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10 Quick Ways to Celebrate World Kindness Day

by BrainNinjasWP

World Kindness Day is a way to remind each other to be kind, but we focus on being kind all year in our classroom. Come learn some of the ways we celebrate kindness in our upper elementary and especially for World Kindness Day.

World Kindness Day is observed on November 13th. It’s a great opportunity to promote kindness, empathy, and compassion in your classroom, school, and community. One of the most important lessons about kindness is that it is possible for everyone to be kind. It doesn’t have to cost money or take a lot of time. Here are some of the ways we celebrate World Kindness Day in our school.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Acts of Kindness, Collaborative Posters, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Kindness, Kindness Books, Kindness Matters, Teachers Pay Teachers, World Kindness Day, Writing Prompts

Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Festival du Voyageur

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for ways to celebrate the Festival du voyageur at your school, check out this list of ideas. It's a great way to teach French culture in your French, FSL or Core French classes.

Each year, we organize a Festival du Voyageur for students learning French in our school. Over the years, we’ve learned some tips to make the planning easier because there’s already enough to do in February. Come check out these activities and see which ones the French learners in your school might enjoy.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Festival du Voyageur, francophone lessons, French, French activities, french as a second language, French Culture, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, School-Wide Events, Teachers Pay Teachers, theme days, vocabulary

How to Host a Carnaval de Québec in Your School

by BrainNinjasWP

We have gathered up a list of some of our students' favourite activities during our Carnval de Quebec so you can use them to host your own. It's perfect for teaching about Francophone celebrations in Canada or French culture in Canada. Come read the list.

Each year, we host a simple event to celebrate the Carnaval de Québec with the students who are learning French in our school. It doesn’t have to be complicated or elaborate to celebrate, but over the years, we’ve learned some tips to make the day go smoother. Come check out some of the events you can do to make your day special.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Classroom Community, francophone lessons, French, French activities, french as a second language, French lessons, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, school fun, Teachers Pay Teachers, Winter, Winter Activities

Five Ways to Use a Collaborative Poster

by BrainNinjasWP

Collaborative posters are much more than simply colouring. You can use them to teach, communicate, work together and have fun. Come learn different ways to use collaborative posters and justify the learning that can happen during the process.

We love creating collaborative posters. They are so much fun to make, but our students also love to create them. Of course, we have made over one hundred different designs and nobody is going to have the time to use them all. But, there’s more than one way to use a collaborative poster. Come learn some of the different ways you can use them (and spoiler alert–they aren’t more complicated and still don’t require much prep).

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Classroom Community, Collaboration, Collaborative Posters, Collaborative tasks, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Teachers Pay Teachers

Remembrance Day Resources for Canadian Classrooms

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for Remembrance Day resources to use in your Canadian elementary classroom, come check out this post. We've pulled together all our resources and put them in one place.

Over the years we’ve organized so many Remembrance Day assemblies that we’ve lost track of everything we’ve done. That’s why it’s time to put together one post where all our Remembrance Day resources can be found in one place. Learn ways of observing Remembrance Day with some of the activities we have done in our schools over the years.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Canadian History, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day Art Lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

Winter Art Projects That Will Warm Your Heart

by BrainNinjasWP

Check out these winter art projects that can be used in your elementary classroom. You don't need to be an art specialist to teach students to love art. We use painting, sculpting and printmaking to show off the best part of winter.

If you’re an elementary generalist, you probably have to teach your own art class. It can be tricky to find interesting art projects that don’t require a lot of special materials or skills. We have created a lot of different art projects over the years. Some of them have flopped. But, we’ve also come up with some favourites. Come read about some of the ways we help our students create beautiful works of art while teaching those valuable art outcomes through winter art projects.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Teachers Pay Teachers, Winter, Winter Activities, Winter Art, Winter Art Lessons, Winter Art Projects

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