Dear Parents,

March 22, 2016

This week we are totally immersed in FRANCOFETE!!

We are celebrating French and learning about different countries and cultures where French is the spoken language!

We also have a list of words that we are practicing as a school-wide spelling challenge is coming up on Thursday! We practice these everyday and we can also do so at home! (See list below.)

Our activities include- French Bananagrams/scrabble challenges! First in our home class then grades from 1-4 go head-to-head!

We will decorate our class and look at the flags of certain countries where French is spoken!

TUESDAY! Today is our French film- TINTIN!  Might make for interesting dinner conversation!

WEDNESDAY! Tomorrow is SWIMMING! J  and   “Le jour de mille Mercis!!” where we will all be extremely polite and over-the –top with our French words of kindness. More practice with our spelling challenge words!

THURSDAY we will be able to dress in the colours of a flag from one of the countries we have studied!

We will have an assembly to support our super spellers and to show off our costumes!

THURSDAY they can arrive with Flag-colour face-painting if they want or wait until class! (I know our class will have fun with that- Please  let me know if your child should not for allergy reasons!!)

Ici

Va
Bien
C’est
Dans


Elle
Le garçon
La fille

Il
Il y a

Je

j'ai
Jour
quand
Moi

sur
tu
toi
un

Une

et

très

trop

mais

comme

Extras....

voici

beaucoup

maintenant

est-ce-que

parce que

Happy FRANCOFETE all!

Mme. Hulsman

Dear Parents, 

Unfortunately, due to pool repairs, we did not go swimming today. 

Students instead had extended outdoor activity with co-operative games and free time outdoors to develop socially and physically. All the students enjoyed celebrating what feels like Spring compared to the snowstorm just 1 week ago!  

We are learning to interact with each other socially in French and are encouraged to do so at all times. 

Students have been visiting the book fair all week- It will continue until Friday morning!

Thanks to everyone for their support.

In the past two weeks we have studied geometry with 2D shapes and the words/concepts such as:

un polygone ( ploygon) - Straight lines, closed shape.

un quadrilatère (Quadrilateral) -  a polygon with 4 sides

We have now moved on to 3D shapes and will continue with these when we return from March break.

Here is some vocabulary:

2D

Un carrée

Un losange (in French, un diamant is only used for sparkly jewels, not for geometry!)

Un rectangle

Un triangle

Un trapèze

Un cercle

3 D

Un pyramide

Un prisme rectangulaire

Un prisme triangulaire

Un sphère

Un cube

In French we have studied  the sound EU and two new songs which will come home in the Cahier Maison-Ecole.

Great Job to all those who did their homework!!

Our policy is no homework over March Break, therefore no additional work will be given!

The duo-tang will still go home as will the books to read from as usual.

Have a great March Break!

 Kind regards,

Mme Hulsman