“Cyrill is ‘l’étoile du jour’.” – Hiyas “Cyrill was l’étoile du jour’ on ‘l’Halloween’.” –Abby “Aujourd’hui Cyrill est l’étoile du jour.” –Olivia and Oscar “C’est l’Halloween!” –Ciara “We had ‘musique’. We did the song ‘Old Man in the Grave Yard’. We used instruments instead of singing.” –Saul “We had inside gym. We played a game.” –Mehrsa “We had ‘les surprises’.” –Oliver We got a new book today called, Qui est à la porte? “We learned about ‘la lettre G.” -Mehrsa Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Gg. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. *Please note that the letter G in French has two sounds: hard G as in gorille (g dur) and soft G as in girafe (g doux). “We learned about ‘les règles dans notre classe’.” –Oscar “We did things about rules.” -Hiyas “We wrote about ‘le numéro neuf’ in our ‘cahier’.” –Emilie
“Moi est l’étoile du jour.” –Gareth “Aujourd’hui, Gareth est l’étoile du jour.” –Ethan “Gareth was the ‘étoile du jour’.” –Delilah “Gareth was the ‘étoile du jour’.” -Max “We did ‘calendrier’.” -Ciara “We did ‘le calendrier’ and today is ‘trente octobre’.” -Abby “Gareth was the special helper and in gym we played ‘Cheese Ball’ and we had a lot of fun and we had 38 best days of school!” –Mehrsa “We had 1000 thumbs up!” -Hiyas “We had a ten thousand thumbs up day!” -Oscar “School is the best place!” –Lilah “Today Ethan was back from his vacation.” –Jett “We did ‘le calendier’.” -John “We played ‘Cheese Ball’ in gym.” –Oliver “We had gym and in gym we played a game called ‘Bowling Ball’.” –Max Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Ff. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. “We did ‘la lettre Ff’.” -Hiyas “Ff was the best letter we have done.” -Olivia We learned a new poem about 'la couleur orange'. “We made four books: ‘une araignée’, a bat, ‘un balai’ et ‘un masque’.” –Saul “We read a book called ‘Petite Citrouille’.” –Abby “Aujourd’hui Madame Jenn est venue dans notre classe (to do art)’.” -Oscar “Madame Jenn came to our classroom to work with us (on pumpkin art).” -Ethan
“Aron was ‘l‘étoile du jour’.” – Abby and Hiyas “Aujourd’hui, Aron c’est l’étoile du jour’.” –Olivia “We watched ‘Mini TFO épisode 33’.” -Oscar “We wrote about ‘la couleur verte’.” -Spencer “We read ‘deux histoires’ called ‘C’est l’Halloween’ and “Aaaaaah! Une araignée’!” –Ciara “We read a book.” –Hiyas “We made a little Halloween book and we coloured it.” -Mehrsa “We made a book.” -Hiyas “We had indoor gym. In indoor gym, we played a game called ‘Pinball’.” –Mehrsa “We got ‘les mots de la semaine’ and made flashcards.” –Oliver “We made flashcards.” –Lilah To make you own flashcards at home with your child, you will need: the words of the week (found under the Resources & Links tab), one 2" loose leaf ring, three pieces of construction paper, glue, scissors and a hole punch. Cut out the words, glue them to the construction paper, hole punch the flashcards and store them on the metal ring. Each week, we will be adding new words. These are high frequency words that will assist us in learning to read and write in French. Thanks in advance for your support! “We wrote about ‘le numéro huit’.” –Abby
“We did ‘le numéro huit’.” –Saul “I was the ‘étoile du jour’.” –Delilah “Aujourd’hui, Delilah est l’étoile du jour.” –Nathan and Oscar “We had centers in gym.” –Hiyas “We had gym with Madame Jenn’s class and we did centers.” –Oscar “We had centers in gym,” -Aron Daily Independent Reading “We played ‘Around The World’.” -Nathan “We played ‘Autour du monde’ with the ‘poème vert’.” -Ciara “When we were doing ‘Around The World’, we were doing ‘vert’.” -Spencer “We had ‘copains de lecture’.” -Olivia “We made a monster with our ‘copains de lecture’.” –Saul We brainstormed words of things that are green. Then, we chose images on Google. “We did ‘la couleur verte’.” -Hiyas “We wrote about’ la couleur verte’ in a leaf book.” –Olivia
“Mehrsa was the ‘étoile du jour’.” –Hiyas “Aujourd’hui, Mehrsa est l’étoile du jour.” –Olivia “We had 'mathématiques'. We counted up to 'trente-cinq'.” –Marshall “We had ‘musique’. And in ‘musique’, we played a game.” –Saul “We had 'musique' and we heard the song of heros.” –Abby “We had 'musique'. In 'musique', we heard a song.” –Delilah “We sang the song called ‘Highway of Heros’.” -Lilah “We had nine hundred thumbs up for Varsity Acres!” –Spencer Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Dd. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. “We drawed the letter D.” – Jett “We did the letter D in our journals.” -Oliver “We had ‘gymanse’ and we played a beanbag game. Madame Courtney was our ‘gymnase’ teacher today.” –Emilie “We had outdoor gym and we played beanbag toss.” –Ciara “We had outdoor gym. In outdoor gym, we played a beanbag game and we got a partner and we throwed the beanbag.” –Mehrsa “We learned about the ‘numéro huit’.” –Abby "We writed in our journals about the number eight.” –Hiyas “We were cutting out and colouring le monster (des voyelles).” –Delilah
