French News

Bonjour Parents and Students! 

Welcome back to Term 3! Bon retour à l'école!

We are so happy to watch our students grow in their knowledge and skill of French, and here is what they have done in the past two weeks.

Prep students learned about words related to food, including fruits and some food that French borrowed from English or other languages like hamburger and pizza. Students engaged in some drawing and labelling to help them process the new words.

Grade 1 students spent two weeks completing a fun worksheet about themselves called “Me voici”, they complete sentences about their name, age, birthday, favourite colours and animal, and so much more!

Grade 2 students learned to say classroom objects around them in French. To build their speaking and writing abilities, they asked each other questions using “Qu’est-ce que c’est?” (what is this?) and answered using the newly learnt vocabulary. They also wrote complete sentences about what they have in their school bags.

Grade 3 students started this term by looking at one important grammar point- adjective agreement. Through sentence writing, looking at colour words chart, and completing worksheet, they learned that adjectives need to follow the grammatical gender of the nouns. They will continue to explore this in the following weeks.

Grade 4 students first learned about forming negative sentence, that is, expressing “don’t”, “isn’t”, etc. They then learned to conjugate their first irregular verb “être” (to be) and explored a range of action verbs. They took home a lovely flipbook they made in class. 

Grade 5 and 6 students designed posters to promote our Bastille Day celebration on Friday week 2. Everyone who participated had submitted amazing work, the following posters were chosen to be displayed around the school.

Please note: If your child is new to learning French or just would like to practice the basics, follow the links below so that they can practice at home 😊 

Alphabet song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFXGlHCn_o

Number song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnrTrbJ6mYs

Color song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50U33brThk

Days of the week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpwf5N0rfVE

Months of the year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2odJakoOVVI

Merci (thanks) for reading! We are excited to start Term 3!! 

The French Specialist Team