Happy white Friday!

Hello everyone!

I hope you're all enjoying the first heavy snow of the winter! Seems like winter HAS come!

This week was productive and exciting with the grand opening of the dome and the science fair.

In Grade 1:
-We learned more about the dinosaurs.
-We learned specific features of some dinosaurs in french.
-We learned to describe the dinosaurs using full sentences like: "Il est herbivore" and "Il marche sur 2 pattes".
-We also learned to form questions to inquire about the features of the dinosaurs through a fun guessing game!

In Grade 2:

-We continued to use adjectives and basic verbs to form full meaningful sentences.

-We defined and learned about migration "la migration".

-We used full sentences along with specific structures "pour" and "à cause de" to talk about reasons that push people to migrate and attractions that pull people to migrate to other countries (push and pull factors). 

-We learned some vocabulary related to means of transportation for migration (e.g. une bateau, une voiture, un avion).

In grade 5:

-We discussed ancient civilizations with an emphasis on the greek civilization.

-We learned to spell new words related to ancient civilizations.

-We started to learn to conjugate verbs in the past tenses (l'imparfait and passé composé). 

Wishing everyone a great cozy and warm weekend! 

Salut!

I hope everyone had a great relaxing weekend! Last week was a short one and here are the main concepts we touched down on:

Grade 1:
-We learned about "Le jour du souvenir" (Remembrance day): defined what it was and why it's there.
-We learned to say a few sentences related to remembrance day.
-We learned a song: Beau Coquelicot.

Grade 2:
-We learned about le Jour du souvenir (Remembrance day).
-We learned to define it: when, why and what using full sentences.
-We described the soldiers using a variety of adjectives and the verb "Être" (to be).
-We learned to use the proper forms of adjectives and colour adjectives using the noun-adjective agreement (feminin ou masculin): Il est grand/ elle est grande. La jupe grise/ le pantaloon gris.
-We also made sentences using both verbs "Être" and "Avoir".

Grade 5:
-We reviewed "verbes pronominaux".
-We learned to conjugate verbs ending with -IR.
-We learned to write meaningful sentences using verbs and adjectives.
-We discussed the ancient civilisations and brainstormed a little about each one.

Grade 5s have a spelling test at the end of this week which will take place on Thursday not Friday because of the science fair happening on Friday.

Have a great week!

Don't miss the book fair!

Hello! 

I hope you all had a spook-tacular week! This week was filled with fun-blended learning and positive vibes.

In Grade 1:

-We learned and reinforced some vocabulary related to halloween and the costumes.

-We learned to form a small sentence to present our costume.

-We reviewed numbers and did some colour coded colouring.

In Grade 2:

-We learned some halloween related vocabulary for costumes and decoration.

-We played a guessing game with the vocabulary.

-We learned to present our costume using the 2 verbs "Être" and "Avoir" (Je suis/j'ai).

-We enjoyed doing some word search to reinforce the vocabulary and the use of articles "un/une".

In Grade 5:

-We learned to present our costumes using at least 3 full sentences. 

-We reviewed how to conjugate verbs of the 1st group (ending with -er) and the irregular ones.

-We learned to conjugate reflective verbs (verbes pronominaux, i.e: s'habiller, se calmer, se lever).

-We had a halloween related questionnaire contest and the winners got some extra treats!

Wednesday was super colourful, creative and fun! We had a blast taking pictures together and making memories, here are some!

World kindness day!

Salut! 

I hope you've all had a wonderful week, we sure did have a busy one in our French classes!

Grade 1: This week the first graders

-Reviewed their rules and responsibilities at school.
-Learned some to say some of their responsibilities at home.
-Learned to say the full sentences and write them as well.
-Worked hard on improving their handwriting when writing in French as well!

Grade 2: This week second graders

-Reviewed the occupations.
-Reviewed how to use full sentences to respond to questions like "Qu'est-ce que tu veux devenir quand tu grandis? - Quand je grandis je veux devenir..."
-Learned to formulate and write a full sentence to explain why they chose a certain occupation.
-Presented to the class the occupation of their choice and the reason why they chose it along with a drawing of the occupation. (I considered this task as their summative task for French, I did not however say that to the children in order to avoid scaring them or making them feel pressured. I merely wanted to check how well they listened in class and were able to pronounce their sentences in French. They were not given marks).

Grade 5: The week fifth graders

-finalized their group projects.
-practiced they presentations in their groups.
-presented their posters and dishes, which went very well! However due to some absences and picture day we lost some time and not all the groups got to present. So the remaining groups will present on Monday!

I will share below some pictures from the presentations from the 3 classes:

We also got to try one of the dishes!

Next week's halloween and we're all super excited already! Look out for Cruella De vil!

Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a great long Thanksgiving weekend with your loved ones :)

This short week went by very quickly but was nonetheless very productive. We completed some important work in class in preparation for some projects and presentations that should take place as we go during the 2 coming weeks.

In Grade 1:
-We reviewed some vocabulary that we learned in the previous weeks.
-We learned how to be responsible at school.
-We learned some rules to follow at school in French.
-We practiced writing in French on some worksheets related to the rules.

In Grade 2:
-We learned some vocabulary related to occupations in French.
-We learned to use full sentences to describe what each of the occupations' job is.
-We practiced writing using full sentences to describe the occupations.

Over the next 2 weeks, we will slowly work on presentations in which each student will choose an occupation that they think they want to do when they grow up and tell everyone why. This will be done slowly in steps and with a lot of support from me in class.

In Grade 5:
-We learned about the 3 states of matter in French.
-We learned some vocabulary related to that.
-We started preparing for our poster projects in groups: the students chose each a dish and worked hard to write the ingredients they need in French to make that dish.

Over the next week or 2, we will be working on this dish project, where the final outcome will be a collage poster of the dish labelled which will be presented in class.

Finally I thought to share a nice visit we had during our French class this morning in Ms. Hocevar's class, from 2 lovely second graders who are raising money to donate to the sick kids hospital by selling their handmade bracelets for a dollar!

And I got to take some pictures of some grade 5 French posters prepared for international day last week! all 3 grade five classes made me very proud of their posters on international day, they work on these passionately and did put in a lot of effort!