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Djembe Player - DP8406

Thanks to its tablatures, the Djembé-Player method can get anyone to play the djembe. This method respects the traditional teaching of the instrument. In it, you will find a visual code that gives the fingerings of the rhythms as well as an audio CD allowing one to study at different speeds, in any place with a CD player, and on any object be it a table or a djembe.

J'ai l'esprit scientifique 3 - 7121

Heres a collection of exercises and activities aimed at developing the scientific spirit in your students. Ideal for projects and group work or as a review of the lessons covered.

Match de math 2 - 81125

Thanks to this document students will get to practice mental calculation. Mental calculation requires students to organize their knowledge in a different way from that used in writing algorithms. Students must efficiently break down numbers and visualize them with ingenuity. Each match therefore gets students to perform essential exercises in a relaxed way, to obtain clear results by objectives and to commit to taking up challenges. Answer keys accompany each exercise.

Ateliers progressifs 1 - 80876

These 25 dynamic workshops, filled with humour and imagination, are intended to be held from September to January inclusively. They will get students to progress from simple mental concentration to the creation of sketches, not to mention mime, construction of a character, and exploration of the commedia dellarte. Featured in December is a project that incorporates all of the acquired skills and, in January, the art of improvisation. Most of the workshops come with sheets that may be copied for the students.

Espèce : Ados - 81101DR

These sixteen scenes illustrate with humour, tenderness and wry wit the relations between parents and their teen-aged children. Inspired by teenagers, this play has the dynamism and the energy of a boxing match in which laughter marks the end of rounds and where everyone is a winner. These roles will fit your students like a glove. Success guaranteed!

	13 to 17 year olds
	45 to 50 minutes (16 scenes taking roughly 3 minutes each)
	The smallest: 2 characters The biggest: Your choice
	Parent-teenager relations (communication, studies, clothes, money, etc.)
	Mental concentration, projection, conciseness and efficiency

Document and reproduction rights for the school

Cercle de lecture et intelligences multiples - 7169

These charts will be very useful to you in promoting reading through activities that require multiple intellingences: writing a song, creating a hidden word game, and many others.

À la découverte des grandes religions du monde - 7251

Here is a document that invites the student to explore Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Amerindian spirituality. This document does not teach religions; it promotes their discovery. Along with comparing religions in order to find their common values, students develop their capacity for reflection, introspection and keeping their mind open.

Proverbes et expressions - 7244

Un peu de tout Univers social 2 - 7343

Here's a document that allows students to construct their own depiction of space, time and society. This document features various activities on the following themes: imagine daily life; locate oneself in space and time; observe, explore and compare elements of landscapes and social realities; recognize the characteristics of a group as a social organization.

Bingo des devinettes - EPT-136

Objectives:
- To improve oral comprehension by leading the child to understand riddles containing three elements.
- To improve auditory attention by leading the child to take into account all the elements of a riddle.
- To improve informative discourse by leading the child to supply various clues when producing riddles (categorical, functional and perceptual clues).
- To lead the child to overcome his/her reading difficulties by producing circumlocutions.
- To enrich expressive vocabulary in terms of various semantic categories.

Description:
The student reads a riddle (on a riddle card) or describes an image (on an image card) in order to produce a riddle.

Content:

This game contains:
- 5 bingo cards
- 32 riddle cards
- 32 image cards
- the game rules

Devine pourquoi - EPT-137

Objectives:
To lead the child to:
Understand the question word pouquoi.
Ask questions beginning with the question word pourquoi.
Produce the causal form pace que
Establish the cause and effect relation between a particular event and a felt emotion.
Enrich his/her expressive vocabulary with respect to emotions.

Description:
The pupil gets the other players to guess why a member of his family feels an emotion.

Contents: This game contains:
- 4 game boards,
- 48 playing cards,
- 1 visual aid,
- the game rules

Bingo des pronoms compléments - EPT-140

Objectives:

To lead the child to understand, orally and in writing, the nuances in meaning conveyed by the complementary pronouns:

le, la when they refer to human beings.
le,la when they refer to animals or objects.
le, les without particular reference.
- To enrich the receptive vocabulary of action verbs.

Description:
A student picks a sentence card and reads the sentence out loud to the other players. Each player who has that sentence places a chip on his/her bingo board.

