I had a reader ask about whether or not we use The Daily Five in kindergarten and what that looks like in a French Immersion kindergart...

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?

Dear Educators, “J’aime les mots!” is a set of task cards that will help your students work with words in the primary French immersion classroom. The activities are suitable for Grade 1-3 students, and can even be used in kindergarten if students are practicing letters or familiar words such as their name. Simply print the task cards and display them at your word work center. Most of the task cards are NO-prep, though some require a small amount of setup. The activities are also perfect for use as part of your Daily 5. This package includes: - 25 task cards for use in your literacy centers - Accompanying worksheets - Detailed instructions for use :) Happy teaching :)

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 :)

I had a reader ask about whether or not we use The Daily Five in kindergarten and what that looks like in a French Immersion kindergart...

French journal writing prompts are great for students in Early French Immersion or Core French classes. They are simple enough that they can be used in younger grades, but can also be used to get some longer responses out of older grades. This product includes over 100 prompts ranging from those you can use on an every day basis to those that are themed (e.g., Halloween, Christmas, etc.).

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?

à lire, à bâtir, à écrire carte - read, build, write (printable) "À lire, à bâtir, à écrire" work with words literacy kits and...

Printable French Storytelling Dice: help your kids find topics to write or speak about in your French classroom, even if they're at a beginner level!

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?

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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 :)

I took some photos to share this morning as we worked through some of our centres! I try to keep a balance between introducing new vocabulary and keeping all the old (known) vocabulary in our centres. Some students like the change and challenge of new vocabulary - but I find some need the confidence that comes with those really familiar words. That's why you'll notice that many of my photos include classroom objects, fall, and winter words! As long as they're on task and engaged, I don't mind what they use! I have all of our word wall strips hanging on rings under my whiteboard. Some of my students use these to help them put together our matching puzzles! It lets them correct their own work, and scaffolds them with their reading. As we're no longer focusing on winter words, I've moved our winter sentence building station off from my whiteboard and onto my filing cabinet. This creates a little area where students can continue to practice with these cards. I also have a pocket chart on the wall that they can use for our new spring words. There were many, many more words in our spring set than our winter one, so I can't squish them all onto the whiteboard - so they're doing this one in a pocket chart instead. I have pocket charts all over my walls using 3m hooks! My favourite is this cute little stand up pocket chart! They like to use this one to build mini sentences. I found this guy at a garage sale, so unfortunately I have no idea where you'd find one like this! These last three are all the exact same sentence building cards, but having them in 3 areas of the classroom gives them the feel of being different activities. I find that it helps create more interest in the activities, as students could move between them and still be practicing building sentences. The more options, the better :)

This week we are focusing on winter vocabulary! We've been having fun with different games, and it's really exciting to hear them starting to remember the new vocabulary. Today we started practicing our poem of the week, and I introduced this week's 4 words of the week. I photocopied this "set" (our second 8 week set of words) onto coloured paper, laminated them, and then stuck magnets on them. We practice them really quickly each day, and they hunt for the words every morning when they look through French books/Read to self while we wait for O Canada. I also switched the weather/clothing squares out of our sentence station and replaced them with the winter vocabulary. I added in the simple preposition squares too. We build a few sentences together every day. I let one student choose each square - so 8 students contributed to the photo below. Then we read it together. After we've built a few together, then they make some up with a partner to practice talking. Today I also gave them about 5 minutes afterwards to write their sentences down and share them with a new friend. Below are some examples! We also made up a game today to practice new vocabulary. Each student had a whiteboard, marker, and mitten (we use Dollarama mittens as erasers). They chose 6 objects from our word wall to draw on their board. Then I chose a word wall card, and they repeated the word after me. If they had that card, then they circled the object. Whoever had circled all 6 of their objects first won a sticker :) They also got to shout "BAZINGA!", which is what we decided to name our new game!

