Chez Renée

I've wanted to participate in celebrating National French Week for several years, but have had difficulty finding the time to plan & prepare.  So this year I decided that I'd try just a few simple ideas just to get myself started.  I began by putting up posters up in the hallways.  My French I students participated by making mini-posters of the flags of the French-speaking world.  Here are some photos. Then I planned and promoted 3 give-aways that the whole high school could participate in.  On Monday, I gave away free croissants and Nutella at lunch.  I was worried that students wouldn't really be interested, but by the time I got to the lunchroom, a crowd was waiting for me, and the croissants were gone in under one minute.  This created quite a buzz in the lunchroom...everyone noticed!  I was very pleased. On Wednesday, I had a raffle to give away some French & Swiss chocolate (2 GIANT Toblerone ba...

I used my friend Jacques (the mannequin) to teach students to describe the weather today!  I had a conversation with him about what the weather was like.  He started out looking like this: Jacques said, "It's nice today"! Then I changed his attire a little and asked him what the weather was like again: Jacques said, "It's cool today". I used a spray bottle filled with water and unexpectedly misted my students with the water as I asked Jacques again what the weather was like. Jacques said, "It's raining". It must be really cold outside, because Jacques' lips are BLUE :). My students look forward to hearing these conversations with Jacques as part of their lesson! I took this picture today when I saw these young ladies walk right over to Jacques to give him a hug as they entered the classroom!