I LOVE using centres with my students! My students love them, and will choose many of the centres to play during indoor recess instead of lego and other toys. It rained this week and one of my boys chose to build with magnets on cookie trays! Setting clear routines is the most important part. Take the time to teach the games to your students so that they understand how to play properly. If they haven't mastered the French vocab, then you will have behavioural and focus issues come up. With younger students, make sure you practice the game as a whole class many times before you introduce it as a centre. Set-up: I use the cards from my "j'ai fini" board as the centre rotation cards, as the centres are all things they can also choose to do if they finish their work early. I recently updated the file to include centre group cards, so you can write their names on the group # cards to set up your groups before they come to class. Normally my "j'ai fini" board is set up like this: Since they're on magnets, it's really easy to move them over to the other side of my whiteboard to set up the centres. I line them up vertically and put the group # cards beside them. I have each centre set up on a table group (except bug in a rug, they play on the carpet). I review the rules of each centre with them, and the CLEAN UP rules. We talk about what each centre should look like when it's been properly cleaned up. They get started at their centres, and I work with my small group at my table. When I'm done with them (about 10 minutes) I ding my bell. This means clean up and come back to the carpet. Once they're all back at the carpet, we look around to check that the room is cleaned up properly. Any groups who wrote on whiteboards are able to read a sentence they wrote to the class. This is our sharing centre. Then I move the centre cards on the whiteboard down one spot, and tell each group where they are going for their next centre. Here are some of the centres I do: 1. Bang game: Put all the vocab you’re practicing in a container. Students pull out a card. If they can say it in French (or use it in a sentence, to make it harder) then they can keep the card. If they pull a card that says “bang” then they get another turn (or lose all their cards, your choice!) You can use any empty yogurt container or plastic tupperware. Just make sure they can't see through the container! Some of my students like to play bang and then write the words they won on a whiteboard! 2. Bug in a rug: Lay out the vocab in a grid. One student hides the “bug” under a card, while the other students close their eyes. They guess in French which vocab card it’s hidden under. Whoever finds the bug gets to hide it next. This game requires an honest conversation with your students about why cheating will ruin the fun of the game! 3. Go fish: You can print any of the flashcards you're using in class. Copy them 2 or 4 per page to make them smaller. 4. Word building: Magnets on cookie trays! My students use our visual dictionaries or word wall strips to choose their words/sentences to build. These awesome magnets come from wintergreen. This set is much cheaper, but you'd likely need multiple sets. The cookie trays are from the dollar store. Ideally you want small magnets so they can fit more words on the cookie tray. 5. Sentence building: Print squares with a variety of sentence starters, numbers, colours, and objects. Students then put the words in order to build sentences. You can extend this by having them read their sentences to a partner, or write their sentences on a whiteboard/in their journals. 6. "Pictionary": One student draws on a whiteboard, the other student has to guess what they are drawing. 7. Matching: Picture to the word. My students use our visual dictionaries to check their work over when they're done! 8. Cootie catchers/fortune tellers with a partner. 9. Bingo - 1 group member can be the bingo caller, others put tokens on the words that are called. I use these as the bingo tokens. 10. Writing on whiteboards - 11. Hunting for sight words - 12. Cube game - Roll the cube and answer the question. Extension - write the question! I bought the cubes here, and write different prompts on sticky notes to slide under the plastic. 13. SMACK game - One student says the word, whoever smacks it first gets to say the next word! 14. Spin and graph sight words - 15. Stamp the sight words, themed vocab, or sentences! 16. Write the sight words - I bought salt from the dollar store and added a few drops of food colouring, then gave it a good shake. Students use a sharp pencil to write words in the salt! 17. Read and clip - 18. Spinner games - I use these in centres to give my students prompts for oral communication or writing. They can spin the spinner and either say a sentence or write a sentence. They can review vocabulary in partners (one spins, one says the word). 19. Working with Mlle - The BEST part about centres is that it means I can pull small groups to work with. Do you have any centres you love? Feel free to share in the comments :)
Getting students speaking French is a challenge for foreign language teachers! Find effective French speaking strategies for FSL, core, and immersion classes.