I took some photos to share this morning as we worked through some of our centres! I try to keep a balance between introducing new vocabulary and keeping all the old (known) vocabulary in our centres. Some students like the change and challenge of new vocabulary - but I find some need the confidence that comes with those really familiar words. That's why you'll notice that many of my photos include classroom objects, fall, and winter words! As long as they're on task and engaged, I don't mind what they use! I have all of our word wall strips hanging on rings under my whiteboard. Some of my students use these to help them put together our matching puzzles! It lets them correct their own work, and scaffolds them with their reading. As we're no longer focusing on winter words, I've moved our winter sentence building station off from my whiteboard and onto my filing cabinet. This creates a little area where students can continue to practice with these cards. I also have a pocket chart on the wall that they can use for our new spring words. There were many, many more words in our spring set than our winter one, so I can't squish them all onto the whiteboard - so they're doing this one in a pocket chart instead. I have pocket charts all over my walls using 3m hooks! My favourite is this cute little stand up pocket chart! They like to use this one to build mini sentences. I found this guy at a garage sale, so unfortunately I have no idea where you'd find one like this! These last three are all the exact same sentence building cards, but having them in 3 areas of the classroom gives them the feel of being different activities. I find that it helps create more interest in the activities, as students could move between them and still be practicing building sentences. The more options, the better :)

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 :)

Here's a new centre that matches my vocabulary pack for summer words: L'ete - French summer word work centre The file has two options, depending on how you want to set the centre up. One option is to bring the vocabulary cards and multiple blank templates. You can attach velcro to the vocabulary cards and the template, or simply have students place the card on the paper. The other option is to print out the pages that have the vocabulary typed right on the page. This saves the step of having them place a card. Steps: 1. Read the word (on the page, or place the vocabulary card in the box) 2. Write the word - with a dry erase marker 3. Build the word - with the letter tiles 4. Write a sentence using the word - with a dry erase marker

à lire, à bâtir, à écrire carte - read, build, write (printable) "À lire, à bâtir, à écrire" work with words literacy kits and...

I clearly have spring on my mind :) Here is a freebie you can use during Daily 5/in your literacy centres. You can download it in French or English. They are simple sentences that your kids can put together using the puzzle pieces. Just print, laminate, and cut up the sections!

I recently posted a file that I have been using this past month to help with assessing my students. It includes a variety of different activities for reading, writing, listening, and oral production. Here are some of the included activities: Below is a template for your listening test. Choose 12 winter words that you want to test your students on. To help see what each student knows, you can have them spread around the room. I read one word at a time, giving them time to think and draw. I find this helpful to know which of my students need more practice on the vocabulary. Below is the sheet I use to see what words my students can produce. This is more challenging for them than hearing and drawing the word. I point to each square and they tell me the word. Depending on where your students are, you could also have them use the vocabulary in a sentence as well. This is some writing practice - students can read the sentence and fill in the blanks with a word that makes sense. They can practice reading and writing for this one! To complete this activity, students need to read and then draw a picture to match what they read. I find it to be a helpful check-in for reading comprehension. I hope that you find some of these helpful! What are you using in your classroom to assess all the different French strands?

French Spring Sentence Scramble ♦ Print, cut, laminate. ♦ Use as a centre - students sort the shapes to create spring sentences. Includes: ♦ 18 puzzles for students to read and put together. ★ Please email me at [email protected] if there is a way that I can improve this file for you! Looking for more? Check out my other spring files! Le printemps! Flashcards, word wall cards, and centre games French spring vocabulary writing French and English spring freebie French spring reading activities French Spring Sentence Scramble French spring bingo game (photographs) French Spring sentence making/magnetic words French spring matching game and centre cards (photographs) French spring "bug in a rug" game - le printemps (photographs) French spring flashcards/word wall/bang game (photographs) C'est le printemps - Reading, Writing, & Assessment for early FI or core french C'est le printemps! 3 student mini books C’est le printemps! Teacher book and student templates Updates: 2016/03/15 - Updated font and formatting, added in more pictures and a blank template.

