Month: May 2020 (Page 1 of 2)

Reading

1. Continue with your At Home Reading Program through Raz Kids, reading daily in French for minimum of 10 minutes
2. While doing your reading throughout the week, complete at least one activity from the below choice board. 

Reading Choice Board

Dictee #8: “EU”

*pronounced same as you would in Eng

1. le feu—the fire
2. bleu–blue
3. je veux—I want
4. Je peux–I can
5. un œuf—an egg
6. le déjeuner–lunch
7. leur–their
8. une heure—one hour
9. une soeur—a sister
10. heureux–happy

*BONUS SENTENCE (optional):  Ma soeur est heureuse quand elle peut manger un oeuf pour le déjeuner. 

1.Vocabulary practice: Watch the following video on the sound “eu” https://lesfondamentaux.reseau-canope.fr/discipline/langue-francaise/lecture/les-correspondances-sonvoyelle/decouvrir-les-sons-oe-et-601-et-leurs-graphies.html

2. Dictée: Once you have had sufficient practice spelling the words, listen to the audio link and test yourself by writing out the words without looking. If you want a challenge, try the sentence at the end. When you are finished you can compare your words with the spelling list above and make any necessary corrections.

Writing

1. Complete the booklet on EU (or write the corresponding answers on a piece of paper): eu
2. Complete the Core Competency Self Assessment and be ready to talk about your answer during conferences this week 🙂 Student-Parent Assessment
3. Missing Poster: Listen or read the audio book Le gros monster qui aimait trop lire on Marlborough Tumblebooks  (username: marlborough password: reads) https://biblioenfants.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Pick one of the main characters from the book. Your character has gone missing. Your task is to create a missing persons poster. Please include a drawing and description of the missing character. Pick two adjectives that describe your character (generous, kind, greedy, mean, funny, lazy, etc.) and use examples from the text that show that your character fits the adjectives that you have chosen to describe them.

Feel free to use the graphic organiser to help you organise your ideas.

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Take your time. Read/listen to the book and work on the graphic organizer one day and then complete the poster another day.

Please complete the poster and send to me

A LA RECHERCHE

Here are some examples

Optional: Continue working on your Covid Capsule

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-EN-CA

Oral Languages

One on One conferences to work on Core competency self assessment. Please complete the Student-Parent Assessment with your child and sign up for a conference time that works for them.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSprPoSvyNn22-kYwVqbcGsVsw9nBk_DZ2p0D6UOymQ/edit

Reading

1. Continue with your At Home Reading Program through Raz Kids, reading daily in French for minimum of 10 minutes
2. While doing your reading throughout the week, complete at least one activity from the below choice board. 

Reading Choice Board

Dictee #7: “CH”

*pronounced like “sh” in English

1. chaud–hot
2. il marche—he walks
3. une chanson—a song
4. un chemin—a road
5. la bouche—the mouth
6. une mouche—a fly
7. le chocolat—the chocolate
8. un cheval—a horse
9. chaque–each
10. Un chat–a cat

*BONUS SENTENCE (optional):  Il fait chaud chaque semaine quand je marche au chemin pour visiter le cheval et le chat qui habitent chez ma grande-mere.

1. Vocabulary practice: Create a “tongue-twister” using the sound “ch” in a sentence (in French) as many times as possible. Remember that your sentence can be silly, but needs to make sense grammatically. You may use some of the vocabulary words but try to come up with some of your own “ch” words to add.
2. Dictée: Once you have had sufficient practice spelling the words, listen to the audio link and test yourself by writing out the words without looking. If you want a challenge, try the sentence at the end. When you are finished you can compare your words with the spelling list above and make any necessary corrections.

Writing

Non fiction writing/Facts

1. Write down 3 “faits”/“facts” that you know about our caterpillar or 3 observations from the above picture.

“Les chenilles sont… ”

2. Write down 3 questions you’d like answered about our caterpillar or butterflies in general.

Est-ce que les papillons/chenillles….?

