Explore picture books for the IB Learner Profile traits to use in the classroom, including being balanced, open-minded and reflective.
Picture Books for the IB PYP Learner Profiles I have been collecting children's books for over 20 years. I have organized them in several different ways during that time- by theme, by author, by holiday. You name it, I have tried it. Now that I am teaching the Primary Years Program in an International Baccalaureate
Explore picture books for the IB Learner Profile traits to use in the classroom, including being balanced, open-minded and reflective.
Use picture books to teach IB Learner Profile traits: curiosity, empathy, integrity, and more. Engage your students with visual storytelling.
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If you are teaching at an IB Primary Year Program school let me know. I would love some more ideas for 1st grade. Here is a Learner Profile activity that helps students reflect and also informs the teacher. If you are not at an IB school, you can still use this piece to inform you deeper about the students learning preferences. Images and fonts from Lettering Delights. (Click image to download)
Display these posters in your International Baccalaureate classroom to help convey the IB Learner Profiles.Includes 10 posters, one for each IB Learner Profile Trait with photos and the key phrase that supports the learner profiles.InquirerKnowledgeableThinkerCommunicatorPrincipledOpen MindedCaringR...
The IB learner profile is a central part of the PYP. Here is how and why I organized my classroom library by IB learner profile skills.
Finish off your classroom library with these adorable storybook character posters! (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) All posters are digitally drawn from various popular storybooks! Preview of all images are shown in the pictures above. This listing contains 21 different posters! Poster Size: Each poster is 8.5x11 inches (this includes the black border and white edges). If interested in cutting the white border off, the poster is about 7.5 inches wide by 10 inches long (border to border). Printing Tips: I recommend printing the posters on 65 lbs. white cardstock, which can then be laminated to increase durability. Upon purchase, you will notice that there are 2 versions of the posters. One version is the original posters/colours, while the second version has a filter placed on each poster (slightly less vibrant). You can choose which version best suits your personal style/classroom! This file contains 23 different posters, including characters from the books: - The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers - The Smart Cookie by Jory John and Pete Oswald - Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems - Not Your Typical Dragon by Dan Bar-el and Tim Bowers - Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister - The Cool Bean by Jory John and Pete Oswald - Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes - That's What Dinosaurs Do by Jory John and Pete Oswald - The Couch Potato by Jory John and Pete Oswald - If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond - The Bad Seed by Jory John and Pete Oswald - The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko - Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Willems - Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri - The Good Egg by Jory John and Pete Oswald - I Am Human by Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds - The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss - Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams - *Recent Addition Update: Wonder by R.J. Palacio - *Recent Addition Update: Pete The Cat by Eric Litwin and James Dean **For personal use only** ***I do not own these images*** If you have any questions or character requests, feel free to email me!
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Use picture books to teach IB Learner Profile traits: curiosity, empathy, integrity, and more. Engage your students with visual storytelling.
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An Active Listening and Following Directions Game. A fun auditory processing twist on Simon Says that helps with following directions and impulse control.
Looking for simple and aesthetic PYP Learner Profile posters for the library? Characters from well-loved children's books will surely inspire your learners. These resources are perfect to brighten up a classroom or a library media center. These can be printed and used as posters or cut to be hung as bunting as well. Looking for other IB resources? Check out: ATL Skills Action in the PYP PYP Key Concepts
International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme Inquiry Cycle Display Easily print, cut, and display within your classroom. Click here to check out other IB signage and posters!
What is blackout poetry? Poetry writing that all students can feel successful with. Here's how to teach it. Freebie included!
