tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59085050173550895852024-02-18T22:54:13.829-05:00My Journey as a TeacherUpdates coming July 2016. Thank you for your patience. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11721599122133081817noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-34711247723277802372016-07-25T15:23:00.004-04:002016-07-29T12:46:39.898-04:00What's new in September?<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel like there is a revolution happening in Education and I'm dying to be part of it!!! I'm talking about less and less teacher-led lessons and more and more innovative, creative, relevant, and engaging student-led projects. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a fantastic </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyxfPnO5lgk" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><i><b>TedxTalk</b></i></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> by Brian Aspinall that talks about the importance of preparing our students for jobs that don't exist yet, since majority of our students will be working in jobs that aren't even created yet today! That really resonated with me - take a look at his video and you'll see what I mean! The following post is inspired by his talk. So here's what I'm going to be adding on in September so that I can try and better prepare our kids for the future. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have to admit though, sometimes my heads spin from these </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">constant changes</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and trying to keep up with them all. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've had to learn to just pick a couple of things I want to read about and look further into or I'll drown in the abundance of info out there!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here's some basic info and resources on each topic/idea I plan on adding. I hope you like it! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Feel free to leave comments with additional ideas or resources!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Coding</u></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel like I'm missing out on something - all I hear about is </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">coding</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">!!! I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I have done very little in my classroom with coding. I allow students to do coding during their "initiative period" (a period where they chose a project of their choice and work away at it!). Does that count? :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I recently tuned into a #PubPD on Twitter where they talked about coding in the classroom. Click <a href="https://storify.com/MapleSyrupEDU/pubpd-coding-in-the-classroom" target="_blank">here </a>for the link to the "storify" of the conversations had. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When asked "why code" Scott McKenzie replied "</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone can play a game, how much cooler and educational is it to design, develop and create your own game through code</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">". (Click <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottMcKenzie27" target="_blank">here </a>to follow him on Twitter - he's got lots of neat ideas on coding in the classroom).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, to keep it simple, here are a couple of websites kids (and teachers!) can play around with to learn about coding (for more details on coding, what it is, and how to get started visit my "Coding" page to the left!):</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://code.org/">Code.org</a> & </span><a href="https://hourofcode.com/ca" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Hour of Code</a> <span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(great for beginners, especially students who can already read and teacher who want to learn more)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Scrat</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/" target="_blank">ch</a> (a great "next step"; requires basic knowledge of coding, good for students who have had some exposure)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/tdsb.on.ca/coding-in-the-elementary-grades/" target="_blank">Coding in the Elementary Grades</a> (a Google Site created by TDSB)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watch YouTube videos!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">**NEW**: "<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-hour-of-code/id1085786650" target="_blank">Beyond the Hour of Code</a>" - Listen to this outstanding podcast by Sam Patterson to "learn how to use the newest tech tools to support learning in your classroom though programming" (description from podcast)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Get children familiar to the idea of coding as a way of learning, not just as a video game" - said by Matthew Bernstein. I completely agree!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've dedicated a separate page (<a href="http://fslandbeyond.blogspot.ca/p/maker.html" target="_blank">here</a>) just to talk about </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Makerspace</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, since, just like coding, it's an incredibly broad idea/topic.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What caught my eye about Makerspace is this idea about giving students a physical space to build! When students have an opportunity to do hands-on learning AND create something that was their own idea, you create permanent learning. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not just learning that they memorize for a test. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You are providing students an opportunity to be entrepreneurs - how cool is that! Like coding, the idea of Makerspace is immense and you can do as little or as much as you like with it. You can dedicate a period a day, a week, or a month to it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Check out my Makerspace page for more ideas (there's a link to a </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">free e-book</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> there)! </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for myself, I plan on using one of Sam Patterson's examples that I learned from his amazing podcast (see above). He talks about having students create puppets! So I thought, what a great idea for #BackToSchool! How fun would it be to have students create puppets of themselves then write about how they created them, show them videos perhaps of other students who have made puppets (as model texts/videos), and finally they could also create a video about their puppet and how they made it and publish it for the world to see! That's how I'm going to kick start this idea of a Makerspace in my class! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inspired by another great <i><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jLANkgniSM" target="_blank">TedxTalk</a>,</b></i> this time by Kristin Phillips. She talks about how teaching in blocks, or these once/year units, doesn't create "sticky" learning. For instance, teaching fractions for 2 weeks a year isn't going to create permanent learning. The students may do great on a test right after the "block" of learning, but months later, would do they do just as well? And then what if for some reason the following year it isn't taught?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She suggests "</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eturning to key concepts</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> many times over the course of a year, not just in one yearly unit" (a quote from her Tedx Talk). As soon as I heard this, I thought... OF COURSE! DUH!!!! It sounds like common sense when you hear it out loud doesn't it?!?!?! </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So again, I'm not sure what that's going to look like in my classroom, but I'm hoping that the projects that the students will work on in class over the year will be diverse and layered enough that each time they will have to use various Math concepts to create and/or solve their projects. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every year I introduce some type of "Brain Gym" to my class. Whether it's practicing sitting still for a minute or two after the bell, doing some gentle stretches or yoga, or doing actual </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Brain Gym</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. The feedback that the students have given me is extremely positive about this. In fact, if I forget it one day, they remind me, they ask for it! </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I highly recommend googling some of these exercises (you can get posters that go along with it). Each exercise serves a different purpose. Some are for concentration, others for connecting your left and right brain, others to wake you up, etc. So what I do is at the beginning of the year I teach them all the exercises and then each week we have two new Brain Gym leaders that lead the class in these activities after each break.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have seen notable difference in children who had great difficulty with fine motor skills and whose writing therefore was very hard to read. Within weeks these students' writing improved significantly! How neat!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year I'd like to incorporate more </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">meditation </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and journaling of some sort in the class to provide students with some sort of outlet for their emotions. Even providing more class meetings might help as well. What do you do in your class to promote the well being of the kids? Would love to hear! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Math</u></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By far my biggest professional goal for September is to revamp my Math program. I will be taking J</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">o Boaler's Math course</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (click <a href="http://scpd.stanford.edu/ppc/how-learn-math-teachers" target="_blank">here </a>to see more info about it), which I've heard will completely </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">change the way I think about Math</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and therefore how the students think about Math, which I'm SOO excited about!</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please check out her Ted Talk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3icoSeGqQtY" target="_blank">here </a>to take a peak at where I'm heading. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will also be blogging about what I learn in her course, so stay tuned! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To finish off, I want to leave you with a quote I once saw on Twitter, and I apologize, I can't find who wrote it anymore. But this summarizes how I feel and how I see this revolution in Education unfolding:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"If you are teaching your kids content that Siri can answer, they won't ever move of their parents' house."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11721599122133081817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-58988626052805363352016-07-17T21:22:00.003-04:002016-07-17T21:23:19.058-04:00A Revolutionary Way to Run a Class<span style="color: #666666;">I had the extreme fortune of attending the 2016</span><span style="color: red;"> Google Summit</span><span style="color: #666666;"> in Kitchener, Ontario this past April.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I had just returned from mat leave and was so inspired, I thought, I HAVE to get back to my blog and share what I've learned.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I could write a book about the myriad of tips and tricks I learned to improve my teaching and better the lives of the students in my class, but for now I will focus on just one.... drum roll please...