Teaching+Artifacts

Check out all the exciting activities my students have been up to!

__** Guided Reading Intervention Groups: **__ Check out the different activities students worked on throughout several guided reading lessons. Intervention groups were based on students reading needs and focused on word work activites, reading strategies and comprehension activities! Students were of various grade levels and reading levels.


 * Procedural Response to "Making Butter"**


 * Retelling for non- fiction book "Snakes"**


 * Graphic Organizer for "Collections"-** Retelling sequence, characters, object collected and where character put item


 * Writing Responses- "Tortilla's, Cookie's Week"**


 * KWL Chart- " Making Spaghetti" -** Activating prior knowledge and practicing comprehension

__** Grade 4: Writer's Workshop Intervention Group **__ Word Work Choice Boards - Students select word work choice and practice 'no-excuse' words. Students responded very well to these activities as it gave them choice and differentiated ways to practice content material.



__ **Grade 5** __ **__ Art Class __:** students learn about colour mixing, the colour wheel and manipulating plasticine to form colours and shapes. This lesson also covered Health outcomes as we discussed balanced meals and healthy choices. Students were to create a healthy meal and use their understanding of colour mixing to successfully achieve their final product. ( I decided to include this project as the students were very responsive and engaged in this lesson! The activity allowed me to cover several outcomes within the art and health curriculum and gave students an opportunity to represent their learning and artistic skills in a new way! Numerous types of learning styles were highlighted within this activity and the success of this lesson is credited towards that factor!)

Students gather to review the strategies for adding and subtracting by using part-part-whole mats. Student were given different cupcakes with addition or subtraction questions and used their two-part mats to solve!
 * __ Grade 1 - Flexible Math Group __**



__** Grade 1: Math Intervention Group **__ Worked closely with student to work on addition and subtraction strategies to 20. These pictures show the student using counters and ten frames to help solve these questions. The student was playing the game " What's Hiding"- this game is where counters are shared between two cups. The student is told the sum and then can pick a cup to reveal a number of counters. Using the ten frames, the student fills in the known number and then counts on to check how many are hiding to make the sum!



__** Grade 1 : Math Intervention **__- Student explores addition and subtraction questions by using counters and a part-part-whole mat!



__** Grade 5 Math: Easter Egg Math Hunt Challenge **__

When Easter is on it's way, what a fun way to challenge the students with some extra fraction and decimals review than with hidden eggs and questions inside. Student's worked in math partners- pairing of high/low students who worked together to complete a series of questions hidden inside Easter eggs. Pairs were responsbile for each person recording their answers on the provided answer sheet, working together and collecting a sticker before they moved onto the next question. Students were super engaged during this lesson and really enjoyed a creative spin on ordinary math review!