As French Immersion teachers, we know how valuable it is to sing. It’s a great way to practice pronunciation, vocabulary and get our students excited about learning French. This list has a range of easier to harder songs. I taught some of these to my kindergarten students and also to 2/3s so it

Here is what my class is using for their editing! Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the book that I found it in :(

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 :)

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Happy Friday! I hope you survived a week of rain, wind, a full moon, and Halloween excitement! I've been struggling to get over my first cough/cold/etc of the season and I am definitely looking forward to sleeping this weekend. I am probably over-excited for that extra hour of sleep we get on Sunday! This week we practiced our verbs of the week and used them to focus on new sentence starters. I used to keep my sentence starters in a pocket chart, but now I keep them on my whiteboard so that we can build sentences with them. When we start a new set of vocabulary, I always copy a second set of flashcards and put them up on magnets so that my kids can grab them off the board if they need them during their writing. Having both of these on magnets means we can use them to practice making sentences! My students are really comfortable with "il y a" and "je vois", so we've moved on to "je mange", "je porte" and "j'aime". I've been reading the "C'est l'automne" book from my fall pack every day. I read a sentence and have them repeat it after me. It's a LOT of repetition, but it works :) As we talked in September about the importance of repetition, I haven't had any of them question it or complain about it. They actually get really excited once they know the book well! When they're really familiar with it, they like to show off and read it as a class without my help, while I just hold it up and turn the pages. Building sentences - starters and word wall cards: I normally keep my sentence starters off to the side of my whiteboard. As a class, we read each one together as we go through the list of starters we've learned so far. Then one student picks a starter for us and I slide it over. Then we go through the words that are part of our current word wall (it was classroom objects, now it's fall themed). I say each word and they repeat it after me (usually we use different silly voices too, to make it fun!). Then a student chooses a card to complete our sentence. Sometimes we also use mini whiteboards at the same time, so they can write (or "dwrite" with words and pictures) it out and then "bump up" their sentences with colours and numbers. Then they read their sentence to a partner. I love having everything up on magnets. I can save time by not having to draw or write the parts of the sentence they choose! I get my magnets in sheets from Dollarama - they're awesome! You'll just need to practice some self restraint... I did NOT and now almost all my flashcards have magnets on them!

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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?

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Here's a game that I made up: It's pretty simple, but my kids LOVE it. We have had to have talks about controlling our excitement while we play! We play it to practice both oral communication and writing. I read them a book with vocabulary that we are learning (in this case winter words). Then we choose vocabulary from the book (or just from our winter word wall) and I draw it on the board. Then I say each word, and my students repeat it after me. I give them two minutes on a timer to "dwrite" (write a sentence using pictures and words), and then they have to read what they wrote to their table group. Then I spin the spinner. If the spinner lands on the word you chose, you get a point! The great part about this game is that I can play it with both my grade 1s and 2s simultaneously (which is a dream for a split class). My grade 2s are expected to write more than the grade 1s, and can use more than one of the words in their sentences. We play a few rounds with each set of vocabulary before I erase it and choose new words. I get them to repeat the words a LOT, to give them lots of opportunities to practice. What games are your students loving??

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5 French teachers you need to follow on Instagram If you are looking for fresh ideas for your classroom, great book suggestions, or classroom design ideas, turning to Instagram for ideas is a great option! French teachers are sharing their teaching experiences and ideas daily on this unique platform. I love following other teachers on Instagram. I get to see what other teachers are doing in their classrooms- what worked well and what didn’t. Also, I get TONS of fun new ideas and book suggestions! Here are 5 of the great French teacher accounts that I follow on Instagram: @lr_french Madame Qadiri is a Jr/Sr high school teacher who posts once or twice a month about some of the great activities and routines that she employs in her classes. The activities are creative and engaging! @madamoisellemagic A Canadian French teacher chronicles her journey in teaching French at the primary and junior levels. She is very active on Instagram and readily shares books, songs and bulletin board ideas. @madamea406 Vicki is a middle school French teacher. New to teaching and Instagram, she has been posting about her creative approaches to teaching French to junior students. @mme.janet Mme Janet is a Maternelle/1 FI teacher in Canada. She has some great book suggestions and shares activities related to the inquiry approach in early French Immersion. @francaisavecmariejo Marie-Jo is a teacher of FLE in Spain. She posts daily graphics using common French vocabulary. The graphics may be useful to share with your older learners.