</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><u><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Edu Quest/French Quest</span></i></u></b>,</span><span style="color: #666666;"> AKA: Gaming. Differentiation at its finest. Students working at their own pace. No deadlines. No schedule. Engaging projects. </span><u style="color: #666666;">Success for all.</u><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This is the future of teaching my friends. </span><span style="color: red;">THIS</span><span style="color: #666666;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Talk about inquiry based learning at its finest. Let me paint you a picture: You walk into the classroom and EACH student is ACTIVELY engaged, excited, and passionate about EVERY project they're working on. There is collaboration, creativity, leadership, confidence, all in one place. There are hardly any behavioural problems. Sounds too good to be true? Let me explain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">EduQuest is an educational tool, a platform, that allows students to win badges. These badges can be earned alone, in partners, in groups, however they see fit. For example, in a French class, learning 250 new words on the Duolingo app is worth a badge. The student simply takes a snapshot of their screen, showing their username (proving it's them) and the amount of new words learned, and uploads it into their EduQuest account. Once the teacher sees this, s/he approves it and the student has earned a badge! So fun! So easy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">There are also no deadlines. Only when a project is done (and both student and teacher agree it is done to the best of the students' ability) will it be submitted. Whether it takes a day, a week, or a month. "WHAT!" I yelled out during the presentation at the Google Summit. "How do you assess the students then?" I asked the founder, Erica Armstrong. "It all depends on how much support your students need. If they needed your guidance every step of the way, you assess them accordingly. </span><span style="color: #666666;">Plus, you know your students best."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This made so much sense to me! You are setting students up for success! There are no rubrics, no useless feedback (not that all feedback is useless, don't get me wrong, but it has to be done very effectively and in a timely fashion for it to be constructive), no "next time I encourage you to...". There is no "next time". This is it, and because they have chosen the project they're working on, because they're passionate about it, they will do what it takes to make it as good as they can. It will be done according to THEIR personal "best". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Additionally, there is no daily schedule. Students come in to class, they pick a badge or project they are working on, and get to work. Again, because students are picking projects they </span><span style="color: red;">want </span><span style="color: #666666;">to be working on, there is no "slacking" or "wasting time". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Carrying out this new, innovative, and exciting platform in a class, while also trying to cover the curriculum, can be a challenge, but it is a challenge that I am willing to face and learn from. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">I would love to hear other people's thoughts, or if you've tried it in your class, please share! What I imagine my class to look like, is that I'd set up guidelines. </span><span style="color: #666666;">For example, I may tell students they have to do a certain amount of badges in Math/French/Writing, etc. by the end of the Month. I'm not sure! I will learn as I go! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">What I do know is that this is the future of teaching. Student can literally work on </span><span style="color: red;">anything </span><span style="color: #666666;">they want. Learning is fun and it's real. They can take a passion and bring it to life, whether it's interviewing someone and making a TedTalk about it, then getting it published online, or building the latest app - what an experience! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The program costs a bit of money, but it something I am willing to pay even out of my own pocket. It is SO worth it. I believe it's $10 a month or $100 for the school year. You can set up a whole class with that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">To learn more about Edu Quest and French Quest please click on the following links:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://eduquest.ca/">EduQuest.ca</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://frenchquest.ca/">FrenchQuest.ca</a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrenchQuest/" target="_blank">Facebook </a>link</li>
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<span style="color: #666666;">To contact Erica Armstrong, the founder:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666;">Twitter: @ms_e_a</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;">Email: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666;">ericaleearmstrong@gmail.com</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Please note that everything here is strictly my opinion. I did not get paid to talk about this program. I merely believe in it and what it can do for the future of our classrooms. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11721599122133081817noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-86261916598313737452013-07-03T17:00:00.000-04:002013-07-28T18:14:20.919-04:00A must-see documentary<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uxC19CZRSlU/UfWXoG81WTI/AAAAAAAAAOA/hec4y7_T4H4/s1600/paperclip.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uxC19CZRSlU/UfWXoG81WTI/AAAAAAAAAOA/hec4y7_T4H4/s200/paperclip.PNG" width="171" /></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">In teacher's college we were always told that one of the most important ideas behind teaching is to let the students do their own learning - that is, it is easy for us as teachers to give them the answers, but it's when they work hard themselves to get to the answer that true and permanent learning will unfold. That is why I encourage any teacher, parent, child, family, to consider watching the documentary "<u><b>One Clip at a Time</b></u>". It is an extremely moving story based on the fact that one student, had one question, and his teacher allowed it to be turned into a project that would quickly become international. The story behind the film is about an 8th grade class studying the Holocaust. One of the students asked the question "What does 6 million look like?" This questions turned into a school-wide project of collecting 6 million paperclips to represent every person lost during the Holocaust. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">To me this is an incredibly inspiring story and a beautiful reminder to all teachers of how amazing our job is, and how amazing it is that we have this ability and opportunity to influence young minds, IF, we let them. If you chose to watch the film, please feel free to post any comments below.</span><br />
