french – Page 5 – The Yorkie

On February 28th, a nice smell started to come all the way up to the Junior School. What was that? It came from Mira’s kitchen where Mme Céline was baking croissants. It was time for the “Café-Théâtre”, the famous Grade 5 French show that every family looks forward to!

The Grade 5 parents were invited to join their daughters in the Bentley Room, which was turned into a Parisian café with lovely accordion music playing in the background to set the mood. A team of waitresses were ready to serve food and drinks en français before the parents enjoyed watching a play in French called “Un frère pénible” (an annoying brother). It was so much fun for the girls to serve their parents and to see everyone socializing with a bit of French in the air! The girls then surprised their parents by singing “L’oiseau et l’enfant”, an award-winning song about how wonderful the world is. The singing was beautiful and the parents loved it. What a great show! It can’t get better than this beautiful performance. Well… it did! The girls had made a funny Kahoot quiz to test their parents’ French. Kahoot is an interactive and competitive quiz that we use in class for learning. You should have seen the families competing against each other and getting hooked on this game!

Thank you for all the Grade 5 students for making this show so memorable. Hard work always pays off.

Mme Céline

On May 15th and May 25th, the students from Grades 1 to 4 performed their annual French show in the theatre. Our Junior School welcomed parents and friends in French, English, and even Mandarin. The girls had lots of fun showing their families the plays they’ve been working on this year. From “The Three Little Pigs” to the African quest for water, parents traveled by car, boat and spaceship to help Marie find Pierre in Paris or helped Chat Angora find the criminal Mme Rat. There was lots of laughter in the audience since the girls performed with so much characterization and drama. Bravo!

The girls worked so hard all year that we decided to have our very first French Day on June 5th. Students were invited to dress up as a French girl, with Breton striped shirts, red scarves, and “béret” bien sûr! They were welcomed by French accordion music in the morning, with Mme Julie Rousseau dancing at the front door, and most of the students enjoyed going to ChouChou Crepes, the crêpe food truck, to order a crêpe in French and eat it out! There was so much excitement in the air on that day. C’était super!

Thank you for another great year in French, Junior School students! It was lots of fun!

Mme Céline