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The last few weeks have been so busy! Report cards went home, and student-led conferences are all finished! Below are some pictures of the work my grade 2s have been doing with reading sounds. We start each sound by reading a short silly story together. Then we brainstorm the other words we know with that sound. After that they take a clipboard and go on a hunt of the classroom for more words with that sound. They like to check the books in our classroom library for sounds as well. They also use our sound word wall for more ideas. Here are some pictures of some of the centres that we have done: After they finish the folders (above) or the matching games, they take an ipad mini and record themselves reading each of the words. After reading them through once, they try to come up with sentences containing each of the words. This also gives me a video that I can use as a check-in to support them with their reading. After a week of exploration in the different centres, then my students write and illustrate their own silly story. They also practice reading and writing with the sheets below: It's been really great to see the progress that they've made so far! With the change in the Ontario French curriculum as of September, I will be doing these same centres in the spring with my grade 1s. What does your sound program look like?

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Today we tried some fall writing sheets! First we talked about what each of the 5 words meant, and then talked about what we could draw to show that we understand the word (for e.g., an arrow for a verb). Then I modelled drawing a quick sketch to get my ideas down. I like them to draw something first to help them when they start writing - but don't want them to spend all of their time drawing. We talked about how they could go back AFTER they were done writing to colour and add more details to their work. As a class, we decided on the sentences to use for this example on the chart paper: (We have talked a lot about "bumping up" our work - there are more sentences here than I would expect from them independently because they wanted to help me to bump up my own work!) Then they tried on their own! I left the chart paper up for them to use for ideas and words if they wanted to use it. Other students wanted to try coming up with their own sentences. Here is some of the work my students did today:

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Scaffolding in FSL What is scaffolding in education? Scaffolding refers to a number of teaching techniques used to gradually increase students toward a stronger understanding of curriculum goals. The use of scaffolding ultimately leads to greater independence in the learning process. Scaffolding involves to use of temporary supports provided by the teacher to assist students with comprehension and skills that they normally would not be able to achieve without the supports. The supports are gradually released as students become confident with the skill. Below, I list some of the strategies you can use in your FSL classroom when implementing scaffolding. What are some scaffolding strategies? 1. Simplify. Break the task down into smaller parts and work on smaller skills before requiring completion of a larger task. 2. Illustrate or model. Provide picture clues, anchor charts or model the activity with students before requiring them to work independently. Examples of instructional scaffolding in FSL: The worksheet below comes from a resource of FSL daily tasks that includes the use of scaffolding. The sheets described below are from THIS BUNDLE which contains 4 great resources: levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 of FSL daily work. These levelled packets each provide 12 weeks of daily practice of beginning French vocabulary and grammar. Each of the 4 packets provides daily routine pages for independent student work. The weeks are structured to provide scaffolding and a gradual release of supports so that students can gain more confidence in the classroom and in the French language. The packet can be used as morning work, bell work, or homework. Each resource also includes helpful vocabulary supports in the form of full-page anchor charts. Print and laminate for student reference as they begin this package. You will notice in this WEEK 1 - LEVEL 1 activity, the student has been provided with writing prompts and visuals to assist with the task. Now, when we compare to the WEEK 5 tasks, some of the prompts have now changed to increase student output. When we further compare to WEEK 8 tasks, you will notice that the prompts are now completely removed and the student will be writing the date and describing weather without the supports.

