Hello Amazing Fellow Educators!
I´m Danicka. I graduated with a teaching specialization in French as an Additional Language from the University of Toronto in June 2022. I am currently an IB French Teacher for the Middle Years and Diploma Programs. I bring extensive experience in teaching French to diverse learners. My resources aim to make students´ learning of the French and Spanish languages authentic and fun, emphasizing the essential skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Hello Amazing Fellow Educators!
I´m Danicka. I graduated with a teaching specialization in French as an Additional Language from the University of Toronto in June 2022. I am currently an IB French Teacher for the Middle Years and Diploma Programs. I bring extensive experience in teaching French to diverse learners. My resources aim to make students´ learning of the French and Spanish languages authentic and fun, emphasizing the essential skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This reading comprehension activity will get your students thinking about how they can be more enviornmentally sustainable by saving water at their school and home.
This is aligned with the Ontario curriculum expectations for Grade 5 Social Studies.
It includes a reading comprehension text, questions, key vocabulary and definitions, and a culminating summative task (a letter to Indigenous activist, Autumn Peltier).
A sample of the letter and success criteria are provided.
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 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 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 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 photo of the day activity can be used as a warm up activity in your French language classroom to get your students to use their imagination and creative writing skills to talk about photos.
3 photos are provided with this activity. You may choose the photos you want to show your students 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 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 two part lesson can be used in your Spanish classroom to allow your students to learn how to introduce themselves by saying their name and how they feel. They will also learn basic greetings such as how to say “Good morning,” “Good afternoon / evening,” and “Goodnight.”
This lesson can be used in your Spanish language classroom to allow your students to learn vocabulary related to describing their holidays and the last holiday they went on.
A worksheet with common expressions using “fue + adjectivo” is 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 lesson can be used in your French classroom to teach your students how to use the past tense of the verb “visiter” to talk about places they have visited.
By the end of the lesson, your students should be able to understand how to use the passé composé of the verb “visiter.” They should also be able to show their understanding of a text when answering questions, write a short paragraph to describe places they visited and what it was like, and remember key words to give their opinion.
This interactive activity will allow you to take your students in your French classroom on a virtual field trip to La grotte Cosquer in Marseille, France.
They will have the opportunity to visit the cave through exploring it online and then make a list of vocabulary and interesting facts they learned.
This fill-in-the blanks listening comprehension activity is perfect for teaching your Year 9 and 10 French students vocabulary related to Christmas / the holidays.
This Christmas / holiday themed lesson is perfect for your intermediate / advanced French students. They will be able to learn vocabulary related to Christmas and the holidays, practice their listening comprehension skills by completing a fill-in-the blanks activity from a catchy Christmas song in French, and gain cultural knowledge about Christmas traditions in France.
This reading comprehension activity will allow students in your French classroom to practice vocabulary related to introducing themselves (ex. their names, age, and nationality) using basic structures in French. They will be able to practice answers questions related to the content, analyzing conventions, and making connections.
Note: This activity is aligned with the MYP1-4 IB French Emergent Level curriculum expectations.
Worksheet and answer key provided.
This grammar worksheet is perfect for your intermediate French students learning to talk about actions that they have just completed using frequently used verbs.