French Class Update

Welcome to the French Class.

The children have studied Chapter 3 of the book, which emphasizes on activities during and after school. This chapter also focused on identify and shop for school supplies, talk about what you don’t do, tell what you and others like or don’t like and discuss school in France.
On the structure side of the language, we review the regular form of verbs that end with “..er” such as parler, ecouter and aimer. The children learned how to conjugate them in singular and plural sentences. We also learned about how to construct a negative sentence in French and how to construct a sentence with two verbs when discussing like and dislike things.



The cultural side of the lesson talked about a typical day of a French student as well as students working in Canada and the United States. The video emphasizes on a student buying supplies in a bookstore in Paris.



Merci et à Bientôt

Madame Amice
French Specialist
 

Spanish Class Update

¡Nieve, por favor!

Happy 2012! The new year and a new season provide the backdrop for many lessons, especially in the Early Childhood program.  Students will be creating their own snowmen and reading the classic Jack Keats book Un día de nieve.  The Pre-Kindergarten class continues to work on the book Oso Pardo and will soon discuss opposite words.  Junior Kindergarteners will begin a unit based on the book La vaca que decía oink (The cow who said oink) and will create puppets to aid their acquisition of key vocabulary presented in the book.  Students in Senior Kindergarten are also discussing the farm and animals found on farms and will soon begin the study of Gallinita Roja (The Little Red Hen).

First Grade is working diligently on a unit on clothing and will be “dressing” frogs in ropa de invierno  to accompany the book Froggy se viste (Froggy Gets Dressed).  After completion of the unit, students will begin a unit on food.  Second and Third Grade students are completing units on telling time and numbers in Spanish.  In the coming weeks, students will embark on a study of weather and collaborate for a class forecast. 

Students in Fourth and Fifth grade are putting the finishing touches on their family trees and showcasing their acquisition of the relevant vocabulary by presenting their trees to the class.  Both classes will begin a unit on adjectives and focus on those words that describe themselves as well as their families.  The Sixth Graders are nearing completion of their menus in our food unit and will then participate in a mock restaurant scene.
 

 

  
Senorita Chasteen
Spanish Teacher

  
 

 

Meet Anne-Chantal Amice, French Specialist
 

Anne has been teaching foreign language at Rohan Woods School since 2005, first teaching both Spanish and French, and today concentrating purely on French with the upper grade students. With nearly five years of teaching experience, Anne excels at immersing her students not only in the French language but also the cultures who use it. In her spare time, Anne loves to travel. She holds a Masters in Business Administration.

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Meet Cynthia Chasteen, Spanish Specialist
 

Cynthia Chasteen has been teaching at Rohan Woods School since 2007. Her classroom style is lively and involved and helps children to fully immerse themselves in not only the Spanish language, but also the Spanish culture. In her spare time, Cynthia enjoys staying active through various fitness pursuits including lifting weights, boxing, running, and cycling. When she's not in the gym, she loves to read. Cynthia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Auburn University and her Masters in Education, a certificate in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from University of Missouri - St. Louis and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Teaching and Learning Processes at University of Missouri - St. Louis.

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French & Spanish Curriculum
 

The Rohan Woods Language Program relies on four basic tools for second language acquisition: dialogue, games, flash cards, and textbooks. The flash cards have pictures which represent subjects, verbs, objects, adverbs, and adjectives which are designed to introduce vocabulary and allow students to create their own sentences, and eventually, full stories. The texts allow students to practice sentences using the vocabulary that was mastered using flash cards. The dialogue practice and games allow students to speak with each other. Mastery of concepts is measured primarily through teacher observation, short quizzes, and the ability to respond using the target language.

  
 
 
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