Math Gurus

Bonjour, c’est moi! is an introductory unit for Grade 4 core French students. It is designed with September in mind! The unit is full of get to know you activities, activities meant to help learn the students’ names, and opportunities for students who are brand new to French to learn how to express some basic facts about themselves. In this unit: - 15 full 3-part lessons including minds-on activities, learning activities, and consolidation activities - Lessons are planned with a 40-60 minute per

Unite 2 ~ Une journee dans la vie! This unit is a series of lessons building on the vocabulary learned in Unit 1. It encourages students to ask and answer questions about their daily activities and hobbies. There are two specific listening assessments and a culminating task with an accompanying success criteria list including criteria for listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In this unit: - 15 full 3-part lessons including minds-on activities, learning activities, and consolidation activi

This unit is a series of lessons building on the vocabulary learning in Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3. It encourages students to practice reading strategies and learn how to describe physical and personality characteristics of animals. The formative assessment and culminating task with an accompanying success criteria list are focused on writing in French. In this unit: - 11 full 3-part lessons including minds-on activities, learning activities, and consolidation activities - Lessons are planned wi

This unit is organized into literacy centres (called stations). The literacy centres are colour-coded by their literacy skill (reading, writing, speaking, listening). The centres build on the vocabulary learning in Unit 1 and Unit 2. New key vocabulary in this unit includes prepositions of place, directional vocabulary, school supplies, and places in the school. There are self-reflections for students to complete as they work through the various literacy centres, and there is a culminating task

We always start the school year with a class read aloud to get our students interested in reading for pleasure. "Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle is a fabulous book to read to your class. PROS *We chose the graphic novel and assigned roles every chapter. The students LOVED this. We even assigned Sound Effects for students that were reluctant to read out loud. *Fantasy/Mythological plot *Teenage characters for relevance *There is movie you can watch after reading CONS *The story line is

Use this test at the beginning of your school year to see where your students are at with Grade 2 Math concepts. The results can guide your teaching in terms of review and let students know what they may need to review at home as well. This is a knowledge-based test only. Includes major topics from all strands. You can decide to give the entire assessment to your students in one sitting or split it up over a few days as to not overwhelm them (this is what we do).

Use this test at the beginning of your school year to see where your students are at with Grade 1 Math concepts. The results can guide your teaching in terms of review and let students know what they may need to review at home as well. This is a knowledge-based test only. Includes major topics from all strands. You can decide to give the entire assessment to your students in one sitting or split it up over a few days as to not overwhelm them (this is what we do).

Inquiry Unit *individual choice of research topic *allows for passion, creativity, and curiosity *research project with potential public library visity *design a display board and create an interactive element for visitors *culminates in an Inquiry Fair for the rest of the school to visit Why do an Inquiry Project? Inquiry projects allow for student exploration, engagement, passion, and ultimately empowerment. Students focus on a topic that interests them and then guide their own research. Th

Learning Skills have never been quicker or easier to write with this framework and survey for students. 1. With teacher direction, students fill in an organizer (attached) of their own strengths and weaknesses and what their goals are for the remainder of the school year. 2. Sentence starters for teachers to frame each learning skill so that they are easy to write but all are different and individually tailored to each student. 3. Example behaviours of each Learning Skill (Responsibility, Org

We always start the school year with a class read aloud to get our students interested in reading for pleasure. "Percy Jackson" by Rick Riordan is a fabulous book to read to your class. PROS *Most students are familiar with the story and even if they have read it, they still enjoy it *Fantasy/Mythological plot *Teenage characters for relevance *There is movie you can watch after reading *It's a series so students will be fighting over who gets to read the next book CONS *It is a little long

Use this test at the beginning of your school year to see where your students are at with Grade 3 Math concepts. The results can guide your teaching in terms of review and let students know what they may need to review at home as well. This is a knowledge-based test only. Includes major topics from all strands. You can decide to give the entire assessment to your students in one sitting or split it up over a few days as to not overwhelm them (this is what we do).