French café

It was wonderful to meet with parents during student-led conferences last week.  Thank you for all the support you give your children in their learning of French!

The Grade 7 and 8 students are preparing to host a small French café.  Students, please remember to keep practicing your parts this week!

Students in Grades 4-6 are continuing to practice their oral responses to questions about various animals.  What animals do students think are docile and loveable? Which do they think are offensive or aggressive? The various points of view have been interesting! 

Bonne semaine,

Mme Christensen

French education websites

I've come across some interesting websites that will help us learn more French.  The Yabla site has some sample videos featuring authentic French conversations that are captioned in French as well as translated in English.  You can click a button to look up words in a dictionary, to slow the conversation down or to have phrases repeated. Here is the link:

Yabla

If you have a Java-enabled browser, you can try some word-search games here:

Word Seek Game

This site has some basic vocabulary games, such a form of "memory", "hangman" and "whack-a-word" for vocabulary identification:

Très bien French games

This site has lessons, games and tests:

Frenchgames.net

Have fun checking these sites!

This week we will be preparing for student-led conferences. Grades 4-6 are continuing their work in their animals unit. Grades 7 and 8 are preparing for our upcoming French café experience!  There are a few seats available at our café; parents who would like to join us are invited to contact me at the school as soon as possible.

Bonne semaine,

Mme Christensen

Le Jour du Souvenir

Some of our students are before the war memorial in Coronation Park.

We are so thankful to those who gave their lives so that we can enjoy so great a freedom in our land.

Bonne semaine, 

Mme Christensen

Surveys

The Grade 7/8 class started their week surveying each other using the question, "Quel est ton plat préféré?"  Students answered with "Mon plat préféré, c'est..."  Students recorded their survey results in their cahiers.

Students in Grades 4-6 wrapped up their units with oral and reading evaluations.  The Grade 5 and 6 students below had time to play a short game called "Mon roi/ma reine", taking turns giving pretend gifts and seeing if this pleases the king/queen. If the gift is pleasing, the king/queen allows you to stay nearby.  If the gift is not pleasing, you will be asked to move further away.

"Bonjour, ma reine! Je te donne..."  ("Hello, my queen! I give you...")

Bonne semaine!

Mme Christensen