French Club Fun

This year's French Club met for the first time this week. Each student, inspired by an Impressionist painting, decorated a wooden Eiffel Tower. Next week, after finishing touches have been made, these creative projects will be on display in the Lower School. Quels artistes!

French Cousins

For the third year in a row, French cousins of a Calvert family visit one of our French classes. It is always such a treat to see them and, as usual, they brought des biscuits délicieux (some delicious cookies) for everyone. Students got to hear them speak French and some students asked them questions in French. The cousins have an American mother and a French father so they are truly bilingual. Hope to see you again cousins!

First Game of the Season

10th Agers are gearing up for a fierce competition of French vocabulary words. Using their memory skills, players recall and catagorize French words learned from past years. Catagories include: food, places, family members, colors, clothing, and body parts. Here's to a great season!

Couleurs

Students may have been seeing purple but they were also learning lots of color words. 7th Age students new to French this year eagerly practice writing: bleu, rouge, jaune, vert, brun, rose, violet, and orange.

Brring, brring

Quel est ton numéro de téléphone? (What's your phone number?) 8th Age students learn to write and recite their telephone numbers in French. A fun way to review numbers: zéro, un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, ...

A Dog at Calvert?!

Meet Pepé, Madame Cooke's French dog. And, yes, as a few clever 7th Age students have pointed out, he is a puppet! But not to worry - he is a real puppet. Pepé loves to meet new students. He is very shy and only knows French so the students must speak to him using their softest, sweetest French voices so that he will come out of his basket. Pepé loves to hear all about what the students are learning in class. Sometimes, though, he is très fatigué (very tired) from watching too much télévision!

Begin Your Day With French!

The new school year is off to a great start with 10th Age students eagerly lining up for Madame Cooke's weekly challenge. Each morning (except for Tuesdays) from 8:00 to 8:30, students are welcome to stop by the French classroom to try their best at the challenge of the week. If successful, they will receive a French sticker to add to their collection. Weekly challenges will include topics covered in class. This week: a refresher for summer brains ... numbers and letters.