Mercredi 24 octobre

Halloween getting closer every day, it was the opportunity to talk about practical subjects regarding pumpkins: vocabulary, sentence building, ... . Ari shared with the group his collection of fantastic maps, and we started to work on the H-F words. Next week IS Halloween, so if your kid wants to come with a costume on, that will be much fun! See you next week.

Mercredi 17 octobre

Although the weather didn't look like it, we're in Autumn and we started learning vocabulary and building sentences around it to practice conjugation.
Also all the students got the Yellow-Belt list of High-Frequency Words, parents can help them during the week in order to master the pronunciation and the spelling.
A la semaine prochaine!

Mercredi 1o octobre

Today we practiced; we practiced the conjugation of -ER verbs in the present tense, and we practiced our first list of High-Frequency Words. These lists come in belt colors and Nicolas, an expert in jujitsu explained to the group how it goes from white to black, and how the difficulty builds up. So next week, our students will get the yellow belt list because they knew all their white-belt words.

Mercredi o3 octobre

We started with a short story of Oui-Oui; Ari already heard of Oui-Oui and could explain to the group who that was. From the story, we learned about action words, the verbs, and introduced the 1st-group verbs, the easy ones ending with -ER. Then we practiced, using the same card game as last week and building sentences from the images. Meaning that we need to learn how to write!
For that purpose, each child walked back home with a short list of High-Frequency Words, starting with short ones. The objective is to have parents working on these words during the week, so that our students know them by heart and can proceed to the next list. Clue: it goes by karate-belt colors, from white to black, white is quite easy, black is not.