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Engaging Students While Learning a Second Language
This is the task that I had given to myself when I decided that working as a French as a second language teacher was my career direction. I’ve learned many things along the way. My first year, I worked...
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Qui suis-je?
http://en.akinator.com (Photo credit: mazita.) After spending a whole day playing with my classes on Akinator, I need to share it. We had such a great time, and it was an amazing way to practice our...
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Podcasting
I’m going to be trying to podcast the lessons that we learn in class, so that any students that may need help with proper pronunciation of the vocabulary words that we have been learning in class is...
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Teaching Kids To Read a Second Language
Last week, I had my first really big ‘a-ha!’ moment. As a group, we learned to read. And we did this by understanding Les mots amis. Les mots amis are, in a basic translation, Word Friends. A mot ami...
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Genius Hour – Show What You Know
Ms. Kingsley:Phenomenal. Take a look at this amazing post to give you more ideas on how to individualize instruction and how to give options to your students for dynamic presentations. I have found...
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How To Use ClassDojo In Core French
If you’ve been reading my blog for a little bit, you know that I raved about how much ClassDojo did for my classroom last year. It made such an amazing difference in my classroom that my entire view on...
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Celebrating the Olympics
Every four years, our country celebrates the Winter Olympics like mad. It’s a little tougher, given the time zone difference, but it’s one that will be exciting, anyway. I’ve been trying to figure out...
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Legends
While looking for something engaging to teach my intermediate students, I stumbled to find a great set of resources that teach kids about traditional Canadian legends (Aboriginal, French Canadian,...
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Learn To Read Chinese
http://www.ted.com/talks/shaolan_learn_to_read_chinese_with_ease I wish that this was a possibility with French characters. I’ll have to wrack my brain this summer to come up with a comparison, because...
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Our Respectful Robots
In the Grade 4 Core French class, we spent much of the last semester speaking about respect and courtesy, as well as developing language associated with that. The final project for the students...
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