Hello Amazing Fellow Educators!
I graduated with a Master of Arts in Child Study and Education and teaching specialization in French as an Additional Language from the University of Toronto in June 2022. My resources aim to make students´ learning of the English, French, and Spanish languages authentic and fun, emphasizing the essential language acquisition skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Hello Amazing Fellow Educators!
I graduated with a Master of Arts in Child Study and Education and teaching specialization in French as an Additional Language from the University of Toronto in June 2022. My resources aim to make students´ learning of the English, French, and Spanish languages authentic and fun, emphasizing the essential language acquisition skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This interactive lesson will allow your students to learn about the relationship that Indigenous people share with water. They will also understand the importance of advocating for water protection and promoting sustainable change for future generations.
Note: Full lesson plan outline is included in the presentation which contains links to the videos and worksheets.
Aligned with Ontario Grade 4 Language Arts and Social Studies Curriculum Expectations.
This fun Math game will allow your young learners to practice their addition and subtraction skills.
Note* This is aligned with Ontario Curriculum expectations for Grade 3 students.
The specific steps of the game and how to set it up are provided on the document.
Materials
1 standard deck of playing cards.
Cards labelled 10-30.
Spoons (other materials can be substituted) (*Note: the number of spoons should be 1 less than the number of players in order to eliminate 1 player every round). X-1 = # of spoons, where ‘X’ = number of players.
Some sort of surface (e.g. table, carpet)
Ontario curriculum expectations:
Strand B: Number
Math Facts
“B2.2 recall and demonstrate multiplication facts of 2, 5, and 10, and related division facts” (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2020, Section Math Facts).
Mental Math
“B2.3 use mental math strategies, including estimation, to add and subtract whole numbers that add up to no more than 1000, and explain the strategies used” (OME, 2020, Section Mental Math).
Addition and Subtraction
“B2.4 demonstrate an understanding of algorithms for adding and subtracting whole numbers by making connections to and describing the way other tools and strategies are used to add and subtract” (OME, 2020, Section Addition and Subtraction).
Game Instructions
Objective: Be the first player to get a sum of a number between 10-30 as shown on the card displayed in the middle of the table. Players have to decompose the number shown on the card using a combination of up to 4 numbers (up to 4 cards) as fast as possible. (E.g. If the number shown in the middle is “12,” players can choose to represent that with 2 cards of ‘6,’ or 3 cards of ‘2,’ ‘6,’ and ‘4’ or ‘3,’ ‘4’, ‘2,’ and ‘3.’)
This starter activity can be used in your French classroom to help your beginner students practice grammar (Ex. tu vs. vous, putting sentences in the correct order, putting questions in the inverted form, and translating basic sentences from English to French and vice versa).
This lesson will allow your students to learn more about the impacts of their actions on the environment and teach them to calculate their ecological footprint.
This lesson can be used in French Immersion or French classrooms (Social Studies / Science) in French.
Instructions for the activities are included on the slides and the links to the activities are also provided.
This retrieval practice activity can be used in your Spanish language classroom to allow your students to review vocabulary related to sports and activities in Spanish.
This oral comprehension activity can be used in your French classroom to promote your students´ listening skills.
Students will watch two videos about two different people describing their houses and people they live with (vocabulary about parts of a house, rooms, and family members is covered.)
Youtube links to the videos are provided on the worksheets.
The answer key is provided.
This activity is aligned with the IB MYP Emergent level curriculum expectations.*
This three part lesson is perfect for promoting emotional understanding and empathetic behaviours in the classroom as a means of developing your young students’ theory of mind.
A link to the detailed lesson plans is included along with examples of each lesson.
Note*: The lessons are aligned with the Ontario Grade 2 Language Arts, Social Studies, and Visual Arts Curriculum Expectations (The specific strands are included in the PDF).
This vocabulary quiz can be used as a warm up retrieval activity at the beginning of your Spanish lesson, allowing students to review words related to talking about their home.
Quiz and answer key provided.
This retrieval practice activity can be used in your Spanish language classroom to help your students recall vocabulary related to sports and activities in Spanish. Your students will also be able to practice talking about sports in the first person singular. Ex. “Hago (sport)” or “Juego (sport).”
This photo of the day activity can be used in your Spanish language classroom to promote your students´ creative writing skills to describe photos.
Three photos are included with this activity. You may choose to use your own photos from the Internet.
This lesson can be used in your Spanish language classroom to teach your students the months of the year, the numbers from 1 to 30, and how to talk about their birthday and other people´s birthdays in Spanish.
A worksheet with the months of the year and numbers from 1 to 30 in English and Spanish is also included in this lesson.
This lesson will allow students in your French language classroom to learn the common adverbs of quantity (peu de, trop de, beaucoup de, etc.) in French.
This listening comprehension activity can be used in your French classroom to teach your students vocabulary related to talking on the phone with someone in French.
This worksheet will allow your students in your French classroom to practice using the partitive articles (du, de la, de l´, des) to talk about quantities when referring to food items.
Ex. Je mange du pain.
Students in your French language classroom will be able to practice talking about activities they will do in the near future with the help of this visual aid.
This three part lesson is perfect for promoting emotional understanding and empathetic behaviours in the classroom as a means of developing your young students’ theory of mind.
A link to the detailed lesson plans is included along with examples of each lesson.
Note*: The lessons are aligned with the Ontario Grade 2 Language Arts, Social Studies, and Visual Arts Curriculum Expectations (The specific strands are included in the PDF).
This listening comprehension activity is perfect for your MYP Emergent students or students beginning to learn French.
They will review vocabulary related to describing family members and understanding the purpose communicated through analysing an audio-visual text.
The worksheet and answer key is provided.