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...
Comment j’enseigne les mots fréquents
Knowing a wide variety of sight words is SO KEY for primary students when they are learning to read. When your students are able to instantly identify key words without needing to pause and reflect, their brains then have more energy to decode the new words in their text that they...
Maîtriser le centre de lecture à soi en maternelle
Hey everyone! In case you are late to the party, I have been sharing how I run literacy centres in my classroom over the past few weeks. You can find out how I start centres in this post, how I organize them over here, and see ALL of the centres I have...
Maîtriser le centre d’écriture en maternelle
Hi guys! In case you are late to the party, I have been sharing how I run literacy centres in my classroom over the past few weeks. You can find out how I start centres in this post, how I organize them over here, and see ALL of the centres I have...
Comment introduire les nouveaux centres d’apprentissage
Happy Sunday! It is a rainy day here in NS today - fall has definitely arrived! A perfect day for curling up with a mug of coffee and writing my next post in my centres d'apprentissage en maternelle series. Today I would like to talk to you about my tips...
Organisez vos centres d’apprentissage
Here I am... a day late! I forgot when I planned last week to blog on Monday that I would in fact be in Halifax watching the greatest hockey team in the NHL (the Ottawa Senators) kick some Toronto Maple Leaf butt. It was a belated birthday present and it...
Starting centres… en maternelle!
Do you use centres in your primary classroom? I LOVE centres! They can be awesome. When you have centres in place that run like a well-oiled machine, you can easily pull small groups of students to work with, while being confident that the rest of your class is engaged and...
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...
Changing up my clip chart – plus a freebie!!
Hi! If you have been following my blog for awhile, you may have seen this post that I wrote last year about my clip chart. I have used a clip chart ever since I started teaching as a classroom management strategy, tweaking and changing it along the way. Please don't...
A post about Clip Charts
Grab your coffee - this is a long one! :) Clip charts - yay or nay? Ask your teacher friends what they think about behaviour clip charts, and you will probably hear a LOT of differing opinions! Many teachers have used them successfully (and not so successfully) in the past,...