Bacon, anyone?

The Grade 4-6 students have been learning vocabulary for pizza toppings as they have been answering the question:

"Qu'est-ce que tu prends sur ta pizza?

As you can see, there was great enthusiasm for le bacon!

We've been surveying our classmates regarding their pizza topping preferences and creating bar graphs on the smartboard.  Here are two graphs, comparing results from the 4/5 classroom and the 5/6 classroom.  (Please ignore the dates at the bottom right corner! Photos were taken last Thursday, April 21, 2016.)

Pepperoni, the second ingredient, came out on top in this round!

Here is graph #2. Once again, the Grade 4/5 graph is first. The winning topping for Gr. 4/5  is...

...you guessed it, bacon!  Tomato sauce was more popular for the 5/6 class, followed by, you guessed it again, le bacon! Other meat toppings also rated very highly.  We'll have to work a little bit more on liking our vegetable toppings!

This week we will also be looking a bit more at an authentic French pizzeria menu and comparing the similarities and differences to a typical North American pizza menu.  Here is a link to the menu we will be using: 

Flam's pizza menu

This week, the Grade 7/8 class will continue to work on the rough copies of their paragraphs describing their fashion creations.

Bonne semaine,

Mme Christensen

Les vêtements et les achats

The past few weeks the Grade 7 and 8 students have been working at home on their projects for our unit, À la mode, a unit about fashion and the environment. The due date for this project was this Friday and a wonderful array of wearable items and accessories made of recycled or repurposed materials was brought in to class! Please stay posted in the upcoming weeks as I post photos of the items that have come in.

This week we have been learning and practicing vocabulary related to clothing as well as to the materials associated with recycling.  We watched the following video to help us describe clothing:
 

Madame fait les achats

The Grade 4, 5 and 6 students have been learning and practicing vocabulary to describe pizza ingredients.  We have been looking at Canada's Food Guide en français.  We sorted our list of pizza ingredients into the four main food groups and we were very pleased to see that it is possible to include all four food groups when we eat pizza!

Here is the document we looked at in class:

Canada's Food Guide (French version)

This week we will be surveying our classmates to see which pizza ingredients are the most popular. Any gueses? We will be asking the question: "Qu'est-ce que tu prends sur ta pizza?" and we will post our results next week; stay tuned!

Bonne semaine!

Mme Christensen

Name that unit

This week all students are well into their term three units.  Grades 4-6 learned sixteen new vocabulary words; some of them (below) are "mots amis" or "word friends" as they are very similar to their translations in English: 


des tomates            du pepperoni               des olives              des oignons        du bacon
                           de la sauce tomate          des saucisses italiennes

Can you guess what yummy dish we will be talking about (or singing about) in our new unit?  The song below will help you remember some of our classroom vocabulary:

Theme song

Grade 7 and 8 students found vocabulary related to our fashion unit and created a word web using vocabulary they researched:

Bonne semaine!

Mme Christensen