Contents:
3 sets of 4 bingo boards to work on the distinctions between the complementary pronouns le, la and le, les
20 sentence cards for each bingo game
the game rules

Bingo Où-Quand ? - EPT-141

Objectives:
To lead the child to understand the distinction in meaning between où? and quand?

To improve the students auditory attention skills by leading him/her to take into account all of the elements in a question.

To enrich the childs receptive and expressive vocabulary with respect to places, semantic notions relating to places and temporal notions.

Description:
A pupil picks a card and reads the question out loud. Each player who has the image corresponding to the answer places a chip on his/her game board.

Contents:
- 5 game boards
- 20 question cards
- the game rules

Bingo Quoi-Avec quoi ? - EPT-142

Objectives:

To lead the child to understand the distinction in meaning conveyed by the question words quoi? and avec quoi?

To improve the childs auditory attention skills by leading him/her to take into account all of the elements in a question.

To enrich the childs receptive and expressive vocabulary with respect to various semantic categories.

Description:

A pupil picks a card and reads the question out loud. Each player who has a card corresponding to the answer places a chip on the game board.

Contents:

5 game boards
20 question cards
the game rules

Le parcours des temps de verbe 2 - EPT-138

Objectives:

- To lead the child to understanding grammatical morphemes that mark verb tenses: present, passé composé and futur proche.

- To lead the child to produce the form corresponding to verb tenses: present, passé composé and futur proche.

- To develop in the child knowledge relating to basic semantic links.

Description:

The child reads a sentence describing an image and finds, on the game board, the corresponding image.

Contents:
- 1 game board
- 21 phrase cards

Les maisons de mes amis - EPT-726

Objectives:

This game promotes reading comprehension. The student reads a short descriptive text and finds the corresponding house.

Description:
Each student choses and reads a card. He/she must then match each house on his game board with the description of the other players.

Contents:
This game contains:
-5 game boards
-30 descriptions, 6 per card (green for 1st year level)
-30 descriptions, 6 per card (red for 2nd year level)
-5 answer cards
-30 name cards
-the game rules

Bonne semaine ! - EPT-917

Objectives:
To enable the pupil to deepen his/her vocabulary with respect to the days of the week.
To enable the pupil to situate himself or herself in time (one week).

Description:
With the help of the roulette wheel and information relating to the days of the week, pupils must find the card corresponding to the day indicated. If they are right, they keep their card and can also thus accumulate the most cards possible.

Contents:
This game contains:
1 roulette wheel featuring the days of the week
36 playing cards
the game rules

Mon aquarium - EPT-727
Objectives:
To read a text and choose useful information that leads one to find the fish on the game board.

Description:
The student reads a text and matches each description to a corresponding fish. He/she then writes the fishs number on the bubbles from the aquarium.

Contents:
This game contains:
1 game board (aquarium)
14 texts (8 for 1st year and the beginning of 2nd, and 6 for 2nd year)
14 answer cards
the game rules

Les monstres G doux et G dur - EPT-545
Objectives:
To read properly words containing the letter g.

Description:
The pupil picks a card and reads the word contained on it. He/she must determine whether the word contains a hard or a soft g and then place his/her card on the appropriated glass to feed the two monsters.

Contents:
This game contains:
4 monster cards with their glasses
164 word cards (two levels of difficulty, 82 cards per level)
16 Miss your turn cards (8 cards per level)

Les monstres C doux et C dur - EPT-544
Objectives:
To read properly words containing the letter c.

Description:
The pupil picks a card and reads the word contained on it. He/she must determine whether the word contains a hard or a soft c and then place his/her card on the appropriated glass to feed the two monsters.

Contents:
This game contains:
4 monster cards with their glasses
164 word cards (two levels of difficulty, 82 cards per level)
16 Miss your turn cards (8 cards per level)

Le chat musicien - MONT3000
A current album that reprieves, in an original way, childrens songs written in the 1950s by Joseph Beaulieu for the songbook collection La Bonne Chanson. Performers: Mara Tremblay, Jorane, Marie-Jo Thério, Enzo Enzo, Jeanne Cherhal, Arnaud Méthivier, Yann Perreau and Luc De Larochellière. Lyrics and scores are included on the CD in PDF format.

Book (36 pages) and CD

Pre-school and First Cycle

Le petit chien de laine - MONT3208
Here is a superb collection of childrens songs by Quebec music pioneer Lionel Daunais (1901-1982), produced by Paul Campagne. Performers: Pascale Bussières, Martin Léon, Yves Lambert, Mes Aïeux, Ginette, Alain Lamontagne, Paul Kunigis and Michel Rivard. Lyrics and scores are included on the CD in PDF format.