Speaking French On my Strategies for Speaking French page, I've outlined some of the strategies that I have put in place in order to encourage my students to speak French. Honestly, one of the best strategies that I've put in place is to make learning French fun. In order to promote speaking and listening, my students play a lot of games in French. Why play games? If kids find the games fun, then they want to play them. And in my classroom, I use games that specifically encourage students to be speaking and listening. We don't play silent games in French class. At first, I did a lot of speaking activities but I found that students were much more motivated and desired to speak French more if there was a game element added to the activity. For example, I used to do the activity "Questions au hasard" with my students and while it is a good activity, I noticed that students didn't seem very excited about doing it. That was because there was no end goal besides just speaking French. I added in a score sheet and created a few simple rules to turn it into more of a game and noticed a big difference in how it was being received with my students. Introducing Games Whenever I introduce a new game, I project a reference sheet or the game up on the Smartboard and gather the students around the game and go through the instructions (using student-friendly language in French) and by modelling the rules. Then I play the game with the class. Next I have students break out into pairs and EVERYONE plays the game with a partner at the same time. I go from group to group to listen in on their conversations and to offer assistance and feedback if needed. When I notice that students are doing a good job or putting forth a great effort, I reward that with a "billet". I use these French behaviour tickets to reward positive behaviour. Students may exchange these "billets" for three "billes" (see "Les billes - marbles" for more details) or some extra time for P.A.T. for the class. As I mentioned in another blog post, I find it important to create enough copies of the games so that everyone can play at the same time. This allows me to easily notice who needs support and how students are handling the game. It always affords me an opportunity to see how I might tweak the game if need be. Aside from purchased cards (UNO, decks of cards, flashcards), I laminate all of my games (game boards, score trackers, reference sheets), so that they can be used year after year. I created a reference sheet with commonly used phrases when playing games that I introduce and use with my students when they are playing games so that everything can be done in French. After we have played the games enough that students are familiar with them, we play them in Game Centers, with French buddies, and when students have completed work early. Where do I get my games? I have created most my games myself (or with my wife). It has taken hours and hours to create these games, as we aim to make them fun but also functional in helping students to improve their French. Most of them are available in our TeachersPayTeachers store (some are a free download, some are not). We have purchased a few of our games from other vendors - if you click on the title of each game, it will take you to where you can buy that game. It does take a long time to actually physically produce them, especially since I like to have a class set of everything. It costs money to print in colour (thank goodness Ontario teachers who are Edvantage members now have a 10% discount off of certain printing services at Staples - see the deal through Edvantage), it takes time to cut everything out, laminate it and cut it out again. I suggest you buy a good paper trimmer and a good laminator. We like 5mm laminating pouches the best and buy ours from Walmart. We often put on Netflix in the background while we make our games. HOWEVER, it is completely worth the effort. Once you've made them, then you have them forever. My students highly enjoy playing games, so they enjoy speaking French. I try to package my games so that they all fit neatly into pencil cases or soap boxes that go into specific bins from Dollarama so everything looks nice and orderly. This is a picture of just part of my games wall. What games do I use and how do I use them? Games to get students speaking: UNO Card Game: Materials for a class of 20 students: -6 decks of UNO cards (can buy from many locations - Dollarama, Walmart, etc) -6 reference sheets -Students play in groups of 3-4. I purchased my card sets from Walmart and labelled each card set with a unique number and bought containers from the Dollarama to hold the cards (since soap containers were not big enough for the UNO decks). I created a simple reference sheet for my students that included phrases such as "J'ai un # (couleur)." "Manque ton tour." "Je change la couleur à (nouvelle couleur)." My rule is that you cannot play silently, you must tell your partner what you are doing every time you play a card or pick up a card. Pige dans le lac (Go Fish) Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 decks of cards (numbered so that lost cards can be returned to the correct deck and stored in a numbered soap container) -10 reference sheets - Students play in pairs. Students practice asking questions with the verb "avoir". They also review their basic numbers in French. I created this reference page to help support more speaking in French while students are playing the game. Qui suis-je (Guessing Game) Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 decks of cards (numbered so that lost cards can be returned to the correct deck and stored in a numbered soap container) -10 reference sheets - Students play in pairs. Students pretend to be a number and try to guess who their partner is (what