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<a href="http://oneclipatatime.org/paper-clips-project/paper-clips-film/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Here </span></b></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">is the link to the preview and official website</span><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/One.Clip.at.a.Time" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Here</span></b> </a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">is the link to "like" the project on Facebook</span><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-47115174614840199212013-06-13T19:48:00.001-04:002013-06-13T19:48:11.860-04:00Beating Summer Learning Loss<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Studies have shown that </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">students lose between one and two months' worth of academic knowledge each summer (see interesting article from </span><b><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-to-beat-summer-learning-loss-anne-obrien" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Edutopia</span></a></b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">). How can you beat this? Here are 8 ways to use </span><i style="color: #6aa84f;">Edmodo</i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> over the summer to keep students engaged and learning, and for some creative ways for teachers to stay connected as well (for the full article </span><a href="http://blog.edmodo.com/2012/05/29/8-ways-to-use-edmodo-over-the-summer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>click here</b></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">). </span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://cmslearning1.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/stop-sign.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://cmslearning1.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/stop-sign.gif" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">1. Create an <i>Edmodo</i> summer camp</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">2. Get involved with <i>Edmodo</i> reading groups</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">3. Participate in a concept study (for teachers)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">4. Create an alumni group</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">5. Have students create Science projects</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">6. Engage your new students (if you already know who your students will be)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">7. Host Professional Development Sessions (for teachers)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">8. Contact new teachers (for teachers)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The debate of course is, do students and teachers actually need the break? Should teachers keep in touch with students over the summer or is it OK to take the break and disconnect? What are the pros and cons of keeping schools open year-round (the above article from Edutopia discusses this in more depth)?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Would love to hear your thoughts! </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-46773720508679260052013-06-05T19:59:00.000-04:002013-06-13T19:59:36.338-04:00What will you do over the summer?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">We all know the temptation to start planning for next year, but take a break from everything teaching for one week. Two. Maybe an entire month. You’ll be better when you come back to it.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Read a book that’s just for grown-ups.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">If you have your own kids, let them plan one wandering, wild, carefree day. The kind that’s hard to have when there are piles of paper to grade.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Whether or not you have kids, plan one of those days yourself!</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Take this challenge: Go to Target and buy NOTHING for your classroom. Can you do it?</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Make an investment in your professional life that matters to you. Maybe that’s taking a course on a topic you’ve always wanted to learn about. Maybe it’s catching up on this year’s Newbery winners. Whatever your interests, the summer is time for professional development on your terms.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Make it a goal to connect with a colleague you don’t know very well or with whom you haven’t always seen eye to eye. A summer barbecue or coffee outing is a nice opportunity to get to know one another outside of school walls—and established teacher cliques.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Work on a “feel good file” that reminds yourself about the good parts of your job. Include thank you notes from students, inspirational quotes, that mantra from your favorite teaching professor—whatever makes you think, “Yes. This is why I teach.”</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">As soon as you get that new class list, reach out to every student on it and say hello. You don’t have to do anything fancy or “Pinterest-worthy”—a simple phone call does the trick. (And may be the most important step in setting yourself up for success next year!)