Enlighten your students' critical thinking and inferencing skills with this low-prep resource that analyzes different movie plots in French. French Cinema Vocabulary handout, mini-lesson, discussion questions, examples, and extension activities are all included! This lesson is perfect for a French Cinema Unit or enhancing your students' oral and written French skills. This resource includes: Notes for Teacher with instructions 11 Google Slides™/Powerpoint™ slides (content, information, lesson) 1 Cinema vocabulary handout for students 1 plot activity handout for students (English + French version) This resource is great for: -Fun activities -Comprehensible Input -Independent work -Written and oral French activities -French Immersion, Intermediate French learners, Core French learners, Extended and Enriched French learners -Distance learning, elearning -DELF A2 students Related Products ⭐ Allons au cinéma | French Cinema Unit Bundle for Intermediate French - 5+ weeks ⭐ Allons aux Oscars | French Oscar Celebration Activities and lesson | NO PREP ⭐ Critique de film | French Movie Review Project and Lesson - NO PREP Follow Me: If you enjoyed this resource, make sure to follow my store EZ Inspiration so that you can get updates when new resources are uploaded! If you have any questions about the product, please reach out! Feedback: If you liked this resource, your feedback would be greatly appreciated! When you leave feedback, you will receive TPT credits. Click HERE for more information.
Save time by checking out this list of French back-to-school resources with links to videos, free printables, and more! Ready for "la rentrée scolaire"?
Love French task cards? Try them in a game of scoot for a fun & engaging way to practice French verb conjugation & vocabulary in your core or immersion class.
Creating a Core French Long Range Plan based on a wealth of resources and understanding of what the average Ontario English-stream student is capable of learning at the various grade levels.
Need easy-to-use French reading practice that will make differentiation so much easier? Find my favorite actives for core and immersion.
These dice games for French are a fun and engaging way to practice vocabulary, grammar, and sentence writing with core and immersion classes.
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French games for grammar, vocabulary, and verb conjugation for Core and Immersion: French class made fun and engaging!
Classroom tips and projects for elementary school, middle school, and high school. Teaching resources. Clip art.
This blog post contains activities, resources & ideas for beginner French classes. Whether you are preparing for a new school year or perhaps you're in the middle of it, you will find inspiration for your classroom here!
Have you been looking for a fun and educational way to engage your students and help them explore French listening comprehension? This set of differentiated French listening activities for primary is perfect for assessing your students’ listening skills. This farm-themed resource comes with 8 prompts at 3 different levels, for a total of 24 French listening activities! Click here for a preview.
FREE French verbs minibook: a one-sheet, one-cut foldable minibook to help out your students to master those tricky French verbs conjugations!
Here is a list of some of the Free French Resources found in my TPT store. Click on the title of each resource for a direct link!
This week we made our mini books! Literally... I photocopied them 4/page so we had teeny tiny books! This was a selling point for my grade 1s, as they thought mini books were very exciting. The mini books followed the same pattern as the book I have read to them for the past few weeks. We practiced the vocabulary many different ways before I had them write their own book. The dot at the end of each sentence is for the colour: "Dans ma salle de classe, il y a 4 gommes roses", "Dans ma salle de classe il y a 3 crayons oranges". So... I came back from Thanksgiving weekend to find my classroom covered in mouse droppings. We had a few visitors move into our hallway of the school!!! Some of my students wrote this into their books! They thought it was quite funny! Technically, it was in our classroom... My students are REALLY excited to read their books to some of the older French Immersion students at our school!
