*Summer’s coming! / L’ été s’en vient!

*Let’s go to the park! / Allons au parc!

*I love being outdoors! / J’adore être dehors!

The sun’s shining ! – Il fait du soleil !

Let’s play outside ! – Jouons dehors !

Let’s skip rope! – Sautons à la corde !

I’m the kind of person who takes each day as it comes – rain or shine! Here are some French expressions for this rainy time of year!

It’s raining – Il pleut

An umbrella – un parapluie

A raincoat – un imperméable

A rain puddle – un flaque d’eau

Spring = le printemps

Joy ! = la joie !

Flowers are growing = les fleurs poussent

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Easter = Pâques (“qu” sounds like “k” and the “s” is silent)

Easter eggs = des oeufs de Pâques

Easter lily = le lys de Pâques (here, we do pronounce the “s” in lys)

Happy Easter ! = Joyeuse Pâques !

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2013 by nancy kelly.

Since I was a child, one of my favourite times of year is the March thaw – a sunny day when snow and ice is melting, when it’s time to head out to a local conservation area, walk a bit in the woods, stand by an open fire and purchase some fresh maple syrup – then it’s home for pancakes, with syrup on top!

*Maple syrup – le sirop d’érable

*Pancakes – les crêpes

*The snow is melting! – la neige fond!

Techniques for primary French immersion children to practice counting from 1 – 100 “en français” can vary greatly! Individual number cards, groups-of-10 number strips, a 1-100 pocket chart, “what number is missing?” exercises and counting diagonally – all these approaches increase flexibility with counting.

One exercise I do when I observe a certain readiness point in a student is to have him add 10 or subtract 10 to a number I call out.

Recently, when doing the “add 10” exercise, one little boy stopped, looked at me and said “but Mme Nancy, as soon as you call out a number, I know the answer, because it’s 10 more!!” This was his aha ! moment! and my response to him? “Bravo!!” of course!!