Language Workshop

June 24, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends!

I can't believe it's the end of the school year! I'm so glad we got to explore French and other languages together this year, even if we had to spend these last few months apart.

Here are two final posts for you with some ways to review what we did this year and to continue to explore French and other languages and cultures over the summer:

Final wrap-up & review post for general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127

Final wrap-up & review post for DLP classes K-129 & K-131

I wish you all a wonderful summer! I can't wait to see you all as 1st Graders in the fall -- wow!

Love,

Ms. Patterson

June 17, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends!

As a reminder, this week is another chance for you to review your most recent lessons, which are linked again below here. I am hoping to hear from more of you this week about your experiences with the lesson!

Here are the links again to your most recent lessons, which are differentiated:

For the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 : here is the link to your most recent lesson exploring some greetings in Spanish.

For DLP classes K-129 and K-131: here is the link to your most recent lesson exploring a famous picture book in French.

Also please see below another video preview of each of these lessons. I hope these will encourage you to check out the lessons and to use the Google Forms linked in the lessons to share your thoughts with me when you're ready. You are also welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. Please don't be shy to share just a few brief thoughts with me via the Forms or email -- I just love hearing how my students felt about the lessons!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

Students in the DLP classes will listen to a famous story that shows the life cycle of a caterpillar in their lesson.

Students in the the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 will hear this song in a new language in their lesson. Do you know this song in English or another language?

June 10, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends! Here are the links to your newest lessons, which are again differentiated this week:

For the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 : here is the link to your newest lesson exploring some greetings in Spanish.

For DLP classes K-129 and K-131: here is the link to your newest lesson exploring a famous picture book in French.

Also please see below for a video preview of each of these lessons.

Once again, these will be your lessons for the next two weeks, so please feel free to take your time to explore the activities and use the Google Forms linked in the lessons to share your thoughts with me when you're ready. You are also welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. Please don't be shy to share just a few brief thoughts with me via the Forms or email -- I just love hearing how my students felt about the lessons!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

Here is the book that students in the DLP classes K-129 and K-131 will explore in their lesson.

Greer - La chenille qui fait des trous.mov

Here is what you will learn to do in the lesson for the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127.

June 2, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends!

This week I am excited to be seeing many of you for our last live sessions of Language Workshop for the year! Konstella messages with the dates, times, and Google Meet information have been sent to all classes, but in case you need this information, please don't hesitate to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com.

Here are the links again to your most recent lessons, which are differentiated:

For the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 : here is the link to your most recent lesson exploring the flags of the world.

For DLP classes K-129 and K-131: here is the link to your most recent lesson exploring a famous and fun French song.

I'm also including below a video preview of each of these lessons -- I hope these previews will inspire you to check out the entire lesson post!

Remember that you can use the Google Forms linked in the lesson posts to share your thoughts and work with me when you're ready, or you are welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. I can't wait to hear from you!

I'd also like to let you all know about an extra post I made for all of you as a reminder of our first "French surprise" that most of the classes earned before we left school. If you might like to watch Le ballon rouge again, or see it for the first time in case you missed it, you can see it here!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

Here is a preview of the most recent lesson for the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127.

Greer - Loup, loup, y es-tu ?.mov

Here is a preview of the most recent lesson for the DLP classes K-129 and K-131.

May 26, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends! I am excited to be planning live sessions once again with your classes next week! Please be on the lookout for messages on Konstella soon with a specific time. I would love for you to join me for some fun activities in French, and maybe some other languages, too!

Here are the links to your newest lessons, which are differentiated this week:

For the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 : here is the link to your newest lesson exploring the flags of the world.

For DLP classes K-129 and K-131: here is the link to your newest lesson exploring a famous and fun French song.

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

May 19, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends!

As a reminder, this week is another chance for you to review the most recent lesson, which is linked again here. I am hoping to hear from more of you this week about your experience with American Sign Language in this lesson!

I'm including below another video preview of the lesson of what you might be able to do by the end of the lesson.

Remember that you can use the Google Form linked here below and in the lesson post to share your thoughts and work with me when you're ready, or you are welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. I can't wait to hear from you!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

May 12, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends! It was great to hear from more of you last week about the languages you explored on the Hello Atlas. Many of you said that repeating the new words in other languages was a challenge! It's true -- learning new words with new sounds can often be hard -- but I'm happy to hear that it sounds like many of you enjoyed this little trip around the world!

Here is the link to your newest lesson, which again is for all of you, as a way to introduce you to ASL, or American Sign Language. Do you know anything about this language? I'm including below here a little video preview for you of an app you can download to learn many signs in ASL. Take a look at the lesson to see even more ways to learn about ASL!

Once again, this will be your lesson for the next two weeks, so please feel free to take your time to explore the activities and use the Google Form linked here, in the lesson, and below to share your thoughts with me when you're ready. You are also welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. I can't wait to hear from you!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

May 5, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends!

As a reminder, this week is another chance for you to review the most recent lesson, which is linked again here. I was so excited to hear from some of you about the languages you heard around the world:

Theo in K-127 listened to Portuguese, Spanish, and French. He said he loves to learn new languages!

Logan in K-129 listened to many different languages around the world, and he saw some French writing at the bakery in the neighborhood.

