National French Week 2014
Bonjour! It's been a while since I've blogged because I've been even busier than usual with life at school. This fall I decided to go ALL OUT celebrating National French Week! I was able to do this thanks to the fact that I now have a colleague teaching middle school French, and we worked together! We met over the summer to brainstorm. We chose the top 5 reasons that students at our school should study French. Then we figured out how to get these reasons outside of our classrooms in as many ways as possible. I live in Michigan in the Detroit area. Here are our top 5 reasons to learn French: French is the official language of approximately 50 countries . (I have found over the years that very few people understand this. We French teachers should be shouting it from the mountain tops! In fact, while we were putting up our display, two parents stopped to observe and told us they had no idea that this was the case!) ...