6th
Visual Arts
Also included in: Holiday Celebrations Collaborative Poster Bundle Elementary Art Activity
Indigenous Artists in Canada Easy Art Projects and Art Lessons & Art Activities
This set of art projects incorporates painting, oil pastels, printmaking and carving to study eight different artists in Canada who identify as First Nations or Métis through creating a piece of art inspired by George Littlechild, Bill Reid, Dana Standinghorn, Jason Carter, Benjamin Chee Chee, Alex Janvier, Christi Belcourt and Leah Dorian. This resource is included in our Art Lessons All Year Bundle.This inspiring resource includes:eight different art projects (each one can usually be completed
3rd - 6th
Canadian History, Graphic Arts, Other (Arts)
Health and Wellness Worksheets Financial Literacy Nutrition Cyberbullying
Get all your planning done in minutes with this whole year of health and wellness lesson plans. All you need to do is download, print, and teach. No more searching for health lessons and activities. Your search is over! There are enough lessons for two hours of health classes per week for the whole school year. Each complete unit contains:complete lesson plans with modifications for differentiation.a Google Slides version. To access the digital versions, download the PDF and click the links in
4th - 6th
Character Education, Classroom Community, Health
Health Worksheets Wellness Choices Nutrition Healthy Habits Lesson Activities
Teach everything about nutrition, sleep, exercise, managing stress, positive self-image, hygiene, and maturing with only minutes of prep. The risks of peer pressure drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and vaping are included in this low-prep unit that you can use as soon as you print it or link the digital version to your Google Classroom. This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.This engaging unit includes:comple
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Health, Social Emotional Learning
FRENCH Worksheets Lessons Activities Games Elementary FSL Core French Language
Introduce your upper elementary students to French with these games and activities that will keep them busy all year. They can be used without French speaking skills and it is perfect to leave with your English speaking substitute teacher! There is so much stuff in this bundle that you'll have your planning done for the whole year! There is so much in this bundle that the pictures don't do it justice. Take a look at the preview to see everything included. This year of beginner French resources i
4th - 6th
French, World Languages
Homophones and Homographs Activities with Lesson Task Cards Homonyms Worksheet
Teach your students about the different types of common homonyms with this quick interactive lesson, practice pages, engaging scoot game and easy-to-use activities for your whole class lesson or reading groups. Just print and teach! This hands-on resource includes:lesson and instructions on how to teach homophones and homographs to your students with some simple ways to differentiate.student templates with differentiated versions. There are two versions that students cut and paste, a digital one
3rd - 6th
Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary
Online Safety Digital Citizenship Computer Science Wellness Cyberbullying Sheets
Teach your students about how to protect themselves while working online. Topics include digital literacy skills like understanding passwords, usernames, fake news, copyright, scams, phishing, hardware, and software in a positive and supportive atmosphere with barely any prep from you. This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.This hands-on resource includes:seven complete lessons with modifications for re
3rd - 6th
Computer Science - Technology, Health
Math Units Year Long Grade 4 Grade 5 Math Lessons Number Sense Graphs Geometry
Stop searching for your Canadian Grade 4 and 5 math lessons! Everything you need to teach, practice, and assess your entire year of math lessons is included in this print-and-use bundle. Teach number sense, operations, time, measurement, patterns, and graphing (and so much more). Your planning for the year is already done for you! This all-inclusive resource includes:instructions for how to set up, assess, and use interactive notebooks. It has a version that doesn’t require cutting and gluing if
4th - 5th
Algebra, Basic Operations, Measurement
Remembrance Day Canada Activities Canadian History Social Studies Lessons
Use these reading and writing lessons to check for reading comprehension, and teach note-taking and research skills while exploring topics including Vimy Ridge, D-Day, The War in Afghanistan, and Flanders Fields from a Canadian perspective. This resource is included in our Remembrance Day Bundle.This history resource includes:five complete lesson plans to work through each of the readings and supplemental activities (main idea, notetaking, summarizing, researching)five separate reading passages.
