First Week of French

Salut,

French Photo Album - To see all of the photos from this school year of student work in class follow this link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/81vH9t9VR0rr7duH3

Looks, Sounds, Feels - The first week of French has been very busy, but also fun as we are reconnecting after summer break or meeting for the first time. Our focus in all three grades of French continues to be "What should our best French class look, sound, and feel like?". All French students were asked this question and contributed their ideas about how our French class should be. We drafted all of our thoughts on our classroom window to see what everyone came up with and then edited out repeated terms and terms that weren't clear or didn't make sense.

From this we created a final document which we are using as a guide for our class behavior everyday for the school year. We also have the document in a French Flag large poster display in the classroom so we can see these terms all of the time and refer to them whenever we need to check what we are doing and what we need to work on.

Madame is so proud of her students' work together on this and their commitment to making this year the best possible year in French.

Me Voici Project - Students in Grades 7 & 8 made "Me Voici" (This is Me) Posters which included information about their favorite things, birthday, family, pets, activities, and more. Students had the option to translate as much as they wanted to into French. Students shared their posters aloud with a partner in class.

Soon these will be posted outside of the French classroom in the EMS World Language hallway, so others in the building and visiting the building can learn about our French students and learn some French as well!

Les dictionnaires français - Students in all Grades 6-8 have been working on using French dictionaries. We are working on translating English to French and French to English. 7th & 8th Grade Students completed a French Basics Review which they will use as a reference throughout the school year.

In Search of Guest Speakers for French- If you know anyone with connections to French language and/or culture who you think would be a great guest to visit our French classes please let Madame Lockwood know! (hlockwood@ewsd.org)

Optional French Class Donations- Kleenex, Pencils, French-English Dictionaries (Merci beaucoup en avance mes amis!)

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Upcoming Events - Thursday, October 5th EMS Open House 6 pm