number they have), using the the verb "être". They are also practicing basic numbers and numeration in French with "higher than" and "lower than" phrases in French. I created this game after I saw how much my students loved playing "Pige dans le lac". Questions au hasard Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 game boards -24 BINGO chips per game board (I store mine in plastic baggies from the Dollarama and buy the BINGO chips from Walmart) -20 score cards (1 per player) -10 dice (1 per game) - Students play in pairs. This is the game that started out as a speaking activity that we created but then we modified it into a game. Students take turns asking and answering questions. As they answer questions, they fill up a score sheet, which has two slots per question. The first person to have their score sheet completed wins. This has students practice asking "est-ce que" questions with the verbs "pouvoir", "vouloir", "aimer", "avoir", "être" and "préférer". Each question is started but students need to actually come up with what they are asking. There are many stems and possible ways suggested for students to complete the question, which gives to support to those who need it. Students are not required to use those examples. Students also practice how to answer the question in a complete sentence and there is a "parce que" stem to encourage students to justify their answers. I also have versions that practice "qu'est-ce que" questions, intonation, and inversion, as well as a question variety pack (comment, quand, quel/quelle, combien, où, and qui questions) and a futur proche & passé composé (with the verbs aller, visiter, and faire). I love how much differentiation is available with this game. Students of all levels can access this game so that it suits their needs and challenges them at the right level. Some students might just be working on asking questions using the support stems and answering them in a complete sentence without the "parce que". Other students may just be using the question starters but coming up with their own unique endings and answering questions with detailed justifications of their answers. I start out giving the students regular dice and if they are on task, I will promote them larger dice. I have three sizes in total. Le Défi Français 1 - Now available in our TPT store! Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 game sets -20 player tokens (1 per player) -10 dice (1 per game) - Students play in pairs. This is a board game that I created that involves all the great elements of a board game - a special "track" on the board, with some twists and turns, question cards (of varying difficulty, worth different point values), and chance cards (that affect players). I currently have made three versions of this game - my students LOVE this game! It promotes so much speaking. Each game has 30 different easy questions and 10 different hard questions. The questions vary from version to version and the game mechanics change in the different versions as well. Le Défi Français 2 Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 game sets -20 player tokens (1 per player) -10 dice (1 per game) - Students play in pairs. This is the second version of Le Défi Français. In this version, students are exposed to 50 new question cards (30 easier questions, 20 harder questions) and risk cards! Sometimes when students land on a question square, they have the option of taking a risk card, after they've answered their question. The risk cards can have HUGE rewards or SERIOUS consequences! However, students can choose whether or not they want to draw the card. The first person to finish the game gets a 5 point bonus and triggers the end of the game. The player with the most points wins! Connectez les mots Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 packages of English-French flashcards from Canadian Curriculum Press (we bought them at Staples) -10 game boards -40 BINGO chips per game (20 of one colour and 20 of a different colour) - Students play in pairs. My wife bought these flashcards at Staples and didn't know what she could do with them since they show a picture of what's on the reverse side. We both liked the cards and thought it would be a great way to introduce/review French vocabulary so I came up with the idea to use them in a "Connect 4" type of game. I created a game board with the words all typed out. Students lay down the cards and select a card that is face up by saying it's name. If they are correct, they get to place a BINGO chip on that square on the game board and the card is flipped over so that the image on the reverse is revealed and the turn is over. If the guess is incorrect *to verify, the students flip over the card as the answer is on the back corner*, that turn ends. You can play to see who can get the most chips on the board, or who can create as many four-in-a-row as possible. It's a great way to expose students to more vocabulary. Spot it (Basic French) Materials for a class of 20 students: -6 games of Spot it! (I refer to the game as "Trouve-le") -optional: I made a reference page for this and print of 10 copies of the reference page to go with the game. - Students play in groups of 3-4. I teach my students how to play each of the different versions of Spot it!, we play it in French. Instructions are included with the game. My students really enjoy this game and as an added bonus it exposes them to 57 French vocabulary words. Games to help students with French sounds/French reading: Les mots fréquents Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 sets of Les mots fréquents I have made High Frequency Word lists for Grade 1, 2 and 3 French Immersion, each containing 100 words: 100 high frequency cards for Level 1 (Grade 1 French Immersion), 100 high frequency