Thursday, January 5, 2023
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- Fondue party prep and general classroom clean-up/ wrap-up
- Final verbal evaluations - group 1
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
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- Experiential program opportunities for next year and beyond ***Note that Wood Street School deadline is January 20th
- Review for final verbal evaluations tomorrow and Friday
- Charades
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
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- Bonne année and bon retour! Happy New Year and welcome back! - new years vocabulary (le 31 décembre, le premier janvier, le jour de l'an, la tourtière, minuit, les feux d'artifice, une résolution, Bonne Année!), traditional new year's music from La Bolduc
- Housekeeping - important dates
- Final verbal evaluations this Thursday, January 5th and Friday, January 6th
- Next week is exam week - there are no regularly scheduled classes
- Monday, January 16th is a PD day - no school for students
- Tuesday, January 17th - start of semester 2
- Message du jour and question/ response activity about what we did over the holidays
- Matching game/ sentence practice with fruit and junk food
- Final exam practice
Friday, December 16, 2022
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- FInal verbal evaluation practice
- Holiday film - Spirited
Thursday, December 15, 2022
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- Final verbal evaluation practice
- Holiday vocabulary activities - bingo
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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- Final verbal evaluation handout/ practivce
- Last verbal question/ response activity - qualities of our pets
- Holiday vocabulary activities
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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- Explore presentation with Danielle Bonneau
- ***Application deadline February 7th
- Check out the program website for more information or download the OLPPLO app
- Salut Alfred book - finding the sound symbol connection for "ss" in French - we discovered that s at the beginning/ middle of a word, c'é, ce, ci, ss and ça all give the "ss" sound
- Holiday vocabulary booklet
Monday, December 12, 2022
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- Verbal activity review - pet names and physical characteristics
- Holiday music comparison
- Holiday vocabulary and activities
Friday, December 9, 2022
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- Verbal activity review - pet names and physical characteristics
- Making 3D snowflakes - French video tutorial
Thursday, December 8, 2022
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- Vocabulary - les poils, le nez, les pattes, grand(e), gros(se)
- Brainstorm other vocabulary to describe physical characteristics of our dogs
- Dictee
- Speaking activity - physical characteristics of our dogs
- Writing activity - physical characteristics of our dogs
- Film - Elf
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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- Complete written component of activity package on pets
- Reading activity - Salut Alfred ***Listen, comprehension questions, read aloud with partner
- Speaking activity - dog's name
Monday, December 5 and Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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- McDade away - note that school was dismissed early on Dec. 5 due to a water access issue
- Writing/ colouring activity package on pets
Friday, December 2, 2022
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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- Kitchen day!
- Tartelettes au sucre recipe and activity
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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- McDade away
- Film day
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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- Verbal evaluations for food unit
- Some students reviewing/ preparing for evaluations with André
- Some students watching film during evaluations
Monday, November 28, 2022
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- Verbal evaluations for food unit
- Some students reviewing/ preparing for evaluations with André
- Some students watching film during evaluations
Thursday, November 23, 2022
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- Verbal evaluations for food unit
- Some students reviewing/ preparing for evaluations with André
- Some students watching film during evaluations
Wednesday, November 22, 2022
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- Finish film from yesterday
- Activities with Mr. Hills
- Cultural activity - watch 2 French-speaking teams play in the world cup in the gym (Canada vs. Belgium)
Tuesday, November 21, 2022
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- McDade away
- Film day - The Secret Life of Pets in French with English subtitles
Monday, November 20, 2022
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- Ben's presentation
- Review unit 2 questions
- Charades game with André
- Pixar short film in French with English subtitles
Friday, November 18, 2022
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- McDade away @ volleyball tournament...with many students in our class
- Work on/ finish your food truck projects
- Duolingo
Thursday, November 17, 2022
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- Vocabulary - ai, n'ai pas, a, n'a pas, son
- Dictée
- Using mon, mes, son and ses in context
- Questions - do you have a cat, do you have a dog
- Review - food unit
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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- Vocabulaire - un animal de compagnie, un chien, un chat, un lapin, mon
- Dictée
- Daily message
- Question of the day - Do you have a pet? Do you have a dog? What is your dog's name?