French First Week Activities: In my previous 4 posts, I've talked about why it's so important to create an immersion atmosphere, how to set the tone for the year, and how to set expectations for the first day of French class. In this post about the French first week activities, I'll be sharing the lessons
Thème LES MONSTRES - 10 Petites histoires/énoncés simples à lire pour vos jeunes lecteurs débutants. - Les 10 courts énoncés/histoires peuvent être dessinés sur le IPAD ou être imprimés en version PAPIER également
Here are some pictures of my class during "Daily 5" with Spring activities! Bang! is a favourite of theirs - they pull a card from the bucket and can keep it if they can use the vocabulary in a sentence. They try to collect the most cards by the end of the game. If they get a "bang!" card, they can pull another card. Sometimes we also play that they have to put all their cards back into the bucket. Bang: Here they are testing my spring "freebie" on TPT. They have to sort the cards into the correct order to make the correct sentences! These cards have pictures that match the word wall cards/flashcards I use with them. They can write sentences on the laminated cards: Here are two of their desks! They LOVE writing on their desks. They can draw a picture and write sentences to describe it. We are working on different strategies for sounding out words and for editing (P.O.M.M.E.S.). Here is a puzzle game for vocabulary acquisition/reading practice: Last but not least, some Read to Self :) What do your students love to choose during Daily 5?
Well this past week was a complete blur! I'm finally sitting down to share a bit more about our first two weeks - for more frequent photo updates, check out my instagram!! We've been practicing our calendar routine and learning some basic school vocabulary: We practice the days of the week, months of the year, counting to 30, the vocabulary on the calendar squares (bus, school, backpack, books, girl, boy), weather, and our preposition song once a day. I've been reading "Mon ecole" to them every day, and they repeat each page after me. I have also recorded the book so my kids can practice at home! We then review the vocabulary playing "SMACK". I choose two students to stand in front of the board with fly swatters. Then I say a word, and whoever smacks it first gets another turn. The other student passes their swatter on to another classmate. Now that they're familiar with the words, I let a third student call out the word (instead of doing it myself). Next week they'll be making their own copy of the book and taking it home to start building their own French library! We learned how to say "je m'appelle" and labelled our self portraits with colour words! They used the colour posters in the classroom to help label their clothes. We're also working our way through making our own colour books! We are doing one colour a day. We started our first social studies unit and have been talking about rules at school and rules at the park. We also talked about what happens when we don't follow rules. We brainstormed different consequences to breaking different rules around the school and at recess. Our song this week was "Bonjour, comment ca va?" We practiced it all week and then it went home in our French duotangs to practice over the weekend. We practiced saying "Comment ca va?" to a partner, and the possible answers they could give. We took turns sharing our mini conversations with the class! As we filled out the lyrics page, we talked about things that make us feel each of the possible answers from the song. Mlle Lawson replies "ca va bien!" when she has a starbucks in her hand ;) Each week I type up a page to go on the back of the song/poem page that gives parents a few QUICK activities to complete with their child at home. The entire thing could be done in less than 10 minutes, so hopefully it doesn't add stress over the weekend. Here's the one that went home this weekend: This week we also started very simple colour centres. I showed them our word wall cards for colours. I attach them with shower curtain hooks from Dollarama and then hang them on 3M hooks by the carpet. They used whiteboards to write the colour words. We use black mittens from Dollarama as our erasers! We also practiced matching our colours to the words! I gave them a visual dictionary page with the colours to help them check their work when they were done! TIP for your centres - use numbers or letters on the back of each set so you can quickly sort them! I have 3 sets of colour bang cards in different containers, and they somehow end up mixed up. You can quickly flip them over and sort them! It took me wayyyy too many years to figure this trick out!! After years of fighting to erase my whiteboard, I've now got it completely figured out. I used expensive expo whiteboard spray for a while, but once you start using that you can't go back to a regular whiteboard eraser because it leaves a film on your board. SO we have spray bottles of water and microfiber cloths from Dollarama. Once you've removed all the build up and residue from your board with the cloth and water, you probably won't need to wet the cloth at all. Life changing!! Next week we are focusing on classroom objects and continuing on with colours, calendar, weather, and our rules unit for social studies. We will be starting to talk about fall changes soon, too! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
I did the research so that you don't have to! I've created a list of French back to school resources that you need if you teach Primary French Immersion.
