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Donations for School Projects

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 …

Making Study Hall Cool

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…

Create a Musical with French Students - or Watch One At Least!

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…

International Penpals: Encourage kids to write, speak, listen & explore culture in the Target Language

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…

Importance of Graphic Design - a self-reflection

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…

Who's Out There in Teacher-Blogland?

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 …

TpT Huge Teacher Appreciation Sale & Giveaways

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…

Teacher Appreciation Sales

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…