French

Preps

Have you been hearing your child practicing their French greetings at home? Maybe with some hand actions? I have been receiving a lot of wonderful feedback from families about their children using their French greetings at home with siblings and friends. The last few weeks students have been using their new knowledge of French numbers 1-10 to ask and answer the question, "How old are you? (Quel âge as-tu?)". Students have been posing as wise wizards, stroking their beards, to recall the prompt. Moving forward students will be learning to ask "Where do you live? (Où habites-tu?)" and responding to the question.

We have continued to learn and become fluent in recalling numbers in French. Students have made a mini book with collections of  objects related to the number on each page.

The preps have also engaged in French Architecture, our term theme, learning about The Eiffel Tower. They have viewed videos, images and heard real life accounts of visits to the iconic landmark. They have used Lego to build their own mini replica of The Eiffel Tower. Moving forward students will be engaging in other materials to build a 3d form of the The Eiffel Tower.

 

1/2's

The last few weeks students have been using their knowledge of French numbers 11-20 to ask and answer the question, "How old are you? (Quel âge as-tu?)". Students have been posing as wise wizards, stroking their beards, to recall the prompt. Students have just begun learning to ask "Where do you live? (Où habites-tu?)" and  next will learn to respond to the question.

We have continued to learn and become fluent in recalling numbers in French. Students have made a mini book with collections of  objects related to the number on each page.

The 1/2's have also engaged in French Architecture, our term theme, learning about The Eiffel Tower. They have viewed videos, images and heard real life accounts of visits to the iconic landmark. They have used toothpicks and styrofoam balls to build their own mini replica of The Eiffel Tower. Moving forward students will be engaging in other materials to build another form of the The Eiffel Tower.

 

3-6s

Students have become fluid in the flow of each session the last few weeks with students using Duolingo for the beginning of each session, working hard to to do their personal best. Following the language part of each session students have stepped back into STEM, utilising their skills from last year to research, design, collaborate and build The Eiffel Tower using newspaper and masking tape. Students have been surprised, elated, hopeful and successful to complete their builds. We have begun the research and designs into our future builds 'Chateau Comtal" and will continue over the coming weeks to add turrets, walls and conical turret tops using scrap paper, masking tape and matchsticks.