During the height of the pandemic last year, when it was spring and we couldn't go anywhere or do anything except yard work, I decided I wanted to (try to) get into gardening.🌱 Despite coming from a long line of green thumbs AND my first-ever job being at my grandparents'...
10 Spring-Themed Boom Card Decks for French Primary Teachers
If you're teaching online, or your students suddenly have devices in the classroom, you might have discovered Boom Learning. (If not, you can check it out HERE) Boom Learning is a great website where teachers can create interactive "task cards" for students to complete. You can create (or purchase) cards...
The Best Way to Structure Your Writing Block
How many times have you found yourself diving into teaching writing in the primary grades only to be greeted with lots of raised hands and not a lot of actual writing? Probably more times than you can count, if you’re anything like me! This post provides an overview of one...
A Simple Syllables Distance Lesson for French Primary Teachers
Can you believe that Sunday is June - aka month four of distance teaching?? Who would have thought in March, when this all started, that we would still be here now. I've kind of found my stride (more or less haha) with distance teaching, and I do find it simpler...
How to Make Math Distance Learning FUN in maternelle
Flash back to almost 9 years ago, when I very first started teaching maternelle. First of all, two words for you... Pure. Chaos. Our days were PURE CHAOS. It was rough, guys! But for me, the roughest part of the day, where I felt like my teaching was the least...
A Distance Learning FREEBIE for French Primary Teachers
Bonjour! Long time, no post! I can't lie, navigating distance teaching on top of everything else that comes with a pandemic hasn't been easy. I've needed to create lots of new resources, film lots of lessons, and attend many virtual meetings over the past few weeks. Whenever my plate is...
Enseigner les « Textes à structure répétée » avec les Phrases fantastiques
If you've been following me for awhile, you might have read some of my previous blog posts about writing (like this one or this one). You'll know that I don't really believe in having our maternelle students write from prompts each day, and I advocate modeling teaching them how to...
Simple 1:1 Correspondence Practice in Maternelle
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one of the BEST things about maternelle is teaching our students to read. It's amazing to watch them go from saying "but I don't know HOW to read!" to understanding that there is more than one way to read a...
3 Quick & Easy Ways to Stretch Sounds in Maternelle
If you teach a primary grade, you know that in order to learn to read, our students NEED to learn how to decode, and blend letter sounds together to make words. Reading is like an orchestra, with a bunch of factors working altogether, but it's pretty clear that if a...
Our « phrases fantastiques » Routine
Has this ever happened to you? I LOVE TpT (obviously), and I LOVE buying resources from there and supporting fellow teachers. But, sometimes, I buy something, and I think I know what I'm doing with that resource, and then I stumble across a blog post or a social media post...