Are you trying to diversify your French bookshelf? If you teach grade 7 and/or grade 8 immersion in Ontario and you haven't heard of Case mensonge yet, this post is for you!  Extended French teachers, this can also work for y…

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 …

Here's a little personal tidbit for you: I spent three months (not warm ones, might I add!) in the Magdalen Islands just north of P.E.I. for a cultural-linguistic student exchange when I was in high school. I haven't made…

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&#…

Last week, someone in an online teacher group ask me if I'd ever heard of Pinterest. I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, really, but since the question arose, I shared with her that my main Pinterest board  w as nam…

These are my awesome secondary teacher-educational author friends whose stores you simply must pop by as the TPT sale gets underway today (which I know I already told you, but a reminder never hurt - you don't want to miss th…

A unit about travel is a great way to end the year in the FSL class, as you and the kids transition to thoughts of summer. Earlier this year, I helped out an online acquaintance who couldn't find what she wanted for a dramati…

It's been in the works for a couple of years ! My unit for Au pas camarade , (French version of "Branded", the novel by popular YA fiction Canadian author Eric Walters) is finally available to anyone who'd like …

I work in a dual (or triple!) track French Immersion school. Since there are few (possibly not any?) schools in my board that are single track FI, I feel like there are lots of missed opportunities throughout the day for students…

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…

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…

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…

This year, while I was showing a short video resource on Confederation with my French Immersion class during a History period, my efforts to expose my students to a variety of different voices (not just mine and each others')…

Something cool and hip this week... it's a groove-inspiring, fun number that the kids are SURE to get stuck in their heads! Lynda Thalie who sings Dance your pain away (la tête h aute  ) is of Algerian descent, and I lov…

After a couple of weeks of older (but great!) songs, I figured it was time to highlight something current.  We certainly don't want to give kids the impression that "no one sings in French any more". So I took a pe…

My giveaway contest for indieflix is coming to a close... don't forget to enter if you haven't already! I've got ten to give away, so your chances of winning are pretty good!! For my third instalment of "Ch…