I'm currently working with my grade 1s to start building more complex sentences. Instead of "Je vois 2 crayons" or "Il y a 5 boules de neige", we started making "when --> then" sentences. Quand il fait froid, je porte un manteau. Quand il fait frais, je porte un chandail. Quand il fait beau, je joue dehors avec mes amis. Quand il neige, je fais un bonhomme de neige. This has really helped show who needs some extra help with the comprehension too, since they need to build sentences that make sense. We are also practicing the different verbs: Je porte J'ai besoin de Je joue Je vois Je fais Je patine Je bois Je mange Je nage I read the book from the file to them a LOT. I read it once through when they listen, and then the second time I read line by line, giving them time to repeat after me. They hear the book at least every other day, and they soon learn the words and are able to read along with me. We have talked about WHY we read books more than once (to learn the French words) and they get really excited when it clicks for them. Then we go through all the flashcards to practice the vocabulary again, repeating each card after me. There are lots of different centres that match the vocabulary from the book and the flashcards. We play "bug in a rug" as a class to practice the vocabulary, and do the matching centre to practice reading the words. We also start practicing building the sentences in partners and sharing them with the class. I draw/write them on the board as the students share them and then we read them all together as a class. After a few days of practicing orally, we start practicing writing the sentences. I write "Quand _________ je _____________" on the board, and they can use the word wall cards for help writing the full sentences. Next week they will be writing their own versions of the book using the template I made. They can stick to the "je porte" sentences, or they can use different verbs and endings to really show me what they have learned! One of my students blew my away by making this during Daily 5: If you're interested, here are the two files that I am using with my kiddos :) Le temps et les vêtements - Mini book and centres Le temps et les vêtements - flashcards, bug in a rug, and domino game

My kids are just starting to write in French for the first time this year. Some of them have been doing this on their own for a while (thanks to Daily 5!), but for others this is a BIG step. To build into it gradually, we have been doing guided writing. We talk about different things, brainstorm on the board together, and put together journal entries together (like our Social Studies Celebrations journal). When we write in our journal, we go step by step. I have some kids who go on ahead without us, but for the most part we write sentence by sentence together. It was really exciting on Friday to see that some kids who previously have given a lot of resistance are now totally open to the idea. (They told me this is thanks to our "brain music"! The classical music I play during work times) They have writing folders (that we also use for Daily 5) with journal pages. At the front is a personal dictionary with some key vocabulary they might need (e.g. days of the week, clothing, weather). It was really neat last year to look back at their journals and see the progress they made over the year!

We have been working hard on our fall vocabulary for a few weeks. It's so fun to hear them say the fall words with so much confidence now! We practiced a venn diagram together as a class to compare "fall" and "winter" as part of our seasonal changes unit. Then my students tried it independently on mini whiteboards. They shared their ideas and sentences with a partner each time, before erasing and adding new ideas. I've now also increased the challenge with our fall centres. When they finish the matching centre, they read through all of them and come up with sentences with their small group. When they play "bang", they can now only keep the card if they can say the words in French AND use it in a sentence. When we do "turn and talk" at the carpet with a partner, they use a variety of fall sentence starters to make up sentences with their partner. We started our "En automne, je..." books on Thursday and worked on them a bit Friday as well. Next week they will present them to me as an assessment!

A daily mindfulness program specifically designed for Primary French Immersion! Mindfulness practices can greatly improve attention, focus, self-regulation and overall well-being within your classroom. It can be difficult to find the time to implement a mindfulness practice and these short, 5-minute mindfulness exercises that correspond with each letter of the alphabet are the perfect way to initially introduce mindfulness in the primary or Kindergarten classroom. Included in this Resource: -26 Letter size Posters (A-Z each with a corresponding, different mindfulness exercise) -Smaller versions of these posters (Perfect for laminating and putting on a binder ring for easy access) -A Teacher Guide (To explain how to prepare and present each mindfulness activity) -Necessary Materials (Printables needed for implementing the mindfulness exercises) As always, please ask any and all questions before purchasing. Thank you so much for your interest in this product! If you are looking for more products for fostering self-regulation skills in your classroom, check out this resource: Stratégies pour encourager l'autorégulation

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!

Thanks to Jamie on twitter (you can find her at @fiteach) I dug up an acronym for " I Pick " in French. Five simple words to remind student...