“Olivia was the special helper.” –Hiyas “Olivia was 'l’étoile du jour'.” –Max “Aujourd’hui, Olivia est l’étoile du jour.” –Oscar “We learned about ‘le numéro sept’.” –Abby “We played a bean bag game with Madame Courtney in gym.” –Saul “In music, we sang ‘Highway of Heros’.” –Olivier “We learned new songs in music.” -Sage “We had ‘trente-quatre’ best days of ‘école’!” -Ethan “In our journals, we wrote about the 'les couleurs' and we drew the pictures of ‘bleu, rouge et jaune’.” –Mehrsa Delilah shared her 'sac de surprise' with Madame Emily. “We had a scavenger hunt and Madame Emily chose our partners.” -Emilie “We went outside to collect nature.” –Ciara "We went out for an outside treasure hunt and we got some nature stuff. " -Ethan “We went on a treasure hunt and we found new mysterious things.” -Abby "We did a museum walk around the class to look at other students' treasures without touching ." -Nathan "We did a scavenger hunt outside. A 'l’automne' hunt." -Nathan "We did a scavenger hunt and picked up things from nature." -Oscar "We went on a scavenger hunt and we found a ladybug." -Lilah
“John was ‘l’étoile du jour’.” –Jett “John was the ‘étoile du jour’.” -Max “We did ‘le calendrier’.” -Abby “We had outdoor gym.” –Olivia “We played this bean bag game and we were in groups of four (in gym)." –Nathan “We played a different game with partners (in gym).” -Spencer “We watched Mini TFO.” -Mehrsa “J’aime l’école!” –Marcus “Varsity Acres is the best school!” –Lilah “We learned that ‘vert’ has two words: ‘vert and verte’.” -Oscar “We did the ’poème vert’.” -Delilah “We did ‘le poème vert’ and ‘la lettre c’.” -Mehrsa “We did 'le poème vert’ and John was the special helper.” -Ethan “We learned that c has two sounds (hard and soft c/c dur et doux).” -Lilah “We learned that ‘la lettre c’ has ‘deux’ sounds.” -Olivia Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Cc. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. “We learned about ‘la letter c’.” –Saul “We learned about ‘le numéro sept’.” – Olivia “We learned about ‘numéro sept’ in ‘mathématiques’.” –Sage “We did number ‘sept’.” -Hiyas “We wrote in our journals about ‘numéro sept’.” -Emilie We played a math game on the Smartboard.
“Jett was the ‘étoile du jour’.” -Hiyas “Jett was the special helper.” –Spencer “Jett est ‘l’étoile du jour’.” -Abby “We had gym outside.” –Ciara “We had outdoor ‘gymnase’.” -Mehrsa “We cleaned our drawers.” -Saul “J’aime l’école!” -Marshall We read a book called I Like Myself. It is a book about showing respect to oneself. Respect is our virtue of the month. We read a book called, When Sophie Gets Angry--Really, Really, Angry... and then we learned about the Red Zone. “We learned about the Zones of Regulation.” -Emilie “When were with Mme Jenn’s class, we learned about the ‘zone rouge’.” -Ethan “We did one of the Zones of Regulation (zone rouge).” -Nathan “A la classe de Mme Jenn, we learned about the ‘zone rouge’.” -Oscar “Today, we had ‘les sciences’.” –Oscar Today, we learned about the scientific process. We made predictions about mixing primary colours before we did the experiment. “We did a science experiment. We mixed colours.” -Lilah “Jett helped do the experiment.” -Aron “We did a science experiment and mixed-up colours and seed what they mixed into.” -Ethan “We had so much fun in the science experiment!” –Olivia
“We learned about ‘couleurs’.” -Spencer “I was the ‘étoile du jour’.” –Emilie “Emilie was ‘l’étoile du jour’." -Jett “We had 'le calendrier’.” -Oscar “We played tag in gym.” -Emilie “We had outdoor gym and today was a thousand and a million thumbs up day!” -Mehrsa “We had one hundred thumbs up day!” -Abby “We wrote in our journals about the ‘jaune’ poem.” -Oscar “We writed in our journals about ‘jaune’.” -Abby “We learned about the letter Bb.” -Lilah Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Bb. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. “We opened the last ‘sac brun’ and it belonged to Lilah.” -Ciara “We opened the ‘sac de surprise’ and it belonged to Lilah.” -Ethan “We opened a new brown bag.” -Hiyas “We learned about the primary colours.” -Oliver “We writed the three primary colours.” -Saul “The primary colours were ‘rouge, jaune et bleu’.” -Ethan “We did ‘mathématiques’.” –Abby
“We played the monster game (in math).” -Spencer “We had ‘mathématiques’ and we played the monster game.” -Olivia “We played a game called ‘Monster Math’.” -Max “Marshall was the ‘étoile du jour’.” -Jett “We had ‘gymnase’ outside.” -Saul “We did ‘le français’.” -Nathan “Varsity Acres School is the best school of my life!” -Oscar “Today we learned about the letter Yy. It’s 'la lettre Ii’s' cousin.” -Oscar “We learned about ‘la lettre Yy’.” -Ethan Please ask your child to tell you the story about the letter Yy. Also, please ask your child to say the sound to you and show you the accompanying action. “We had ‘copains de lecture’.” -Abby “In our ‘copains’, we did Hangman (Bonhomme pendu).” -Lilah “We opened Madame Emily’s ‘sac de surprise’.” -Olivia
“We opened a bag and it belonged to Madame Emily.” -Max “I guessed that we opened your bag (Madame Emily’s) and it was right.” –Ciara “We figured out that Madame likes visiting countries and we opened Madame’s bag.” -Mehrsa "Can you write down all the places you went to? It sounds interesting to visit!" -Oliver Madame Emily went to Las Vegas, Madrid (Spain), Marrakech (Morocco), Paris (France) and Vancouver this summer. Madame speaks French and they speak French in Morocco and in France. |