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!
Do you use morning messages in your French Immersion Classroom? The morning message routine is one of my favourite ways to start the day! Read on for 10 ideas to use Morning Messages in your classroom! 1. Guess my Word When writing a morning message, keep in mind the vocabulary you might be targeting. Try […]
I did the research so that you don't have to! Here is a list of 10 free resources that are perfect for distance learning in Kindergarten.
What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
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What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
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
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What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
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
What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
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?
Are you a French Immersion teacher looking for some extra phonics activities for your grade 1, 2 students? This product has 20 digraphs and diphthongs (les sons composés) and 3 accents! It includes a lesson plan, a game, activities and assessment. Incidentally, this product, with 138 commonly-used words, will also increase your students' vocabulary! Check out my preview to get four worksheets and a lesson plan for free! What Others have been Saying: We've been working on French sounds and after we've done a couple sounds I've been using these worksheets to reinforce the sounds. I have my son underline or circle the complex sounds in the words then match them to the picture. Another great activity to help reinforce some of the sounds and high frequency words that students should know/be reviewing, as well as some new ones thrown in for good measure. What you get: Worksheets and phonics sounds with the following sounds: ai, an, au, ain, aim, ch, é, è, ê, ei, en, eu, eur, ien, in, oi, oir, on, ou, gn, ion, tion, ui 23 French phonics sounds cards including accents, diphthongs and digraphs 23 matching phonics cut and paste worksheets 23 match the image to the word worksheets to print double-sided Teaching suggestions Cover page to make a phonics booklet No prep Bump Game to reinforce the vocabulary 5 assessment sheets How to Use Use the Cut and Paste Lesson Plan to help your students pronounce the target sound correctly. Follow the directions to familiarize students with the vocabulary and sounding out the words. Use the guide to help students figure out the meaning of unknown words. Follow instructions for the easy way to cut these cut and paste worksheets. Once your students have learned 2 or more of the sounds, use the quick and easy sorting activity to help students distinguish the sounds from one another Use the cover page to make a booklet for the worksheets These worksheets can then be used for a bump game (instructions included) Keep the booklets in your students book boxes for silent reading Free Worksheets: Check out the preview to get your free worksheets! Don’t miss out! Did you know that by rating a product on TPT, you get 1 point for every dollar you spend? These credits go towards buying another product on TPT. Here’s how! Go to ‘My Purchases’ and click on ‘Leave a review.’ Click the appropriate responses, leave a brief note and click ‘Submit’.
French immersion students need to read interesting books that are appropriately leveled. This list of novels is perfect for middle school French immersion.
Students will practice present tense ER verbs with the 5 cut and paste worksheets in this download. Answer keys are included. French: Present Tense ER Verbs - Cut and Paste Worksheets
Geometry Rubric for grade 1 from Math Makes Sense. I print off one for each student and keep notes right on the rubric (print to...
French attention grabbers are words or short sentences that get your students' attention in the classroom. Learn how to use them and how to invent your own.
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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??
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 :(
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!
Free French Worksheets Grade 1 including vocabulary, verb tenses, and numbers are provided to help you teach your students some important French lessons.
These dice games for French are a fun and engaging way to practice vocabulary, grammar, and sentence writing with core and immersion classes.
Are you a French Immersion teacher looking for some extra phonics activities for your grade 1, 2 students? This product has 20 digraphs and diphthongs (les sons composés) and 3 accents! It includes a lesson plan, a game, activities and assessment. Incidentally, this product, with 138 commonly-used words, will also increase your students' vocabulary! Check out my preview to get four worksheets and a lesson plan for free! What Others have been Saying: We've been working on French sounds and after we've done a couple sounds I've been using these worksheets to reinforce the sounds. I have my son underline or circle the complex sounds in the words then match them to the picture. Another great activity to help reinforce some of the sounds and high frequency words that students should know/be reviewing, as well as some new ones thrown in for good measure. What you get: Worksheets and phonics sounds with the following sounds: ai, an, au, ain, aim, ch, é, è, ê, ei, en, eu, eur, ien, in, oi, oir, on, ou, gn, ion, tion, ui 23 French phonics sounds cards including accents, diphthongs and digraphs 23 matching phonics cut and paste worksheets 23 match the image to the word worksheets to print double-sided Teaching suggestions Cover page to make a phonics booklet No prep Bump Game to reinforce the vocabulary 5 assessment sheets How to Use Use the Cut and Paste Lesson Plan to help your students pronounce the target sound correctly. Follow the directions to familiarize students with the vocabulary and sounding out the words. Use the guide to help students figure out the meaning of unknown words. Follow instructions for the easy way to cut these cut and paste worksheets. Once your students have learned 2 or more of the sounds, use the quick and easy sorting activity to help students distinguish the sounds from one another Use the cover page to make a booklet for the worksheets These worksheets can then be used for a bump game (instructions included) Keep the booklets in your students book boxes for silent reading Free Worksheets: Check out the preview to get your free worksheets! Don’t miss out! Did you know that by rating a product on TPT, you get 1 point for every dollar you spend? These credits go towards buying another product on TPT. Here’s how! Go to ‘My Purchases’ and click on ‘Leave a review.’ Click the appropriate responses, leave a brief note and click ‘Submit’.
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Pratiquez la lecture de mots usuels et de sons complexes (sons composés) ainsi que l'étude de mots fréquents avec ce BUNDLE de 13 jeux amusants en immersion ou en français langue maternelle! Practice fluency and accuracy in reading French sight words with these fun games! Perfect for French word wor...
In grade 2 and 3, the lengthy calendar routine isn’t necessary. Older primary students can still have a morning routine that is purposeful, consistent and effective without repeating the same old things. Note: I use the same structure for a straight 3 class. How long is it? My morning routine
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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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 […]
Ideas for phonics anchor charts in French for you."Les tableaux d'ancrage" make learning visual, so they help students remember concepts and examples
Here it is all in one place, poems, songs, writing, art we did in grade 1 around the theme of winter and Christmas (with some 5 senses and ...
Les élèves ADORENT les livres par l'auteur Mo Willems! J'ai donc décidé de créer des activités en français pour travailler la littératie au 1er cycle suite à la lecture de ces beaux livres. Cliquez sur les images pour aller voir les activités amusantes pour toute la série "Éléphant et Rosie"! Un de mes livres favori..."Tu as un oiseau sur la tête!" C'était si amusant de penser à des activités pour accompagner ce livre!! Vos élèves pourront compléter un livre à cachette, faire des inférences, créer des liens avec le livre, compléter un STIAM, utiliser des sacs à fêves pour imaginer qu'ils ont des oiseaux sur la tête, etc. etc.!
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:
Classroom vocabulary for the beginning of the year to post on items in the classroom. Students make their own labels and post them all ...
What's your routine for teaching reading and specifically French sound blends in grade 1? Here's an overview of mine. September to Decembe...
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!
