Sept 2012
After demonstrating my talent of doing double unders for “Étoile de la semaine,” I was skipping outside with some of the girls from my class, and one of them said, “Mme, when you retire, you should teach skipping.” Made me snicker, as I teach rec skipping classes in the evening. Who knows, maybe I’ll still teach skipping when I’m 65.
Oct 15, 2012
Upon having a discussion about prepositions and countries - ex le Pérou --> au Pérou, la Tunisie --> en Tunisie, I pointed out that it is easy to remember that we should say “au Canada,” because it is like the anthem where we say “O Canada.” This caused some students to burst into song, and we sang O Canada from beginning to end in French and then in English. It was kind of awesome. Lol.
Oct 16, 2012
I love it when students randomly come tell me stuff. Today I had a girl who came to me and said, “I have two things to say: One, it’s my brother’s birthday today. Also, can I go to the washroom?” I see the obvious logic in the connection between these two topics. :)
Also, today I finally started feeling like I might be starting to understand assessments- I had been finding some good examples of rubrics on Pinterest and in a couple of other places, and was dreading translating them into French. As it turns out, I had already collected a file folder full of rubrics in French! Also, I think it’ll help to have them think of themselves as the teacher. A student came to me to hand in his work after I’d asked him to go back and fix a couple of things already. He asked, “Am I done now?” so I asked him “If you were the teacher, would you accept this work?” He looked at it and said, “No,” then went back to his desk to start over. :)
