Math Gurus

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

We always start the school year with a class read aloud to get our students interested in reading for pleasure. "Skeleton Creek" by Patrick Carmen is a fabulous book to read to your class. PROS *It is short *Murder/mystery plot *teenage characters for relevance *there are videos that you can watch at the end of chapters ~ some are quite scary and your students will be begging you to read more to get to more videos *It's a series so students will be fighting over who gets to read the next book

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

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

Interactive Minds-On starter activity Group Tasks Definitions/Note taking Individual practice questions Answers embedded into lesson Easy to follow and implement High student engagement