TeachingThoughtfully

Make Ancient Civilizations come alive in your classroom with this engaging Social Studies Suitcase project! Students will "pack" their suitcases with artifacts to represent food, clothing, education, trade, religion, conflict, housing and transportation from the civilization of their choice. This project can be used to explore one ancient civilization in depth, or compare two different civilizations! This artsy activity will help students explore key aspects of Strand A: Early Societies to 1500

Transform your word work block with these engaging, low-prep morphology centers and slides! Perfect for upper elementary classrooms (Grades 3-6), this comprehensive resource helps students master prefixes, suffixes, and base words, while making learning engaging and fun! This resource includes six hands-on literacy centers, plus full interactive slideshow lessons to pre-teach each activity- making it perfect for small groups, stations, or whole-class instruction. The Centers Include:Word Sums

Want to make summary writing exciting and engaging for your students? This lesson has everything that you need to guide your students on using the " Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then" strategy to effectively summarize a fictional text. This resource is recommended for use with the Wild Robot novel. This resource includes a graphic organizer and good copy worksheet for students, plus slides inspired by the text. The slides include a " Summary Sleuth" activity where students will evaluate sample su

Ontario teachers, this FREEBIE is for you! Create an "EQAO" letters poster to help your students track each day of testing in an exciting and engaging way. This freebie comes with 8 reward card ideas, and 4 blank cards for you to write your own ideas for your class! Pro Tip: Laminate each letter poster and add on Velcro dots to attach the inner letter after each day of testing. Or, colour in the inner letter using a whiteboard marker to track each day with ease! Want more Ontario-specific FREE