Week 13 / 13ème semaine ♪♫ ♪ Dec. 13th - Dec. 15th

I hope you have all been having a wonderful holiday season, and have a Happy New Year!

Wednesday, Dec 15th:

As you know, we had our Christmas party in the last part of class. Thanks once again to Valerie for the treats and gifts! Before the party in class we did some Christmas related activities, such as making Christmas cards in French, and doing some puzzles and worksheets with Christmas and winter vocabulary, and a little book called Noël je vois... (Christmas I see...)

Monday, Dec 13th:

Hello folks! Happy almost Holiday! Forgive my late and sparse postings, I've been a bit under the weather, and like you, am looking forward to the brief break! :)

We are having a little party Wednesday, about 5:00.

Homework: nothing new, but they should have finished all of Unit 6, including p. 75 Unite 5, and page 76 Unite 6, and the dictionary words. However, they can also just complete this for January.

Wednesday they are welcome to dress up, and bring craft materials for making holiday cards.

Week 12 / 12ème semaine ♪♫ ♪ Dec. 6th - Dec. 8th

Wednesday:  
An actual entry will be added soon!

Daphné, I'm sorry I didn't have time to look at your writing! Remind me next time! :)


Homework: 

• Cahier pages 24-25 all except ex. 3B. 

• They can try p. 75 Unité 5: Indefinite articles (a, an, some.) un/une/des.  

        = Un for masculine nouns, une for feminine nouns, and des for plural nouns.

Monday:

      We did homework correction, and also they were supposed to have filled in any missing words on their quiz from last week, or correct mistakes. Please verify that this is done!

      They are also starting to keep a notebook of free-writing in French, if they feel up to it.

      We did two pages of the Livret de Civilisation “Noël en France”and “Noël dans triois régions de France.”

      We will start making Cartes de Noël Wednesday; they are welcome to bring any special materials, like glitter-glue.

      We started learning the French version of Jingle Bells Vive le vent, which they will sing for you at our little holiday party Dec. 15^th! They can dress up, and Valérie is bringing goodies for them.

Homework: Learn the song! :)

“Vive le vent is the French version of Jingle Bells. They are sung to the same tune, but the words are completely different. The translation given here is the literal translation of the French Christmas carol Vive le vent.

Vive le vent, vive le vent, Vive le vent d'hiver, Qui s'en va sifflant, soufflant Dans les grands sapins verts.	Live the wind, live the wind, Live the winter wind, Which goes whistling, blowing In the big green Christmas trees.
Oh ! Vive le temps, vive le temps, Vive le temps d'hiver, Boule de neige et jour de l'an Et bonne année grand-mère !	Oh! Live the weather, live the weather, Live the winter weather, Snowball and new year's day and happy new year Grandma!”

Week 11 / 11ème semaine ☼ Nov. 29th - Dec. 1st

Wednesday Dec 1st: We did page 6 of the Livret de Civilisation “Club de sport, de musique, et de danse” reviewing activities. We finished the CDRom exercises for Unit 5, and started Unité 6 Leçon 2 thru ex. C. They also corrected their quiz from Monday, from the original 3-page handout of useful expressions they got earlier in November.

Vocab:

Qu’est-ce qu’il y a à Noël ?               What’s happening at Christmas?

Je voudrais…                                    I would like…

Aussi                                                also                                                                                       

Homework:  

• Cahier d’activités : p. 22-23  
• They should finish correcting their quiz, if it isn’t done already. 

Monday: Happy after Thanksgiving! 

They all got a gift of White-out tape, as the girls are crazy about it, so I figured it was time to give them their own. ☺

Today we had a quiz on the handout of useful vocabulary!

We did the CD Rom exercises for Unit 4, and page 6 of the Livret de Civilisation “Les français et les animaux” reviewing animals and numbers.

New vocab: Il y a...      There is/are…

Devoirs/homework: Anything unfinished from last week. They can try to write sentences/ a little journal with French they know, if they feel confident to do this. Illustrations are welcome!

Week 10 / 10ème semaine ☼ Nov. 22nd ~Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all! ☺

We finished Unit 5.

Alessio’s papa Giacomo came and gave us a wonderful slideshow of photos of Corsica, particularly of the marine life. There were also some photos of Alessio in Paris, and the students did a marvelous job of recognizing and calling out the sites in Paris!

Vocab:

Qu’est-ce que tu fais?                                                 What are you doing/do you do?