4th - 6th
Canadian History, Reading, Writing
Also included in: Remembrance Day Canada Activities Canadian History Indigenous Veterans
Map Skills Geography Create Your Own Map Project Landforms Longitude Legend
Review mapping skills while getting to know your students through these geography lessons and a cumulative art project that uses map skills. Your planning is done for the next few weeks as your students work and you can even create a beautiful bulletin board for your classroom simultaneously. This easy-to-use resource includes:introductory lessons on titles, landforms, map labels, cardinal and intermediate directions, the compass rose, relative location, reading a legend, scale, equator, Prime M
3rd - 6th
Geography, Visual Arts
Canadian Regions Geography Project Based Learning Physical Regions of Canada
This set of activities helps students understand Canada's geographical regions. Everything you need to teach this unit is included. Lesson plans, student pages, and details for six different projects are ready to use as soon as you print them. We've even provided teacher background information in case you don't have time to learn it before starting. This will keep your kids busy learning for weeks! Save money and get lessons to teach the Canadian physical regions in our Canada Regions Lesson and
4th - 6th
Geography, Visual Arts, Writing-Expository
Simple Machines Basic Lessons and Activities Gears and Forces Science Experiment
Teach background knowledge on levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, wedges, wheels, and axles with these ready-to-use activities. Everything you need to teach the basics of simple machines is ready with just a few moments of prep. This resource is part of our Simple Machines Unit.This engaging resource includes:lessons about simple machines (screw, lever, pulley, wheel & axle, wedge, and inclined plane), classes of levers, types of pulleys, wheels versus rollers, basic drive systems, types o
3rd - 6th
Basic Principles, Engineering, General Science
Canada Fur Trade PBL Social Studies Canadian History Project Based Learning
Bring the history of Early Canada to life with this engaging Canadian fur trade project-based learning (PBL) activity! Students take on the role of archaeologists tasked with locating the site of a fictional fur trading fort. This immersive task helps students explore life in Early Canada through critical thinking, creativity, and historical inquiry. Students will complete this fur trading post activity by:creating a map showing the location of a fictional fur trading fort. designing a visual re
4th - 6th
Canadian History, Social Studies
Grade 5 Alberta Science Lessons Energy Earth Living Systems Space Computer
Get your full year of Alberta science for the new curriculum planned and ready to go in minutes. Complete lesson plans for matter, space, living systems, energy, earth systems and computer science are included. All of these lessons were designed specifically for Alberta Grade 5 science teachers. Each includes:lesson plans with step-by-step instructions and options for modifications.student pages and templates.answer keys and suggested answers.photos of student examples.background information for
5th
Astronomy, General Science, Science
Safety Unit First Aid Consent Emergencies First Aid Wellness Lessons Health
Teach basic safety rules, learning about responsibility and assessing the risk in a variety of situations at home, school and in the community in this print and use unit that requires no planning and only minutes of prep. This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.This hands-on unit includes:safety considerations and rules for recreational activities, transportation, poison and chemical symbols, staying h
3rd - 6th
Health
Expected & Unexpected Behavior Activities Classroom Management Health Wellness
Help students identify and respond positively to expected vs. unexpected behaviours as part of your culturally responsive classroom. Each lesson takes 5 minutes or less to prepare and each comes with a variety of activities that help students understand why unexpected behaviours happen while you create classroom norms instead of classroom rules. This unit is part of our Year Long Bundle which includes all our health and wellness units for grades four through six at a discount.This engaging uni
3rd - 6th
Character Education, Classroom Community, Health
Telling Time and Elapsed Time Grade 4 and Grade 5 Reading Clocks Math Unit
Stop searching for your reading clocks lessons. Everything you need to teach, practice, and assess reading clocks, am/pm time, 24-hour clocks, and elapsed time is included in this print-and-use unit. Your planning for your time unit is already done for you! This unit is part of the Full Year Interactive Math Unit Bundle for Grade 4/5. It comes with a bonus sequencing guide to help plan your whole year.This all-inclusive resource includes:instructions for how to set up, assess, and use interactiv
3rd - 5th
Measurement, Other (Math)
Math Unit Full Year Grade 3 Interactive Math Units for Canada Number Sense
What if you could have your entire year of math lesson plans written for you? Our interactive notebook comes with everything you need to plan, teach, practice, and assess math. We give you everything you need to explicitly teach concepts for place value, number operations, patterns, graphing, measurement, time, geometry and more in your Canadian Grade 3 classroom. This engaging resource includes:6 complete units.a bonus year plan to help sequence your year.instructions for how to set up, assess,
2nd - 4th
Basic Operations, Graphing, Numbers
Elementary Art Curriculum Project Lesson Painting Printmaking Sculpture Drawing
This set of art projects incorporates painting, sculpture, drawing and design to create projects that explore different artists, media and styles. There are enough projects to last you a whole school year and they are designed to be simple for teachers that have to teach art without formal training. This inspiring bundle includes:over 60 unique art projects (each one can usually be completed within a few hours from start to the end of clean-up). You can do one project a week and still have choic
3rd - 6th
Art, Graphic Arts, Visual Arts
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About the store
Experience
We can't do your recess supervision, but we can write your lesson plans. For 12 years we've been writing lessons that address Canadian curriculum standards and focus on Grades 3-6 in Alberta. Save your planning time and just teach!
We are two teachers with over forty years of combined teaching including teaching multiple groups and grades of students. We teach in an inclusive model, meaning students with varying needs are included in our "regular" classroom.
We have spent the majority of these years teaching combined grade levels or working with multiple groups of children.
Teaching style
We focus on providing students critical and creative thinking lessons and encourage students to express their learning in a variety of ways. Project based learning happens regularly in our classroom along with whole group, small group and individual instruction so that all the needs of our students are met-regardless of their learning needs.
We regularly take on student teachers as we believe passing along what we've learned is important.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Our classroom has been a demonstration classroom where teachers from all over the US, Canada, UK and South America have visited to learn about our inclusive teaching model.
We have regularly presented at universities and professional development sessions to in-service teachers regarding technology, teaching strategies and project based learning assessment models.
Our students and their parents regularly contact us years after they've left our classroom to let us know how they're doing.
My own education history
University Training: combined we have 12 years of university education including B.A., B.Ed and M.Ed.
Other random skills include Orff Music Specialist Level 2, Google Certified Level 2 Educators and we have training in math, reading and writing intervention for upper elementary students. One of the ninjas can play seven musical instruments and the other ninja speaks three languages fluently.
Additional biographical information
We spend the majority of our time teaching and preparing to teach, but when we take a break we enjoy nature, photography and spending time with family and friends. Both ninjas love to travel and one of the ninjas is semi-retired to make more time for bringing resources to teachers.
We share all our teaching adventures on our website brainninjas.ca
The ninjas on our logo are from NinjaWoman Clip Art Studio. Be sure to visit her store for great clip art!
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