I often hear French Teachers complain that there's so much fun stuff available in English. Why can't there be fun stuff in French too? Well, there is. You just need to know how to locate it! So go ahead and save this blog…

A decade ago, there was a lot more collaboration in the blogging world. Or maybe there still is, but I'm just missing out somehow - I definitely blog alone these days. I miss those days, as what I wanted to share out with the…

Have you been wanting to try Centres in your French class, but stuck on what you could do to include the Listening strand within your routines? Let me share with you a number of activities that I've thought of or encountered …

Are you looking to refine your Community Circle routine in a grade 5 through grade 10 class? Wanting to implement a new structure that will work for your Junior-Intermediate French Immersion students, to allow them to solv…

I learned about a free platform hosted by a Canadian University, called Tandem, for recipricol language practice, about a year ago and am just about to embark on using it myself. Those teaching French or ESL (with students having…

If "not enough time" was my excuse for not maintaining my blog before, I guess that reason has flown out the window now. Plus, like other parents, I'm at home trying to figure out how to supplement my own children&#…

Salut mes amis!  I've really fallen out of the blogging habit.  I enjoy it, but it does take a bit of time and energy. I hope to keep on sharing some ideas and dialoguing with other French teachers through this medium. I…

In teacher forums where I spend my free time, I am starting to see references to graduation decorations and other end of the year wrap-up stuff. So today I thought I'd share with you a few sources of potential Grad or "e…

Here in Canada, we celebrated our Thanksgiving two weekends ago. In the USA, this holiday of gratitude and geniality (let's not get into the historical origins here & focus on moving forward together, you know?) is marked…

It's time to announce the winners of my giveaway  for French teachers ... Image courtesy of Educlips Congratulations, ladies! Not sure where the MEN are... I am pretty sure all 81 entries were by women, but that'…

As an alternative to presentations in the classroom, consider Powtoon , which allows students to be 21st century creators of content related to inquiry-based projects and investigations in the classroom. Powtoon is a web-based to…

I realized I had an old blog post that somehow got corrupted or deactivated - or maybe I just never published it properly. Although I'm not totally sure what happened with the original, a buyer just asked me about the pre-rea…

Happy new year... it's still January, so I can say that, right? In any case, this crazy balloon is still floating in my son's bedroom, so I feel I'm justified! We're in the midst of report card preparations,…

For ten months now, Shelley Gray of Teaching in the Early Years has inspired a couple of hundred teacher-bloggers to share thousands of ad-free posts with great tips to our blog-reading audience once a month. She called this the…

Well, it came and went...quick as lightning. The fall conference put on by the OMLTA each year in a different Ontarian community is just a single day, so it's a great single hit of PD and teaching energy. This year, the conf…

A recent follower of my blog asked if I knew where she could get Readers Theatre materials for her core French class. (As an aside, see this interesting write up by Aaron Shepard of all the variations of spelling we find... mayb…