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!