J Farquharson

The gingerbread house design challenge is a fun, seasonal activity that can be enjoyed across all grades. It can be used as a planning sheet for a STEM activity, or it can be used as-is. An especially fun activity to do with reading buddies.

In the story "The Most Magnificent Thing", by Ashley Spires, a little girl and her canine assistant set out to make the most magnificent thing. Eventually, after many trials and errors, the little girl and her furry friend realize that every failed attempt at making something "magnificent" brought them one step closer to "The Most Magnificent Thing". Once you have read the story with your students, have them brainstorm and build their own Magnificent Thing! This planning sheet is an early introd

For students who are learning to dress themselves for outside. This pairs well with procedure writing, and also give students an opportunity to work on their fine motor skills since it is a cut-and-paste activity.

A printout for students to draw and write about their 5 senses! Each page has opportunities for writing, drawing, and coloring. Let students become detectives and explore their environment for things they can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear.

This Fall booklet is a great fall activity- it includes math and literacy plugs, but also allows students to do some colouring and customize their book themselves!

Spring colour-by-numbers! What makes this one unique is each number is represented differently (hands, 10-frames, tallies, numerals).

Have students practice their writing and enjoy colouring the pages of their own Community Helpers booklet!

Students work on their number recognition by connecting the numbers in each 10 frame to their various representations (numeral, tally, domino, dice, fingers, words).

Low-prep Valentine's Day activity for primary grades. Fill your heart with the people you love. Draw a picture of everyone (and everything) that you love inside of your heart.Challenge: Can you label the things in your heart?

A handout for patterning practice- this is really useful for assessment purposes, but it can also just be for fun!