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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

Our Favourite Books to Use on Valentine’s Day

by BrainNinjasWP

Books are for everyone and even your upper elementary students love to enjoy a great book. These books are themed around Valentine's Day, but they aren't too romantic for school. Check out our list of Valentine's Day books for your upper elementary classroom.

We love to read to our students, but they are in grades four and five, so we try to avoid books about romance when we look for Valentine’s Day books, but sometimes it just sneaks in. Quite often, the books are too young for our students, but when that happens, we encourage our students to read to their younger buddies. Come read through this list of Valentine’s Day books we’ve collected over the years.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Book Recommendations, books, Drama Circles, Holidays and Seasonal, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Ideas

How to Have Snow Much Fun With These Snow Activities

by BrainNinjasWP

Have snow much fun with all these winter themed snow activities for your upper elementary classroom. There are snow activities for writing, reading, art and classroom community building. Come check out the big list of winter themed activities.

When you live in a winter climate like northern Canada, the opportunities to do activities related to snow are endless. We try to build weather-related snow activities into our classes wherever possible. We teach in upper elementary, but we’ve used some of these activities with our younger buddies and some we’ve challenged ourselves. Come check out these snow activities that will keep you busy all winter.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Classroom Community, Collaborative Posters, Holidays and Seasonal, Logic Puzzles, Teachers Pay Teachers, Winter, Winter Activities, Winter Art, Winter Art Projects, Winter Books, Winter Classroom Activities, Winter Language Arts, Winter Logic Puzzles, Winter Math, Winter Puzzles, Writing, Writing Prompts

9 Things To Do During the First Month of School

by BrainNinjasWP

Getting back into the school year is an exciting time, but there is can be so much to do that it can be difficult to prioritize what needs to be done first. Come read through our must-do list during the first month of school in your upper elementary classroom and we'll help you out.

As a student, I never appreciated the first month of school. It always seemed like we didn’t get too deep into the content and spent a lot of time playing games and doing art projects. It wasn’t until I became a teacher that I recognized how much work teachers do during the first month of school. While we created a list with nine of the most important, there really are so many more that could be added.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, building relationships with students, Classroom Community, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, communicate, communicating, communicating with parents, communication, communication with parents, First Year Teachers, first-year teachers, Holidays and Seasonal, Math Worksheets, new teacher, new teachers, Professional Learning, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Organization, Teacher Wellness, Teacher Workload, Worksheets

9 Spectacular Art Projects For a Pen and Paper

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for some very simple art projects you can do in your upper elementary classroom with just a pen and paper. We've included all the instructions so you can create these beautiful but very simple art projects for elementary students. Come take a look and find the one you'll save when you need something in a pinch.

Sometimes you need a quick art project that uses a pen and paper because you either don’t have access to other art materials or the time to set up something more complicated. That’s okay! There are many different art projects you can create using just a pen and paper. These are some of our favourite art pieces we have tried over the years with our upper elementary students. We have included basic instructions for you here. Continue reading to learn more.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Class, Art Lessons, Classroom Community, Holidays and Seasonal

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