C'est la vie!
November 03, 2016
Each month, I host an after school club. This club meets once a week for about 30 minutes and we spend time learning all about cultures. Last month, October, we learned all about the French culture!
We started by learning all about French landscape - how it is known for the beautiful flowers and gardens. We learned that a lot of people like to chat, picnic, read, relax, and even paint in the gardens. We learned about once famous painter in particular: Claude Monet, who painted one particular place in France over 200 times!
The next week we learned about the Love Lock Bridge. We then went on a scavenger hunt around our school for love locks. We ended up finding some french chocolate at the end of our hunt!
The 3rd week we learned that each country has their own flag. We then created the French flag. This year we put our flags on popsicle sticks and folded them on the lines so they looked like they were waving.
Here are pictures of the ones we made last year (I apologize it is upside down...the flag's colors are blue, white, then red).
Last year, we did not do the scavenger hunt. Instead, we talked about the shape of each country and made our own shape of France & got to decorate it however we liked - some kids drew flowers, some drew the French flag [correctly ;)], etc!
We then ended our learning adventure by making French nutella & banana crepes. We learned what a crepe is, the different types there are, how they are made, and how to fold a crepe.
Throughout the month we also learned these French words!
- Bonjour - Hello
- Je m'appelle - My name is
- J'adore - I love
- Je voudrais - I would like
- Au revoir - Good bye
- Merci - Thank you
- L'eau - water
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