Zoe in K-131 learned how to say "I love you" in Danish: "Jeg elsker dig."

Dharshika in K-111 listened to Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu.

Zev in K-115 listened to Spanish, Yoruba, Oromo, and Amharic.

Orlan in K-131 listened to French, English, Cambodian, and Portuguese.

I'm hoping to hear from more of you this week!

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

April 28, 2020

Bonjour Kindergarten friends! It has been so wonderful getting to have live sessions with you over the last couple of weeks. It makes me so happy to get to see your faces and to speak some French with you! I am looking forward to planning more live sessions in the future.

Here is the link to your newest Language Workshop lesson, which is the same for all of you this time, to invite all of you to explore languages other than French around the world. This will be your lesson for the next two weeks, so please feel free to use the time available to you as a family to explore the many resources in the lesson. When you are ready, please use the Google Form linked on the post and included here below on this page to share your thoughts and work with me. You are also welcome to email me at ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. I can't wait to hear from you!

Below also is a little video preview of the lesson ...

Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

April 20, 2020

Bonjour ! Kindergarten friends, I am planning live Language Workshop sessions for each class this week and next. Please be on the lookout for messages via Konstella about the timing and a link to a Google Meet. I hope you will be able to join me. It will be so exciting to see you!

For the past few weeks, I have not received responses to lessons from many students, so I decided not to post a new lesson this week. I would like to encourage you to take the time to work on the past lessons, and use the information included to share the work you're doing at home with me. Please scroll down to see links to past lessons. There are Forms to fill out, or Folders to upload to with every lesson. You are also most welcome to share your work with me via email if that's easiest: ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com. Most of all, I just want to hear how you're doing!

Also, please don't be afraid to give the lessons a try! Even if French is new to you, I have tried in each lesson to give you the resources you need to do the activities. You might even have fun doing the lessons :D

I will be posting a new lesson next week.

I hope you and your families are all well and safe, and I hope to hear from you soon!

Ms. Patterson

April 13, 2020

Bonjour ! This week, during what was supposed to be our spring break, the specialty teachers and I have created a bingo board of activities for you to choose from. Have fun and enjoy the week! Au revoir !

Ms. Patterson

Specialty Bingo Board

April 7, 2020

Bonjour ! to my Kindergarten friends. Ça va ?

This week, as many of us are celebrating holidays, I wanted to give you a short activity that might allow you to discuss the languages and cultures of your family and friends you may be connecting with virtually this week.

Also, if you have time this week or next, I would like to encourage you to take a look at the last two distance lessons in case you may have missed them, or to review some of the blog posts for your classes from earlier in the year.

For the general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127

Here are the links to the most recent distance lesson, and the one before that.

Here is a link to all of the blog posts for your classes so far this year with content you can review if you like.

For DLP classes K-129 and K-131:

Here are the links to the most recent distance lesson, and the one before that.

Here is a link to all of the blog posts for your classes so far this year with content you can review if you like.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me! Please also feel free to pass along any photos or videos of work you've done at home. I absolutely LOVE getting to see the work you're doing at home!

Ms. Patterson

April 3, 2020

Bravo ! to Liam L. in K-127 for making these beautiful collections of numbers up to 10 in French.

If you have any work to share with me, I would love to see it! There are usually instructions on each blog post about where you can post photos or videos, but you can also email them to me if that's easiest : ms.patterson.ps58@gmail.com

April 1, 2020

Bonjour ! to all of my Kindergarten friends. I learned last week that I cannot embed my blog posts on this Page, so I'm going to keep things simple from here on and just give you the blog post links to follow for each class. Ah, the wonders of technology!

Distance learning for week of March 30:

Post for general-education and ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127 with a read-aloud and activity in French about animals and colors

Post for DLP classes K-129 and K-131 with a read-aloud in French and differentiated activities for anglophones and francophones

Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me! I hope you and your families are all well and safe.

Ms. Patterson

March 31, 2020

Bravo ! to Leah in K-129, Ms. Julie's class, for making these sweet videos to teach some French words to our little friend Emma, who is still learning French in Paris. Do you know these words, too? Do you know any other words to share with her? You can upload any more videos or drawings with French words for her in this Google Drive folder.

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March 25, 2020

Bonjour ! Here are the first distance lessons for my Kindergarten friends. First is the lesson for my FFL students, for students in general-education & ICT classes K-101, K-111, K-113, K-115, and K-127. Take a look at my blog post here . After doing the activities, please feel free to add photos of your work in this Google Drive Folder. I can't wait to see what you did this week!

Love,

Ms. Patterson

P.S. For Kindergarten DLP classes, please keep scrolling down ...

March 25, 2020

Bonjour ! to my Kindergarten DLP friends in K-129 and K-131. Take a look at the blog post here for your first distance-learning lesson. After doing the activities, please feel free to add photos or videos in this Google Drive Folder. Emma and I can't wait to see what you did this week!

Bisous,

Mademoiselle Patterson

March 22, 2020

Bonjour ! to my Kindergarten friends. I hope you are all well and safe. I miss you! Before we officially begin distance learning, please feel free to use this link to the latest post on my Language Workshop blog, where you can find other posts about things we did together so far this year, which you can review at home. You can also see a little message from me and a special friend!

Later this week I will be posting the first distance lessons for you.

A bientôt !

Ms. Patterson