Calming the Chaos
Welcome to the Calming the Chaos Blog Hop hosted by 2peasandadog, an awesome middle school Canadian blogger (here in Ontario, even). A group of bloggers have come together to share our top tips for making the last month (or two) of school run smoothly. Visit each of our blogs to learn something new and pick up a freebie or two!
Enjoy hopping through the blogs listed below, and be sure to scroll down to read about my freebie and some tips.
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While teaching Core French, I've tried a few different options to keep students focused as we near the end of the year. One of my favorites is to have students create a review game. There's not much point in continuing to cover new material when students know that assessment of that new content isn't likely to make it on the report card, AND many of them would benefit from revisiting concepts already taught earlier in the year.... help avoid the "summer slide" before the summer even arrives!
Here's a rubric that I've used to assess students' products at the end of this project. It's a Word document so that you can adapt it to meet your students' needs. (And also because I used this before Growing Success was released in Ontario, so you may need to adjust the qualifiers a little bit.)
Another option that has worked out well for French, depending on what else you've taught and used as projects through the year, is a media-based unit. I've used some current year articles from the series of Scholastic FSL magazines to create such a mini-unit, along with resources from a variety of other sounrces. Didn't know Scholastic had such a resource? Check out Allons-Y, Bonjour, ça va?, and Chez Nous through these links. Each has some articles available online for free as a sample, and here's a
little money saving tip if you don't have much classroom budget left...
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Thanks to The 3AM Teacher and Alicia Mac for their graphics! |
Of course,
rewards... something to look forward to... can certainly have a place in the
classroom as well. This is why I'm bringing back the classroom auction in my
own classroom. I thought about sharing the classroom currency that I'm
using here with you, but it's not really all that special. So, why reinvent the wheel? Here's a free printable that you can use from another seller on TPT.

One last thing - if you're just not into being outside in the scorching sun during a particularly stubborn heat wave (and yes, we DO get those up here in Canada!) why not consider a movie study at this point in the year?

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