- Review - food unit questions
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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- Vocabulary - les poivrons, les épinards, les amandes, le poulet, la vinaigrette
- Dictée
- Review and prepare for food unit verbal evaluation
- Work on food truck projects/ game with André
Monday, November 14, 2022
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- Vocabulary - un restaurant, bon appétit!, la carte, une fourchette, une cuillère
- Dictée
- Review and prepare for food unit verbal evaluation
- J'ai Faim - reader's theatre productions
Monday, November 7 to Thursday, November 10, 2022
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- McDade away sick
- Food truck projects
- Remembrance Day activities
Friday, November 4, 2022
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- Vocabulary quiz
- Duolingo
Thursday, November 3, 2022
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- Nourriture 7 handout
- Vocabulary - préfère, préféré(es), un restaurant, commande, une pâtisserie
- Dictée
- Daily message + translation practice
- Adjectives - what they are and how they work in French
- Choose your own adventure story in French with André
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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- Making croissants and pains au chocolate in the kitchen!
- Handout
- Vocabulary - lave, coupe, roule, les triangles, la crème
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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- Nourriture 5 handout
- Vocabulary - le croissant, le pain au chocolat, le beurre, la farine, la pâte
- Dictée
- Daily message + comprehension questions
- Activities - games with André, watching croissant and pain au chocolat videos with Ms. McDade to prepare for tomorrow's class in the kitchen
Monday, October 31, 2022
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- Halloween Handout
- Vocabulary - une sorcière, un fantôme, un hibou, une citrouille, un squelette
- Verbal question/ response - 3 different ways to ask what questions about Halloween costumes (quel, qu'est-ce que, c'est quoi)
- Spooky places in France
- Drawing a haunted house with a French tutorial
- Film in French with subtitles
Friday, October 28, 2022
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- Vocabulary and reading comprehension quiz
- Monster writing activity
Thursday, October 27, 2022
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- Nourriture 4 Handout
- Vocabulary - c'est, la soirée, beaucoup, de l'eau, du lait
- Dictée
- Daily message + comprehension questions
- Verbal question/ response - using inversions to ask questions (préfères-tu)
- Planning for tomorrow's writing task
- Kahoot - practice this week's vocabulary for tomorrow's quiz
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
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- Nourriture 3 Handout
- Vocabulary - très, préférés, mes, tes, ses
- Dictée
- Daily message + comprehension questions
- Verbal question/ response - using the phrase "my favourite" in the context of Halloween candy and chocolate
- Written task - write a paragraph related to the verbal activity survey
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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- Nourriture 2 Handout
- Vocabulary - moins que, chercher, se déguiser, les bonbons, le chocolat
- Dictée - listen and write what you hear, copy the actual written text and compare to yours
- Daily message + comprehension questions
- Verbal activities - developing the use of plus que, moins que and autant que
- Self assessments on behaviours for success and academic achievement
Monday, October 24, 2022
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- Nourriture 1 Handout
- Vocabulary - préfère, plus que, autant que, le gâteau, la tarte
- Dictée - listen and write what you hear, copy the actual written text and compare to yours
- Daily message + comprehension questions
- Reading - "J'ai Faim" - looking for forms of questions, learning about the different question words and different ways to ask questions in French
- Self assessments on behaviours for success and academic achievement
Friday, October 21, 2022
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- McDade away
- Answer exercises A, B and C from "J'ai Faim" on blank lined paper
- Use the rest of class to tidy up your binder and finish any outstanding course work
Thursday, October 20, 2022
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- Housekeeping - catch up on last two days with a substitute teacher
- Reading - "J'ai Faim" looking for the sound/ symbol relationships for "wuh"
- Writing - using prior knowledge and brainstormed "wuh" words from "J'ai Faim" to create sentences with as many "wuh" words as possible
Tuesday, October 18 and Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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- McDade away
- Duolingo challenges
- Creating Venn diagrams to compare French and English and possibly French and another language of your choice
Monday, October 17, 2022
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- Revisit frequency and food - toujours, souvent, parfois, rarement, ne jamais
- Check your binders against the mast list and tidy them up/ complete missing course work
Friday, October 15, 2022
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- Vocabulary - meals
- Frequency and food - survey and writing task on how often people in the class eat different meals
Thursday, October 14, 2022
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- Verbal activity - what do you often eat for a morning snack? ***use of the word souvent
- Read "J'ai faim"
Wednesday, October 13, 2022
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- La cochonnerie (junk food) - survey on junk food preferences continued; writing task with survey results
- Activities - variations on memory game
Tuesday, October 12, 2022
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- McDade away
- Junk food activities
Friday, October 7, 2022
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- McDade away
- Duolingo day
Thursday, October 6, 2022
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- Activity stations - game and writing in the library with André, memory games and crossword/ word search with Ms. McDade in the class
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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- La cochonnerie activities (junk food) - learning new vocabulary and how to respond with different variations of like/ dislike to preferences (love, like, don't like, detest, never tried)
