La Dune du Pilat, Bassin D'Arcachon, France Hello parents ! What's new into the French class during the month of October ? Our adorable First graders keep going on their journey through learning French, I can see several of them reusing sentences I use to create their own ! Sometimes my assistant and I are looking at each other like "wait what, did you ear what she/he said ? That's awesome !!!" The students are still gaining autonomy, which is my ultimate goal, giving them as much independence into the class and going at their own path. They take care of our material, tidy everything with a lot of care which is so nice to see them so involved. Rituals I am increasing the level of our morning rituals, and changing the format everyday, to increase the kids ability to adapt and think of what is said instead of being into a repetition circle. I have little phones into the class, we are pretending we are on the phone and go through a lot of vocabulary. The students know well how to decompose a number (with ones and tens), know we are working on equations during the rituals : find an equation which can make 18... We are also working on addition and subtraction (38+20 / 38-20.....) I am going to increase the difficulty this as well in a month. Sometimes we are doing challenges/games like "touch something red", or "find the kid who has red hair, white short.... etc. Mathematics We are now working on topic 5 which goes deeper into addition and subtraction concepts. Thank you so much for your involvement with the homework, I can see how hard you are working with the kid at home and I really want to express my gratitude with this. Mathematics is the only topic I grade. You can find all the standards and topics we will work on into the math section of this website. I create my own assessment and make sure it matches with the type of work we are doing in class. Student have 3 chances to succeed and increase their grades. French Spelling I encourage you to go through the Taoki book online, because it is very interactive and fun, it is a good review at home and a great occasion for you to hear your kid reading in French :). You can find the tutorial on this website and you just got to message me to have your code. As usually, don't hesitate if you have any question, I am here for you and the kids. And as usually, please excuse my English Spelling. Mrs Botella Besançon, France What happened the past month in our French immersion class?
I have to say, I am SO impressed! Students have improved SO much, they can understand and follow and interact with me when I explain classroom / work directions really naturally ! A lot of them can say the date of the day, the day before and the day after, they can say the weather, the temperature, how they feel and play it (it is SO funny when I ask them "show me you are sick / You are tired / sleepy / upset, etc....", we have pretty good actors in our class;) ), Some of them can say the schedule of the day "at 9:30 there is mathematics, etc...". Basics directions like "we close the book / we tidy our pencils / let's line up for lunch / turn on/off the light are now understood, so we focus more on academics. - Speaking of academics, in mathematics, we started the topic 3. These 3 first topics focus on solving addition and subtraction problems, learning strategies to solve the equations, using addition to solve subtractions. Mathematics in French is not a big deal anymore, the majority of the students can work independently on exercises and try to find clues into the words they already know. - I make sure to stimulate them in mathematics during the morning rituals as well, everyday we have "the number of the day" that we decompose into tens and ones, we review how to count in French, we even learned how to "sign" numbers. We learned how to count to 70 (about this number, in French the name of it is "sixty-ten" -> soixante-dix, because 70=60+10, when I showed and told them why they were pretty surprised and some of them guessed how to say 71... (clue : 60+11). Somedays we pair work, others we manipulate cubes, others we do games.... Asking them the schedule of the day is also the occasion to start to learn how to say hours and get familiar with the clock. - In "French", we learned the name of family members, month of the year, days of the week, seasons, sport activities, body parts. - About French Spelling (sounds / topics) and books, you can check what we did on the different sections of the website. My feeling as a teacher about the month of September : students opened up and started to really feel comfortable. I feel they really enjoy learning a foreign language, they appreciate the challenge and ask for more ! It is really a pleasure to see them progress everyday and as I said at the beginning I am really impressed of the capacity of learning and memorizing of the two groups. A lot of student volunteer everyday to participate and the result is we have two very dynamic groups. There is really good vibes between the students, the help each other, and everybody is pretty good about respecting each other. As usual, let me know if you have any questions / concerns / suggestions. Ms Botella Calanque de Sugiton, Marseille, France Hello parents,
Here we are 3 weeks of French Immersion ! It has been challenging for some students who had a hard time in the morning to leave mom or dad, but I really want to tell you, no worry, it is normal! Imagine, the transition from holiday, house, games, to a class in which you have to suddenly adapt to other ways of communication, other people, I would cry too I think ;) But we made it !! Students are getting use to the class rhythm, rules, community living, etc... I noticed that some are really involved in learning and want to do well and success. Very quickly they started to ask for more responsibilities in the classroom (passing out books, pencils, math pages, helping others...) which surprised me it has arrived so early ! Most students are now able to say the date, ask to go to the bathroom or having a drink in French. Daily, we review numbers, we play and manipulate them, math has become easier, we are using the smart pencils from the smartboard which is always more motivating! The presence of several French speaker make a good learning climate into the class and challenge the others who want to be able to say more things in French, students are demanding a lot and willing to pronounce correctly without any embarrassment! September is going to be way more smooth, the new math topic is easier and focuses on strategies and less on story telling. I will let you discover the different areas of this website to follow what we do. Don't hesitate to contact me :) Hello 2018/2019 parents ! During all the school year, you will find on this home page : - The newsletter of the month - I will also share with you at the end of these newsletters my favorites places in France to visit :) - A link to the updates of the website that will offers you the possibility to follow our classroom weekly work Also, we will have another way of exchange all together which is named "Bloomz", it is a social network for parents/teachers which will give you the possibility to contact us with instant messages, watch pictures and videos of fun activities your child is doing, inform you with a notification everytime a new info is posted. You can already download it on your phone, tablet or simply access with your computer here Mrs Squires will give you the access code during our Back-to-School meeting. I hope you will enjoy this year ! French Immersion is an amazing enriching experience and I am very happy to be part of it ! Looking forward meeting all of you ! Ms Botella Note : The first picture I want to share with you is a little town named Cassis it is in South of France. Typical vibes of "Provence", a must see ! |
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