Celebrating the Olympics

Every four years, our country celebrates the Winter Olympics like mad. It’s a little tougher, given the time zone difference, but it’s one that will be exciting, anyway. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get the kids involved, while still learning in French. And so, three-way task: reading comprehension, writing, and presenting.

The Importance of French Immersion

We were busy little bees today. Not only did we do a great card for our fathers, we also managed to put this fun bulletin board together. For the last several days, my students and I have been talking about culture and language. I want to impart on them the importance of what they’re doing, even at their young age: they’re learning a second language. So we’ve been discussing how great that is, and how proud of themselves that they should be (and how proud I am of them, of course). So today, we discussed all of the reasons that we love speaking French. They all had amazing reasons, and by the end of the discussion, we were all beaming with pride.

Math Cheat Sheet – Geometry and Spatial Sense (1)

Well, in the spirit of our last Math Cheat Sheet, that served the students so well during their math evaluation, here is a picture of the one for the first of our geometry unit. We’ve been learning about the different kinds of polygons (names, how many sides and corners are on each, etc.), as well as what symmetry is and how it works.

Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,