Mme. Girouard

I encourage students to use dictionaries such as Larousse.

I understand it is easier to look up the word online. Google translate does not work well, please don’t use it as a resource.

A great dictionary/translating website is : http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/anglais-francais

A great website to correct written work in French and point out what needs to be modified or changed is : http://bonpatron.com/en/

We are starting to work on a video project.

Students have chosen their own groups for this.

The project will be paused for a couple of classes once all the penpal letters are given in and corrected (they were due BEFORE March Break so please hand it in ASAP if you haven’t). They will write out their good copy once they receive their corrected letters from me and we will send it off to the other school.

We will then keep working on this video project as the other school is writing their replies to our letters.

Here is more information on the video project: https://mmegirouard.com/grade-5/grade-5-projects/creating-a-video/

Pen pal letters are due tomorrow. Please have your copy stapled to the checklist before you hand it in.

I’ve posted a sample pen pal letter and checklist HERE

We found a school to write to for pen pals!! Very exciting! I will post more information on this very soon!

The drafts (best copy) is due to me Friday March 13 2015. I will correct them during March Break and we will write the good copy to send to the school the week we are back.

As I started to explain that there might not be an equal amount of boys and girls in the other class so they might write to someone of the opposite sex, we got into a discussion on gender. We started talking about how it was ok for boys to like pink and purple and girls can do whatever sports they want.

The students shared amazing stories and comments!

We also got into the subject of bullying and cyber bullying, although it wasn’t what I had planned for that class it was such a valuable lesson!! We explained how if there’s a problem and someone is bullying you, you should ask for help.
Also if someone asks you for help you should try to help them and if you can’t help them or don’t know what to do then you should tell them to talk to someone about it like a parent or a teacher.

We also went over how it’s not nice to write mean comments online, that it hurts people’s feelings.
If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say it.

Conversations like this make my job so valuable and I am so grateful for it!! I will have this conversation with 5-1 as well because it was a very valuable class.

We watched this video:

We’re almost ready to write our penpal letters!! I’ve been calling schools to arrange an exchange of letters.

The students have been looking at questions such as (Feel free to practice asking and answering them!) :

1. Combien de personnes est-ce qu’il y a dans ta famille?
2. Qui est dans ta famille ?
3. Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire à l’école ?
4. Quelle est ta matière préférée ?
5. Quel est ton passe-temps ?
6. Quel est ton sport favori ?

When we get to letter writting a great site to edit work is : http://bonpatron.com/

We have finished the reading unit of “Le Hibou Savant”. We are now learning/going over (from last year) the verbe Avoir and Etre in the present tense. We will also see simple ER verbs such as the verb Aimer.

The students will be evaluated on this in a quiz, (UPDATE- I have cancelled the quiz for now and expect them to use the verbs in context in their penpal letters) they will also use these verbs to create a letter (more details on this coming later- first we will learn the verbs and reinforce their use).

Here are a few videos on Avoir and Etre to start:

Verbe Avoir et Etre (simple):

Verbe Avoir:

Verbe Etre:

Un rappel que la page d’extra est due demain, mercredi le 4 février.

A reminder the extra page is due tomorrow, Wednesday February 4th.

After this we are done the reading unit for “Le hibou savant”.

A huge congratulations goes out to our very own principal Ms. Sahai who was named one of Canada’s outstanding principals!!

Congratulations Ms. Sahai!

Read the article on the Halton District website here:

http://www.hdsb.ca/Newsroom/Pages/AlkaSahainamedoneofCanada%E2%80%99soutstandingprincipals.aspx

We often use question words and sentences in class during activities such as super prof and in daily conversations.

Please practice this at home and review this for class.

I will also put this under the “Extra” tab.

“Question words” en français

Qui – Who

Quoi – What

Où – Where

Quand – When

Pourquoi – Why

Comment – How

Quel – Which (what)

Qu’est-ce que- What is/what does

*Par-ce que- Because

Exemples:

Exemples de tout les jours:

Question: Qui veut aller voir un film avec moi? (Who would like to see a movie with me)

Réponse: _________ aimerais voir un film avec toi.

Question: Quoi??? (What)

Réponse: J’ai dit ____________________.

Question: Quand vas-tu finir de lire? (When will you finish reading)

Réponse: Je vais finir de lire en __________ minutes/heures.

Question: Pourquoi aimes-tu les chiens? (Why do you like dogs)

Réponse: J’aime les chiens *par-ce qu’ils sont _________________.

Question: Comment t’appelles-tu? (What’s your name – informal)

Réponse: Je m’appelle _________.

Question: Quel est ta couleur préféré? (Which/what is your favorite colour)

Réponse: Ma couleur préféré est le ______________.

Question: Qu’est-ce que c’est? (What is it)

Réponse: C’est un/une_____________.

Exemples de questions avec une histoire:

Question: Qui sont les personnages principales de l’histoire? (Who are the main characters of the story?)

Réponse: Les personnages principales de l’histoire sont_________________________.

Question: Où ce passe l’histoire? (Where does the story take place)

Réponse: L’histoire ce passe __________________________.

Question: Quand est-ce que l’histoire prend place? (When does the story take place)

Réponse: L’histoire ce passe_____________________.

Question: Pourquoi est-ce que tu aimes l’histoire? Pourquoi n’aimes-tu pas l’histoire?
(Why do you like or not like the story)

Réponse: J’aime l’histoire par-ce que ___________. Je n’aime pas l’histoire par-ce que____________.

Question: Quel est ton personnage préféré? (Which is your favorite character)

Réponse: Mon personnage préféré est __________________________.

(Quoi and comment are more specific to the context so it is harder to find a general question for them)