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