It's the end of the year and amazing things are happening in kindergarten! This week we completed our animal research projects. These kiddos blew me away! I wrote a blog post all about writing animal research papers in kindergarten HERE if you would like to see how I get this started. Today I will share an update on how our research papers went this year and a little freebie at the end to get you started. I used a class set of books we received from the Kiwanis earlier in the year. They are from Scholastic and come in sets of 5. Each book has lots of pictures of different kinds of animals so students have choices regardless of the book they pick. Once students picked their book they went to do a little reading on their own. They picked an animal from the book and started writing. I encouraged them to draw a picture first to really get to know their animal before they decided what facts they were going to share. I didn't expect them to jump "write in" and start writing but they did! The class was silent as they went to work writing about their animal. Some sat around the floor to find a quiet area for their research and some build little privacy areas around themselves so they wouldn't be bothered. A little privacy with folders and her book so she can get to work! A quiet spot on the floor was all this one needed to get focused. The thing that always amazes me about these research projects is that students that rarely write a full sentence suddenly are writing pages because they are writing about something that INTERESTS them! That's what we want right? Don't get me wrong, we always have choice in our classroom when it comes to writing but this project just really inspires students to do more. I had to have this one read to me first but once she read it I got it! ANTS! This sweetie spoke very little English when she came to school and now she is writing her very own research papers on her own. What an accomplishment! "Ants is bug are red" Remember what I said about kiddos that don't write very much. They write "I like..." and are done with it on a daily basis? Well this kiddo gives me that a lot but today was totally different. Notice the phonetic spelling....no copying out of the book here! He did his research and wrote what he wanted to write about his creature. Check out those finger spaces too! Ok, now for the FREEBIE! If you would like this ALL ABOUT page just click HERE. It also includes an All About Beavers page that I use the week prior during our Reading Street Building Beavers unit. I blogged about that HERE. It's a great way to do a group research project first before sending your kiddos out on their own. Thanks for stopping by today! It's been a little while since I have blogged about ANYTHING and it feels good to share a little fun we've had in the classroom! We only have a few weeks left....I don't know exactly and I refuse to countdown. (#takedownthecountdown) I am enjoying every last second with my kiddos! Save this post for later!
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Our silhouette mural is finished! It went pretty quickly once we got started. Each of the figures represents different subject areas at school. Students in grades 4-6 did most of the painting and I had some students in 7-8 grade do touch-ups, edging and fine details. I made a video slideshow of the steps we made to paint the mural to show for the whole school. The school presentation has lots of photos of students in it. I made … Read more... →
Inquiry stems from questions and the focus of this bumper provocation pack is to develop conceptual thinking and questioning skills in your students. The art of the provocation is where we bring the magic and wonder to the inquiry. This big bundle is packed full of images that all relate to the concepts within the IBPYP theme of Who We Are. This resource is exactly what is going to save you time as you are equipped with highly engaging images that will stretch the children’s thinking, develop skills and invite their curiosity into the inquiry all through carefully guided thinking routines and graphic organisers. (UK & USA spelling) These are digital and printable, making it so easy to adapt to your planning. Win-win! •With over 70 ready-made provocations that will engage so you are absolutely set to pick and choose for multiple related concepts within Who We Are. •Over 45 high engagement images that link to the related concepts within the IB PYP theme enabling greater understanding of the big ideas and connecting with ANY unit of inquiry for the upper grades. •21 concept based images/quotes with guiding questions, ideal for using with whole class discussions. (Identity, community, self, beliefs & values, relationships,health, mindfulness etc.) •9 different thinking routines/graphic organisers that enable a progressive development of the ATL skills together with easy differentiation. •Blank templates for each graphic organizer to add your own provocation materials. •Self-assessment & student reflection of skills included This bank of high interest material will keep your inquirers thinking and wondering throughout the entire inquiry, as you integrate it into your learning experiences, use with on-going reflection and even assessment of skills. You will find skills focused graphic organisers, supporting visible thinking routines and for implicit skills practice of: •Observation •Making connections •Using our schema •Analysing data •Literal thinking vs. inferential thinking •Synthesising •Formulating questions •Accountable talk •Collaborative thinking You may also be interested in my complete units of inquiry, providing transdisciplinary activities for all of the themes. Take a look here or look at the store of my website for a larger selection. You can find many more inquiry based tips and tools in my store an on my blog, PYPteachingtools.com. ENJOY! Susan Powers
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