Do you celebrate Mother’s Day in your classroom?
It’s become a bit controversial, hasn’t it?
Some teachers are against celebrating Mother’s Day because it makes motherless kids feel bad. Other teachers feel that celebrating it is important because mothers actually end up complaining for not getting cards or something similar.
Where do you stand?
French Mother’s Day Lapbook
Well, you might have found yourself in a similar situation as in the story below…
– But I don’t have a mom…
The new teacher hadn’t thought about the possibility that any of the students wouldn’t have a mother, and was certainly not ready for an alternative activity for the oh-so-obvious Mother’s Day card.
The new teacher looked at the little boy and tried to hide the panic starting to take over her thoughts: “Now what do I do?”, “What if he starts crying?”
Yes, I should have been better prepared, but I was a new teacher then and I was already overwhelmed with all I had to do. But I learned my lesson.
Lapbook pour la fête des mères
If you can’t avoid celebrating Mother’s Day in your classroom, you have already been or will certainly be in the same situation as I was: having a student who doesn’t have a mom to celebrate.
If this is your case, my best tip is to turn this holiday into an event celebrating an important woman in the students’ lives: their grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and even teachers.
This Lapbook pour la fête des mères (French Mother’s Day Lapbook) can also be a Grandmother’s Lapbook, Aunt’s Lapbook, and so on.
In addition, lapbooks are engaging and great gifts as well.
Check out the pictures below and find at the end of the post a SlideShare that will make your kids talk or write about any important woman in their lives.
Foldable Flaps, Mini-books, and more!
You can use the foldable flaps, mini-books, and other pieces in lapbooks, or in interactive notebooks.
What will you find?
– cover (or coloring page) with the message “J’aime maman!” I’ve also included the options: “J’aime mémé!”, “J’aime ma tante!”, and “J’aime ______”.
– “tout sur maman”: a text profile about the student’s mom that kids need to fill out.
– “tous les jours, maman…”: a mini-flip book that students will assemble and complete by writing about their mothers’ routines.
– “Si ma mère était un fruit/une saison/un animal, elle serait…”: students complete this hypothetical sentence about their mothers.
– Secret Message – a word work activity. Students find out the missing letters in the list of words. The missing letters form a message: bonne fête.
– a pop-up card – students assemble their own pop-up cards. The file includes picture instructions so it’s easier for you and for your students to understand.
Mother’s Day is a great opportunity to introduce, review, or practice adjectives for physical description and character traits.
Use this no-prep Slideshare to support the use of adjectives. Each slide presents a scrambled word for students to unscramble. Then, they need to write or tell you if their mothers (grandmothers, aunts, etc) are like that. There are eight scrambled words.
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Hope that Mother’s Day is a joyful celebrations in your French classroom 🙂
Thank you for stopping by!
Lucy
