Winter birds is a theme that can be used to introduce the following skills: Research, Notemaking and Oral Presentation. The activities in this unit focus on skills in Brainstorming, Creativity, Word Knowledge, and Research.
Have a leprechaun happy time as you celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your class. Activities included in this resource: creative writing, booklets, rhymes and poetry, sequencing, math facts, matching, and classification.
Get into the Fall spirit with this picture collection and blank task cards for autumn and thanksgiving. Use this unit for vocabulary development and recognition, bulletin board displays, centre identification cards, student worksheets, newsletters and activities.
Become familiar with Bill Peet and a few of his books. This unit contains individualized reading activities which focus on developing skills in these areas: Creative Thinking and Writing, Comprehension, Word Knowledge, and Creativity.
Share and enjoy the excitement of Christmas with your class! Activities included focus on these skills: Reading, Word Building, Mathematics, Creative, Phonics, and Brainstorming.
This easter-themed resource incorporates the following: Brainstorm, Reading, Chalk Talk, Math, Creative, Puzzles, Art, Science, and Phonics. Brainstorm with your class and prepare word, picture, sentence charts to meet their needs. Set up your centres based on several themes: egg, chocolate. Have spring flowers in your room. Each group could have their own bud vase to observe the opening of the flowers.
Enjoy the autumn season and Thanksgiving with your class! Autumn is the perfect time for corn, turkey and Thanksgiving! The ideas and activities included in this unit are designed to encourage creativity, oral discussions, mathematics, language and to develop research skills. Create a resource centre in your classroom and include books that include information on Fall, Turkeys, etc. Read "The First Canadian Thanksgiving", "The First American Thanksgiving", and the "Thanksgiving Today" with the students and than have discussions on the different Thanksgiving customs. You may also have the student discuss the customs practised by their families. Another big tradition for Thanksgiving is "Corn", whether it is with your meal or as a decoration on your table or door. Try to have cornstalks available for your class to observe and identify the parts of the plant. Included in the unit are matching sequences, a booklet on corn, etc.
This personal student's dictionary has been prepared for everyday writers to use at school and/or at home. High-frequency words and space are provided for the students to add their own words.
Send your students on a quest and they'll discover… learning is fun! This unit can be designed for any subject. It is appropriate for individual, partner or small group activities. It is a fun way to practise and review concepts. And it is a great assessment tool. Sample "missions" included in this unit can be used with the following themes: Back-to-School, Autumn, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, Spring, Easter, Canada, Dinosaurs... and more!
A fun unit for beginning readers that combines colour words and an autumn vocabulary. Take a walk around your schoolyard, neighbourhood, or a nearby park. Watch for birds, squirrels, butterflies and insects. Observe weeds, wildflowers and trees. Focus on the changes that are occurring – cooler weather, changing colours, caterpillars turning into butterflies, etc. If possible, collect leaves, seeds, insects, etc., for further examination in the classroom. You can than have the students use the information they collected throughout this unit either during the poetry or brainstorming section, etc. Activities that are included in this resource are: brainstorming, creative language, reading, phonics, art, sequencing, visual discrimination, mathematics, and printing.
This fall, give your students first-hand experiences involving the 5 senses provide information about apples – texture, smell, taste, appearance, varieties, and products. Our full centered learning activities enhance social skills, co-operation and decision making in small and large groups, the ability to share activities and experiences, as well as academic skills. Within this content the following skills are encouraged: matching and comparing, patterning and sequencing, logical thinking skills, counting and concepts, colour discrimination, eye/hand coordination, copying, listening and following directions, vocabulary and language development, and creativity. Extend your students knowledge through different experiences such as a trip to an apple orchard! Relax and enjoy the extensive variety of activities with your class!
Stories, activities and historical facts combine to teach children the origins of our present-day customs as they share Christmas with a pioneer family in the 1800s. The stories in this unit are set on a farm near Peterborough, Ontario, in the early 1850s. The italicized text at the beginning of each story gives the history of a specific Christmas custom, and the story itself brings the custom to life in a pioneer setting. Information with related illustrations and follow-up activities are based on these stories: Stir-up Sunday, Christmas Cards, Gift Giving, The Christmas Goose, The Christmas Tree, Decorating & Courtship, and Christmas Day.
