Do you choose a “project” or “mini project” to do over the summer to help you prepare for the following school year? I have always found this to be most beneficial because once school starts up there are so many things to do that some of the culture and engaging activities I really want to do just don’t get done because there isn’t enough time to prepare them! Marking gets in the way, and so does the weekly lesson planning and those are only a couple of the challenges.
So this week in my blog I want to share with you some of those types of projects that can be done at a leisurely pace while kicking back and enjoying your time off! You will then reap the benefits of having them ready whenever you choose to put them into action during the school year.
These will save you hours of researching, planning and prepping and will be an excellent addition to your lessons.
This first one is great for a variety of grade levels! It’s a seasonal product during the winter and highlights the Carnaval de Québec in February. This hands on matching game is perfect for end of the day activities, as a springboard activity to begin your Carnaval unit or to use as a celebratory game when the students have explored Carnaval during your winter carnival unit! Save yourself hours of looking for photos and making French game cards with vocabulary appropriate to the pictures with this resource at my TPT store!
CLICK HERE ---- Carnaval de Québec matching game
Other matching games that follow the above format can be found here:
CLICK HERE ---- Paris matching game
CLICK HERE ---- Weather matching game
CLICK HERE ---- School Objects matching game
The next mini project is ideal for building community in your classroom at the beginning of the school year or semester! There are 75 oral task cards to use and you can divide them up into “themes” if you wish in order to use them over several classes or in different grade levels. They could also be used in small group situations if you feel that having your full class move around the room at the same time is not something that you feel comfortable with. With the extra time of the summer, you will have time to divide the cards up efficiently and choose which ones to use first! My students have always enjoyed these cards!
CLICK HERE --- French Oral task cards
The last one I’d like to share with you is a French inventors’ project! This is a great way to introduce famous people to your students from a variety of countries. It is also a great way for your students to either work as individuals or in pairs – again to build community. With a presentation at the end you will get an opportunity to do some impromptu formative evaluation of your students to better gauge what lessons and work needs to be done in your lessons by seeing their ability levels while doing this project. Whether you want to specify grammatical structures to be used in the project is definitely up to you.
CLICK HERE ---- French inventors project
I hope you will find one of these projects can fit into your summer schedule.
Have a great day! Bonne journée !
Lorraine
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