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Fun end-of-term idea for any age group
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jan Lewandowski Jun. 27, 2008.
recommendations of fab resources
Replied May. 10, 2008
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- I will/do teach the following languages:
- French
- I teach these year groups;
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- About Me:
- I'm a Primary teacher teaching overseas as a Primary French Specialist. I teach Y2 to Y6 twice a week in the British School - Muscat in the warm and sunny Sultanate of Oman - a fab place to be so I've stayed here for 14 years! I have my own dedicated classroom (portacabin, actually, but I like to call it my French chalet!) I'm totally thrilled to have a found such a great PMFL forum having been teaching in a bubble out here.
- Favourite/recommended MFL Website:
- http://www.zut.org.uk
- Favorite MFL resource:
- I didn't know most of the commonly used UK resources existed till last week at the Primary Lang Conference so I've been making up a lot myself! Use La Jolie Ronde stuff a bit, as well as the great American catalogue of MFL resources, 'Teacher's Discovery'. Excellent song CDs from them are the 'Sing, Dance, Laugh and Eat Quiche' series.
Some useful quick links:
New QCA MFL Units click here
European Portfolio & Language Passport
KS2 MFL Framework click here to order
KS2 MFL Framework click to download
Part 3 of the KS2 Framework - Planning!
Regional Support Groups info click here
NACELL site homepage
International School Award
Primary Languages Training Zone
Teachers TV
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I was trying to put together something on this and courtesy of the Sunderland MFL Christmas resources site put together this Smartboard Notebook file. It includes a Connect4 game to play with the pupils in teams as they try and memorise what they ha…
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I don't look at this blog too often so sorry for the delay! I'll say hello to Rob and Sara for you. Term is frenetic already. In y3 and 4 we have a 30 minute lesson a week which is slit into 15mins storytelling and gesturing-and 15 mins Rigolo episodes/activities. We don't do everything as time doesn't allow it. We have just started Rigolo in Y5 and 6-they have 1 hour per week--will be finishing off the later chapters in Rigolo 1 then doing some more interesting units from Rigolo 2 before they enter Y7 and start Métro 2. Our turnover is not as bad as it used to be and our storytelling and gestures keeps all skill levels engaged and challenged whilst recycling the top 100 verbs. Hope your start of term is going well and keep in touch. Steve
Sorry to hear you had problems downloading the lame that goes with audacity. I cheated and got my Year 6 to download it for me! One of the boys has a very techie dad and so must spend a lot of time with him on the computer, because he had it up and running in less than 10 minutes. Is there anyone at the school who can visit your 'chalet' and help out just to install it?
Fair point about the work that goes into planning for units you made. I do get a day a week to use for planning/creating materials if I am not using it to do training so that's how I get the time.
Also so many people helped me by posting/sharing maths and science resources when I first retrained for Primary (I was soooo worried about teaching those subjects) that it seemed only fair to share what I've managed to do in MFL - which is why I've written it up - in far more detail than I would for myself!
It's pouring with rain again here in Devon now - but I'm off to do training at a wee school up on the moors this afternoon so I can hear a pub lunch beckoning - I luuuurv Thursdays!
Take care (and our last podcast was in January shhh don't tell Joe!)
Jo x
Much appreciated! My head is reeling with the sudden onslaught of all the available material and support. I'm now off for my first day of the school week - we work Sat to Wed with Thurs/Fri as weekend. Will be trying to put into my lessons all sorts of ideas I've started to glean from my day-long surf yesterday...I'll check out your site later today and get round to sharing my stuff when I work out how! Having done a crash course on delicious tags from Jo's links yesterday that's yet another thing I need to get my head round!
Have a good weekend,
Rosie
Wish I was there!-Not very sunny in Manchester at the moment...
I am sure you will find our network friendly and helpful.
I teach French too and you may wish to visit my blog to check out my links to French Primary resources. Go to http://isabellejones.blogspot.com then scroll down until you see a long list of key words on the right (delicious tags), click on French, then on +primary to get a fully updated list of links to resources for Primary French.
I hope it is of use!
Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Helen x
Fancy meeting up with you again - online this time! Great to see you here on the site and hope you find it useful and friendly. Lookng forward to sharing ideas with you too
Jo x