One year many moons ago, I asked parents of my students to keep their empty wrapping paper rolls to send in to make rain sticks. I also just bought a fabulous necklace at my school's E-Fair, with a flower shape pendant made …
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One year many moons ago, I asked parents of my students to keep their empty wrapping paper rolls to send in to make rain sticks. I also just bought a fabulous necklace at my school's E-Fair, with a flower shape pendant made …
We've had middle school students spilling out into the hallway this year to stay in and work on their French at recess. How? First, I ought to mention that we are a "triple track" school... although I might b…
Don Meiners is one talented guy! He is an experienced high school French teacher here in Ontario, who takes a very unique and novel approach to having his students participate in French. Over each summer break, Mr. Meiners sits…
My school board just had a Professional Learning day (aka PD day) devoted to educational technology to which I had the honour of contributing. My family of schools (the secondary school in my area, and all of the lower-grade scho…
This post is a bit of a downer, but it's done in the spirit of self-reflection and self-improvement. I'll be adding another one... maybe later today if I'm lucky that's more universally French-teacher-relevant and…
I got a blog-makeover last weekend, and I still adore the look I picked. Or maybe it picked me, because I wasn't actively looking for a new design at this time. But I stumbled across Honey Bunch Blog Design , and they have …
The web site TeachersPayTeachers is having a sale right now, in honour of Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States. It starts today and runs through the May 9th. Lots of teacher-authors will be discounting their entire…
I don't even think that I've ever mentioned that I have a (small!) Shop on the web site Teachers Notebook as well. What is cool about this web site from my perspective is that your entire payment amount goes directly to…