On stage!

My dad is such a talented craftsman!  Take a look at the shadow puppet stages he made (one for me, one for a drama teaching friend of mine and another for my niece).  They just need painted!  I am so excited about using these! Thanks, dad!

Busy lesson. . . no problem!

I think this is such a great idea for those lessons that require that extra bit of help! Also good if you are working with small groups or helping students who need extra one-on-one time and you don't want to be interrupted by a million questions!  I am going to make one of these in French and use my "Pick Me" tins to pick a helpful student!

Classroom decor!

For each of my ten classrooms, I am doing something special this year.  I am making an "Eiffel Tower Word Wall".  My amazing, crafty dad made these awesome Eiffel Towers out of styrofoam for each of my classes.  I painted them and they look great.  Since they are so light, I can mount them on the wall with magnets.  I cut out glitter card stock in cool shapes to put my words on.  Each word wall will have the words of key phrases (merci, s'il vous plait, de rien, etc.) on the Eiffel Tower.  Then around the tower I cut out a sun and clouds.  The sun has "Est-ce que je peux. . . " and the clouds finish the sentence with "boire de l'eau, aller aux toilettes, tailler mon crayon?".  For the younger grades I may print out and put up these passwords because they have the accompanying pictures.  I also may include these posters for the younger grades for some further enforecement.  They are free and so cute!

Words do not do my word wall ideas justice so I will wait to post pictures until I have them up in the classrooms!  

A good language learner. . .

I really like this chart on what a good language learner is.  I feel like I am constantly stopping to tell my students that they "don't have to know every word in a text to understand it" or that they "must take advantage of talking in French as much as they can during our class times".  I think this year I am going to put this on a Smartboard slide and go over it at the beginning of the year. Maybe I'll even make copies of it so they can put it in the front of their cahiers to remember throughout the year!

Monster Mayhem!

I already have sets of "adjective" people made.  You know the "guess who" type charts with different people to describe.  This is a little spin on that.   I plan on making laminated sets of them and using them for a body vocabulary review! 

Qui est-ce? monsters!

Anything to make reading fun!

I love this to make reading vocabulary words and sentences more interesting.  I can't wait to use it!  I may even do it in conjunction with my hot potato!

Projector? Yes, please!

I bought a sketching projector at Pat Catans for around $25... Best decision I ever made! Now I can compete with the best of 'em when it comes time to make bulletin boards! I practiced this summer and made this poster for my Italian grandmother!