My students recently wrote poems about themselves and about others. Read my 2023 post about it for more info: thefrenchcorner.net/2023/06/theyre…

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Two Truths and a Lie is one of my favorite community building activities. It's a great review of the vocabulary we learned all year and reinforces writing and listening skills. Read about this and more of my favorite community building activities: thefrenchcorner.net/2022/03/activi…

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While many of you are starting school this week, in my neck of the woods, we don't start until next week. Here is an article I wrote in 2021 about la rentrée, and much of it is still relevant today. thefrenchcorner.net/2021/09/la-ren…

Debuting a new design for my Canvas page this year. I designed this in Canva and I also ordered a poster of it to hang outside my door.

Every year I show my students an illustration I made in Procreate about myself. I updated it this year to reflect my current interests.

I made this video in Adobe Express using the AI animated voiceover character feature. It was fun to play around with & I liked the diverse options for characters. That said, I'm not sure if I'd have students make them as it takes a lot of time to create. youtube.com/watch?v=bbdd3K…

Just ran through my presentation for the NYSAFLT Annual Conference! Just need to make a few tweaks this week. I'll be presenting on Friday at 1 PM! #nysaflt25

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I am a big fan of Nearpod. I have been using it for years. One feature that I never used before now is the drag and drop feature. It allows you to give students words to drag and drop into categories, and you can arrange it to be self grading.

Here's a guessing game I made to get students talking about family members (without having to talk about their own family). There are four similar families, and through asking and answering questions, students figure out which family their classmate belongs to.

This is an activity I've done with both elementary and middle school students. It's essentially a color by number, but once the students are done coloring, they have to try to figure out what country/territory the flag belongs to.

A writing task I have done every year since I started teaching: students describe a celebrity or character and their classmates try to guess who it is. More on my blog: mlledeckerblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/qui…

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Sharing this as Chandeleur is just around the corner! thefrenchcorner.net/2025/01/how-we…

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