Ever wonder which countries use French as their official language? Did you know there are over 25 Francophone countries? North America - 1, The Caribbean - 1, Europe - 5, and Africa - 21, Australia - 1. This list only includes countries that use French as one of their official languages, however there are many
FRENCH LEARNING RESOURCES Colouring Sheet Printable Activity for children - THE FRUITS - COLOURING ACTIVITY Worksheet for colouring correctly each fruit. This is an activity worksheet to reinforce the lesson and to challenge the children on the colour and fruit topics. This resource support French in the primary classroom. The activity is presented on a A4 size sheet (8.27 in × 11.7 in). ++++++++++++++ You are purchasing a digital file only. NO PRINTED MATERIALS ++++++++++++++ This file comes in PDF. You will receive the files electronically. Once you have placed an order and made a payment, an email will be sent to the address on your Etsy account with a link for your download. All documents have been uniquely created and designed by me and are for personal use only and cannot be used commercially or be resold/redistributed. No refunds are available due to the nature of the digital product. Happy learning
This activity allows students to create a t-shirt to demonstrate understanding of the traditions associated with Franco-Ontarien day. This day is important to celebrate french culture and heritage in Ontario. This activity can be used as a summative evaluation. Please check out my "Le Drapeau Fra...
The French speaking activity - Unidentified French Object Paired Activity An innovative teaching resource, the Unidentified French Object Paired Activity is designed to bolster the French language skills of learners at different proficiency stages. Comprising 10 printable PDF worksheets , these paired speaking activities help learners engage with and enhance their understanding of common French vocabulary. Each worksheet presents six images representing everyday objects, animals, insects etc. The aim is for students to guide their partners in describing these images in French. This hands-on approach aids them in improving practical communication skills while simultaneously expanding their vocabulary knowledge. Versatility of The Unidentified French Object Paired Activity This tool has been created with versatility and adaptability at its forefront. From beginners who are dipping their toes into sentence construction with simple verbs and new words; through intermediate students who are working towards fluency; to advanced learners broaching the profundities of pronouns and complex grammatical constructs - this learning aid is for everyone. Ideal Sentence Starters Included: To cater to all learner levels, each page includes suggested sentence launch points in easily understandable language that guides student's sentence formation process. A Truly Immersive Tool: The worksheets are created wholly using the French language as a core element making it an integral extension towards both immersion programs as well as standard instruction sets. These can be utilized anywhere from elementary (Grade 1) through high school education (Grade 12), thereby making it a truly inclusive DIY learning aid - ideal for large classrooms, homeschooling parents or small group educators. Potential uses: As part of classroom instruction or projects Homework assignments Literacy center curriculum enhancement tools The Unidentified French Object Paired Activity, thus, serves as a powerful tool for educators worldwide that amplifies real-world communication skills within students while keeping them constructively engaged throughout their learning journey. French speaking activity - Unidentified French Object Paired Activity
French games for grammar, vocabulary, and verb conjugation for Core and Immersion: French class made fun and engaging!
French games for grammar, vocabulary, and verb conjugation for Core and Immersion: French class made fun and engaging!
French speaking resources for the FSL, Core, and immersion classrooms - find activities for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students.
These French Valentine's Day activities will engage students with fun activities that can be used separately or as a complement to an FSL/Core French class.
These are my favorite activities for French class - Practice French vocabulary, verb conjugation, and grammar with these engaging activities.
Using French bell-ringers are an effective way to help students transition between subjects, review vocabulary, and practice grammar.
Engaging and fun end of the year activities for French class to use with your Core French or French immersion students.
French games for grammar, vocabulary, and verb conjugation for Core and Immersion: French class made fun and engaging!
The following is a chart that we have created as a class, of all the actions we are very familiar with so far. Along with it are sentences w...
