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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 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

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 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

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 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

Community Building Idea! Great for getting to know your students and for them to get to know each other! This or That questions are where students are given a choice of two different options, and they have to pick only one. The first four pages could be photocopied and given for students to complete independently. Or you could use the half page posters to discuss one at a time as a class. (Note, the half page posters are repeated questions from the first two pages) These questions are design

Great Activity for first week of school or to build community within your class and school! Making Connections That Stick questions are where students are given a question that they can explain in a sentence or two. Some are fun and some may require more thought. Because the purpose of this activity is to build community, you should give students opportunities, whether written or oral, to share their preferences and thoughts with others. See sheet, “Possible Teaching Strategies” for some more id

Community Building Idea! Great for getting to know your students and for them to get to know each other! Would You Rather questions are where students are given a choice of two different options, and they have to pick only one. Some are fun and some may require more thought. Because the purpose of this activity is to build community, you should give students opportunities, whether written or oral, to share their preferences and thoughts with others. This file also includes, “Possible Teaching S

Community building activity for your students, and you learn how to corretly pronounce each others names. This activity is designed for students, and you, to learn how to correctly pronounce each other’s names. This means pronouncing their names the way their parents or family intended them to be pronounced. A name is part of someone’s identity and who they are. It is important that teachers and friends know how to say names correctly. After a warm up activity and lesson, students will each

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

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 package contains Brain Training prompts for students to use to generate ideas for their writing. I developed it because my students had great difficulty simply coming up with ideas to write about. They will be also be using ideas generated through their Brain Training activities to complete a Genius Hour, or 20 Time Project based on their ideas. The Brain Training prompts can be used as journal writing prompts, bell work, warm up to writing workshops, critical thinking warm ups, or even col

This file contains a spinner with 10 different emotions and a series of sentences. The idea is your students will spin the spinner to pick an emotion (for example confused, or angry) then, they will read the sentence using that emotion. There are lesson ideas included, a spinner page, as well as 14 sample sentences. Great to play as a game, or use as a drama activity where they could write a skit. Tag words - reading fluency, reading with expression, fluency lessons, reading with emotion

What are your students' attitudes towards reading? Do they read at home? Do they go to the public library? Find out all you ever needed to know about their reading interests and habits in 20 simple short answer questions. Great to use as a diagnostic, or at any point throughout the year. I would store it in their portfolios and have them review their responses at the end of the year to see how much they have changed over the year.

Welcome your students back to your classroom every year with a colourful sunflower banner. It is hand drawn. all you have to do it print and hang! Contains the letters W-E-L-C-O-M-E-B-A-C-K and a !! Thanks so much for check out my store!