07 Sep 2017 No Comments
French C Honors students have been learning about health and body parts. We are lucky enough to have a PE teacher and physical trainer who hails from France, so we headed to the weight room for a workout en français. Merci Clément!
28 Aug 2017 No Comments
French B student in 7th grade have been working on the names of family members using riddles to describe the family. They started the week completing a puzzle requiring them to solve riddles such as: “C’est le fils de mon père et ma belle-mère”. Mon demi-frère!
25 Aug 2017 No Comments
French A students reviewed greetings and introductions in a Wagon Wheel activity, introducing puppet friends as they went around the circle. Afterwards, they practiced the alphabet with a “Grab It!” activity and then in a variety of different stations where they had to make the letter/accent they heard using clay, wiki sticks, rice etc.
23 Aug 2017 No Comments
We have started off the year working on speaking ALL FRENCH ALL THE TIME in class through a variety of partner activities sharing information that only one partner has. We’ve also been learning body parts and drawing and describing monsters. Today we are practicing body parts and adjectives with a series of monster pictures that students must describe to a partner who then locates each specific monster on their own sheet (monsters scrambled). Hearing a lot of good French from this group! Bravo!
25 May 2017 No Comments
French A classes ended a great year with individual presentations about summer vacation plans. We then watched the ultimate French summer vacation movie: La Gloire de mon père, and finally practiced the classic game of BOULES or PÉTANQUE, as featured in the movie.
Bonnes vacances d’été! I hope you all have fun and make memories, just like Marcel!
11 May 2017 No Comments
French B students reviewed vocabulary for our final exam today while playing Jenga. Each Jenga block has a French number corresponding to a question they must answer to score a point. Teams could win in two ways: by getting the most points in a round or when the other team toppled the game.
21 Mar 2017 No Comments
French A 6th graders have done a nice job researching French soccer teams and making displays of stadiums where they have also labeled our new vocab about the popular sport. Here are a few examples.
21 Mar 2017 No Comments
French B students were recently working on weather vocabulary and reviewing a variety of activities with the verb FAIRE. Here are some skits that they performed before Spring Break.
Météo Skit 1 https://youtu.be/KjJa43LPP6U
Météo Skit 2 https://youtu.be/ZcVvBq4sBDI
Météo Skit 3 https://youtu.be/Rp-9tr7Q9N0
Météo Skit 4 https://youtu.be/ERhnhiMi2VA
Météo Skit 5 https://youtu.be/kzgJT5wewMA
Météo Skit 6 https://youtu.be/foSk-dVZCx4
25 Jan 2017 No Comments
French B students review for a quiz by working through different modalities (speaking, listening, reading, writing…plus some culture) in 3 different groups today. Some students are correcting their own homework practice from a key I’ve given them and then doing a short reading about Provence and Marseille and comparing their own city in a chart, a second group is reviewing vocab from this lesson (mettre le couvert) and mettre in the present tense with a game of Battleship, and the third group is reading a crazy place setting description while their partner draws and then switching roles. Those finished the activity early practice asking and answering questions about their houses and meals by drawing cards from the bag at their station.
French A students also worked in stations to practice telling time and talking about the courses. There stations included a grammar station, an interactive performance station where they worked with clocks, and a game station.
Honors French C students have had two days of stations, working on and presenting skits,completing some listening activities with a laptop station, practicing some speaking prompts, and reviewing vocabulary reflexive verbs in all tenses with the games of WAR and EIFFEL TOWER.
We all enjoyed a change of pace at the end of January!
