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Welcome back! Bienvenue!

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Bonjour chers parents!

Welcome back dear parents and kids. I am thrilled to have the  opportunity to teach your kiddos again this year. For those who do not know me yet,my name is Efi Mouchou and I will be the French teacher this year. I am Greek and my husband is a Greek diplomat. As a diplomat’s wife, I have the opportunity to travel around the world, work in different settings and enrich my life in so many ways. I have worked in both elementary and middle school, teaching English, French and preparing students for exams such as Delf and Cambridge. I love challenging my students with realistic goals; my motto is that every child can thrive as long as he or she feels genuinely loved and safe.
So let’s all embark on a wonderful journey of learning and growth with your children!!!!!
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A peek into grade 2

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Alors les amis, we celebrated la Francophonie. There are  thousands of reasons why we love the french language: it is smooth, rich, and flowing: we love speaking french because, with its nasal vowels and melodious intonation, it sounds very musical to a non-native ear. We want to learn French because it is also called the language of love, cooking, fashion, theater, visual arts, dance, and architecture.

During la francofête at our school, we had the pleasure to admire all the students from JK-grade 8 sing, dance, act, and recite poems in french!!!! All the teachers worked hard to make that happen. The students were proud of themselves, and their energy and passion were evident throughout the afternoon. During the week of the francophonie, we read books, heard stories, watched movies, played games, learned the ten magic words, and tasted french treats. Our students enjoyed singing the song “Je fais des sports” along with grade 3 and brought such a Ruach! Since the topic of this year’s francophonie was”Sports”, we did a lot of writing activities related to sports using a lot of verbs and new words.We also learnt the countries where French is spoken. We regularly practice and review the sounds but the kids need to read on a daily basis in order to increase their confidence and improve their fluency.

  

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Learning French is so much fun!

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Salut les parents!

These 2 weeks we continued with our complex sounds. We have covered already ON,OM  and the students always read in class the words and sentences,make their own phrases with the vocabulary plus other useful expressions and verbs like  EST and do syllable recognition and spell the words.We continue with School vocabulary,meanwhile we revise the days,months and seasons of the year.In class I work with each one of them separately with the aim of assessing their reading and writing skills and identify the areas that need further improvement.The students benefit a great deal from Reading Buddies because not only do they read to each other but they also write some sentences and new words.At the end they always play Blooket revising every time the vocabulary taught during that period.The highlight of these 2 weeks was during Orange Dress Day when the kids learnt how to say in french”Every child matters””Chaque enfant compte”, Terry Fox Day when the kids explained why Terry is their hero and  of course our Communication buddies with older grades when my amazing grade 2 have the chance to practice short dialogues that we have prepared in advance.Talk,talk and more talk in French.Enjoy the pictures and the videos.

IMG_6275 Terry fox video

IMG_6288 (1)Chaque enfant compte

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Le printemps est ici!

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The last two weeks have been full of meaningful learning at the OJCS. We learned C’est and Ce sont. We learned where fruits and vegetables grow; on the trees, above the ground, and below the ground. The kids made presentations about what their families adore, aime, n’aime pas, et déteste. We celebrated the 75th anniversary of Israel by working in different stations, cutting veggies for the pitas and the falafel, and dancing traditional dances. Finally, they worked so responsibly on the project: Mon animal idéal. The students chose or made up their favorite animal. They described its appearance, character, its needs, and its talents. The presentations will take place on Tuesday the 2nd. During reading buddy time with grade 8 on Friday, the children talked with their buddies about their animals and made a list with eight adjectives. I am always impressed by their ability to switch from French to Hebrew and vice versa every time I walk into the class. At the beginning of the school year, I felt like the odd duck out, but now learning another language( I am already trilingual) is just a BEAUTIFUL thing!!!!!