Happy New Year! Bonne Fête des Rois!Today Wednesday Jan. 5th we celebrated the Fête des Rois (King's Day) a traditional celebration for the Three Kings on the 12th day of Christmas, which is Jan 6th.
Valerie baked us a Galette des Rois (Kings' Cake.) First we discussed the origin of the tradition, and how it is celebrated in France through the month of January. Everyone gets together around a frangipane (almond paste) cake and has a piece. The one who finds the fève, or bean (nowadays a figurine) wears the paper golden crown, and is King. That person also must bring the next Galette des Rois.
We did a word-search exercise about this story. Then they watched the short animated film of Roule Galette, (a French story like "The Gingerbread Man") and we did some worksheets about this story. After their break we had the galette and Sophie was King!EFBA is selling these cakes, if you would like to try one! The cost will go to help pay for student scholarships for EFBA French classes.
Monday Jan 3rd was our catch-up day: *they should have completed everything related to Unit 6. They practiced with the CD-Rom, and from their cahier did their dictionary from page 65 and the review in the back of the book page 76. We also worked on some winter vocabulary with a worksheet.
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