Students finished off the year with learning vocabulary associated with family members, and different food items.
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Students in 4D took their French posters home today to finish up over the weekend and practice for their presentation. They will be reading two of their seasons in class. 4D's posters are due Monday, June 10th. The writing template and clothing vocabulary is located in the previous post below.
Students have been working hard on their Les vêtements project in the classroom. 4C will be taking their projects home to finish and practice over the weekend. The writing sample and template is below if any students need to finish their writing. 4C's projects will be due Tuesday, June 4th. 4D will have some extra time in class next week to finish up as they missed a few classes due to the long weekend and a presentation.
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been learning “les saisons” (the seasons) and vocabulary associated with clothing (les vêtements). Students have been working on an in-class project which incorporates past and present vocabulary including clothing, weather, seasons and colours. When complete, students will present their finished product to their peers.
—Mme Jagger Over the past few weeks students have been learning vocabulary to describe who they are such as how old they are; where they live; when their birthday is; what colors they like/love; what they like to do in their spare time; and their physical traits and personality traits. Students were introduced to an “All About Me” poster project. In class this week, they worked on a written paragraph to describe themselves using the vocabulary learned. They took this paragraph home with a piece of poster paper to create a poster at home about themselves to go with their writing. Their posters are due on Wednesday, April 24th for 4C, and Thursday, April 25th for 4D with presentations to follow. I've attached the project criteria, rubric and writing samples below, along with some sample posters.
—Mme Jagger French All About Me Project and Rubric There will be a French quiz on Les Parties du Corps (The Parts of the Body) for
4B on Monday April 15 & 4A on Tuesday April 16. Students are encouraged to bring home their duo tangs to study from. The test comprises:
On April 1, 4B received back the rubric for the Sac à Dos presentation. Marks and comments were uploaded to PowerSchool for perusal. 4A will receive these rubrics on April 2.
In the first week of April, students will be presenting their French robots to the class. The presentation comprises a self introduction followed by a description of the parts of the body on the robot. Students use the verb 'avoir' (to have) when talking about their robots An example would be: "Mon robot a deux épaules." (My robot has two shoulders.) or "Il a deux bras." (He has two arms). Students presented their “un sac a dos” this week and did a great job! We started working on mastering numbers in French to 69, although students did learn how to count up to 100. We sang along with some songs and practiced writing them. Students will continue to review numbers next week before having a quiz to demonstrate their understanding. The numbers and songs are below for further practice at home. —Mme Jagger Classes 4A and 4B have finished their study of "La Salle de Classe" (The Classroom) and are moving into a study of the vocabulary for parts of the body (e.g., la main, la tête). To introduce this topic we looked at this robot visual in class: www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect30/no_01/no_01.htm In French (as in English) plural forms of parts of the body are usually formed by adding 's' to the end of a noun. The plural 's' is normally silent in spoken French. In many instances though the plural form of a noun is significantly different from the singular form both in spelling and in pronunciation. This is likewise the case in English; for example: 'a foot' vs. 'two feet'. In French the singular of eye is 'l'oeil'. The plural form of this noun is: "les yeux." Unlike in English, French does have a plural form of the article 'the'. In French it is 'les'. It is somewhat like the difference between the English demonstrative pronouns 'this' versus 'these'. One is singular and the other is plural. In French there are four forms of the English word 'the': le, la, les, l' In class students learned the pronunciations of the parts of the body, we watched the robot video and identified the parts of the body in this manner. Students learned that many words sound similar to English: 'nez' means 'nose' and French 'pied' (foot) is a cognate of the English word 'pedal' or 'pedestrian' (one who walks). Another example is the French word 'dent' which means 'tooth'. We know a person who cleans and fixes teeth is called a 'dentist'. Students may use the visual of the robot at home as well as in class to study spelling and pronunciation. We are presently creating our own robots which we will introduce to the class. When we introduce the robots we will talk about the parts of the body. Some students have already finished the art portion of this project work and labeled their robots and will shortly be moving into practicing their presentations: Lastly, in today's class students watched a video about the French song 'Alouette'. This folk tune is familiar to many. In the song, the lyrics mention many parts of the body such as 'la tête', 'le cou' and so forth. We learned that Alouette was a song that was sung by the Voyageurs. We are also learning about the Voyageurs in social studies class this week.
This week students continued to work on their un sac a dos projects in class. Projects were sent home on Thursday to finish and practice for their presentation next week. 4C will present on Monday, March 4th and 4D will present Tuesday, March 5th.
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The Grade 4 French teachers are:
Greg Brewer (4A & 4B) [email protected] Janice Jagger (4C & 4D) [email protected] Larissa Lavallee (4E & 4F) [email protected] Websites for Practicing French:
www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2french.html www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/french.htm www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm Archives
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