</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Remember, summer break is like New Year’s Eve for teachers—grand expectations can lead to disappointment. It’s okay if you don’t read every book, finish every house project or cut out every last decoration for next year’s bulletin boards. It’s okay if you don’t have a traditional summer break or are working a second job, too. The next few months will still be filled with small, simple joys. Look out for them!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Are you overwhelmed by the million different types of online tools available to you? Not sure where or HOW to begin? Wait no more!!! Here is a</span><b><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b><a href="http://modernlessons.com/courses/beginners-guides/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">link</span></b> </a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">with fantastic beginner's guides to a variety of common online tools such as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and more. My suggestion would be to focus on one thing at a time or you will get overwhelmed. Don't worry about the fact that other people keep track of 10 blogs a day, post 20 tweets by 9am, or have created 8 new boards on Pinterest each week... there will always be someone who does more. So do what works for YOU! :) Enjoy!</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-78717887466944459802013-04-11T14:44:00.001-04:002013-04-11T14:44:10.097-04:00Inspiring Stories BY kids For kids<span style="color: #38761d;">A couple of weeks ago I planned a unit on Biographies (French). Our motto for the unit is "Inspire, and be inspired". The goal of the unit is for the kids to interview someone inspiring in their lives, and to write a short Biography on them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">To start, I wanted to expose them to a variety of Biographies - not just any kind, but ones that they could relate to as 9 and 10 year-olds. I found an absolutely phenomenal website that does </span><b style="color: #38761d;">just </b><span style="color: #38761d;">that! Even though all the stories are in English, we discuss them in French. The website, called</span><a href="http://inspiremykids.com/" target="_blank"> <b><span style="color: blue;">Inspire My Kids</span></b> </a><span style="color: #38761d;">focuses on a wide variety of topics, such caring, fairness, compassion, responsibility, etc. It contains a wide database of inspiring stories and videos of people from all ages. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This website, I'm sure, can be used in many, many different ways. Please let me know if you have used it and in what ways. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Enjoy!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-55280584157047195432013-03-22T18:10:00.000-04:002013-06-13T18:36:00.717-04:00Poetry Cafe in French<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Looking for a fun and interesting way to get your students to speak and present in French? Put on a "Poetry Café"! We learned about and practiced a variety of poems (email me if you'd like the Poetry Booklet with all the poems ready to print and practice) on a variety of topics throughout the month. Once the students decided they would like to present them to their parents, they chose their best poem from their Poetry Booklet and wrote a little paragraph on why that was their best one (good time to talk about critical thinking and not just writing <i>because it's pretty... because it's my favourite... because I like it...</i>). Now came the time to prepare our Café! The students came up with a whole list of ideas that they wanted to do, so here's some of them:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">"Publish" the poems onto a big piece of chart paper and add illustrations</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Use a microphone</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Make donuts and coffee mugs out of cardboard and hang them from a ceiling (looked really good!)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Bring in checkered table clothes to put over the tables</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Make a "menu" for the parents (AKA a list of who presents when)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Bring in Coffee and apples for parents (some parents brought home made brownies as well!)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Make a background/welcome sign for the presenters</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Create their own invitations (incl. how/when to RSVP, advertising light refreshments, time/place, etc.)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Create invitations for the Principal and VP</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Have a student be the MC, have 2 students welcome and seat parents</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Students run the whole show... teacher relaxes! (most of the time!! hehe)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">It was an outstanding show and performance by all of the students! Best of all, it was all done within an hour so parents could easily go back to work in case they came during their lunch break. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The students loved hosting their parents and were excited about speaking French! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I'm curious to know if other teachers use "online classrooms" such as <i>Edmodo</i>, and if so, what are they and how do you use them? I have used <i>Edmodo</i> since the very beginning of the school year and have found it to be an absolutely amazing tool for various reasons: </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><u>Saves paper!</u></b> Homework can be posted on <i>Edmodo</i>, whether it's a link to a game or article, or an assignment they can do on the computer and then upload again back onto <i>Edmodo</i></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><u>Communicate with parents</u></b> - parents can create an account as well, where they can monitor what their child does/says online </span></li>
