Some people want to know what the euro looks like.  This is a sampling of the bills.  I had trouble getting the pictures of the coins to upload.

Imagine you are in a French speaking country this week, somewhere that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving.  It’s an American holiday, after all, so you wouldn’t expect other countries to celebrate.  Woud you miss celebrating Thanksgiving?  If so, what would you miss most of all?

If you had unlimited funds and could go to any francophone place in the world, what is the first place you would visit?  Why?

Ok, now that we know why so many of you like French, what is your most FAVORITE part of learning French?  Is there something special we do in class that you love?  Were you excited the first time you could say something you always wanted to know how to say?  Do you get excited when you see something new in French and you can actually understand some of it?

I just learned about a really cool site where you can record yourself speaking French and then I can hear it !  I created just one example so go try it http://lingtlanguage.com/frenchymms  Make sure you submit it at the end- you don’t have to have an email address.  Just use your first name and that should be fine.  For this one, you can have extra credit but eventually, you will have to do this kind of thing as an assignment!

We’re about to create our first video to share with our French friends in Mme. Kolendo’s class in France!  In 7th grade, we are working on schedules, favorite classes, etc. and that is the same thing she is working on with her students in English!  She’s going to have her students make a video to send to us and we’re going to work on one for them!  Let’s see how much French you can speak! Have you checked out her blogs in my blogroll?  Look on the right side, toward the bottom.

6th grade- we’ll work on something later in the year, when the students who have chosen French are with me for good in terms 3 and 4.

8th grade- we’re working on something for you too!

Since I created this blog for my students, today I thought maybe I’d find out what you want from it.  What do you want to see?  How can this blog help you?  What should I get rid of or add?

I’ve had 5000 visitors to my site since last spring!  This year, my students have been very active with posting and viewing the website.  If you have a blog of your own, let me know so I can link it to mine!

I’m sorry to say that 6th grade students are not invited on the Québec City trip.  This is a 7th and 8th grade trip.  It gives you something to look forward to next year!  I’m so happy to hear the positive comments from students who went last year.  I know they loved it but seeing it in print means a lot to me!

Some students turned in work that they say they worked on together, and the answers were identical.  The papers were math related and they had to do the math to solve a puzzle at the end.  THese students not only had the same correct answers but they also had the same incorrect answer.  People don’t usually make the same computation errors when solving basic math problems, so it is obvious that one student did the work and the other just copied, not realizing the answers were wrong.  Why do you think this bothers me?  What do you think about this?