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Bonjour tout le monde, Welcome back to Term 3- this term in French lessons, children are learning with French poems from the SAFTA French Poetry Competition. We are reading, translating, unpacking, illustrating, and re-writing the poems, with the aim of memorisation and a focus on pronunciation. Children have the option and are encouraged to enter the SAFTA Poetry Competition, the best from each year level category Paringa Park will be chosen to enter the State competitions. All children also have the opportunity to participate in the Paringa Park Poetry Art Competition- where they illustrate their French poem in their own time or at French Club. The top 2 from each year level category will be displayed in the school at the end of Term 3. Children can collect extra copies of their poems from me in the library before school. Penpals This term, the Year 7 classes have become PenPals with students from Collège Saint-Joseph de Cluny, Nouméa, New Caledonia. We will be taking it in turns writing in French and in English, focusing on simple sentence and verb structures. With our first letters being sent next week- we are looking forward to getting to know our new New Caledonian friends. Livres d’Information Last term some Middle Years classes learned about, and how to describe animals in French. To the end of the term, LA1-1, LA1-2, LA1-10, and LA3-2 wrote their own French information reports, which we published and are now available for the school community to read in the Library. Come and have a look! French Reading Challenge The French Reading Challenge is still going on- Congratulations to those students who have already completed it. If you need new record sheets, they are available in the library. Reading is one of the best ways to learn any language- and we have a wonderful collection of French picture books and comics, as well as our own published information reports. |
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