<li><u style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>Networking opportunities!!!</b></u><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> We participated in the </span><a href="http://www.globalreadaloud.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Global Read Aloud </span></b></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">(I highly suggest it!) and connected with a classroom in another country to discuss the book we were both reading, and share thoughts, opinions, and activities</span></li>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Please share if you have any other thoughts or ideas on online classrooms. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-11516863342878168672013-02-12T13:59:00.000-05:002013-04-11T14:15:55.864-04:00French Grammar Exercises Website<span style="color: #38761d;">Everyone always talks about using "authentic" writing pieces in the classroom to teach grammar and that students do not learn grammar by doing worksheets. Depending of course on the students you have, I believe that using a combination of both is very beneficial. I believe it is important for students to practice the grammar after they've been introduce to it, in order to consolidate their learning. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I love using the good ol' "<i>Comptines</i>" to teach grammar - the kids love them! I pick a <i>Comptine </i>that has grammar components that I want to teach/introduce to the class, and we get real silly about reading them. Sometimes we add actions, other times we whisper-read it or try to read it with really goofy voices. After having read it a couple of times, I close the book and see who has memorized it. They LOVE trying to prove that after only reading it a couple of times they have it memorized. It's great because not only do they have fun learning grammar, they also get practice speaking proper grammar! :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So after we learn our </span><i style="color: #38761d;">Comptine</i><span style="color: #38761d;">, I have students go to the </span><a href="http://www.lepointdufle.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Le Point de FLE</b></span></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> website and practice what we've learned. This website may seem overwhelming at first, but once you get familiar with it, it's got amazing (and fun!) resources for students. Some are listening exercises, which they love doing as a class, or, you can send them to the computer lab and have them do it on their own. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I would love to know if you have other "must-have" French Grammar websites!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-13550099162081427892013-01-16T18:10:00.004-05:002013-01-16T18:10:56.900-05:00New Math Websites<span style="color: #38761d;">I have, thankfully, stumbled upon two new and amazing (yes...FRENCH) math websites. I have added them to my "Math" page, but here they are as well. </span><br />
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<a href="http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/french/teacher/index.shtml" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Math Frog</span></b></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> - Grade 4-6. Complete units, games, and lessons to go along with all strands of Ontario curriculum. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.jeuxmaths.fr/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">JeuxMaths</span></b></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> - Great website with a ton of games, worksheets, crossword puzzles and more - in French!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">If you have any French Math websites, please share!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-90951058239284614342013-01-15T20:58:00.004-05:002013-01-15T21:00:03.095-05:00Liebster Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Something made my day today - Leah from </span><a href="http://teachers-talking.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Teacher Talk</span></b></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> nominated me for the </span><b style="color: #38761d;">Liebster Award</b><span style="color: #38761d;">. I have no idea what it means or what it is, nevertheless, it was exciting! Especially since it is meant for bloggers with 200 followers or less - that is definitely me! :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The idea, I guess, is that I post a bunch of random facts about myself, answer the questions that Leah has posted and then nominate 11 other blogs and post a list of my own questions to them. I agree with the others that it sounds like a lot of work, but if it means that more people will be able to connect and share ideas because of it, I am all in! (See the bottom of this post for the "real" meaning behind the Liebster Blog Award)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><u>So here are 11 facts about myself:</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">1. I was born in The Netherlands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">2. I have a younger brother</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">3. I bite my nails way too often!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">4. I love playing squash.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">5. I speak 4 languages. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">6. I like making funny voices. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">7. I played the violin for 15 years. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">8. I lived in Chile, El Salvador, and Mexico</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">9. I am obsessed with Glee and everything about it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">10. I had coffee with President Uribe of Colombia</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">11. In the past 4 years I have had over 10 Xrays done (needles to say I'm clumsy).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Leah's Questions:</u></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25px;">Favorite country you have visited?</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><i>Chile.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">2. Healthy baking or tasty baking?</span><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Tasty Baking - is there any other kind?