Book and CD

Pre-school and First Cycle

On Tour - HL44005125
This collection contains varied music for recorder quartet in diverse styles and genres, with an optional percussion part. Includes 12 pieces, arranged in soprano, alto, tenor and bass parts for recorder.

Four Old Dances - HL44004807
The DeHaske Recorder Quartet series contains beautiful music in diverse styles and genres with contemporary character for modern recorder players. Includes optional percussion part for all four pieces: Bourrée Menuetto Pavane Gigue.

Je réfléchis, j'organise et j'écris - 6902
This document features fifteen different and interesting writing situations for your pupils: opinion texts, informative texts, letters, poems, critiques and others. Each situation includes an explanation of the task, a planning and organizing chart for the pupil, as well as a co-evaluation chart centred on various pre-established criteria.

(49 pages)

Parle-moi de ton livre - 7114
Here is the ideal reference for presenting book reports. Students will be able to identify the principle components of a story (the main character, important events, time and place, etc.) as well as those of a book (title, author, publisher, etc.). In addition, they will have fun presenting these elements in the form of a pyramid, a comic book, a post card, geometrical figures, origami, bookmarks, etc.

(52 pages)

Lire, un atout ! 1
The readings in this document aim at developing inference skills in pupils through various types of texts (informative, playful, charts, timetables, etc.) and thanks to simple orientation questions as well as more complex ones involving deductive and inductive thinking.

Le monde des sons 1 - 7107
This document groups together exercise cards for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet along the themes of phonologic conscience and calligraphy. These cards are great for workshops. Since the instructions are the same from card to card students quickly learn how to work independently on the proposed tasks to be accomplished.

(54 pages)

Lire et bricoler, Les fêtes - 7138
Here is a collection of activities that address mathematical problems by linking words, vocabulary acquisition and enrichment, and more. Thanks to these activities, your students will make attractive presents for all the holidays of the year. These activities also develop students reading skills.

(54 pages)

Je débute... L'harmonica diatonique - HIT019
This teaching method, veritably progressive and imaginative, allows the beginner to better understand the harmonica and its language. In this programme you will find: respiration, melodic playing, rhythm, chords, sound effects, striking up and a repertoire of known pieces. The CD features full versions of the recorded pieces and accompaniment playbacks. Intermediate and advanced levels.

Intermediate to Advanced

La forêt mystérieuse - LUG1035
By immersing children in an imaginary world through a narrative story set to music, this first part in the series Les aventures de Gaspard features activities covering various areas, including active listening in a sound landscape, expression-creation of sound effects for a sequence, singing practice, discovery of musical instruments, dance practice.

(Book and CD)

Level: Pre-school and first cycle

Rékupertou - LUG1085
You can construct 37 musical instruments using recycled materials thanks to this book. Step by step, you can make a kazoo, a xylotube, a guirotube, mouth bongos and many other instruments. In addition, youll be able to use your creations to play six musical pieces offered in instrumental version. The scores to these pieces are available in PDF on the CD.

Intermediate to Advanced

Fais-moi penser 5 - 7176
This document is addressed to students of secondary 3, 4 and 5.

This document was designed to put into use the affective and cognitive skills necessary to the development of critical thinking. Exercises get students to think independently and intelligently, to form their opinions, to generate solutions, and to clarify their thinking using the appropriate vocabulary. It also encourages them to define their values and develop their integrity through discussion and debates. All themes from the high school ethics programme are covered: liberty, autonomy, social order, tolerance, justice, human ambivalence as well as the future of humanity.

(59 pages)

Mon coffre à outils
Clientele: Preschool

Objectives:

The proposed activities will get pupils to:
· recognize the syllables that form words;
· put together syllables to form words;
· segment words into syllables;
· classify words using their first syllable;
· find small words in big words;
· remove syllables from words;
· recognize the initial or final phoneme in words.

Description :

Wake up the phonological conscience in children! A set of 10 games of varying levels. With « Mon coffre à outils » preschool children will develop their phonological conscience while having fun!

Contents:

This kit contains:
· 10 activities conceived by specialists and tested in class by teachers;
· the sound machine, a highly useful visual and auditory support whose use is recommended for most of the activities;
· a storage case in laminated cardboard.

NOTE: These activities are also offered individually