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Posted onMarch 26, 2022March 27, 2024 activities, Canva, community building, featured

Activities That Build Classroom Community

Are you looking for some activities to build rapport with your students that go beyond the traditional beginning of the year ice breakers? In this […] Read More

Posted onMarch 19, 2022March 19, 2022 featured, Nearpod, vocabulary

Is It Logical? A Quick and Fun Way to Review Vocabulary

I’ve been doing variations of this activity for so long, I can’t even remember where I heard about it first, but I believe it was […] Read More

Posted onMarch 5, 2022March 5, 2022 Canva, classkick, collaborative PowerPoints, edtech, featured, Flipgrid, hybrid learning, Nearpod, PowerPoint, remote learning

Three Tools from Hybrid and Virtual Learning That I Still Use This Year (and One I Kicked to the Curb)

Teachers had to make a lot of changes in the 2020-2021 school year to adapt to hybrid and virtual instruction. While I thought this year, […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 4, 2022February 4, 2022 assessment, authentic resources, authres, Canva, edtech, featured, Flipgrid, speaking

Using Flipgrid to Practice Weather

Back in 2016 I blogged about a speaking activity where students made a short video in groups using Adobe Spark to give a weather forecast. […] Read More

Posted onJanuary 23, 2022January 23, 2022 activities, canada, Canva, featured, listening, Quizizz

Using My Own Travels to Create a Learning Activity

Last year I blogged about incorporating my own photography into my teaching. This post will draw on parts of that, as I share how I […] Read More

Posted onDecember 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Canva, featured

My 5 Favorite Things I Tried in 2021

As 2021 comes to a close (and whoa, what a year it was), I am reflecting on what new tools and games I tried this […] Read More

Posted onDecember 14, 2021December 14, 2021 assessment, Canva, featured, grammar, learning, speaking, writing

Setting Realistic Communicative Expectations for Novice Low and Novice Mid Learners

I’ve been teaching novice learners for nearly 12 years. When I first began, I was more grammar and accuracy focused in terms of my expectations […] Read More

Posted onNovember 26, 2021November 29, 2021 activities, art, authentic resources, authres, Canva, culture, featured, france, francophonie, french culture, kahoot

More Resources for Introducing Students to Impressionism

Back in 2015, I wrote a post about Introducing French Students to Impressionism. I recommend reading that post before reading this one, because this post […] Read More

Posted onNovember 20, 2021November 20, 2021 Canva, community building, featured

Gender-Inclusive Language in the French Classroom: How It Looks in 2021

In my time spent in professional development sessions, having discussions with colleagues and browsing conversations being had on the internet, I know that gender-inclusive language […] Read More

Posted onNovember 4, 2021March 18, 2022 activities, Canva, edtech, featured, games, listening, numbers, tech tools, technology, vocabulary

An Ode to Virtual Bingo

Bingo is an age old tradition in K-12 classrooms. Teachers have been using it for decades to review topics in a variety of subject areas. […] Read More

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My name's Samantha Decker and I'm a middle school French teacher from Saratoga Springs, NY. I started The French Corner in high school as a resource for French students, and have since expanded it into a blog for French teachers. Read more about the blog here.

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