I LOVE using centres with my students! My students love them, and will choose many of the centres to play during indoor recess instead of lego and other toys. It rained this week and one of my boys chose to build with magnets on cookie trays! Setting clear routines is the most important part. Take the time to teach the games to your students so that they understand how to play properly. If they haven't mastered the French vocab, then you will have behavioural and focus issues come up. With younger students, make sure you practice the game as a whole class many times before you introduce it as a centre. Set-up: I use the cards from my "j'ai fini" board as the centre rotation cards, as the centres are all things they can also choose to do if they finish their work early. I recently updated the file to include centre group cards, so you can write their names on the group # cards to set up your groups before they come to class. Normally my "j'ai fini" board is set up like this: Since they're on magnets, it's really easy to move them over to the other side of my whiteboard to set up the centres. I line them up vertically and put the group # cards beside them. I have each centre set up on a table group (except bug in a rug, they play on the carpet). I review the rules of each centre with them, and the CLEAN UP rules. We talk about what each centre should look like when it's been properly cleaned up. They get started at their centres, and I work with my small group at my table. When I'm done with them (about 10 minutes) I ding my bell. This means clean up and come back to the carpet. Once they're all back at the carpet, we look around to check that the room is cleaned up properly. Any groups who wrote on whiteboards are able to read a sentence they wrote to the class. This is our sharing centre. Then I move the centre cards on the whiteboard down one spot, and tell each group where they are going for their next centre. Here are some of the centres I do: 1. Bang game: Put all the vocab you’re practicing in a container. Students pull out a card. If they can say it in French (or use it in a sentence, to make it harder) then they can keep the card. If they pull a card that says “bang” then they get another turn (or lose all their cards, your choice!) You can use any empty yogurt container or plastic tupperware. Just make sure they can't see through the container! Some of my students like to play bang and then write the words they won on a whiteboard! 2. Bug in a rug: Lay out the vocab in a grid. One student hides the “bug” under a card, while the other students close their eyes. They guess in French which vocab card it’s hidden under. Whoever finds the bug gets to hide it next. This game requires an honest conversation with your students about why cheating will ruin the fun of the game! 3. Go fish: You can print any of the flashcards you're using in class. Copy them 2 or 4 per page to make them smaller. 4. Word building: Magnets on cookie trays! My students use our visual dictionaries or word wall strips to choose their words/sentences to build. These awesome magnets come from wintergreen. This set is much cheaper, but you'd likely need multiple sets. The cookie trays are from the dollar store. Ideally you want small magnets so they can fit more words on the cookie tray. 5. Sentence building: Print squares with a variety of sentence starters, numbers, colours, and objects. Students then put the words in order to build sentences. You can extend this by having them read their sentences to a partner, or write their sentences on a whiteboard/in their journals. 6. "Pictionary": One student draws on a whiteboard, the other student has to guess what they are drawing. 7. Matching: Picture to the word. My students use our visual dictionaries to check their work over when they're done! 8. Cootie catchers/fortune tellers with a partner. 9. Bingo - 1 group member can be the bingo caller, others put tokens on the words that are called. I use these as the bingo tokens. 10. Writing on whiteboards - 11. Hunting for sight words - 12. Cube game - Roll the cube and answer the question. Extension - write the question! I bought the cubes here, and write different prompts on sticky notes to slide under the plastic. 13. SMACK game - One student says the word, whoever smacks it first gets to say the next word! 14. Spin and graph sight words - 15. Stamp the sight words, themed vocab, or sentences! 16. Write the sight words - I bought salt from the dollar store and added a few drops of food colouring, then gave it a good shake. Students use a sharp pencil to write words in the salt! 17. Read and clip - 18. Spinner games - I use these in centres to give my students prompts for oral communication or writing. They can spin the spinner and either say a sentence or write a sentence. They can review vocabulary in partners (one spins, one says the word). 19. Working with Mlle - The BEST part about centres is that it means I can pull small groups to work with. Do you have any centres you love? Feel free to share in the comments :)