• Aiment/like
• Vont/will they
• Ont besoin de/need
• sont/are

3. Covid 19 Time capsule continued: Please choose 2 more pages from the time capsule to complete. The English Version is include underneath for translation.

ma capsule 2020

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-EN-CA

4. Le point d’exclamation et les bandes dessinés:

Le point d’exclamation (!) se place à la fin d’une phrase exprimant beaucoup d’émotion (la surprise, la colère, la peur, la joie, la frustration) Faites une bande déssinée avec les phrases d’exclamation. Ensuite pratiquez à dire ces phrases avec émotion.

Exclamative sentences express strong feelings and end with an exclamation mark (!) An exclamative sentence is used to show fear, surprise, anger, frustration, joy etc.  Create a cartoon using exclamative sentences, then practice saying the sentences with expression. Please send me your work. If you practice saying them, you can send me a video of you acting them out.

Voici mon example.  Je peux améliorer mon travail en en ajoutant de la couleur.

Oral Languages

Please sign up for a conference time that works for your child. This week we will be looking at the transformation the caterpillars are making. We will be sharing our observations/questions about the caterpillar and butterfly as well as making some new observations and predictions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSprPoSvyNn22-kYwVqbcGsVsw9nBk_DZ2p0D6UOymQ/edit

Reading

1. Continue with your At Home Reading Program through Raz Kids, reading daily in French for minimum of 10 minutes
2. While doing your reading throughout the week, complete at least one activity from the below choice board. 

Reading Choice Board

Dictee #6: “ON”

*pronounced with a nasal sound

1. mon–my
2. son– his/hers
3. bon–good
4. bonjour—hello
5. le bonbon—the candy
6. le pont—the bridge
7. rond—round
8. la saison—the season
9. l’avion–the plane
10. le cochon—the pig

*BONUS SENTENCE (optional):  Mon bon chien dit bonjour à son ami le cochon rond à l’autre côté du pont. 

1.Vocabulary practice: Write a journal entry about your day. Share whatever you like:

J’ai mangé/I ate

J’ai fait/I did/made

Je suis allé(e)/I went

Je vais/I will

Je veux/I want

Je suis/I am

Grade 1’s please write a minimum of  3 sentences 

Grade 2’s a minimum of 5 sentences. 

Highlight, circle or underline every time you use the sound “on”.

2. Dictée: Once you have had sufficient practice spelling the words, listen to the audio link and test yourself by writing out the words without looking. If you want a challenge, try the sentence at the end. When you are finished you can compare your words with the spelling list above and make any necessary corrections.

Writing

1. Write down three questions that you could ask your friends during our Zoom conference

• Est-ce que tu/do you

• Aimes-tu/do you like

• As-tu/have you

• Est-ce que tu vas/will you

• Comment est-ce que tu/how do you

2. Place words in the correct order.

Une phrase commence avec une LETTRE MAJUSCULE et se termine avec un .!?

Grade 1:

1. rouge pomme une voici
2. jouer soccer j’aime le
3. mange il biscuit un
4. marché au j’ai aujourd’hui parc
5. mes gentils amis sont

Grade 2:

1. manger j’aime la beaucoup au tarte chocolat
2. après-midi j’ai cet petites voitures joué aux
3. passé weekend le ski fait j’ai du
4. préféré sport est mon le soccer
5. mère aidé j’ai ce avec matin rangement ma le
6. avec veux je dehors jouer amis mes
7. en chenilles se papillon vont les transformer en

3. Covid19 Time Capsule

COVID-19 has given us the rare gift of time. It has given us a time to pause, time for us to reconnect with the earth and our families. This time capsule allows your child to reflect on how they are feeling during these times. They will also have a chance to document what is important to them at this time.

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-Title

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-FR-JeMeSens

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-FR-ToutSurMoi2

Enlgish Version:

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-EN-Feeling

2020-COVID-19-Time-Capsule-EN-CA-AllAboutMe

Oral Languages

This week we will be doing small group Zoom sessions. We are going to focus on vocabulary through a selection of games. Please sign up for a time slot that works for you.

Don’t forget to come prepared with 3 questions written in French that you could ask your classmates. Please view Writing Activity #1 for sentence starters and prompts.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PSprPoSvyNn22-kYwVqbcGsVsw9nBk_DZ2p0D6UOymQ/edit