Tu joues au / à la…                                                   You are playing…

Je veux jouer au / à la…                                             I want to play…

Je veux faire du / de la                                               I want to do/play

Qu’est ce que tu veux pour ton anniversaire?               What do you want for your birthday?

Qu’est ce que tu veux faire pour ton anniversaire?        "             ... to do for your birthday?

Pour mon anniversaire, je veux…                               For my birthday, I want to…

J’ai… / Je n’ai pas…                                                 I have… / I don’t have….

Homework for Monday: Finish Unit 5 in the Cahier, the dictionary from Unit 5 using the vocabulary from the back of the book.
We may have a quiz on the 3-page handout of useful expressions (the children have been forewarned!)  ;-)

~Happy Thanksgiving!

Week 9 / 9ème semaine ☼ Nov. 15th – 17th

Week 9 / 9ème semaine ☼ Nov. 15^th – 17^th

No class next Wednesday, Nov. 24^th.  On Dec 15^th we will have a holiday party, and then will break until Jan 3^rd, and our last class of the 1^st semester will be January 26^th.

Monday Nov 22^nd Alessio will give us a photo-show of Corsica.

·         We finished p. 73, 74, 75 Unité 1-4

·         Thru Unité 5, p. 22, léçon 3E.

·         We finished the handout of useful sentences, with translations. We may have a quiz on this after Thanksgiving.

·         Review/Revision : colors : fem & masc forms, –er verbs and conjugations for je & tu: je joue, tu joues, possessive pronouns un/une, mon/ma.

·         Livret de Civilisation p. 4 & 5

Homework:

Dico unit 4, p. 63-65

Cahier thru p. 21, p. 73, 74, 75 Unité 1-4

PLEASE NOTE: If your child is having trouble understanding the homework, please contact me about it, or have them ask me for extra help.

I’ll update new vocab later this week.

Week 9 / 9e semaine ~ Nov. 15th & 17th

No class next Wednesday Nov 24th. Monday Nov 22nd Alessio will be sharing the photos of his trip in Corsica, so I hope all my students will be well, and present!

Homework:
Cahier: Finish through thru p. 20 ex.3A.

Le dictionnaire: ~cutting the new words from Unit 4 (p. 63 & 64 of their cahier.) - and gluing them into their notebook.

Le révision - Review of units 1-4:  p. 73, 74, and 75 (Unit 4 part) in the back of their cahier. If this is too difficult, we will do it together in class.

Week 8 / 8ème Semaine ♥ Nov. 8th - 10th

Good news! Alessio is back from Corsica, and will be back in class Monday the 15^th !  :)

Please forgive the non-update to last week's posting, and the late update to this week's! I'd been doing some computer maintenance... And life keeps happening!

Monday: Today was our first day in our new room, the classroom of Mrs. Bush, next to where we were before. Although we will miss seeing the younger classes, it is very nice to have our own room! 

Along with working on several songs, and a role-play from Alex et Zoé, (CD-1-34) we started Unit 5, "Qu'est-ce que tu veux?" (What do you want?)

We played Red light Green light, and Un, deux, trois, soleil! outside.

Homework: p. 18-19, 1A-B, 2A.

Wednesday: They received handouts of lyrics for several songs, Un éléphant ça trompe, Sur le Pont d’Avignon, et Champs Elysées.

Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (video)

Sur le Pont d'Avignon (song and video)

 Les Champs Elysées - Joe Dassin (video) 

We also started learning sentences that can be used in class and elsewhere: they have a handout with translations.

Unit 5 "Qu'est-ce que tu veux?" Méthode through Unité 5 : Lécon 2, p. 21.  

Homework: p. 19 2B, p. 20 3A. They can also do the dictionary - cutting the new words from Unit 4 (p. 63 & 64 of their cahier.) - and gluing them into their notebook.

Vocab:

Je veux/je ne veux pas – I want/I don’t want, Mais - but, Ça va mal – Un oh, it’s not ok.

Un ballon – a ball, une fille – a girl, un garçon – a boy, une poupée – a doll, un robot, un vélo – a bike.

Boire – to drink, manger– to eat, dormir – to sleep, une bille - a marble, des billes - marbles, un jeu vidéo – a video game, un roller – roller blade

Week 7 / 7ème semaine ♥ Nov. 1st / 3rd

Wednesday, Nov 3rd: 
Méthode p. 17 D, 18: Sur le Pont d' Avignon song. (See link in next week's posting)


Reviewed Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales Characters : Personnage de Contes de Fées de Charles Perrault - see p. 12 of the Civilisation booklet.


