Free Multiplication Facts Activities
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by Terri
1y ago
Should your students memorize the multiplication facts? That is the question that many teachers and parents ask every year. I am a firm believer that students should know their multiplication facts but I am also adamant that repeated multiplication drills are not the way to do it.  It is very helpful to know the multiplication facts to help with more complex concepts such as division, fractions, and ratios. However, I think we need to be very cautious of the way we have students reach the ultimate goal of knowing their facts. We should be first taking the time to teach the "how and why ..read more
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The Benefits of Using Printable Student Planners
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by Terri
1y ago
 Do you want to help your students work on their organization skills and at the same time open up communication with families? I have the answer for you...  STUDENT PLANNERS Over the years I have always had my students use a planner, daily,  and I have notice many benefits of them. These benefits only come when the use of planner is routine and predictable.  Here are my top 5 benefits (the last 2 are the BIGGEST ones) of weekly student planners. 1) Tracking Goals: A printable planner is the perfect place for students to track their goals. These goals can be directly rela ..read more
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Free Halloween Addition and Subtraction
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by Terri
2y ago
Are you looking for some addition and subtraction practice pages? I love using the holidays as a way to engage students in practicing their math skills. Halloween is my favourite holiday so of course I want to bring it into the classroom. These printable Halloween worksheets allow students to practice 4-digit addition and subtraction skills and at the same time decode a fun Halloween riddle. All the equations have regrouping in them. The first page focuses on 4-digit addition and the second page focuses on 4-digit subtraction.  I have also included the answer keys to make marking easy f ..read more
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Oil Pastel Printmaking Art Project
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by Terri
2y ago
Oil Pastel Art Lessons for 3rd - 6th Grade Oil pastels are one of the art supplies I love using to teach students about blending colors. They also make excellent supplies for printmaking. If you get a good quality oil pastel, that does not dry too quickly, your students can be in awe when they transfer the pastel to another page. This art lesson is based on just that --- printmaking and color choice. Images to Use For this post I will be using the Indigenous prints my students completed but you can do this with any images that have a mix of bold black areas and thinner lines as are in these e ..read more
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Random Student Partners for Full Participation
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by Terri
2y ago
Putting students into groups or partners can be a tricky thing. We all know that who a student works with makes all the difference in how successful an activity will be.  Many times teachers (and I was/am guilty of this too) put students together based on abilities. The students know who is the "smart" one and who is not the smart one and both resent the pairing. Right away they are not happy with the partnership and this is no way to get the best work from them. I remember reading a book (I can't remember the name) about student engagement in the classroom. It talked about ho ..read more
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Residential School Picture Books for Grades 2-5
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by Terri
2y ago
Teaching students about the history of Canadian Residential Schools is necessary but can lead to some very heavy conversations. I have found the best way to do this is through the use of picture books.  It can be difficult to know which books are appropriate for children so I have compiled a list of 14 picture books I feel are appropriate for elementary school students.  The list below is in order from younger audience to older audience. This is just my opinion and you may think differently. That is ok! Even though the first few books talk about younger students and have simpler l ..read more
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Must Haves For Teaching Math
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by Terri
2y ago
Math is so much easier to teach (and to learn) when you have resources to use. I am a firm believer that learning math is best done with hands on activities and lessons, rather than just doing worksheets. Don't get me wrong, I think worksheets provide valuable practice but there has to be more than just worksheets.  I am going to share with you my must haves for anyone teaching math and why I think you should have them in your math class.  These are not in any particular order (because I think they are all important) and I realize that there are way more things you could have in you ..read more
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Free After the Fall Growth Mindset Lessons
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by Terri
2y ago
As soon as I read After the Fall by Dan Santat I knew that I wanted to use it in my classroom for growth mindset lessons. Besides the amazing illustrations, it has an incredible growth mindset message. I have tried many different behaviour management and self-regulation methods in my classroom over the years and I have seen the most success with growth mindset. When students start understanding what it means to have a growth mindset they are able to take a moment and change their thinking. I have seen first hand how students who previously got very upset/disruptive because they thought work ..read more
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Teacher Planners: Why I Don't Buy a Fancy One.
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by Terri
2y ago
Do you search for a teacher planner every year? I don't. Well let me start by saying I use to but then I stopped. Year after year, I would hunt for the perfect planner to use as my day book and year after year I would spend way too much time filling it out. I found that I was writing the same things over and over again each day/week because they were things that were part of our routine. This was wasting too much of my time after school so I needed to find a better way to plan my days. In our school district, we are responsible for writing a day plan for when we have a substitute teacher. Thi ..read more
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Free Daily Class Schedule Cards
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by Terri
2y ago
I am a firm believer that EVERY classroom should have a day plan posted on the board. It helps everyone know what is going on and what is coming up next. Student anxiety can lower when they have a predictable day. Before I started putting a day schedule on the board students were constantly asking me what we were doing next. That had to stop REAL quick.  I have gone through many versions of a day schedule from just writing it on the board with a whiteboard marker to having super fancy labels. Here's What I Found Writing it on the board each day took too much of my precious time and I w ..read more
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