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Creating Teaching Materials: What Is Your Motivation?

3/19/2018

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I love to create teaching materials, but since I retired, sometimes it is hard to come up with the ideas. I have found that the best way to get motivated, is to engage with children and find things that would be helpful for them and fun for them to do.
Creating Teaching Materials: What Is Your Motivation?
When I teach a concept, I like to have a practical application to go along with it. I tutor two girls, and right now we are learning about the kitchen and cooking. I decided that it would be fun to actually try following a French recipe to make some cookies. The girls really enjoyed making the cookies and they remember a lot of the vocabulary because they could make connections to the activity.
Creating Teaching Materials: What Is Your Motivation?
I created this booklet after we did the cooking. I took pictures as they were cooking and I put them into the booklet. They were excited to see the pictures and read the booklet. I followed up the lesson by looking at some French recipe books. We reviewed the vocabulary and then talked about doing another cooking lesson in the future.
Les biscuit au chocolat et au beurre d'arachide
Les biscuits au chocolat et au beurre d'arachide
Les biscuits au chocolat et au beurre d'arachide
The next lesson, we looked at the different items that can be found in the kitchen. We then did some games with the task cards.
le vocabulaire thématique - la cuisine
le vocabulaire thématique - la cuisine
le vocabulaire thématique - la cuisine
J'ai, Qui A? la cuisine
They are going to do some more cooking when we have a longer session. The deal is that they need to be able to identify the different items in the kitchen and follow the instructions in French. They are very excited about this.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Drop Cookies
Themed vocabulary - kitchen
I Have, Who Has? kitchen
As is becoming a habit, I have made an English version for each of these products.

Stay tuned as I share more ideas that become activities and products from my experiences with kids.

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Making Connections In Reading

3/14/2018

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I love working with small reading groups and interacting with the children. The other day, I did a group in my grandson's French Immersion class. He was actually in the group that day! We talked about losing teeth and they each got to share a story about losing their first tooth. It was fun to see them engaging and making connections to the different stories.
Making Connections In Reading
After our discussion, we looked at a story I wrote about losing a tooth. We first did a picture walk and shared what we thought was happening on each page. Then we read the story and discussed how our predictions and the actual events were the same or different. We also made connections between the text and our personal stories.
Ma dent
Ma dent
Ma dent
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After our discussion, each child wrote one or two sentences about losing a tooth and then added an illustration. It was too bad that we didn't have more time, because I could see that this could have been a great time for creating little booklets and personal stories.
child's story
child's story
I have also created the same story in English. I am hoping to use it with one of my English reading groups.
Making Connections In Reading
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Creating Teaching Materials: What Is Your Motivation?
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What Motivates You?

3/10/2018

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Everyone needs to find something that motivates them to create or perform activities and tasks.
What Motivates You?
What inspires you and give you motivation? For me, it is often my grandchildren or children that I work with at school. Last month, my grandson participated in his first out of town swim meet. He swam some events for the first time. I was so proud of him.
What Motivates You?
Here he is waiting for his event and having a quick snack. His sister and his dad were there to help cheer him on.
What Motivates You?
Last week I was in Victoria looking after my grandchildren. While there, I did the runaround between swimming and dancing. My younger grandson had swimming lessons. He just turned five, but he is already swimming the length of the pool without fear. Here he is practicing his streamlining and kicking.
Swimming has been an important sport for our family throughout the years. All of our children participated in the summer swimming club and one of my daughters was a swim coach for several years. The two boys in the pictures above are hers.
swimming story
swimming story
I am tutoring two girls right now, and one of them has swimming lessons before she comes to her lesson. This made me think about swimming and so during the lesson we created some swimming stories. It was a great way for them to use their language to make a connection with what they do. These are the little booklets that they are working on. They are creating their own illustrations. I also created a booklet that included both of them as the characters. It was fun to see them read and enjoy the booklets.
Apprendre à nager
Learning to Swim
This gave me an idea for an emergent reader. I have found that most of my ideas lately have come from experiences with the kids. Here is the book that I created about learning to swim. I made it in French first, and then I made an English copy.
New emergent readers
New emergent readers
Stay tuned for some other resources that I am working on that are directly related to activities and situations that are happening now! Here are some I have just finished.
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    I am a wife, mother of 4, grandmother of 9, and a retired primary and music teacher. I love working with kids and continue to volunteer at school and teach ukulele.

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