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10 FREE Resources for Teaching the Alphabet en français
I'm sure that we can all agree that learning the alphabet en français is super important for our French Kindergarten students. I am also finding that, since the pandemic, a review for my first grade students in September each year is also now essential! In maternelle especially, some students come...
Homework Activities In the Primary Grades: Should You Be Sending It?
Homework... to send it or not to send it in the primary grades? Do you send homework activities in kindergarten? What about in grade one? Over the years, I have tried a variety of things, and thought a lot about homework activities in the primary grades. What I send home...
The One Resource Every French Primary Teacher Needs to Make Literacy Centres Easy
When I started teaching, I started with nothing - as I’m sure many of you did as well. Everything was hard, but I remember that it was especially hard to do centres & come up with new ideas to rotate in and out. I had my students in groups of...
3 Ways to Practice Masculin/Féminin in the Primary Grades
One struggle I had when I first started teaching writing was how my students had a REALLY tough time with articles in their stories. They would often write sentences like, "J'aime ma une maman." when I had word wall cards that included the article… but I didn’t think I could...
FAQ: More about Apprendre les sons composés
Welcome to my first ever FAQ blog post! I'm going to try and add more of these to my blogging schedule, to help answer questions that I get often in greater detail than sometimes the TPT Q&A feature allows for. Today's post will hopefully answer a question that I get...
How to Use Pop Its to Help Your Students Read & Write
Question -- if you’re on Instagram, have you been seeing those Pop It fidget toys all over your feed, too? I first saw them via @happy.little.hearts and decided to grab a 2-pack to try last month. Well, I can tell you now that my students are OBSESSED with them, and...
5 Fun Ways to Count Down the End of the Year
Can you believe it -- it's already May! That means the end of the school year is almost here -- it's home stretch time. And a great time to start a fun countdown routine! I have actually found myself teaching virtually since April 30. That was NOT what we were...
How to Use French Vowel Sound Blending Books to Help Your Students Read
Can you believe it -- it's already May! That means the end of the school year is almost here -- it's home stretch time Before the end of the year, I wanted to take a minute to share one of my FAVOURITE resources that came out of Covid times......
How to use Bingo + Pokémon to Encourage Your Students to Speak More French
One huge struggle I hear over and over from my fellow French teachers is how it's impossible to get our students to speak French. Teachers have told me it's challenging (and overwhelming!) to convince their students that to learn French, they need to actually speak it... and, sometimes, to...