French Questions

Students have been working on learning how to ask for certain things in French at school.  Here are some of the things we have been using if you would like to practice at home . . .

Est-ce que je peux aller boire de l'eau? (Can I go get a drink of water?)
Est-ce que je peux manger une collation? (Can I go have a snack?)
Est-ce que je peux aller dehors? (Can I go outside?) (We will be adding this one soon.)
Aidez-moi s’il vous plaît? (Can you please help me?)
Je choisis. . . (I choose . . .)

Letters, Letters, Letters!

The junior kindergarten students have been busy working on their letters at school.  They have been playing with letters, writing their letters, building letters and more!  We are teaching uppercase and lowercase letters, and when they are writing their names we encourage one uppercase for the first letter, followed by all lowercase for the rest of the letters.

Letter bingo in French.

They are counting in French on a number hunt.

Following instructions to build letters on the carpet.

Printing letters on mini chalkboards.

We're Going on a Leaf Hunt

Yesterday we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather with the green class and went on a leaf hunt.  Since we've been talking about size lately, students were encouraged to keep an eye out for leaves of varying sizes, as well as different colours and shapes.  The senior kindergarten students were instructed to bring their five favourite leaves back to class.  Once back on the carpet we worked on sorting our leaves by size, from biggest to smallest, then by colour and finally by shape.  In the end they had to pick three leaves, to represent small, medium and large, which they glued on a sheet and labelled with the appropriate words in French.

We discussed what we were looking for on our leaf hunt.

Sorting by size.

Sorting by colour.

Small, medium and large.

Junior kindergarten students performed a similar activity but sorted by small and large.

Halloween Vocabulary

The students are starting to get excited for Halloween and have begun to talk about their costumes (the teachers have been planning their costumes too!).  A copy of the Halloween vocabulary words we will be working on went home with the blue class today for families that would like to practice at home.  The green class will get their copies next week.

French Halloween Vocabulary Words

Students have had fun this week learning this little poem about Ramunoir, a handsome black cat who likes to go out only at night.  They act out the actions as we say the poem together and then hunt for different words.

What's the Weather?

We've added a look at the weather to our morning routine in French.  Every morning the students are asked to take a look at the sky and we are working at learning how to describe the weather in French.
Here are the most common types of weather we look for. . .

• Il fait soleil. (It is sunny.)
• Il vent. (It's windy)
• C'est nuageux. (It's cloudy.)
• Il pleut. (It's raining.)
• Il fait froid. (It's cold.)
• Il fait chaud. (It's hot)
• Il neige. (It's snowing.) Hopefully we wont be needing this one for a while!!

Sizing Things Up

We have been talking about classifying objects by size in class lately, using the terms 'petit', 'moyen' and 'grand'.  We started out by sorting a bag full of stuffed animals I brought in from home and the senior kindergarten students moved onto shoes today.

Counting how many shoes there were in each category.

The seniors found extra objects around the room that they could classify as petit, moyen or grand.

The junior kindergarten students worked together to sort buttons by size.