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>My mother.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Extroverted</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">5. Biggest splurge purchase you have ever made?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Buying my first car. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">6. Something you are proud of?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Being a teacher. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">7. Christmas break or summer holidays?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Summer holidays. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">8. Worst part about teaching?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>There is none. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">9. Best job perk?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><i>Being able to use my funny voices at work and not get stared at like I have 3 heads (AKA being able to be a kid at work).</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 28px;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">10. coffee or tea?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">8. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/</span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-5850766519551948612013-01-10T20:15:00.000-05:002013-01-16T18:11:57.517-05:00Show and Tell en Français <span style="color: #38761d;">Well... my new year's resolution of posting a blog once a week was clearly wishful thinking. Nevertheless, happy new year to everyone! I hope you were as excited as I was to get back into the classroom! I felt so recharged, refreshed, and full of new ideas!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The first thing I wanted to do with the students was a show and tell en Français. We spent the first couple of months reviewing grammar, getting comfortable speaking in French around each other, and learning a ton of new French words. Now it is time to put all of that together. Here are the links (to Google Docs) to the rubric and outline I used. The rubric is for a 3/4 French Immersion class in Ontario, Canada. Let me know if you find it useful. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">If you are also teaching a French class, what are some ways you are getting back into the swing of things? What sorts of projects do you do to get the students to speak more in French? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6WrPxbjpcM5MEFDQkdQV1VpRG8/edit" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>here </b></span></a><span style="color: #38761d;">for the outline.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I have recently discovered one of THE most amazing motivators for students: </span><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.classdojo.com/about" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Class Dojo</span>!</a> </span></b><span style="color: #38761d;">With a simple "PING!" students will do ANYTHING for a point on Class Dojo - and that includes, yes, speaking en Français! You assign a cute little furry avatar to each student, and as long as you have wireless and a data projector in your room, you can keep Class Dojo on all day. You can even assign points straight from your Iphone/Ipod - simply download the Class Dojo app! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">You can create specific "badges", such as "Spoke in French", or negative badges that take away points, such as "Spoke English". I also created a badge for "Mlle. spoke in English" - with that one, the entire class gets a point. They love getting that one! There are also generic badges that say "Hard Work" or "Teamwork", etc. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Tally up points as a class, or individually. We usually pick a goal at the beginning of every week, for example, 500 points. If we gather up all the points, they can chose a "free time" activity to do at some point the following week (can be accounted for through QDPA). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It honestly works like magic - the first day I introduced it, I just had it up on the data projector, and as students walked in and got to their seats I gave them the "Gets to work right away" point - you should have seen how fast the others followed! On top of it all, I could have heard a pin drop! Give it a try and let me know what you think! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I have recently joined the fabulous network of TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers). You wouldn't believe how much time I've saved either buying or downloading FREE information, worksheets, presentations, and more for my class. Anything from full lesson plans on how to teach persuasive writing, to a "You are going on vacation" package for a student who is about to take off for 2 weeks. Trust me, you won't be disappointed!! You will need to create an account in order to buy or download the material - but for <b>free lesson plans</b>, I wouldn't hesitate!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Since I have created a lot of my own worksheets in French (we all know how many French resources there are out there), I've decided to put some of my worksheets up for sale as well. I have a couple of Math worksheets and French Grammar. Mainly they are for grades 5 and under, but as always, are easily adaptable. To view my "store" look on the right side of my blog, under my contact information. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">To browse the TPT general website, </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">click here</span></b></a><span style="color: #38761d;">. Enjoy!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I am thrilled to say I am back to blogging! As a new teacher, the first couple of weeks... OK, months, of school were quite busy! I had high hopes of blogging on a weekly basis, but clearly that was some serious wishful thinking! I have been loving my job more and more every day, and am so thankful to be at such a supportive school! Moreover, my class, </span><span style="color: #38761d;">which is a grade 3/4 French Immersion class (meaning that the first half of the day I teach them in French and the other half in English), has been so incredibly hard-working, kind, and fun to be in every single day! It has been great watching them learn and grow already!