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Posted onFebruary 27, 2025February 28, 2025 activities, authentic resources, authres, Black History, Canva, carnaval, cuisine, culture, featured, fleur de lys, food, france, francophonie, french culture, history, holidays, mardi gras, Nearpod

Mardi Gras and Carnaval in French Class

This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about Mardi Gras. Back in 2015, I shared My Favorite #Authres (and More!) for Mardi Gras & Carnaval. […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 13, 2025February 13, 2025 activities, authentic resources, authres, edtech, featured, french culture, games, lo-tech, Nearpod

Resources for Time, Day and Date

Note: This is an update of a post I wrote back in 2016. Outdated resources have been removed and new ones have been added. Time, […] Read More

Posted onJanuary 16, 2025January 16, 2025 authentic resources, authres, Canva, Chandeleur, community building, crepes, cuisine, culture, dining, featured, food, france, francophonie, french culture, Nearpod, Time to Climb

How We Celebrate Chandeleur with Crêpes

Note: If you are an email subscriber, I recommend viewing this post in your browser, as there are videos and other content which will not […] 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 onOctober 11, 2021October 28, 2021 activities, assessment, Canva, classkick, collaborative PowerPoints, edtech, featured, listening, Nearpod, PowerPoint, tech tools

Using Drawings to Show What They Know

In French class we try to avoid using English wherever possible when showing understanding.  That’s why I often ask students to draw a phrase or […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 18, 2021February 9, 2024 authentic resources, authres, Chandeleur, crepes, culture, french culture, hybrid learning, Nearpod, remote learning, Time to Climb, video, virtual taste test, Zoom

How We Celebrated Chandeleur Virtually

Well, I’ve been trying to post my new hybrid and virtual ideas related to holidays before the holiday actually occurs so that readers have an […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 4, 2021December 15, 2024 authentic resources, authres, Black History, Canva, carnaval, covid-19, cuisine, culture, EdPuzzle, hybrid learning, mardi gras, Nearpod, New Orleans, Quizizz, remote learning, video, virtual taste test

Mardi Gras 2021 in French Class (UPDATED 2/11/21)

NOTE:  I’m reposting this, as I added some additional resources.   Like just about everything we normally do in our classrooms, Mardi Gras is another […] Read More

Posted onJanuary 17, 2021July 26, 2021 blooket, games, gimkit, hybrid learning, kahoot, Nearpod, Quizizz, Quizlet Live, remote learning, Time to Climb

How Online Games Stack Up for Hybrid Lessons

Even with this switch to hybrid and virtual learning this year, games continue to be a fun way to review content and motivate students.  Unfortunately, […] Read More

Posted onJanuary 8, 2021July 26, 2021 Canva, Canvas, Canvas discussions, collaborative PowerPoints, cuisine, edtech, Flipgrid, food, games, independent exploration, names, Nearpod, PowerPoint, Time to Climb, Zoom

The French Corner 2020 Recap: The Top 10 Things I Did or Tried in 2020

Wow, this year certainly came with a lot of unexpected challenges, didn’t it?  And the end of the year, I often round up my favorite […] 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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