Category Archives: Vol. 52, No. 2 – Winter 2014

New Plans are under way for Camp OFLA 2014! Dr. Lori Winne/Co-director, Camp OFLA Camp OFLA 2014 will celebrate its tenth year this summer! Camp OFLA is a one-week elementary residential camp in Ohio sponsored by the Ohio Foreign Language … Continue reading →

Medina High School Chinese Class Booth At The 5th Medina International Fest Shasha Gibbs, Chinese Teacher, Medina High School On August 24, Medina had its 5th Medina International Fest.  Students from Medina High School who are taking Mandarin Chinese participated … Continue reading →

Writing Our Own Bilingual Thanksgiving Story Paulina Montaldo, New Castle Christian Academy, Spanish Teacher K – 8th The 4th and 5th graders at the New Castle Christian Academy have worked writing a bilingual story, English / Spanish, about Thanksgiving.

Becky Searls, Spanish Teacher, Upper Arlington City Schools I’ve been using Google Docs (renamed Google Drive in recent years) for quite some time now and have gotten to the point where it has 99% replaced any other word processing or … Continue reading →

Moving Beyond the Workbook Kirsten Dickerson, Mentor High School Dickerson@mentorschools.org @CardinalFrench I am smack dab in the middle of my eleventh year teaching French, and I must admit that – besides my first year when I cried every day – this … Continue reading →

María Postigo María Postigo is a native speaker from Spain. She teaches Spanish III/Honors & IV and is the Spanish Club Advisor at Canal Winchester HS. She is on the OFLA Secondary Language Learning Committee. She is also working on … Continue reading →

The Most Commonly Taught of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Jennifer Nichols, Kenyon College In the mid-1980s, I began studying Arabic with Dr. Mahdi Alosh in my high school at Worthington (now Worthington-Kilborne). The program only lasted a couple of … Continue reading →

Art, English and Spanish Join Forces Jennifer Coppolino, Immaculate Heart of Mary Grade School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/K-8 Spanish Teacher

Eric Carle en español Anne Marie Anelli, Spanish Teacher, St. Angela Merici Elementary School On Thursday, December 12th, and Thursday, December 19th students in the 7th grade at St. Angela Merici School had the opportunity to read to their 1st … Continue reading →

Judy Bates, Ohio French Contest Administrator Bonjour à tous! With the new year upon us, now is a good time to ensure that you have taken care of the necessary steps for participation in Le Grand Concours 2014.  Please make … Continue reading →