The fun and excitement created on Valentine's Day haven't really changed much over the years. Brighten up the winter days with hearts and flowers, cupids with their bows and arrows and messages of love and friendship. The activities in this package focus on the following skills: Creative Thinking and Writing, Word Knowledge, Mathematics, Brainstorming, and Language. Art ideas are included.
Dragons" is a fun unit, and a good topic to stimulate the child's imagination and creativity. And… since no one really knows what a dragon looks like, anything goes. When the children feel this, you'll get some pretty terrific results! This Dragon package contains: 1. warm up activities to motivate the class and get them ready to share and express their ideas. 2. Activity Cards that focus on brainstorming, research, creativity, language, and poetry writing. 3. Activity Cards to follow up a dragon story, poem or book.
Use this favourite fairy tale with your students to develop thinking skills and creativity. The materials in the unit provide an opportunity for activities at various levels, and variations of the same activity are included so that you can choose items appropriate for your students' reading levels. This unit includes story illustrations plus activities for: dialogue, drama, research, language, reading and creative activites "Just for Fun".
Let's Improve Our Math Facts! This package contains Study Sheets and Drills Sheets for facts involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Our self-checking fold-back sheets can be laminated; they are self-checking for individual use and can also be used for home study of basic facts. Focusing on a specific operation, drills can be given daily until expected speed and accuracy level is attained. Drill sheets can be cut into strips when focusing on a specific group, e.g. facts of 8. You can also send drill sheets home for study and practice. Students can graph their individual results while they are striving to improve their own speed and score. With all of the information contained in this unit and hard work, your students will all become a "Math Whiz"!
Introduce your students to the fascinating world of Spiders! Information cards are included to make spider booklets for beginner readers. 1. Fisher Spider; 2. Tarantula; 3. Trapdoor Spider; 4. Crab Spider; 5. Wolf Spider; 6. Jumping Spider; 7. Spiderlings. Learn all about spiders: the special features of a spider’s body, egg sacs, their different homes and locations, what spiders eat, how they eat and catch their prey, and also learn what animals eat spiders. Survey your class to determine their individual feelings about spiders. Record the results on class graphs. On completion of the unit, see if their feelings and attitudes have changed. Fun-to-do activities are included to promote skills in: visual discrimination, mathematics, reading, research, and creativity. Incorporate a spider centre into your Halloween theme.
Thematic and Seasonal Charts can be used to track activities, tasks and work habits. Record sheets can be taped to students' desktops, or taped on the inside cover of a notebook, and used to monitor behaviour, to reinforce specific work habits or to reward achievement. Thematic record sheets can be used to monitor the activities students complete.
Get to know your students and build up their self-esteem this back-to-school season. The ideas and activities in this unit are designed to encourage creativity. Encourage your students to share what they did over the summer. What are some interesting things about your students that make them special? Incorporate students activities with groups, such as a time capsule or time line. Finish off each month with a Mission Impossible activity as a special day treat.
The apple activities in this unit focus on these areas: Brainstorming, Reading, Word Building, Phonics, Mathematics, Puzzles, Creative Writing, and Art.
This Easter-themed resource offers activity-oriented centres, remedial work and enrichment. Each sheet can be coloured, mounted on construction paper or bristleboard and laminated. Students work independently on the activities in centres. Teachers can use the activities for extra practice on a certain skill. Parents can use the activities at home with a child.
Start the year off right encouraging your students to interact using their creativity and knowledge! The ideas and activities included in this unit are designed to encourage creativity and peer interaction and to develop thinking skills. Included in this resource are ideas to welcome your students back to school in the "Hello September" section. Take individual photos of your students and use the ideas in the section "Smile Everyone" to find ways to incorporate these photos throughout the school year! Set up an area in your classroom and have a "Student of the Week", letting that student either create their own bulletin board and display their work or art for that specific week, or use other ideas included in that section. Some other sections in this unit are ideas for "Birthdays, Special Days, Calendars, etc".
Hallowe'en is coming with the harvest moon, ghosts, witches and a night filled with surprises! The activities in this unit focus on these areas: Brainstorming, Pumpkin Math, Creative Writing, Word Study, Phonics, and Poetry.
Incorporate the story "Seymour's First Easter" with your Easter theme. Follow-up activities focus on these skills: Creativity - Oral/Written, Word Knowledge, and Comprehension.
All set to rattle your students' bones? Prepare your class for Hallowe'en with "ghostly" activities. The following activities are designed for grades 3, 4, and 5. Give your students a 'boo'-st with Hallowe'en 'spirit'.