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So, during the month of October, we participated in the 2012 Global Read Aloud. Along with 30 000 students from 6 continents we read the book "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate. I read aloud to them every day, knowing we had to read a specific batch of pages every week. We then connected with another class in the United States over Edmodo, where students from both classes were able to talk to each other and discuss the book. We did a wide variety of activities in class based on the book, such as creating a Wordle and Vokis. Here are two separate links from two students' Vokis: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I highly recommend participating in the Global Read Aloud next year! It was a phenomenal experience to see students get so involved in their learning! It was great for them to feel part of something so big and international. To learn more about the GLR</span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http://www.globalreadaloud.com/&ei=TmipUMW-Osng2gWI-oDICw&usg=AFQjCNEGvvAL5S5W5foAacy7A3KIzn4B0w" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>click here</b></span></a>. <span style="color: #38761d;">You can already sign up for next year! If you have any questions about it, please don't hesitate to ask!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-14658855053132225792012-07-12T13:53:00.003-04:002012-07-12T13:56:17.187-04:00Organizing!<span style="color: #38761d;">I found out this past week that I will be starting my teaching career in a Grade 3/4 French Immersion class, and I couldn't be more excited! One of the first things I thought of was: How am I going to organize everything? So I started pulling from all my resources and found some phenomenal blogs and websites on classroom organization and I had to share. Below are my two favourite websites so far with really great ideas, both of which I found on Pinterest! I hope you find it as useful as I do! And if you have any other great websites to share, please do!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-42531555067490950382012-06-13T22:01:00.000-04:002012-06-13T22:01:10.096-04:00Curriculum Resources<span style="color: #38761d;">During a learning cycle with a group of Core French teachers, I was pointed to this website. It has fabulous curriculum resources, especially for French! It includes videos on examples of effective practice in FSL instruction and much more! Browse around and see what you can find!</span><div>
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html"><b>http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html</b></a><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-3385760339163726472012-06-02T09:53:00.000-04:002012-06-03T16:55:59.868-04:00Pinterest in Education<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">"It’s startling the way that children communicate with their teachers in today’s schools... But does Pinterest have a role to play? An infographic by OnlineUniversities.com takes a look at just that and comes up with a whole lot of ways that an educator can use Pinterest." (<b><a href="http://socialtimes.com/16-ways-educators-can-use-pinterest-infographic_b97520" target="_blank">Click here</a></b> for the link)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have to say I have not discovered the world of Pinterest just yet but it is on the top of my "Summer To-Do" list... let me know what you think or what peoples' opinions are of this!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-40523010603469929712012-06-01T18:13:00.000-04:002012-06-01T18:13:00.898-04:005 reasons to raise your children bilingual<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Do you have young kids about to go into the school system? You may want to think about putting them in French Immersion - here's <b><a href="http://l2mastery.com/blog/multilingualism/5-reasons-to-raise-your-children-bilingual" target="_blank">5 reasons why</a>.</b></span><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-75768511378203916622012-05-31T21:19:00.002-04:002012-05-31T21:19:20.518-04:00Weekly Language Live Stream<span style="color: #6aa84f;">For all you Twitter junkies and language enthusiasts, join your language colleagues every Thursday evening at 8pm EST to discuss the latest topics in the world of education. You can follow along and/or participate using the #langchat hashtag. If you'v missed it, not to worry! Check out their summaries at <a href="http://langchat.pbworks.com/w/page/39343677/FrontPage">http://langchat.pbworks.com/w/page/39343677/FrontPage</a>. </span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The study, done within the Toronto District School Board, mentions staggering statistics such as the fact that </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">51 per cent of elementary students and 68 per cent of high school students came to school without eating breakfast! Thankfully, the study shows that students who ate breakfast through the school breakfast program showed in increase in general health, behaviour and academics. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Nevertheless, as the article states: "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Canada is one of few developed nations that does not have a national child breakfast program." I saw the breakfast program be an outstanding success at my previous school as well, and if your school doesn't already have it, I would highly encourage everyone to do what they can to encourage their schools to participate in a breakfast program. </span></span></span></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5908505017355089585.post-12159560010913533172012-05-16T06:30:00.000-04:002012-05-28T22:02:14.642-04:00New Teacher Website!<span style="color: #6aa84f;">As a new teacher myself I was thrilled to come across this website: "<a href="http://survivethrive.on.ca/en/frontpage" target="_blank"><b>Survive & Thrive </b></a>- Virtual Conference for Beginning Teachers". That's like music to my ears! What a great resource for lesson plans, stress management, teaching strategies, and more!</span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0