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As Christmas is fast approaching, I was reminded of this gem of a website that I blogged about last year.  If you have little ones or are teaching young children in a French language program, you may want to share this website with parents. You can customize a message from Santa to a child by answering some of the questions and sharing some images of family/friends. Please don't select that the child was "vilain" (naughty)! French Immersion teachers, consider drawing a name out of a hat once/twice a week and creating a personalized message for that child to share with the class.  This would undoubtedly rekindle the magic of Christmas among the children.  You can then introduce some of the vocabulary and expressions from the video message with the children in the classroom. Last year, my 4-year old daughter was listening with total rapture while listening to her personalized message from Père Noël himself. Visit perenoelmagique.ca to create your message! ...

I tend to mostly write about resources and teaching ideas that strictly pertain to learning French.  However, as a French Immersion teacher, I teach every subject from English to Science.  The French Learning Support teacher at my school once said that regardless of what subject you teach in the French Immersion program, you are a language educator FIRST.  Nothing could be closer to the truth than this statement. One of the subjects I've consistently found challenging for students is mathematics.  Developing number concepts and understanding symbolic representions can be very difficult for some students to grasp.  I teach grades 4 and 5 students.  In mathematics, I usually assign pre-reading for one group of students while I work with the other group of students.  I also record my lessons using an app called Show Me.   I then post my videos to an incredible learning management system called Edmodo .  All videos are organized in stacks (or...