Why should we teach core French students about St. Patrick’s Day? Because students love learning about holidays and celebrations in core French class. Focusing on these special occasions, like St. Patrick’s Day, is just one way that we as FSL teachers can help our upper elementary students to love learning
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I find myself in a bit of a teaching rut. Using the same websites, apps and activities to help students review before summative assessments. Now don’t get me wrong, there is NOTHING wrong with tried and true activities (Kahoot, I am talking to
Jamboard is one of my favourite digital tools. I love it’s simplicity AND the post it note feature. Here are five ways that you can incorporate Jamboard into your virtual or in person classroom. Birthday Messages Students can add post it notes to this Jamboard in order to wish the
Games are one of my favourite things to incorporate into my FSL classroom. I believe that in order for kids to be motivated to learn a second language, they need to enjoy doing so. This means that we as core French teachers need to make our classrooms fun places to
Launching Event: I start this unit by watching the movie “Inside Out”. This film serves as an excellent launch event for our unit on emotions as my students LOVE watching it. I play the film in French with English subtitles. We pause it every so often to recap the different
One of my favourite aspects of Social Studies is introducing students to celebrations of various cultural groups. One of the BEST ways to introduce students to any concept, is through picture books! This blog post contains affiliate links which means that amazon throws a few cents my way if you
December is my favourite month! Teaching about French Christmas Traditions brings so much fun and joy to the classroom! I know that your students will love these French Christmas activities. PS. Don’t forget to grab the FREEBIE that’s linked below! My French as a Second Language (FSL) classes travel around
It is no secret to my colleagues that I absolutely LOVE Genius Hour! Some people call it Passion Projects, others call it 20% time, but the idea is essentially the same. Providing students with one block a week to work on something that is important to them or that they
Your upper elementary students will love solving these multiplication and division problems to escape from Mars.
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