En Classe: 2 novembre 2016

REMEMBER: No class on the 9th or the 23rd!

Today, we hope to:

• Q&A!  :)
• Talk about avoir.
• Talk BRIEFLY about negation in French.  :)  Just enough to whet your appetite for homework!  :)
• Play Sentence Piecing Game together!

Homework today!

• To practice avoir select the Drag and Drop game at this site.  :)  If you need to, finish your peek-a-book verb chart.  :)
• Practice Chapiter Four vocabulary by doing this self-test.
• Learn computer pieces.  :)  Use this online dictionary to look up additional words and phrases!  Then use the next page to play a matching game.  :)
• Review être.  :)
• Study negation in French on YouTube.  Then do the worksheet.  :)
• Watch THIS VIDEO on the difference between French in France vs. Haitian Creole.  :)
• HALLOWEEN Listening Activity! Use worksheet to fill in the blanks!  :)

BONUS! :)

Happy Halloween!

En classe: 19 octobre 2016

We did so much last week!  Thanks for your hard work AND the extra 20 minutes, ha!  :)

Today, we hope to:

• Check homework pages, plus Q&A
• Practice numbers (1-20) together
• Practice Chapitre Quatre vocabulaire together and create sentences.  :)

Homework for today:

• Verbe + Infinitif (worksheet)
• Practice with sentences (worksheet)
• Watch THIS VIDEO about just how helpful Google Translate is!  :) :)  It's a great tool, but it won't hold you up as a crutch for long!  :)  I usually use it to find out noun gender. 

(It's a light week!  You can thank the powers that be for the nasty cold that came my way, lol!  See you Wednesday!)

En Classe: 12 octobre 2016

Well, hello, my peeps!  :)

Today, we're going to:

• Turn in homework, go over questions
• Review aloud: Numbers (0-60), Alphabet
• Go over avoir!  :)
• Look at POSSESSIVES!
• Go over vocabulary (using the fortune tellers- they look great!!)

Homework!

• Review information from class today- especially avoir and vocabulaire.
• La famille.  You know the routine- if you want to go the creative route, color, cut, paste!  Either way, please make sure you write in the translation for the word French --> English.  Page 24, please try to fill in the French word from memory- correct your own work from the previous pages!
• Write five unique sentences using avoir + other vocabulaire from previous chapitres.
• Possessives worksheet.  The answer key is attached, so self-correct.  Feel free to be creative and color/cut/paste the sentences with images into your cahiers.  :)
• Crossword- practice with Les matières!  :)  This should help you with two things... first, pay attention if the word is masculine or feminine... and then make sure you're focused on spelling!

En Classe: 5 octobre

Look, WINSTON!  All in English, just for you!!  :D

GIRLS!  I'm sure you did this, but a reminder to bring back the COOTIE CATCHERS!  :)  If we have time after the (spoiler alert) test, checking the test, we'll start to play with vocabulary as a class.  :)  We'll also attempt to make a verbal SENTENCE as we go.  ;)

This week, we are testing.  :)  Basically, the best thing you could do is study everything in your cahiers.  It will help if you take some time to write sentences with verbs.  Remember that I said that NUMBERS are not studied enough!

After today's test, we're MOVING ON!  :)  Chapitre Quatre is around the corner and waiting!  We're going to jump right in with HOMEWORK!  :)

• "La maison" packet.  Go through and translate what the item is.  Color, if desired (Darcy!), and either cut'n'paste (Darcy!) the graphic, name, translation into your cahier, or slap some glue on and fold it in half into your cahier (Winston!).  :)  In the drawing section, you can do your OWN drawing, you can SKIP the drawing, or you can find some clipart to glue in... But you DO need to for sure do the translations...  without looking, if possible!
• "AVOIR!"  Here's what to fill in:
  
  Avoir = to have
  j'AI
  tu AS
  il, elle, on A
  nous AVONS
  vous AVEZ
  ils, elles ONT
• I am GIVING YOU your ENTIRE Chapitre Quatre Vocabulaire sheet!  It's getting real, guys! :)  Please do all of the translations for: Identifying the rooms of a house, Talking about a home and the neighborhood, and Other useful words and expressions.  We're breaking this huge list in half, and we'll hit Identifying family members and Talking about family affairs or events next week.  If you can help yourself, refrain from jumping ahead!  But I do understand and empathize with a good compulsion, so if you have to, you have to.  :)

That's it!  Your task has been set before you!  Do good work, my intrepid poulets!