I am still in need of parents to help with our Jump Rope for heart event. If you can spare a half or the whole day next Friday (June 12), I would be grateful. Please email me!
Also, if anyone has any music related items to donate to the gift basket for Festival, we could really use more stuff!
Yesterday, the last Scholastic package of the year came home. This is your last chance to stock up on French books for the summer. Whether through Scholastic, the library or your favourite book store, please make sure you find a way to keep reading in French over the summer. We have worked so hard this year, and want to make sure we don't get rusty over the summer. If you would like a package of books from school to get you started, I would be happy to put something together for you. Please let me know in the next week or two if you would like this. You can return the books to my area at the beginning of September.
This week we are working on finishing up projects in writing, social studies and math so that we can devote more of our time to preparing for our big concert. We've also started a new art project around the work of Van Gogh. Ask your artist what they know about him and what kinds of techniques he liked to use in his paintings.
Thanks to all students who remembered their word of the week sentences. Anyone who didn't have them ready today can bring them in and show me that they are completed tomorrow or Thursday. This is an important part of being responsible and organized!
Words of the Week
This week we are learning how to conjugate regular -er verbs in the present tense, focusing
on the first person only (je). This
is one of the structures that our students use regularly. I’m not going into a
lot of detail with students (e.g., which verbs this rule does and does not
apply to) - as they learn more about conjugating, they will learn when this
rule does not apply. For now, we will
begin simply by trying to remember that when you say (and write) “Je [fill in
action word here]...”, that action word usually ends with an e, even though we don’t really hear it.
A fun game this week might be a Wheel of Fortune or Hangman
style game. Let your student be in charge of making up short sentences
beginning with these words, and you guess the letters - making sure they
remembered the final e!
E.g.: _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
J e c h e r c h e m o n c r a y o n.
je marche, je cherche, je chasse,
je me lave, je nage, je parle, je regarde,
je vole, je donne, je joue
je marche, je cherche, je chasse,
je me lave, je nage, je parle, je regarde,
je vole, je donne, je joue