Constantly Changing

One of my favorite things about being a teacher is that we like to share.  There is no reason not to.  What would happen if I share something with a teacher in Canada?  Do I have to worry that my students will leave FA and move there for that awesome teacher.  Not likely, of course. 

So not only do I willingly share anything others may want, I am more than willing to keep that sharing cycle going by borrowing great ideas from other teachers.  Recently I totally swiped an awesome project from Chris Harbeck off of twitter, a math poetry project.  I tweaked it to fit French, borrowed his eloquent descriptions of different types of poetry, and gave the assignment to my students. 

Here are some of the results:

Les maths est

Quelquefois

Facile,

Toujours

L’apres-midi,

Quelquefois

Pas terrible,

Toujours

Barbant étudier.

Quelquefois

Après le français,

quelquefois

la geographie pour moi.

by KN

Oui OR Si

(free verse)

What’s the difference between oui and si?

What ever it is it’s confusing me

One for the happy, one for the sad

I don’t like French anymore, it’s really bad

It is hard, and its rough

It’s just to tough

No More! No More!

I don’t like French, its such a bore

But now something has come over me

I found the true meaning of si

A moment of happiness and light

YES!!! I had finally gotten it right

I found it in my sentence, ‘I don’t like French’

Am I awake just, give me a pinch!

Si is for not like, Oui is for like

I have found it, the true meaning of life

French is the greatest biggest and best

But now……

I have that big French test

by JD

Pas Moi

J’aime la pizza

          Pas Moi

J’aime la glace

          Moi, non

J’aime le frite, et tu?

          Non, pas trop

Je n’aime pas l’ecole

          Moi si

They did a great job using the elements we are reviewing for exams and creating the poetry.  I am lucky that they had a great teacher last year who did a wonderful poetry unit with them.

You can pretty much guess that if I am doing something cool in my classroom in some way it was influenced by someone else.  Nothing I do is entirely just me.  And I’m proud of that.