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Continue reading →: Learning to write cursive in French/L’écriture cursive en MS et GS(None of these links are affiliate). (TL;DR: google “graphismes MS/GS” first, teach boucles on a slate or whiteboard, print large cursive letters that the child can trace with their fingers, print the writing booklet from Bout de gomme. Buy a notebook with lignes seyès in it.) Teaching cursive right from…
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Continue reading →: Make Your Own Worksheets! Faites vos propres fiches de travail !
I want my grade 2 child to practice writing very simple French sentences over and over again, because I believe repetition is important. But I was having trouble finding what I needed, so I discovered a website where I can make my own worksheets rather easily, called My Worksheet Maker.…
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Continue reading →: Our French Picks for 2025-26, Part 4 (Kindergarten/Grande Section and Pre-School/Moyenne Section)(None of these links are affiliate) Part 1 of this series here. Part 2 here. Part 3 here. Kindergarten/Grande Section: My kindergartener is named B. Usually I am not a believer in early academics, because simply playing and exploring is how children learn at this age. However, since her three…
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Continue reading →: Our French Picks for 2025-2026, Part 3 (Grade 2/CE1)Part 1 of this series. Part 2 of this series. My second grader shall henceforth be called R. Learning to Read/Phonics: I realized right away this year that, although capable of speaking and understanding French, she couldn’t read it at all. Therefore, I started her off in this book from…
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Continue reading →: Sciences-Biologie-Gregor Mendel
Friends, I have found something wonderful! I have a book buying problem, and it gets to be even more expensive than usual when those books are imported from France. I have been eyeing this book about Gregor Mendel for a while, called Le jardinier de l’hérédité by Catherine Bousquet. It…
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Continue reading →: Our French Picks for 2025-26, Part 2 (Grade 4, CM1)These are my French picks for my fourth grader (whom I will call M2), who has dyslexia and therefore her work is often below her actual grade level, and she has trouble working independently because she is not an independent reader. Find part 1 of this series here. (None of…
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Continue reading →: Our French Picks for 2025-26 (Grade 5/CM2)Here are our French immersion homeschool picks for 2025-2026, for grade 5/CM2: (Note: none of the links below are affiliate. I am not paid to say what I say and was given no free samples!) (Also note: I usually try as much as possible to find used copies of these…