We are working our way up to do all of the "5" from Daily 5. At this point we are doing "Je lis tout seul" and "Je joue avec les mots". My students love all the games we play, so letting them choose on their own means less of the "je lis tout seul". I pulled out the Halloween matching game that I made. My students matched them up (yay reading!) and then they used them as writing prompts. They chose a vocabulary word and wrote a sentence on the mini whiteboards. The great side effect of free choice with the "je joue avec les mots" centres is that they sometimes create their OWN version of the games we have! One of my students took our question cube and decided to play it on his own - and write out his answers! The boys in my class LOVE playing "bug in a rug". Our expectation is for FULL sentences, when asking and answering (since they know the vocabulary from grade 1). One of the girls in my class used our sentence magnets to write about rabbits! Then she drew a picture of what she wrote. Here is a picture that one of my students drew. They can draw on the whiteboards as long as they write a sentence to go with their drawing. One of my students loves making paper airplanes! Here is the sentence he wrote about his airplane.

This week my grade 1 students wrote and presented their winter books! We talked about using different sentence starters. Here are the ones we have practiced so far this year: - je vois - je mange - je porte - il y a - je roule - j'utilise - je fais - je bois - j'aime - je n'aime pas I left the verb blank (je _______) in this book for the first time so that I could really see what my students understood. Some of them stuck to "je vois" and "il y a", while some were trying to use "j'utilise" and "je fais"! They were really excited about the challenge. Our class goals were to also add in colours, numbers, and prepositions of place. We have been reading the "C'est l'hiver" book together every few days and practicing the vocabulary in our Daily 5 centres, so they were comfortable making up sentences with the winter words. Here are some of the book pages:

Learn more about French phonics lapbooks: each set focuses on one letter-sound pair with lots of hands-on practice for lapbooks or interactive notebooks!

The Daily Five and Café are part of a literacy model developed by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Along the bottom of the Daily Fiv...

Learn how to fold a one-cut mini-book and get your FREE printable French verbs mini-book file. Your students will enjoy folding this useful, reference tool!

We are working our way up to do all of the "5" from Daily 5. At this point we are doing "Je lis tout seul" and "Je joue avec les mots". My students love all the games we play, so letting them choose on their own means less of the "je lis tout seul". I pulled out the Halloween matching game that I made. My students matched them up (yay reading!) and then they used them as writing prompts. They chose a vocabulary word and wrote a sentence on the mini whiteboards. The great side effect of free choice with the "je joue avec les mots" centres is that they sometimes create their OWN version of the games we have! One of my students took our question cube and decided to play it on his own - and write out his answers! The boys in my class LOVE playing "bug in a rug". Our expectation is for FULL sentences, when asking and answering (since they know the vocabulary from grade 1). One of the girls in my class used our sentence magnets to write about rabbits! Then she drew a picture of what she wrote. Here is a picture that one of my students drew. They can draw on the whiteboards as long as they write a sentence to go with their drawing. One of my students loves making paper airplanes! Here is the sentence he wrote about his airplane.

Winter K-1 French Immersion Writing Activities 5 writing pages with simple sentence starters to get your students writing! Je porte... Je fais... Je bois... Je vois... Il y a... After your students complete them, have them practice sharing them with a partner! Use them in your writing cen...

If you had to ask me what my favourite resource that I’ve created is, I would probably have to say the Math Problem of the Day or “Le problème du jour”. Made in an interactive notebook style, it is always a popular time in my classroom! Why use “Le problème du jour” in your […]

Happy New Year and Bonne Année! How do you celebrate the New Year in your French Immersion classroom? While we don’t go back until after the official New Year begins, I still like to spend a couple of days celebrating the New Year with my students as we also review routines and expectations. Here are […]

What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...

This week in grade 1: This week we practised our weather vocabulary! I pulled small groups and we played "bug in a rug" at my guided reading table. The kids love spending time in a small group with me, and get a lot out of the ten minutes we spend together. I can make sure they are using the correct pronunciation when they are with me, and give them lots of chances to practise speaking. In grade 2: This week we practised our fall vocabulary. We played "bang", "bug in a rug", dominoes, and matching puzzles (word to picture) in centres. Then in small groups, they sequenced 4 fall pictures and came up with a short story to match it. Next week I will be adding another centre activity - a sight word hunt! Students use a magnifying glass to hunt for sight words in the pumpkins. They can record the words they find on the tracker sheet, and then read them to a partner! What are you working on right now? What are your students loving? I'd love to hear about it!