Played 1,2,3 Soleil (Red Light Green Light). When they are caught moving they have to "retourne au poulailler" (go back to the chicken coup.)


Homework: p. 16 3A. More can be done if they understand it.

Vocab: 

je danse/ tu danses                 I/you dance

je marche/ tu marches             I/you walk

je nage/tu nages                      I/you swim

je saute/tu sautes                    I/you jump

je vole/tu voles                       I/you fly

je compte/tu comptes             I/you count

je joue/ tu joues                      I/you play

je saute/tu sautes à la corde    I /you jump-rope                   

...et...                                      …and…

comme un(e)…                      like a…
tu nages avec moi?                 Do you want to swim with me?

Monday Nov. 1st: we started Unit 4. Zachary, Fauve, and Alessio were absent, so we will do review on Wednesday. They do not need to do homework for Wednesday for this reason, but may do p. 14 1A if they want to.

Vocabulary:

Qui es-tu?                   Who are you?

Qu’est-ce que tu fais?  What do you do? / What are you doing?

Je suis un/une...          I am a…

Un dauphin                a dolphin

Un ours                      a bear

Un papillon                a butterfly

Un tigre                      a tiger

Un élephant

Un dragon

Une perruche              a parrot

Un poisson rouge        a goldfish

Un hamster

Une tortue                   a turtle

Week 6 / 6ème semaine ☻ Oct. 25th /27th

Cher tous,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! ☻

Wednesday Oct. 27th

There was a 2nd little Halloween party with the PF class; Valérie our devoted local coordinator brought Halloween cookies and little gifts. We finished all of Unit 3, including the workbook, audio CD, and CDRom exercises.

Valérie offering des gâteaux!

 New vocab: (The Z forms are for the vous form of the verb, which is formal and/or plural)

Qu'est-ce que c'est?                 What is it ?

Prends!                                   Pick (it) up

Pose!                                      Put (it) down

Colorie(z)                               Color

Prends (Prenez)                      Take 

Montre(z) le bon objet              Show the right object

Touche(z)                               Touch

Écoute(z)                                Listen

Prête-moi ton (ta) s'il te plaît  Loan me your (…) please

Tiens, voilà mon (ma)...          Hey, there is my…

Both classes at their activities

Homework :

• ·        All of Unit 3 should be completed.
• ·        They can make their dictionary with the Unit 3 vocabulary words from the back of their notebook, p. 63.
• ·         Look at the Halloween vocabulary sheet, and write the Halloween words in French under the Halloween picture-sheet handout.

A special thanks to Mathilde, Cheryfa, and Valérie for everything they did organizing the Halloween activities!  ♥♥♥

Sophie looking very French. Well, from a different century!

Monday Oct. 25th was our first mini-Halloween party; after some review of unit 3, we made masks, learned Halloween vocab in French, and played Halloween bingo with the younger PA class. There will be another mini-party Wednesday, with the younger francophone class! They are welcome to come in costume again!

Fauve in my hat, Zachary, Daphne, and Sophie

Halloween Bingo with Mathilde

The older students helped the younger students

Daphne and her brother in the masques they made

Du vocabulaire d’Halloween

une lanterne-citrouille    a jack o’lantern

Friandises ou bêtise      Trick or Treat

des bonbons                   candy

une toile d’araignée       a spider web

une maison hantée         a haunted house

un chat noir                    a black cat

une chauve-souris         a bat

un fantôme                    a ghost

un vampire                    a vampire

un squelette                  a skeleton

une momie                     a mummy

une sorcière                 a witch

une araignée                 a spider
un loup-garou                a werewolf

un déguisement              a costume
un masque                       a mask
un masque de citrouille   a pumpkin mask

un masque de sorcière    a witch mask

un masque de vache         a cow mask

un masque de singe          a monkey mask

un masque de renard       a fox mask

un masque d’oiseau          a bird mask

un masque de loup           a wolf mask

un masque d’escargot      a snail mask

un masque d’éléphant       an elephant mask

un masque de chat           a cat mask

Week 5 / 5ème semaine

·       ~Halloween!~  Next week we will have some activities together with the younger class, on a Halloween theme. They may dress in costume or bring a costume. We will have some sweets; please let us know if there is anything they should avoid eating.

