Use this poster as an intro activity the first day of school or for a Je me présente unit. Perfect for Core French or primary French Immersion! The poster is 11...
What does a first day in a Grade One French Immersion class look like? This is a question I get asked about a lot! So, I thought I’d share 6 activities that I like to do on the first day of school! I must start with a disclaimer though: the first few days (and weeks) […]
Easy incentives for speaking French in class - Find ways to encourage French oral communication in your core or immersion classroom
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.
Getting students speaking French is a challenge for foreign language teachers! Find effective French speaking strategies for FSL, core, and immersion classes.
Some of my favorite French music to listen to in secondary French classes for reinforcing verbs, grammar, and vocabulary
Some of my favorite French music to listen to in secondary French classes for reinforcing verbs, grammar, and vocabulary
How often do you do art projects in your classroom? Did you know Art can help students in your French classroom? Read post to learn how!
These dice games for French are a fun and engaging way to practice vocabulary, grammar, and sentence writing with core and immersion classes.
Engaging and fun end of the year activities for French class to use with your Core French or French immersion students.
French games for grammar, vocabulary, and verb conjugation for Core and Immersion: French class made fun and engaging!
French First Week Activities: In my previous 4 posts, I've talked about why it's so important to create an immersion atmosphere, how to set the tone for the year, and how to set expectations for the first day of French class. In this post about the French first week activities, I'll be sharing the lessons
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Save time by checking out this list of French back-to-school resources with links to videos, free printables, and more! Ready for "la rentrée scolaire"?
Setting up your French Class - Making the most of your space is a blog post that explores tips for optimizing your learning space.
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 :)
Setting up your French Class - Making the most of your space is a blog post that explores tips for optimizing your learning space.
Thème L 'ÉCOLE - 10 Petites histoires/énoncés simples à lire pour vos jeunes lecteurs débutants. - Les 10 courts énoncés/histoires peuvent être dessinés sur le IPAD ou être imprimés en version PAPIER également
Tips for teaching the French passé composé - Teach the passé composé so students retain what they've learned : French teaching resources
It doesn't have to be hard to get students to speak French! These 5 tips will help you get your French classes speaking in no time.
French listening comprehension activities for beginners - paperless and printable activities for Core and French immersion classes
Love French task cards? Try them in a game of scoot for a fun & engaging way to practice French verb conjugation & vocabulary in your core or immersion class.
Worksheets have their place in second-language education, but there are plenty of fun, paperless ways to teach French without a worksheet!
Over the last few years, there have been some shifts in how we teach reading, and reading best practices. I wish I’d known more about the importance of phonological awareness, French decodable readers, etc. and less about the 3-cueing system
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!
Love French task cards? Try them in a game of scoot for a fun & engaging way to practice French verb conjugation & vocabulary in your core or immersion class.
FRENCH LEARNING RESOURCES Colouring Sheet Printable Activity for children - THE FRUITS - COLOURING ACTIVITY Worksheet for colouring correctly each fruit. This is an activity worksheet to reinforce the lesson and to challenge the children on the colour and fruit topics. This resource support French in the primary classroom. The activity is presented on a A4 size sheet (8.27 in × 11.7 in). ++++++++++++++ You are purchasing a digital file only. NO PRINTED MATERIALS ++++++++++++++ This file comes in PDF. You will receive the files electronically. Once you have placed an order and made a payment, an email will be sent to the address on your Etsy account with a link for your download. All documents have been uniquely created and designed by me and are for personal use only and cannot be used commercially or be resold/redistributed. No refunds are available due to the nature of the digital product. Happy learning
Large classes can be overwhelming, chaotic, and everything seems to take longer. Tips for managing large classes and ideas on how to overcome this reality.
PERFECT FOR CORE FRENCH OR IMMERSION! This product was designed to cover a variety of strands and expectations in the core/immersion French curriculum, while teaching students about Remembrance Day - le jour de souvenir. There are a variety of activities, including reading comprehension, research activities, symbolism and writing tasks. Activities include: Le jour de souvenir - reading comprehension Le vocabulaire Les guerres mondiales – la recherche La táche – une lettre Au champ d’honneur – le symbolisme Les symboles Mots cachés Thank you for checking out this resource! Follow Super Simple Sheets for more!
Need ideas for Teaching French verbs? Here are a few of my favorite ways to practice verb conjugation in core and immersion French classes.
These French Valentine's Day activities will engage students with fun activities that can be used separately or as a complement to an FSL/Core French class.
These are my favorite activities for French class - Practice French vocabulary, verb conjugation, and grammar with these engaging activities.
French speaking resources for the FSL, Core, and immersion classrooms - find activities for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students.
Creating a Core French Long Range Plan based on a wealth of resources and understanding of what the average Ontario English-stream student is capable of learning at the various grade levels.
My favorite sites for teaching French change all the time - depending on several factors - level of course, student interest, etc.
FREE French verbs minibook: a one-sheet, one-cut foldable minibook to help out your students to master those tricky French verbs conjugations!
Remembrance Day – a time to reflect and to give thanks. But how do we reach our young French Immersion students with the very important messages that this day reminds of us? I would propose through literature, songs and art. This post uses affiliate links. SONGS I have a number of favourite songs that I […]
Worksheets have their place in second-language education, but there are plenty of fun, paperless ways to teach French without a worksheet!
