13 Sep 2016 No Comments
French C Honors students performed 3 skits they had written for their doctor, nurse, and patient/parent sock puppet creations. We had a lot of fun watching and we even had Ms. Norton and Mr. Anderson stop by to watch.
13 Sep 2016 No Comments
French B 7th graders worked through how adjectives change and agree with their noun by putting them in categories the old fashioned way…scissors & glue.
08 Sep 2016 No Comments
French C Honors 8th graders rehearse for tomorrow’s health and sickness puppet show. Our sock puppets are nutty nurses, crazy doctors, concerned parents, and French speaking children with broken limbs…among other issues….stay tuned for the shows!
07 Sep 2016 No Comments
French A students reviewed the alphabet and the vocabulary for greetings with a match of “LICORNE!”. Students compete to be the first to circle the correct word or letter/accent (as announced by the teacher or leader with the word in English, a clue, a picture, the letter pronounced in French etc.), always starting with their crayon in unicorn position and with the other hand behind the back. Rules include “pas de violence” and “pas de disputes”, but sometimes things get just a little crazy. The winner has the most correctly circled words in their crayon color at the end of the game.
06 Sep 2016 No Comments
We have spent some time over the course of several class periods working through a speaking challenge I’m calling GRIDS/LES GRILLES. It has been a lot of fun and it has been an effective method to encourage students to use circumlocution if they don’t know a certain word.
Students were given a grid with 9 squares, a set of crayons, and a folder to hide their paper. I then described to them in detail what should go in each box of their grid, using various prepositions of location and adjectives to describe each item.
After modeling this example for the students where they had a blank grid and I had a completed grid (with the same picture in the center), I put them in partners and gave each partner one complete grid and one empty grid. The empty grids had the same picture in the center as their partner’s completed grid. They had to work through each grid together SPEAKING ONLY FRENCH.
As their homework assignment, I then asked each student to create a new set using vocabulary we have learned over the past two year. They were to email me their work. I then matched them into sets of two so that we could accomplish two each day with a partner. I think the students enjoyed the creativity and looked forward to the day we did their grids. It definitely got them back into the swing of French and served as a great vocab review too.
06 Sep 2016 No Comments
French A students begin to get more comfortable with our first lesson. Here are some practice skits from class last week showing their progress.
02 Sep 2016 No Comments
French Honors students are working on some sock puppets today. I’m proud of them for speaking French and working together as we designed doctors, nurses, moms, and patients in anticipation of writing skits on Tuesday where we will practice all of our health related vocabulary and verbs in command form.
