Bottom line: A decent teacher-marked option for students who are bilingual or at least reasonably fluent. [If your students aren’t fluent yet but you’re looking for an online option, try Muzzy online or French Sing & Learn. Enseignement.BE has online … Continue reading
A friend introduced me to these workbooks this past spring and I was immediately intrigued. It’s not often that you find full-colour, 130-page workbooks for about $12 each. I bought two copies of the grade 5 level (years 1745-1905) and … Continue reading
Before you get the wrong idea, let me just say that we don’t spend our entire summer doing workbooks! Our summers are so short here in Canada that I like to take advantage of them. That being said, I do … Continue reading
I am knee-deep in planning ahead for next year right now! For the 2017-2018 school year, my children will be in grades 7 and 5. Yikes. High school is also looming over my head a bit, so I’ve been keeping … Continue reading
I recently found Cahiers N.G. on a vendor listing for last year’s AQED conference (AQED = Association Québecoise pour Éducation à Domicile – or Québec Association for education at home). I was doing some planning for next year, looking for … Continue reading
Anyone else feeling tired? I’m always so ambitious when planning curriculum, but half-way through the year of actually doing it, I’m spent! This year has been particularly bad. I think I took on too many projects last summer. As a … Continue reading
I’m guessing that grammar is not your child’s favourite subject. It’s not a big draw in our house either. However, it’s one of those things that really does need to be learned if the goal is true bilingualism. On the … Continue reading
Finding good sources for French learning materials is not easy. When I first started teaching my children at home, I had trouble finding resources for French. Today I thought I’d share with you the top 5 places that I go … Continue reading
We recently completed our New France unit study. I chose to do this study in English with my kids because a lot of the ideas are abstract and I wasn’t confident in their ability to understand what I was saying … Continue reading
Fall is a great time to learn about apples and apple vocabulary in French. Here are a few resources to help you with that. Paper apple relay Last year at this time, we did a paper apple relay race with … Continue reading