~ Oct. 18^th /20^th 

• This week we did most of Unit 3 in Alex et Zoé about classroom objects.
• We did p. 2 & 3 of Alex et Zoé : Livret de Civilisation (Civilization Booklet)
• In La Méthode (the textbook) of Alex et Zoé we did most of Unit 3 except p. 12. We did the listening exercises thru CD1-26, except 23-24.
• We did the CDRom exercises for Unit 3 except no. 4.
• They got an old fashioned-style handout of classroom objects to color, and another handout for practice of classroom vocabulary.

Vocabulary:

Qu’est-ce que c’est ? -What is it?

C’est un…/C’est une… - It’s a (masculin form then feminine form)

Mon/ma… My… - (masculin form then feminine form)  

Prends! Pose! - Take ! Put down !

Ton/ta… Your… - (masculin form then feminine form)  

Montre-moi un/une… - Show me your …

Un/le crayon - A/The pencil

Une/la gomme - A/The eraser

Un/le livre - A/The book

Une/la règle - A/The ruler

Un/le stylo - A/The pen

Une/la trousse - A/The pen & pencil pouch

·         Homework: 

•  I checked all the completed homework, and highlighted undone parts, still to complete.
• For Monday 10/25 they can do 3B page 12, & page 13. [When they do 3B on p. 12, make sure they understand that the colors are feminine or masculine, to correspond to the objects. Une/ma indicate a feminine object, and un/mon indicate a masculine object. To make the colors feminine, they color will have the added (e) or the version in parentheses (blanche.)]

• On page 13, 4B they color the pencils and write the name of the color next to it. 

• For Wednesday 10/20 in their cahier they did pages 10 & 11. 
• They also took the words from Unit 2 (p. 63) and glued them into their dictionary pages.

Week 4 / 4ème semaine

Bonjour, tout le monde!

There is no new homework for this weekend, if they are caught up through p. 9 in their cahier d’activités. PLEASE check if they have done it. If they haven’t done it because they need extra help, please let me know.

Please take note of fun links of interest I have posted on this site.♥

This week, which was only Wednesday as Monday was a holiday, we did some review of the animal names and Unit 2: they wrote the names of the animals under their pictures, which they colored. They also made a pocket inside their notebooks, for little bits and pieces.

We did the Textbook CD listening exercise #17, reviewing j’ai / je n’ai pas…  (I have/ haven’t got…) We also wrote out the verb avoir (to have,) and played “Red Light Green Light” in French.

Vocab:

Avoir – to have

J’ai –I have

Tu as – you have (singular/informal)

Il/elle a – he/she has

Nous avons – we have

Vous avez – you have (plural/formal)

Ils/Elles ont – they (f)/(m) have

Feu rouge (red light) feu vert (green light) feu jaune (yellow light) bougez/ ne bougez pas (move/don’t move)

Week 3 / 3ème semaine

Thomas is hiding under the table!

Chloe's birthday party.

Wed. Oct. 6^th

Today we did an ID form / fiche d’identité: the children filled out information about themselves and drew their self-portrait.

In the text book we did 2 pages about animals, Unit 2 lessons 3 & 4. We also did the listening for Unit 2 through CD1 14-16, and finished the CD Rom for Unit 2: the children match the dialogue to the pictures.

At the end of the class one of the little Francophone students had a birthday cake outside, and a few of my students were able to participate!

New vocab:

Une perruche             a parrot

Un poisson rouge        a goldfish

Un hamster

Une tortue                  a turtle

Un chat                      a cat

Un chien                    a dog

Aujourd’hui               today

Je n’ai pas de…         I have no…/I don’t have…

Homework/ Devoir: pages 8 & 9 in their workbook.

REMINDER: There is no class Monday Oct. 11^th as the school is closed for Columbus Day.

Monday Oct. 4^th, 2010

Dear parents,

One of our students will be absent from class for a month. I will be giving more detailed notes with references to the book pages, textbook CD and CD Rom so his parents can help him follow along.

Today's class:

Review of Unit 1 with the textbook's interactive CD Rom.

Listening exercises for Unit 2 through CD1-13.

Starting Unit 2, through lesson 2, asking and answering their age, and whether they have brothers and sisters.

Interviewing each other, and filling in pages 6 & 7 of the workbook/cahier d’activités.

Color-matching game with the younger class.

Homework: through p. 7, if not already done. The more advanced students may write a little story with vocabulary they know. :)  

See you all Wednesday! À mercredi!