Campfire Classroom

A total of 49 unique charades cards with text and illustration support to help your last few weeks before the holiday break fly right by! Charades (and my favourite, Reverse Charades) is a perfect throw-together activity that helps boost class morale and team building. It requires almost no tools, helps support rule following for game play, and allows for some ridiculousness! While your students have fun and mess around, they'll also be decoding words and getting some performative daily physica

Starting out geography or social studies? You should for sure pre-teach where everything in Canada is and save yourself some grief! There are two quizzes included here, I know my students needed a retest after the first one! Yours might, too! Answer keys included, of course.

A simple, straightforward program to teach and assess your intermediate students’ writing, reading, oral communication and how to interpret non-fiction articles. Prep a term's worth of language assessment all at once! Schedule all of the students’ presentations ahead of time! Use the “Current Events Schedule” editable PDF to determine which student will go when. I suggest having presentations on a Thursday or Friday to support the presenting students throughout the week. Also this way, nervous s

What is Emotional Literacy?Emotional Literacy is the ability to accurately read, locate, and express emotions and feelings. We can't expect our students to be able to build their Social-Emotional skills and to self-regulate if they can't precisely express what they are feeling and where it could be coming from. The Mood Meter tool for locating emotions on an "Energy" and "Pleasantness" spectrum is a method developed by the Yale Institute for Emotional Intelligence. It resembles the Zones of Reg

This is a simple, 22 card (plus two blanks!) deck of Christmas themed charades prompts. These cards are made with the emerging reader in mind, regardless of age or stage, and each card features a support illustration for the inclusion of students who may struggle with decoding words alone. Additionally, the use of the font OpenDyslexic supports students who also may have reading challenges like dyslexia. Have some well deserved fun with your students before the holiday break!

This is your super simple planner to help you feel in control over your many hats you wear as a teacher, a creative, and someone who has things to keep track of!This is NOT the fully editable super-star teacher planner you've seen all over the internet. The planner I've made here is the super simple response to the Pinterest-level, and frankly, intense Bullet Journals and Teacher Planners you've seen and know that you can't maintain. Using an agenda or planner like this allows you to see what

This is a simple, 27 card (plus four blanks!) deck of Winter themed charades prompts. These cards are made with the emerging reader in mind, regardless of age or stage, and each card features a support illustration for the inclusion of students who may struggle with decoding words alone. Conversely, these cards work beautifully to help teach our ELL learners who may have some decoding skills some new winter vocabulary. Additionally, the use of the font OpenDyslexic supports students who also may

These are quick diagnostic/formative assessments that you can use as a bellringer, as an entry or exit ticket, or as practice quizzes to check for understanding! Make sure that your Grade 6 students know the process for finding Surface Area and Volume before moving forward with performance tasks or testing. I found that these were great for teaching my harder-to-reach students the process and helped them learn how to "show their work". THIS IS NOT A UNIT. These assessment tickets are a single p

These cards are a simple way to instruct what can be a tough learning process, especially if you have students with some mathematical gaps. There is some prep to using these cards, but I’ve used them myself and altered them based on what my own students' needs were and it has really helped my intermediate students understand the process and structure of a properly solved expression using the order of operations. Students check their own progress by starting with more simple expressions and prog

Print this out on 11x17" twice a year, consider your reading data collection done! Write or type the names of your students into this chart based on how they scored on their CASI assessment and see where most of your student needs lie. Do most of your students struggle with summary? With conventions? With inferencing? You can use this to visualize where your students' needs are and program accordingly. Be sure to have the KG Font called "KG First Time in Forever" installed on your computer, tha