Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a first grade French teacher looks like? Earlier this month, I shared more about the literacy portion of my teaching day (from approximately 8:40-11:30am). As promised, today I am back to share more about the rest of our day...
Want to Know More About My Morning Classroom Routine in Grade One?
Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a first grade French teacher looks like? From start to finish, I'm here to let you know all about my daily routine with my first graders. As a first grade French teacher, I have developed an engaging classroom routine...
Teacher Planning Tips Part 3: Staying Organized
Welcome back to my three part teacher planning mini series! This is part three, all about classroom organization ideas. Throughout the series, I have talked about teacher planning tips that have worked best for me over the years to help keep me organized. In the part one, I talked about...
Teacher Planning Tips Part 2: Improve Efficiency
Welcome back to my mini teacher planning series! I've put together my best teacher planning tips that have worked for me over the years. Last post, I talked about picking the right planner and how I do annual plans. This blog post is part 2 of 3. If you haven't...
Teacher Planning Tips Part 1: Get Set Up for Success
Teacher planning is NOT something that comes naturally to me, and is something I have spent many years improving. Luckily, I have compiled a list of super easy lesson planning tips that will be useful for any teacher! When people who don't know me that well call me organized, I...
One Simple Way to Improve Your Students’ Active Listening In The Classroom
One challenge you’ll definitely face every single September (especially if you are a maternelle teacher)?, Getting your French primary students to show active listening in the classroom! This can be a tough job for even the calmest 5 year olds, but if your students don't understand much French yet, getting...
Literacy Centres: 3 Ways to Help Your French Primary Students Be More Independent
Do any of these scenarios sound like you and your French primary students during your independent literacy centres? You've carefully explained in detail where to go and what to do at each literacy centre. When you tell students to go and get started, somebody looks at you as if you...
Introducing Classroom Rules in Maternelle
We all know that maternelle is a... special adventure, especially in September ;) When we school starts in September, some of our students may have never been in an environment where they have to follow group rules before. (Or ANY rules ;) haha) I remember one year having a student...
Préparer plus de « Brag Tags » en moins de temps
Bonjour! Do you use brag tags in your classroom? I do! I love how I can use them to reward and reinforce sooo many amazing things my students do, from being great friends, to speaking French, to showing integrity, and persevering. (If you aren't sure exactly what brag tags are,...
How to get your French Primary Students Excited to be their Best
Teaching maternelle is... special ;) Other grades have their challenges, too, I'm sure... but maternelle? It's a whole other ballgame! (For example, you could actually probably play a ball game in another grade, and no one would steal the ball and/or try to stick it up their nose.) <---- yes, this...