Connecticut
Council of Language TeachersYear of Languages CT Activities Scrapbook Page
Connecticut
Council of Language Teachers
Year of Languages CT Activities Scrapbook Page
How To Submit Materials for posting on this page
Here is an opportunity to display your student work to the world! In honor of 2005: The Year of Languages, CT COLT is posting work from pre-K-12th grade periodically throughout the year on this page. You may submit student work for the language that you teach or encourage your students to explore their heritage languages!
Please read your student work before sending to check for accuracy and appropriateness. Ask parents to help proofread all work done in heritage languages.
Please send any documents in MS Word format. All graphics or pictures must be sent in JPEG format. Please send all documents, scanned graphics and pictures to Paul St. Louis at pmsaint@map.com. If you are sending a link to a YOL web site, please make sure that the URL is correct before sending it. Please put the following words in the subject line of your e-mail message: "Submission for CT COLT YOL Scrapbook."
In order to submit student work, it is necessary that you complete the following waiver and have the parents/guardians of the student sign it. Please click on the following link to download the waiver. This is a PDF file. (Waiver for student work to be placed on CT COLT web site)
Initial submissions are limited to 6 items for each school, but after one month 6 additional items may replace those originally placed on the web site.
Here are some suggestions of materials that you might submit for posting:
Labeled pictures
Crossword puzzles
Word Searches
Mini-plays or Mini-stories
Rhymes
Poems
Games
Letters (to pen-pals or key-pals)
Shopping List or Wish List
Calendars
Menus
Pictures of World Language YOL events at your school
Essays
Link to your school's Year of Languages Web Site
The following information is required on the top of the first page of student work:
Name Language Grade School Town State Country Example: *Susana P. Spanish 5 West Woods Farmington CT USA *IMPORTANT: Do not include the student's last name on any work submitted. Please give only the FIRST NAME of the student the INITIAL of his/her LAST NAME.
The CT COLT Year of Languages Scrapbook
Connecticut Year of Languages Web Sites available
- Please visit the St. Joseph High School Year of Languages Web Page. It is located at the following address: http://www.sjcadets.org/New%20SJHS%20Web%20Site/Academics/yearoflanguages.htm
- Language Ambush at the CT State Capitol Building: http://ledyard.net/wlc/YOLatCapitol.asp
Student Work and Photos of Year of Languages Related Activities
- West Woods Upper Elementary School (Farmington)
- Southington High School Foreign Language Week Celebration
- Multicultural Day at the Elmer Thienes-Mary Hall Elementary School in Marlborough
- Manchester Community College -- Fiesta Costa Rica
- Manchester Community College -- Book Drive for Puerto Rico
- Team Teaching in the Global Classroom
- Hartford Language Ambush
- Taste of Greater Hartford - YOL Activities
- Dr. Betty J. Sternberg, Commissioner of Education Presents Governor’s Proclamation at CT COLT Fall Conference
- Litchfield World Language Activities
- Multicultural Day in Marlborough
- Quinceañera in Stafford Springs
- Scout Interpreter Day
- Bristol High Schools Celebrate the Year of Languages
- CT COLT Rhyme Celebration 2005
- AIT Becomes a Russian Tea Room
- International Night in Wethersfield
- Language Lessons Start Early in Washington, CT
- Technology Conference 2005: Year of Languages
- Central Connecticut State University Year of Languages Celebration
- The BBB and the Taste of Greater Hartford
- Japanese Day at East Hartford/Glastonbury Magnet School
- Senior Mixing Day in Marlborough
- Language Ambush in Willimantic
- Hall Memorial in Willington Celebrates the Year of Languages
- Francofête 2005
Year of Languages Proclamations
