L'ecole

I love the idea of having daughters fluent in French, which will hopefully mean that I am also fluent in French. Kids absorb language so quickly. I'm struggling to remember. Already Kennedy has learned quite a bit, and her accent is very good. It obviously helps to be taught by a native speaker, rather than a mom who took classes oh so many years ago. I'm already dreaming of taking trips to France, Canada, and French Polynesia. I've even looked into a few summer camp opportunities for when they get older. I want them to get the most out of this opportunity. Learn the language, culture, and geography. Push themselves outside of their comfort zones and really experience the world, while learning valuable lessons about themselves.

Study so far:
Week 1
Building community - important school locations, rules and expectations

Oral objectives:
Identify the date and the weather; colors; name and age in a complete sentence; and animals from the book "Ours brun, dis-moi"

Reading objectives:
Read the names of colors and the names of numbers from 0 to 10

Writing objectives:
Write numbers 0 to 10; write "je m'appelle Kennedy, j'ai 6 ans"

Math objectives:
Count up to 10; identify numbers of objects from 0 to 10; match a number name with the correct numerical digit

Week 2
Started the French reading program "Gafi" which introduces new words for a ghost, the window, the chair, the table, the pencil, etc.; identify the syllable 'la'; read "Gafi, tralala, c'est moi"; Understand that a sentence starts with a capital and ends with a dot; write a sentence

Math objectives:
Recognize the number of objects in a patterned arrangement, without counting; add parts to make a sum; understand that numbers can be broken into parts of the whole in different ways; write addition expressions to find the whole, given two parts

She is also getting her first spelling test (in English) on Friday. We decided that the on level words were too easy (am, can, map, ham, hat, man, sat, fan, has, tap), so she has been working on the above level words (hand, mask, glad, spat, sand, land, task, snap, bank, scan, and bonus words Matt and paddle). Her grade will be based on both correct spelling and handwriting, which she is getting very good at. I told her that her writing is much better than some adults...like Uncle Andy. And she loved hearing that! Since he is visiting for a few weeks, she showed him some of her homework, and guess what he said, "Hey, your handwriting is better than mine!"