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Let’s talk a bit about in person/online/hybrid teaching today. Specifically, I want to chat about math and how you can assign things like French math worksheets to all of your students. I actually had no idea that hybrid teaching was a thing until recently! One of my friends ( Sarah from Fun in French Immersion ) mentioned it the other day. She told me that last year, she had to both teach in person and online (and also make send-home packets). Umm, excuse me?! What?? How is that a thing? In case that’s your reality right now, I wanted to take a second today and share two math resources that might help you out. They are essentially the same thing, in two different formats – cut and paste and drag & drop. No matter where your students physically are, they can be practicing the same skills! Math pour la maternelle - Découpe et colle French Math Worksheets These are the original math worksheets that I created for maternelle (for première année sheet...

Who here agrees that teaching writing can be a real challenge? I used to think that too, but now, writing is one of my FAVOURITE subjects to teach, and is definitely my smoothest block of the day! What helped me with that transition? Definitely using a writing continuum! When I first started teaching "writing”, my writing block consisted of either A. My students copying something word for word from the board or B. Me running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to help everyone write everything . This was NOT a fun or good use of my time, haha! One thing that was holding me back from being a good writing teacher were my expectations/thoughts about what writing *is* and how it should look. I was thinking about writing and basing my ideas on what writing should be from an adult’s perspective. I hadn’t really peeled back the layers of how the writing process begins, and what it looks like, right from the pre-writing stage. Plus, I wasn’t meeting my stu...