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I am offering 15 pages of report card comments...many hours of work! They are based on the new Ontario report cards, but can be used with any curriculum. There are approximately one and a half pages of comments in each of the six areas, Responsibility, Organization, Independent work, Collaboration, Initiative, and Self-Regulation. I have organized comments in each of the six areas in four levels, Needs Improvement, Satisfactory, Good, and Excellent. I have also included Next Steps, or ways to im

What an amazing way to welcome all of your students into your library! Print out these signs on colourful paper, stick them on your walls, and create an inclusive, welcoming environment to start the year. Each sign has a book themed border and says Welcome to the Library. There are 42 signs in 41 different languages! *Newly updated to include name of language as well as several indigenous languages -see the preview for the list of languages included. If you purchase, and would like to see anothe

This product contains 25+ pages of comments to use as next steps, or as feedback to students. All of the comments are sorted by overall expectations, and strands, then sorted by topic. There are even next steps for the Social Emotional Strand. (I will be commenting on only social emotional learning in the progress reports) These Next Steps contain a variety of generic next steps that can be use by any grade, and also many grade specific skills and concepts -suitable for grade 1 through 8. This i

"Would you rather" is a game that you can play with any age giving two choices that someone has to pick from. These library edition questions are all reading related, such as, "Would you rather be forced to read the last chapter of a book first or watch the movie before reading the book?" The questions can be used as a writing activity, as an oral activity, ice breaker, interactive bulletin board, or can be used as survey questions to graph or tally. My favourite way to use these is to post the

I am currently working as a teacher-librarian and I illustrated these labels to tape to the shelves in my library. They are great for primary students, and English Language Learners. They clearly state the topic, Dewey number and have a colourful illustration of the topic. Not only do they make things easier to find for students, they also add a bit of colour and brightness. When students don't know what book to read, I often tell them to read the signs on the shelves to find something they are

This unit contains 35 pages of activities, guidelines, and worksheets to use when partnering older and younger students together to read together. The unit contains enough activities to keep the students busy, engaged and learning for a weekly meeting for an entire year! It begins with questions to ask students, teachers can then use the questions to form the partners. There are guidelines for both older and younger students to review before meeting including how to listen and problem solve. The

Are you looking for a creative way to get your students to try reading something new? Do you need a creative way to invite parents into your classroom or library? Here is everything you need to host your own book tasting event! When I did this at my school, I advertised a week before parent teacher night. I sent a 1/2 page poster home, and put up posters around the school. Then on the day of the event, I covered the tables with table cloths, plates, and cutlery and had some students volunteer

This is a tool that students can use to self assess their work habits and learning skills. It is written is student friendly language. The self assessment is of six different learning skills: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, and Self-Regulation. The rubric may be used small portions at a time where students select one learning skill to reflect upon at a time. This rubric may also be used in Parent-Teacher or Student Led conferences.

Here is a great way to get your students excited about reading! This can be used in the school library or your classroom library. I developed this because I had a lot of students requesting that I buy the same books, and I could never decide the fairest way to decide who could sign out the book first. Now, every time I am ready to put out a new popular book, I put up the new book draw sign, some ballots, and a box, and the students who want to sign out the book fill out a ballot. At the end of

Zentangle is a type of artwork that is primarily black and white, done with felt tip pens. It is a relaxing, mindful activity that promotes mental health and well being for most people. This file contains 15 pages of design ideas and worksheets for students to learn how to create a Zentangle artwork. The sky is the limit for what they can create with their Zentangling skills. They can add Zentangle designs to decorate anything from paper, bulletin boards to shoes or picture frames! Rubric to ass

If you are struggling for ideas for what to write for next steps for report cards, this file will help! There is 10 pages of comments of ways your students can improve in the arts. I have based it on the Ontario Arts Curriculum, but is relevant for any area, I have just sorted them according to our curriculum headings. Note -I have also incuded he/she/they pronoun options for each comment. There are approximately a page of next steps or suggestions for each of the following areas in visual arts:

Lego Challenges! There are so many curricular connections that can be made to Lego. The best part is that students are excited, engaged, and love doing these challenges. They are worded in simple language, and one challenge is on each page, in a poster style format. At the beginning of each week, I just pull out a new challenge and post it on the wall. This file contains 40 pages. 39 challenges, and one blank page so you can make your own challenges. The challenges are designed to promote criti

This package is a unit suitable for ideally grade 5 to 7. I designed it to be used as a Data Management or Graphing unit where students have to read and interpret graphs, draw graphs, and collect data. The hands-on part of the unit is based on the "Minute to Win it" gameshow, where students complete 5 fun Mathlympic events such as cup stacking, dice balancing, and coin sorting. The package consists of the following 2 pages blank black and white and colour borders in case you want to add anything

If you can't beat them, join them! Pokemon Go Inspired program! Introduce a fun way to encourage reading at your school! Everything you need to run a Pokebook Reading Challenge including everything from posters to advertise to Bookmark Badges to celebrate accomplishments to Parent/Guardian letter, and tracking sheet (Readingdex) to track their progress. Unit is 26 pages containing the following: CONTENTS OF POKEBOOK UNIT PLAN Page 1 –Pokebook overview for Teachers Page 2-3 -Pokebook posters -fo

This file is designed for grades 5 to 8 students.To use these Literature Circles Bookmarks, I group my students into small groups and select different novels for them based on their interests and reading levels. Each week, each group would meet together to discuss what they have read, and each student would assume a different role within their group. This file contains 7 different bookmarks that describe each role. The roles are as follows: Fortune Teller -makes predictions based on what they

Package of six different task for students to complete. Designed as a way for teachers to get to know their students. These are a fantastic diagnostic for your students' strengths, weaknesses, personalities, likes, dislikes, personal attitudes, writing abilities and more. This package contains reproducible student instruction sheets for the following: Perfect Public School -students are asked to design the school of their dreams, including the type of school, subjects, teachers, and school lay

Save time in the classroom from having the students measure and make their own templates. The best part is, no need to photocopy double sided! Six different templates can produce countless interactive notebook pages. Pages can be used vertically or horizontally. They are all clearly marked with every line labelled either fold or cut. These are fantastic to use for every subject, and are amazing to use for studying for quizzes or tests too! Great way to make learning hands-on for your students.

I have included 14 pages of my Rose, Bud and Thorn design. I designed these sheets to be used for multiple purposes. They can be used as a diagnostic, to determine student strengths and needs, they could be used as a exit tickets, or reflections, or even to determine their viewpoints about issues. I am teaching Dance, Drama and Visual Arts next year so I am going to use these to determine student attitudes and prior knowledge by having them write their Roses, Buds, and Thorns for each of the s

This File contains 53 pages of polka dot border signs. Each sign has the author's name and two pictures of their books or series. So, close to 200 labels/signs. Great for library shelves, or book bins, or classroom libraries. The full list of every label is on the preview slide, please check to see if it has all of the authors you need before purchasing. I made this based on what authors we have in our elementary school library - so this is geared more towards grades 4-8, as it is chapter books

I designed this unit to send home with my students for the summer. But this could be used to encourage reading at home at any point during the school year, or holidays. The idea is that every time a child reads 20 minutes, they colour in a circle. If they read 400 Minutes, they earn a Bronze Level, if they read 800 minutes, they earn Silver Level, and if they read 1000 minutes, they earn gold. To earn gold they would have to read 50 days or nights. When they reach or achieve each goal, there is