Following our visit from Le Van du Livre on Monday, students have shown an interest in Les BDs in French (les bandes dessinées- comic strips). In the library we have access to a small collection, including Tintin and Les Schtroumpfs, that can be borrowed by students. The website Bandgee is also another place to find French comics, both digitally, and in TV show form. Watching, reading and listening to French language is an under-used medium of language learning within Australian homes. Many students have access to YouTube and Netflix, and can easily search French series' and songs to watch, as well as movies and TV series they already know. By exposing students to French audio, they will begin to recognise known and regularly used words, pick up accurate accents, and generally become more confident language learners. www.bandgee.com/schtroumpfs Week 4 Term 2
On Monday this week we were visited by Anne and Jacques from Le Van du Livres (The French Book Van). They had come from Perth and arrived bright and early with their School Bus-size van, and set up under the COLA between the Library and the Gym. Anne and Jacques worked with each class for a short amount of time, introducing familiar (Devine Combien Je T'aime/Guess How Much I Love You) and new texts (Saute!/Jump!), some French favourites (Tintin, Les Schtroumpfs/The Smurfs) and sang some songs (L'araignee Gipsy/Incy Wincy Spider). After school the community had the opportunity to purchase French books , and we added a few new ones to the school French book collection. Come and check them out in the library- they will be ready for borrowing in Week 5! They were very impressed with the engagement of Paringa Park children, and thanked the school for inviting them to visit us. Next they are off to Melbourne to visit some more schools. www.frenchbooksonwheels.org/ In Week 2, 6 classes took the train to the Art Gallery of South Australia to see the Colours of Impressionism Exhibition. They had a guided tour of masterpieces that have come all the way from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot, Pissarro and Cézanne. They got to spend an hour working on their own artistic worlds, in the Studio, and exploring the Divided Worlds Biennial Exhibition. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/NowShowing/Colours_of_Impressionism |
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