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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- Consolidation activities from yesterday - writing about fruit preferences from survey data, creating crosswords/ word searches, playing adaptations of a memory game
Monday, October 3, 2022
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- Beginning of new unit on food
- Vocabulary - food; learning patterns for singular vs. plural words in French
- Verbal activity - responding about fruit preferences with like/ dislike
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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- Verbal evaluations - wrap up
- "Chaque enfant compte" - shirt colouring
- Writing tasks - La Classe and L'autobus questions; good copy of written paragraph for introduction unit
Monday, September 26, 2022
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- Verbal warmup - CDHT
- Verbal evaluation review as a class
- Verbal evaluations
- Written questions from "La Classe" and "L'autobus"
Friday, September 23, 2022
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- Verbal warmup - CDHT
- Verbal evaluation review as a class
- Verbal evaluations
- Written questions from "La Classe" and "L'autobus"
Thursday, September 22, 2022
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- Verbal warmup - CDHT
- Verbal evaluation review as a class
- Verbal evaluations
- FIre drill
- Outdoor scavenger hunt
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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- Verbal warmup - CDHT
- Introduction unit paragraph
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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- Verbal warmup - CDHT
- Daily message and question - what did you do over the weekend
- La lecture - revisit "La Classe" and "L'autobus" with guided release to students reading on their own
- Practice - students record themselves reading and practice for verbal evaluations using website audio files
Friday, September 16, 2022
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- Practice for verbal assessment with various partners
- Daily message/ question - what are you going to do over the weekend?
- Kahoot - Canadian provinces/ territories in French
- Duolingo - French then language of your choice
Thursday, September 15, 2022
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- Practice for verbal assessment (make notes on cheat sheet) with seat partner
- Daily message
- Daily question - where were you born?
Wednesday, September 13, 2022
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- "Au" Canada worksheet - countries and provinces/ territories of Canada
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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- Practice conversational question/ response exchanges with multiple partners
- Additional tasks - finish paragraphs then colour and time workbooks
Monday, September 12, 2022
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- CDHT
- Daily message
- Daily question - do you like ice cream?
- Kahoot - months of the year
Friday, September 9, 2022
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- McDade away
- Paragraph writing - birthday and eye colour
- Additional tasks - colour and time workbooks
- Duolingo
Thursday, September 8, 2022
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- Greetings & CDHT with table partner (Wow are you? What is the date? What is the time? What's the weather?)
- Daily message
- Daily question - eye colour
- Reading - La classe and L'autobus
- Dictée - impromptu attempt at writing some of the phrases we have been speaking
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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- Greetings & DHT
- Daily message
- Daily question - birthdays part 2
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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- Greetings and weekend discussion
- DHT - asking/ answering questions about the date and time and learning how to talk about the weather
- Message of the day
- Question of the day
- Kahoot - colours
Friday, September 2, 2022
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- DHT - date and time partner question/ response
- Daily message
- Daily question - weekend plans (use of future tense)
- Colouring activity
- Kahoot - #s
- Duolingo - French and another language chosen by students
Thursday, September 1, 2022
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- DHT - date and time partner question/ response
- Daily message
- Daily question - favourite colour
- Survey around favourite colours and writing exercize
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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- Ms. McDade away - Ms. Cross filled in
- Telling time
- Bingo - review #s 1-60
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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- Ms. McDade away - Mr. Cook filled in
- Number quiz
- Introduction of #s 61-79
- Review days of the week and date
Monday, August 29, 2022
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- DHT - asking/ answering about today's date
- Daily message
- Daily question - favourite colour
Friday, August 26, 2022
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- DHT - asking/ answering about today's date
- Daily questions - review questions from this week (name, age, pet's name, pet's age, how are you)
- Bingo game
- Self-evaluation
Thursday, August 25, 2022
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- Comment ça va? response options
- Potential for learning different languages in this class
- DHT - asking and answering about today's date
- Daily message
- Daily question
- Vocabulary - finish numbers 1-60
- Game time - go fish (pige dans le lac)
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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- Review binder organization system
- Discuss muffin activity from yesterday
- Review daily class routine
- DHT (date, time, weather) introduction - today's date
- Daily question - age
- Vocabulary - numbers 1-60
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
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- Review course outline
- Daily question - names
- Learning letter and response
- Zucchini muffin recipe activity
Monday, August 22, 2022
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- Introduction
- Housekeeping - routines, classroom procedures
- Binder organization