I'm so pleased to be hosting a blog hop with some of my favourite Middle and Secondary School teacher bloggers right before back to school (at least in most places here in Ontario and New York state). There, I've said i…

Guess what? Usually TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers) just has one back to school sale, but of course people in various states start back in early August while in other states & most Canadian provinces, we go back closer to the beg…

My students ask this several times a year, every single year. It always comes up. They want to know if they are learning Québécois French, French from France (aka French French), Franco-Ontarian speaking patterns and accent, or…

Do you have a bingo game (or sets of games) in your classroom somewhere?  Well you ought to... they're great for indoor recess, snowdays, reviewing numbers, vocabulary or other concepts.  My Bright Idea as we head back t…

Just a short and sweet post. I wanted to share an authentic audio resoure I found. It's called Microphone Francophone , and it's a radio program carried on multiple radio stations (but also downaloadable and streamable - …

Well, I did it... I said the "B" word.  Honestly, in Ontario, we're still a bit away from the true Back to School rush, but of course some teachers never really stop thinking about it, and others choose to do their …