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This The Academy novel study is all encompassing and comprised of chapter questions, prereading and supporting activities, answer keys, quizzes and a final test, final projects, & a word search. Everything is done for you and ready to teach! The Academy is a great novel for intermediate and middle school aged children, this novel would appeal to many boys who may have trouble finding a novel they connect to as the main character, Leo loves soccer and video games. This novel is great for buildi

Activities for Red Dress Day (May 5) and for your MMIW unit. This lesson contains activities and slides/handouts to help guide younger students (primary level) to understand and connect with this difficult and sensitive subject matter. This lesson also includes teacher notes to help you to teach confidently on this difficult and sensitive subject matter. This mini unit includes: •Teacher Notes •Slides •Red Dress Day worksheet •Red Dress Day booklet •Red dress bulletin board activity If you are l

This resource includes everything you need to teach both When I Was Eight and Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. I highly recommend this bundle to any elementary school Truth and Reconciliation unit. When I Was Eight tells the story of young Olemaun's experience at residential school, and Not My Girl highlights why residential schools persist to be an issue even after a child returns home. This is so very important while we move toward truth and reconciliation.

This bundle has everything you need to teach your students all about Canada and Community! It includes my Community Helpers unit, Canadian Community & Mapping skills (with a Canadian focus), Canadian Animals Class Book project and my Canadian symbols & landmarks unit, which includes handouts and activities on Canada's Francophone and Indigenous heritage. Check out the previews for the full scope of all that is included! This bundle is all encompassing and will cover a large portion of your socia

These Correct the Sentence activities help students practice editing for punctuation, capitalization, and common spelling or grammatical errors. This bundle contains themed sentences for each month, reflecting holiday or relevant seasonal themes. It includes months September to June, with answer keys included. All activities are offered in both colour and black and white. Activities are offered in both Canadian and American spelling. These activities would suit grades 2 - 5. These activities ar

These St. Patrick's Day activities are a great no prep activity! They are ready to print and hand out and would work well in a Catholic or Christian school setting, or for Sunday School services. These activities focus on the history of Saint Patrick and include an emergent reader in both colour and black and white. This product includes 13 activities in addition to the emergent reader and Saint Patrick's life history handout. It includes both black and white and colour options. They would work

This novel study focuses on Wild Summer by James DuBern (also known as Knockoff Zoo: A Wild and Funny Adventure). This novel study features adapted activities for students who face learning challenges. Each chapter has three pages of activities, one page with basic questions, one with more in depth questions and one page featuring an adapted activity, these adapted activities do not require any writing or critical thinking. Please see the preview for examples of these activities. Wild Summer i

This No Prep resource is full of activities to support learning alongside the book Nutshimit by Melissa Mollen Dupuis & Elise Gravel. These activities are designed to go beyond basic comprehension and enable students to connect with nature themselves and fully understand the concepts of a forest bath and the honourable harvest. Included in this resource:•Prereading Activities Teacher Guide/Notes to accompany activities •Main Idea Activities •What is Nutshimit sorting activity •Living off the La

Stolen Words by Melanie Florence is a beautiful story of truth and reconciliation. I highly recommend this story for teaching your students about residential schools and truth and reconciliation this Truth and Reconciliation Day. A grandfather has his language stolen from him at residential school and his granddaughter helps him to get his words back. This story is forward looking and uplifting! This resource includes literacy activities to accompany this beautiful story. It incudes handouts and

This Back to School Bundle is full of no prep activities to help you get to know your new students. It includes everything you need as you go back to school! Bundle Includes: • All About Me Booklets• Alphabet Posters• Back to School Mazes• Back to School Roll & Colour Games• Correct the Sentences Activities• September Math and Literacy Activities• Fox Back to School Activities• Fall Sentences ScramblersActivities are offered in both colour and black and white and feature eye ca

This Orange Shirt Day Lapbook aims to serve as an engaging and interesting low prep activity for teachers to use, without skimping on learning about truth and reconciliation. This lesson aims to provide thorough information on residential schools so that students are able to meaningful honour residential school survivors on Truth and Reconciliation Day, and so that teachers are able to respectfully and confidently teach about this important and sensitive topic. Sections Included:• Title Image• O

Biomes Unit - This is a complete unit on Biomes and habitats! This unit focuses on the five major biomes - forest, desert, grasslands, aquatic and tundra biomes. Each biome has it's own booklet that includes information on subsections. These booklets are easy for students to assemble themselves and are included in both colour and black and white. What's Included in this unit:Booklet on each biomeNotesFill in the blank notes Quiz on each biome with answer key includedCube ProjectMy Biome booklet

This Bundle has many no prep options for you to teach about Residential Schools as well as literary resources for Indigenous literature (books to help younger students learn about residential schools and truth and reconciliation) as you prepare for Orange Shirt Day and help your students move toward truth and reconciliation. It includes: My Orange Shirt Day/Truth and Reconciliation Day Lesson - Meaningful activities to help teach students about Residential Schools and provide activities to hono

This Valentine's Day exchange "Words as Gifts" in your classroom, rather than candy and store bought cards! This lesson teaches students about the importance of positive/kind words and Canada's Indigenous tradition of oral history. Lessons Included: Lesson One – Minds on discussion and oral tradition information lessonLesson Two – Words as Gifts Valentine’s Day exchange lessonLesson Three – What Kind Words Feel Like Class Mural LessonAll necessary slides, information, supporting handouts are in

This Skip Counting Booklet has students practice counting by 2's, 5's and 10's. This booklet is a fun and engaging way for students to learn to skip count. This booklet is ready to go, it includes printables ready to print and create your booklets! It includes booklets for each number (2, 5, and 10), and each booklet is 8 pages long. This booklet has been updated to include a step by step instruction sheet for assembling the booklets, making it easy for students to put the booklets together them

My Canadian community unit! This unit includes handouts and activities on community and levels of community, with a Canadian focus. It also includes a mapping skills unit that ties into your Canadian community unit. It includes a "My Community" flipbook that is easy for students to assemble themselves! This unit is also included in my "My Canadian Community" Bundle. What's Included in this unit: 22 activities! •Community introduction activities •Levels of community – home, town, province, countr

Little Shoes by David A. Robertson is the perfect read aloud to teach your students about residential schools, Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. Little Shoes tells the story of a boy who goes on a march with his grandmother and learns about residential schools after seeing a memorial of little shoes. Through this story, and the accompanying resources, your students will build empathy and compassion for residential school survivors. This story is told in such a way to help students

hen We Had Sled Dogs by Ida Tremblay & Miriam Korner is a fantastic story to teach your elementary school aged students about life on the trapline, Canadian History, truth and reconciliation and colonialism. This resource includes everything you need for your When We Had Sled Dogs read aloud, including 12 handouts to choose from! It also includes teacher notes/information, so you, the teacher, can confidently and capably teach your students about this important subject matter. Student activitie

This activity is based on Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan. This is a print and go activity, everything you need to teach this delightful book is here - no prep necessary! Salma's family immigrated to Canada and her mom feels very homesick. Salma wants to make her mom feel better, and so she cooks her a meal to remind her of home. This story is fantastic for building connections with the text! This lesson pack was inspired by how great this story is for building connections when reading.

This lesson includes activities and handouts for your character traits unit centred on the fairy tale The Ugly Duckling. Teach your students all about character traits as part of your story elements unit with these fun fairy tale activities. All activities are offered in both colour and black and white. Included: •Character Traits handouts for the Ugly Duckling, Mother Duck, & the ducklings •Waed Poster •Inside/Outside Character Traits activity •Compare and Contrast the Characters •The Ugly