Let’s do a review scavenger hunt! Whether you teach younger students or older students, you can have some fun with the different holidays that some students may celebrate throughout the year. Often for our younger kiddos we focus on vocabulary acquisition for the themed activities, which is an obvious way to incorporate these events into …
So.. I’m going to be 100% honest. For YEARS I have avoided individual presentations in front of the class because, let’s be real, who wants to sit and watch 30-35 presentations PER CLASS. I usually teach classes of 30-35 students (sometimes up to 40!), and 4 different classes. That’s A LOT of presentations to sit …
Connaissez-vous le jeu GoFish? Ou en français, Pige dans le lac? J’adore utiliser ce jeu dans la classe de français! I don’t know about you, but when I mention to my students that we are doing a verb tense, they all groan! Because of this, I try to make grammar more fun for them to …
Have you ever done a novel study in your French class and wondered what to do at the end of it? Most of us have. We read the book, work on reading strategies, assess their reading comprehension, etc, but what do we do at the end of the book? How can we end the book …
My colleague loves to use “Would You Rather” questions in her classroom and her Gr 5 students just adore them. After seeing her use them and seeing how engaged her students were, I decided to give them a shot in my own classroom with my older students and let me tell you, they were a …
Writing report card comments is SUCH a commitment. I typically teach between 120-180 students each year so my report card comments can end up being 100 pages long. It’s wild! And I definitely don’t have the time to type each comment individually, so I use a comment bank. I know that comment banks can be …
Task cards or Scoot cards, whichever it is that you have, (check out my blog post here for the differences) are a great resource for formative and summative assessments. There are so many fun ways to use task cards, so once they are printed, cut, and laminated, you’re good to go for years. I think …
Teaching specific themed vocabulary definitely seems to be more common with younger kiddos and in lower-level French classes. But, for you intermediate to advanced French teachers, if you were to ask your kiddos to tell you what a broom was in French, could they tell you? Mine definitely couldn’t! BUT if I were to say, …
Brand new kids this year? Same kids as last year but need to know what they remember?? Beginning of the year assessments are the perfect way to figure out where your kiddos are at and to help guide your planning. Whether you have all new students, some new students, or no new students, snapshot assessments …
We are back for Part 3 of the Flexible Seating in Middle-School blog series! If you missed Part 1: 5 Steps to Flexible Seating in Middle-School and Part 2: Furniture for Flexible Seating in Middle-School, please check them out to make sure you haven’t missed anything super important! Part 3 is here! We’ll be discussing …
