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By MARISSA DESPINS Updated June 18, 2024 As a BC educator, this is a topic that hits very close to home. There have been ongoing discoveries of so many lost children in our province. Orange Shirt Day is the perfect time to teach about, honor, and bring attention to the sadness that was the Canadian…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 I am back with another fun post on Interactive Notebooks! In this post, I am excited to talk about another fun way to use Interactive Notebooks in your Social Studies classroom. In my previous posts, I talked about using Interactive Notebooks for different Ancient Civilizations. These included Mesopotamia, Greece, and…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 20, 2024 Teaching Inferring Welcome to the latest post in my series on ELA mini lessons. With these posts I hope to provide you with easy to implement mini lessons that you can use immediately in your classroom. Today I plan to share a mini lesson for teaching inferring in a fun…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 09, 2024 Today’s post is all all about making inferences. I discuss what they are and why they are essential for reading comprehension. Also, I have added some tips and tricks for teaching this powerful reading strategy. For some quick and easy teaching resources for introducing reading strategies in your classroom, click…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated April 04, 2024 Today I am here to share 5 fun ways to teach all about Animal Adaptations. Our Animal Adaptations science unit with my grade 2/3 group is one of my very favourite units to teach. Teaching about animal adaptations is crucial because it helps students understand how animals survive and thrive…
By MARISSA DESPINS Updated Feb 29, 2024 short stories for middle school learners When teaching grades 7-9 English, our short story unit is the one I look forward to most. Short stories definitely have their place in the middle school English classroom, as they are great for teaching literary elements and key reading strategies. In this post…