Posted: September 14, 2018
Le 14 septembre
As a rule I will not be giving homework on Fridays. I have however asked the students to do something of their choice to practice their French.
Mrs. Murphy Notes
Notes for 6W, 7H, 8M, 8MFI & 8P
Notes
Posted: September 13, 2018
Le 13 septembre
Your child is bringing home their vocabulary scribbler tonight to share with you. During morning message time we have been listening for “les mots des amis” these are words that sound the similiar in French and English that have similar meanings. There are literally thousands of these words in the French language and they can be a big help when we are trying to understand what someone is saying. In our message today we had the words, septembre, frais, habitions and longues. Ask your child about these words, what they are and how to use them.
Your child is also bringing home a browsing book. They are meant to look at the pictures and scan for familiar words but they will not be able to read them yet.
Homework
Read and Share
Practice counting to 20 forwards, backwards, by 1’s, 2’s and 5’s.
Posted: September 12, 2018
Le 12 septembre
Your child is bringing home their Les sons duo-tang again tonight. There is a new story they should be able to tell you the sound <e> makes and show you the gesture we will use with that sound. It is proven that we remember sounds better if we associate them with a physical movement so each of the 28 sounds we will practice and learn will have a story and movement to go with it.
Homework
Read and Share
Practice counting to 10 forwards, backwards, by 1’s, 2’s and 5’s.
Posted: September 11, 2018
Le 11 septembre
Your child is bringing home the same reading materials today as they did yesterday, as in English repetition and practice helps to build confidence and fluency as well as reinforcing sight words. Again for extra practice alphabet and counting videos would be great. You could also watch music videos or movies in French. Watching movies that your child already knows, with or with-out sub-titles in French is another way to help boost vocabulary and comprehension. The most important thing is to try to keep it fun.
Homework
Share and read.
Posted: September 10, 2018
Le 10 septembre
Your child is bringing home their “Les sons” duo-tang to share 2 little stories we have been working on as we practice the sound <ah>. They also have a little book “Mon sac d’ecole” to read to you. We are still working on these but they were anxious to bring them home to share what they have learned. We are still working on the alphabet and counting in French and it would be great if they could watch some of the recommended videos to help with pronunciation.
Homework
Share and read
Posted: September 7, 2018
Le 7 septembre
What a busy week, your little one has worked hard and is probably tired. We are ready to move into full swing next week. There are many things you can do at home to help your child which we have been talking about in class like watching French movies and videos and listening to French songs. We have used a few videos to help us with our numbers and alphabet in class and watched a “Frozen” video in French this week. I will start adding the sites we use to the website section of our class page for extra practice at home if you wish.
Have a great weekend.
Posted: September 6, 2018
We added the classroom phrase “Est-ce que je peux aller remplir ma bouteille d’eau?’ to our repertoire of phrases today, worked some more with the sound <ah>, read the book “Mon sac d’ecole” to work further on our classroom vocabulary and added “moins” to our math work vocabulary. We are moving closer to being totally French each day and by Monday I will be putting away the ‘English Boa’.
Homework
Bring in flyers.
Posted: September 5, 2018
We worked hard again today continuing to practice our salutations and we learning a new classroom phrase – “Est-ce que je peux aller boire?” Students started English language arts with Mrs. Tozer this afternoon. We started math this afternoon as well focusing on vocabulary for the numbers 1-12 and “plus” and “font”.
Homework : Students are expected to read and record on a nightly basis and have someone sign their reading log. Agenda should also be signed each night to say an adult saw what they had to do. The agenda is also a great way to send messages back and forth from school as I will check them each day.
Posted: September 4, 2018
We had a full day! Students are going home with an agenda full of notices and forms and I asked them to have their parents fill out the information in the front of their agendas. Today we worked on “Je m’appelle _________. Et toi, comment t’appelle tu? and the most important classroom phrase of all “Est-ce que je peux aller aux toilettes?”.
Homework – read and record in reading log.
Ask your child about Sebastian and the picture on the front of their reading log.
Posted: April 18, 2017
7D LA
We are on day 3 of “Totally Joe”. We are reading this book as a class novel study but all students are expected to keep up their personal duo-tangs with their best work as their daily work will be marked. As we read they are expected to take notes on the setting and 4 of the characters, keep adding to the plot line with a note for each chapter and prepare a question for each chapter. Questions need to be higher level thinking.
Posted: March 13, 2017
7D
We have been having difficulty bringing our narrative to a finish but students will have their third and last day to type the piece in the computer lab tomorrow. Hopefully we will wrap this up before the end of the week.
Posted: February 20, 2017
Narrative
We are bringing this piece to a close. Students will be expected to have their piece typed and printed out before class on Thur. We will start to mark the pieces in class so students will have time to make last minute revisions. See "Writing a Narrative" Powerpoint document
Spelling
Spell-A-Thon - Final Test will be on on Wednesday. See 2017 Spell-A-Thon document
Posted: December 8, 2016
Students should be studying their numbers to 31.
They should be able to
count in French from 1-31.
be able to continue counting to 31 from any given number.
know any number from 1-31 when a number is flashed.
be able to point to any number from 1-31 when the number is called.
We will be making play dough in class next week and students need to bring in a package of jello or kool-aid.
Posted: December 8, 2016
Day 2 of Reading like a Writer has been added to the powerpoint presentation.
Posted: December 7, 2016
Students were introduced to their next book report, "Reading Like a Writer", today. The powerpoint presentation we are using in class has been uploaded and will be updated as we work on it as it's a working document. We will spend about 10 school days on this report so students should divide their book up into chunks so it will be completed on time. This report will be completed as they read.