le mardi 14 septembre

        Aujourd'hui c'est le mardi 14 septembre 2010. Il pleut. C'est nuageux. Joe pense que c'est 10 dégrées C. Tim pense que c'est 9 dégrées C. Dom pense que c'est 12 dégrées C. Il ne fait pas soleil. C'est 11 dégrées C. Dom et Joe sont les plus proches.
Merci pour regarder le blog de Mme Chiasson. Nous avons Eden Brent qui vient jouer de la musique à notre école.

Le lundi 13 septembre 2010

C'est le lundi 13 septembre 2010. C'est nuageux et il fait froid. Il fait un peu soleil. Tim pense que c'est 10 dégrées. Sonique pense que c'est 16 dégrées. Austin et Marissa pensent que c'est 12 dégrées. Shawna pense que c'est 9 dégrées. C'est 8 dégrées! Shawna est la plus proche. Aujourd'hui c'est la fête a Kayla. On a les arts aujourd'hui.

Message du jour

C'est le vendredi 10 septembre 2010. C'est nuageux. Il ne fait pas chaud, il ne fait pas froid, c'est au milieu. Nous sommes fantastiques! Jacob pense que c'est 12 dégrées, Jamie pense que c'est 13 dégrées, Sonique pense que c'est 16 dégrées. Jamie est correct! La fête de Kayla est en trois jours. Demain est la dernière journée de la FREX. Bonne fin de semaine!

La classe de français

Aujourd'hui c'est le jeudi 9 septembre 2010. Il fait soleil. C'est nuageux. Shawna pense que c'est 16 dégrées. Jamie pense que c'est 10 dégrées. Austin pense que c'est 13 dégrées. C'est 15 dégrées. Shawna est la plus proche. Fantastique! Jacob, Dom, Richard et Kayla ont des fêtes en septembre. Bonne fête!

Bienvenue aux élèves

We've had our first two days together as a class. We've been talking a lot about expectations for our classroom and how the students feel about starting Intensive French. Many are nervous, a few are excited. We also worked on how to silent read in French when they don't have the vocabulary knowledge to read many of the books in our classroom library. We talked about the three ways to read a book, read the words, re-tell a story you already know or read the pictures. They did amazingly with this and were able to build up their silent reading stamina to 10 minutes today. I am so proud of them. The first day they made it to 6 minutes and we plan to build it up slowly, just as a runner builds up stamina to run longer distances.

We've also come up with classroom responsibilities that will change weekly, including, eventually, we will have one student in charge of updating our blog.

Tomorrow will be our first day entirely in French. They did well with the French activities that we've done so far and I feel they will do great. We will be updating from our classroom with a few phrases that we will be working on tomorrow.

Video

Things are moving along. Another day of schedule changes but everything seems to be working now. Today we have a staff meeting in the morning and I will take the rest of the day getting everything organized and ready for Tuesday. I will most likely be in over the weekend as well. We're meant to get a lot of rain this weekend from hurricane Earl which will hopefully break this heat wave.

I took a video this morning of my classroom set up just as a test video to see how it looks on the blog. I'm proud of how my classroom is coming together. It looks so much brighter and better than when I first came in. Enjoy.

I hope to be able to post videos as well as pictures of my students' presentations. I've been learning a lot over the last few weeks about 21st Century learning and how our students differ from students of the past and how our teaching needs to change with them. I hope that by giving my students a place to post their work and get real world feedback, that will encourage them to strive for excellence.