With each new theme introduced in our Grade 2 French Pogram, we will also be learning new songs and readings to supplement them. Our theme for the remainder of October is Hallowe'en. Please enjoy practicing these songs with your child. A YouTube link has been provided to assist you and you child with this learning experience.
October 25, 2013
Please follow the You Tube link to access our song for our theme on Halloween.
Song title: C'est l'Halloween, par Matt Maxwell. You Tube link:
November 4, 2013
Let’s Review…Les Mots
Féminins (Feminine nouns)
Last week’s list words and homework focused on feminine
nouns particularly pertaining to colours.
We add an “e” at the end of adjectives that proceed a noun which is
feminine. Here are some great sentences that our class came up with from our
list of word wall words.
Students… You be the
teacher!
Can you translate these sentences after reading them for
your parents?
La nuit est noire.
La lune est blanche.
La maison hauntée est brune.
La sorci`ere est verte.
We have completed the end of our Halloween unit in French. The students are excited to share some of
their written work with you. Please check
our Blog for an upcoming video presentation of our written work later this
week. Here are our sentences that we will
be presenting you may wish to use as a reading review….
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois… (On Halloween I see…)
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois une chauve-souris noire qui mange une
souris.-Mirco
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois un chat noir qui regarde les enfants.-
Ava
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois un feu-follet orang qui est assit.-Salvatore
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois la costume de sorci`ere.- Melissa,
Nicole
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois une décoration d’une chauve-souris -Brandon
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois la lune qui dort. -Ava
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois une maison-hauntée avec des
squelettes.-Aaron, Catherine
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois un fantôme
qui vole.- Janniece
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois les squelettes qui dansent.-Jonathan,
Emma, Pauline
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois les bonbons dans le sac.- Evan, Enoch
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois la masque de Iron Man.-Jesse
`A l’Hallowe’en je vois le feu-follet d’un vampire.-Peter
And that's a wrap!!
November 11, 2013
Remembrence Day/Le Jour du Souvenir
The Grade 2's have begun writing in their new writing notebooks. Their first ativity was on the topic of Remembrance Day. The students were asked to choose one opening sentence, out of Column #1, a secondary sentence out of Column #2 and a closing sentence from Column #3. The following are all the ideas our class came up with that you may wish to mix and match at home. Your child will be bringing home these books for you to read with your child shortly.
Column #1
Le Jour du Souvenir je pense `a…
le coquelicot rouge et noir.
les médailles sur les soldats.
les soldats qui sont allés dans la guerre.
la croix brune `a l’église.
Le coquelicot que je mets sur mon t-shirt.
la colombe blanche qui vole.
l’amour dans mon coeur.
une sourire sur mon visage.
la couronne sur ma porte avec les coquelicots.
Column #2
Merci,
Dieu.
Jésus.
les soldats.
le Canada.
tous le monde.
nos grand-parents.
Column #3
Je suis...
content(e): happy
reconnaissant(e): thankful
chanseux(se): lucky
fier (proud)
Joyeux Noël/Merry Christmas
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We are begining our Advent and Chistmas season, the students will be learning "Deck the Halls in French. The words to the song are found in your child's french duotang. Attached below is the music for the song. Please ignore the written test and sing along with the french words provided in the duotang.
This song will be our Grade 2 class presentation for the St Rita Christmas concert celebration on December 18th 2013.
Extra Reading Practice:
One of our writing activities included writing and reading about what we see in our Christmas rtree. The students were asked to mix and match sentences with the sentence starters and decorate our Christmas tree with their sentences here at school. This is a list of our great ideas. You may choose to create new sentences with ther ideas below.
Dans mon arbre de Noël je vois...
In my Christmas tree I see...
des décorations rouges et vertes et dorées. Salvatore, Emma
une étoile o`u un ange qui brille. Taylor
une colombe blanche qui vole. Mirco
une couronne verte et ronde. Mirco
des chocolats qui sont bons a manger. Evan
les photos de moi! Peter
les cadeaux. Jesse, Nicole, Yeabsra, Enoch
le P`ere Noël avec les cadeaux. Ava
C'est...
It's...
excitant!
la fête de Jésus.
amusant!
magnifique.
joyeux.
plein d'amour.
C'est L'hiver!
February 2014
Can you make some fun winter sentences? Use the pictures and the vocabulary below to create your own winter sentences. Use the model below to start.
In winter I can..........
En hiver je peux....
play jouer
go aller
wear apporter
drink boire
eat manger
