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Class jobs are a great way to encourage student ownership of the learning environment. Get to know your students by having them fill out an application for the different responsibilities in the class. Some ideas for class jobs are included, like messenger or computer monitor. Your students probably have some ideas too. Get them thinking about what responsibilities they would like and why.

Using these guided reflections sheets will help your students to think critically about their poor behavior choices. They will consider why their choice of behavior is a problem and how their behavior choices affect those around them. The prompts are written in the first person to allow for more ownership of the behavior and the apology. Simply print off a few copies of each sheet (in different colors for ease of recognition) and keep them on hand for whenever disruptions occur and time out of

Students will work independently to investigate features of regular polygons. They will learn vocabulary, measure angles, find diagonals and lines of symmetry, draw shapes, look for patterns and discover algebraic formulas. This lesson plan contains questions to ask your students, discussion tips to help you get to a conversation about patterns and formulas, charts to guide student investigations that are differentiated to suit different abilities and ideas for extending your most gifted stude

This reference lists 13 problem solving strategies anyone can use when confronted with a problem. Hand one to each student to stick in their maths books for easy reference. Display a large version in the class when teaching problem solving strategies and thinking skills to your students.

Super Spellers is over 60 fun, engaging, free-choice activities for your students to use with their weekly spelling lists. Students select the words they need to learn how to spell from their own writing and class word lists, then they learn the patterns using Super Speller Activities all while earning points for their spelling team. Students will draw pictures, write poems, create codes, learn braille, make games, play games and plenty more. Whether they work independently or as a partner, y

Start the school year with independent learning activities that allow you to learn about your students and them to learn about each other and their school community. You will find in these task cards over 50 activities that will motivate students to produce projects that engage their multiple intelligences and thinking skills. I started the year last year with my grade 6 students using this unit and it was a hit. I set up the posters around the room like task cards. I set out the materials

Challenge your students to think deeply with Arithmagons. As long as your students can add whole numbers up to 30, then they can work mathematically to solve these simple yet complex problems. Students are given a group of sums and without using the same number twice have to find the numbers that add together to equal those sums. Included with this product are instructions on how to organise the task with your class, an activity sheet with 3 tasks that require increasingly deep levels of th

Get cooperative learning underway in your classroom with a set of activities designed for mixed ability groups. While you are teaching students how to work cooperatively in groups and how to take on different roles within a group, use these activities to also address concerns students have regarding bullying, friendship, leadership and emotions. Each of the 5 tasks should take 60 minutes to complete if the students are effective at delegating tasks and working efficiently. If they are new to

Are you studying the local community? This product is designed to help you look closely at the community using high order thinking skills. For each level of thinking, you will find the processes involved as well as products and activities that target each specific level of thinking. If you are struggling with what higher order thinking tasks may be, this is the product for you. I gave this booklet to my 5th grade students at the start of their inquiry project about Our Community and asked th

A simple poster that explains the process of thinking mathematically.

Get your students thinking about the books they read with seven different book review worksheets. Students will answer questions about the plot, setting, and characters in their independent reading novels and provide their own thoughts and opinions to support their answers.

Give a copy of this poster to each student to stick into the front of their maths books for quick reference when completing maths investigations or open ended problems that require students to think like mathematicians. It is also handy to have a large version of the poster on display to refer to when solving problems or thinking critically in any subject area.

Get you students thinking with this straightforward place value activity. Students roll a dice and decide where to place the digit to build a larger number than their partner. More able students delve deeper into the activity to explore elements of chance as well as analyze and explain the strategy involved in winning the game. Students who are even more able continue to analyze how changes to the rules effect the strategies used. A great naturally differentiated activity that can be set up

Here is a no frills narrative story planner. Get your students thinking of all the key elements of a story before they begin writing.

Help your students keep their research organised with this basic research grid. Students pose the questions then record the answers from two sources in the space provided. Room for up to six questions.

Print this poster large and hang it on the wall or print it small and have students stick it in the back of their writing books as a reminder of the steps in the writing process. Use this as a guide for writer's workshop - some writing stays a sloppy copy, some makes it as far as a second draft, some writing will get published. All good writing takes time.

A set of simple vocabulary cards to cut out and display when learning about 2D Shapes.