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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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

This file is contains tools you can use to assess the social emotional strand of the new 2020 Ontario Math Curriculum. This file contains checklists for students to self assess, and teachers to assess and give feedback. There is one page for each expectation of the social emotional strand with success criteria, and check boxes for students to identify which areas are their strengths, and where their needs are, and to identify goals. There is also a page for each expectations worded for teachers

This is a twenty page file containing student friendly wording of all of the new curriculum overall expectations. It contains one blank page, so you can edit/ add your own goals, and one page that lists all of the strands and specific expectations in the new 2020 curriculum. I designed these to post in my classroom, to eventually have students co create the success criteria for each unit to accompany each poster. I am also working on some other files to support the new Math curriculum, starting

This file contains 10 Pages to be copied double sided to create a waterfall type booklet. Th booklet has definitions, tips, questions and prompts for connecting, predicting, book selection, solving unknown words, summarizing, visualizing and reading fluency. There is room provided for students to set individual goals as well as reflect and track strategies they have used. When I use it in my classroom, we usually review the strategies one at a time, but use it as a reference guide throughout th

This File contains 40 pages of polka dot border signs. Each sign has the author's name and two pictures of their books or series. So, close to 150 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 picture books we have in our elementary school library - so this is geared more towards kindergarten to grade 3, as i

This file contains a PDF for Learning Goals and Success Criteria for new new 2020 Ontario Math Curriculum, to support the Social Emotional Learning Strand. This file is 15 pages. First page is a summary of the overall expectations. Second page is definitions of words used in criteria and goals, such as resilience, and cooperation. Pages 3-14 are one page for each expectation with clearly written targets and success criteria, in student friendly language. One target and five criteria for each exp

In this PDF file, I have designed 31 different activities that can be used with any list of spelling or word work words. They are specifically designed to use simple materials that are found in most homes such as pencils, magazines or newspapers, scrap paper etc. The way I have used them with my students is they are given a new list of words every week, then they are given three of my word work challenges to complete with their words each week. There are enough activities in this file for the re

Here are 24 weeks of writing prompts sorted by topic! Each page has 5 different questions based on a different theme. So, that is a total of 120 different writing prompts/questions. Great for distance or online learning. I have a center dedicated to independent writing, where students pick one question from the list to write about each time they visit. Every couple weeks, we pick one of their pieces of writing to revise and edit to produce a final good copy. There is also a blank page at the end

This file contains 21 pages - at least one coding term per letter of the alphabet. In child friendly language, great for covering coding expectations, and classroom bulletin boards. File is in black and white - two words and definitions per page.