The Human Journey… People of the Past is a high-interest unit of study for Junior, Enrichment or Multi-Level learning groups. The activities can be incorporated into a whole language program, and they lend themselves to the application of co-operative learning strategies. Information and activities included to develop skills in: Creative Writing, Oral Language & Drama, Critical Thinking, and Research.
Introduce your students to the world of arachnids, the most fascinating of nature's small creatures. Information sheets are included for characteristics of spiders, spinning webs, eggs and spiderlings, food, and enemies. Different species of spiders researched in this unit are Trapdoor, Fisher, Wolf, Jumping, Crab, Tarantula and Black Widow. Brainstorm in small groups or with the whole class to create charts on "Things We Know About Spiders" and "Things We'd Like to Find Out About Spiders". As the unit continues and the students learn more, they can add or change any information on the charts. Take a walk around the school yard and neighbourhood to etch and record on an observation chart the types of spiders and webs found. Follow up activities focus on these skills: research, creativity, and word knowledge.
This seasonal resources encompasses winter-themed activities for all areas, from language arts, to math, to art. This unit contains activities which focus on these skills: Reading, Brainstorming, Math, Word Knowledge, Creative, and Classification.
Get into the spirit of the season with Christmas-themed activities for a wide range of subjects. The activities in this unit focus on these areas: creative writing, reading, phonics - word study, brainstorming, math, and puzzles.
Share the fun and adventure of summer with your class. This package contains 50 summer activities which focus on the following skills: word study, brainstorming, art, creative writing, phonics, and printing. Use this unit in September as students return from summer vacation with many experiences to talk and write about. Alternatively, use this unit in May or June as an introduction to summer fun and adventures.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with shamrocks, spuds and shillelaghs. This unit focuses on developing skills in the following subjects: Phonics, Word Study, Reading, Research, Brainstorming, Creative Writing, Mathematics, Printing and Writing.
Explore castles and discover the lifestyles of the Middle Ages. Involve your students in activities which focus on the following skills: Research, Creative, Word Knowledge, Brainstorming, and Expressive Language Oral and Written. Brainstorm to find out what your students know about the Middle Ages and what they'd like to know.
Mice have captured the hearts of many through their roles that are presented through children's literature. Let your students be entertained as they enjoy reading selections from the world of mice. This package contains individualized activity cards that can be used with mice novels and stories. The activities focus on these skills: creative, comprehension and word use.
Become familiar with the writing of Bill Peet. This unit contains open-ended activities that the students can complete after reading books from the Bill Peet series. The activities allow the students to develop their skills in: Creativity, Creative Thinking Speaking, and Decision Making.
Autumnfest is designed to encourage creativity, oral language and co-operative learning skills. Information cards and activities are included for the following themes: Thanksgiving/Harvest, Corn/Popcorn and Turkeys. Writing, brainstorming, reading cards, arts and crafts, recipes, and math activities are all included.
Discover the fascinating world of Owls! Getting to know owls is an interesting challenge and a great topic to develop research skills. Brainstorm with your students and record the facts and ideas they think they know about owls. As your unit develops, refer to the initial brainstorming charts to see how accurate your knowledge was. Some of the different owls you will be researching include the Barn Owl, the Great Horned Owl, the Snowy Owl, the Screech Owl, the Elf Owl, and the Barred Owl. You will also research the different parts of an owl. The activities in this unit focus on the following skills: creative writing, brainstorming, word study, phonics, research and art. These activities can be completed individually or in a small group. Have fun with your students discovering all the different species of owls and their similarities and differences!
Included are 20 black and white Hallowe'en pictures. Mount the pictures on study backing, add a bit of colour and laminate. Use them for vocabulary cards, bulletin boards, centre cards, story starters, puzzles, clip art, and newsletters.
This package contains black and white prints, along with verse, for 13 popular Nursery Rhymes. Included are: Mother Goose, The Queen of Hearts, Little Boy Blue, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Jack and Jill, Hickory Dickory Dock, Old Mother Hubbard, Hey Diddle Diddle, To Market To Market, Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo-Peep, Little Miss Muffet, and The Old Woman.
Enjoy the fun and freshness of poetry and rhyme with your class. This package contains full-page illustrations and verse for 13 popular Nursery Rhymes and activities that focus on these skills: brainstorming, mathematics, creative, phonics, matching, reading, and word development.
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