cards for Level 2 (Grade 2 French Immersion), and 100 high frequency cards for Level 3 (Grade 3 French Immersion). Each level has 5 sub-sets of cards: A, B, C, D, and E. Each sub-set of cards contains 20 different high frequency words. The file for each level contains two copies of each sub-set, which is what you need in order to play the games as the goal of each game is to make pairs of the same word. Students learn 300 new high frequency words in French through four fun games with these double-sided flashcards. Reference sheets are included for each game so the students can play them all in French These are AMAZING and are helping my students learn their high frequency words in a fun, hands-on way. La course des voyelles Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 game sets -Each set has : -100 cards in total (20 cards per vowel sound) -game board -hint or “indices” trackers (each tracker contains 6 slots for tokens) -2 sided reference sheet (side 1: title page side 2: all pictures and words for each vowel sound) -10 dice (1 per game) -10 player tokens (1 per player) -hint tokens (6 per player – this could be counters/chips) Here is a game that I created to practice French vowel sounds, while also building/reviewing vocabulary. Students roll to advance along the game board, drawing cards of images and identifying the vocabulary it represents. Students have a reference sheet to use if they need it, but they have a limited number of times they can use it for help. There is exposure to over 100 different French words through this one game! BINGO - Les sons Materials for a class of 20 students: -20 BINGO cards -Smart Notebook Interactive Bingo word caller (or caller sheet (to cut out individual words to call) and tracking sheet to keep track of the words called) - BINGO chips (many) -We play as a class. I created this game to help my students practice their sounds, but to also introduce/review French vocabulary. Each game focuses on the sound a specific sound, with 24 different vocabulary words that contain that sound. I made BINGO games for 10 sounds in total. Every word is on every card, but no two cards are the same, so students are engaged every time a word a called as they search to find the word on their card. Serpents et échelles Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 copies of Serpents et échelles des syllabes (from Littératout) - each set contains 1 game board and a set of easy syllable cards and a set of more difficult syllable cards -20 game tokens (1 per player) -10 dice (1 per game) -Students play in pairs. I found this game on Littératout (which requires a paid subscription) and my students really liked it. I ended up creating a slightly different game board because I found that the Snakes & Ladder board game from their site didn't facilitate very long games. However, the syllable cards are great! Students roll a dice and before they can advance, they have to draw a syllable card and read it out loud (they can choose an easy one or a difficult one). Once they have read it, they can advance to the space that they rolled. It's a great way to refine pronunciation as well as improve reading skills. Our version of the board is available here. La course à dix Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 game boards -20 BINGO chips per game board (I store mine in plastic baggies from the Dollarama and buy the BINGO chips from Walmart) -ten 12-sided dice (1 per game- we purchased from a local gaming store) - Students play in pairs. I created this game to help my students continue to practice their sounds in a fun way. It's a sound-word association game with some risk involved! Students try to fill up their score card first but have to be careful because there is always a risk that the other player could remove some of their chips. Each game board has three different ways of playing the game and features 10 different sounds. La tour française Materials for a class of 20 students: -10 sets of tumbling blocks (from Dollarama but could be from anywhere, Jenga works too) -I divide the number of blocks by 7 and number them equally from 1 to 7. -20 stories (I print enough copies so that there are two copies of the story per tower so that students don't need to share their story) -Students play in pairs. I created this game as an engaging way to practice reading comprehension, as well as active listening. Students pick a block, answer a question about a French text and keep the block (as a point) if they answered correctly. We made four unique stories and each story has 14 comprehension questions. The answers can all be found in the text. If the answer is not correct, the block must be returned to the top of the tower. My students really love to play this game! Writing Activity While this is not a game, this is an activity that I do with my students once they have been playing our oral communication games so that they can practice their writing. Check out this blog post to learn more. Please check back as I am always adding to this list and I still have games in my classroom that I use to add to this post. If you have any games that you think I should be using, or that you would like to see created, please send me an email at [email protected] . Thanks for reading!

Ideas for phonics anchor charts in French for you."Les tableaux d'ancrage" make learning visual, so they help students remember concepts and examples

Perfect visual for teaching probability. This packet includes 9 posters of the following: - 2 posters describing probability - 1 poster for - certain - impossible - likely - unlikely - 3 posters for different ways to say it – moins probable, peu probable, improbable - equal chance As well as a set of same posters in flash card size.

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