French Immersion
We got Darcy's first report card last week and had our first term interview with her teacher. The report card was excellent and we were pleased with the interview as well. Darcy seems to be adapting to school very well and is handling the French Immersion very well too. According to the teacher her pronunciation is excellent (although we can't understand what she's trying to say a lot of the time) and she does well switching back and forth between the two languages. When we were driving to the interview though, she was demonstrating some of her French counting skills for us. She asked us, "What's the French word for 'trois'?" She didn't seem to believe us when we told her that trois was the French word, she wanted us to give her a new word.
She also seems to make up French words when she doesn't know what they are. We sometimes sing a song, "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, we're going to the moon" at night before bed. It ends with a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blast off. Darcy has changed that to, "cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un, bloost off" because that, apparently, is French for blast off. Who knew?
The teacher also talked about how Darcy is adapting socially in the class. I was afraid she'd be easily led and just do whatever the other kids told her to do. Her class is mixed with JK's and SK's and the girl she has become good friends with is an SK. The teacher told us that usually when SK's and JK's become friends, the SK is clearly the boss and the JK is the follower but that's not the case with Darcy and Sam. She said their friendship is really equal so that was cool to hear. Mademoiselle didn't have any concerns with Darcy at all and is really pleased with how she's done so far. That makes us happy!
Darcy also got to go to a pizza party for being the top fundraiser in her class in their recent catalogue sales fundraiser. We didn't really do too much with it, I thought most of the parents took them to work and sold for their kids but we only sold to family and our neighbour. It didn't even cross my mind that she'd get to go to the pizza party. They apparently paged down to the office and called her to go down to the staff room for the party so she really thought she was the queen of the world then!
All in all we're thrilled with how Darcy's first term of JK has gone. We've ordered her class pictures and should have them to show you soon.
She also seems to make up French words when she doesn't know what they are. We sometimes sing a song, "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, we're going to the moon" at night before bed. It ends with a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blast off. Darcy has changed that to, "cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un, bloost off" because that, apparently, is French for blast off. Who knew?
The teacher also talked about how Darcy is adapting socially in the class. I was afraid she'd be easily led and just do whatever the other kids told her to do. Her class is mixed with JK's and SK's and the girl she has become good friends with is an SK. The teacher told us that usually when SK's and JK's become friends, the SK is clearly the boss and the JK is the follower but that's not the case with Darcy and Sam. She said their friendship is really equal so that was cool to hear. Mademoiselle didn't have any concerns with Darcy at all and is really pleased with how she's done so far. That makes us happy!
Darcy also got to go to a pizza party for being the top fundraiser in her class in their recent catalogue sales fundraiser. We didn't really do too much with it, I thought most of the parents took them to work and sold for their kids but we only sold to family and our neighbour. It didn't even cross my mind that she'd get to go to the pizza party. They apparently paged down to the office and called her to go down to the staff room for the party so she really thought she was the queen of the world then!
All in all we're thrilled with how Darcy's first term of JK has gone. We've ordered her class pictures and should have them to show you soon.
posted by Sue Matthews at 1:42 PM
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Darcy is very quick with her language skills. It's fun to see how they put it all together.
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