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...
The Most Fun Way to Work on Fine Motor and Anchor Words in French
Do you teach anchor words in French for each letter of the French alphabet to your students? Especially if you’re in a primary grade, you probably do! Anchor words are so key for helping our students remember their letter sounds. In fact, they are so important that at my school,...
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...
Letter/Numeral Formation Practice in the Primary Grades
Let’s take a second and talk about one of my biggest nemesis today… proper letter/numeral formation! My students have SUCH a hard time writing top to bottom, right to left. They always seem to come to me (in maternelle or in première année) writing in the most inefficient ways… like...
Notre routine de calligraphie
Do you teach handwriting and proper letter formation to your kindergarten students? Kindergarteners need LOTS of practice correctly forming their letters! It may not seem like a big deal if your students start at the top or start at the bottom or form their letters exactly right, but... it is! Read...
Des idées pour enseigner l’alphabet en français
Hi everyone! I was reading a post on the awesome Facebook group Primary French Immersion Teachers this morning asking about how people teach letter names and sounds to their kindergarten students. I started to share some things that I do, and when my answer turned into a novel, I decided...
Pomme, pomme, petite et ronde!
Bonjour! Je préparais ma salle de classe ce matin et je voulais vite partager un jeu très simple que j'aime jouer avec mes élèves pendant le mois de septembre. Le jeu s'appelle « Pomme, pomme, petite et ronde! » et c'est parfait pour certains moments de transition (par exemple, lorsque...
Homework, a new alphabet product & a freebie!
I am on a product roll! I have been super motivated ever since the #TpTSellerChallenge and crossing things off my massive to-do list. I have been thinking a lot about the (academic) things that my students REALLY need to know to be set up for success in grade one, because,...