Family Blogging Month :: India

Family Blogging Month is a great way to build an online learning community!

Photo by Mrs. Yollis

Heloise's aunt, Gaelle,  lives in India, and she left us an outstanding comment. She shared some information about that Asian country in a comment: 

In her fabulous comment, Gaelle mentioned Diwali and Mahatma Gandhi. BrainPop offers videos about both Indian topics. 

Diwali Video 

Mahatma Gandhi BrainPop Video

You can also learn about India via 

World Book Online!

Research some facts about India and share with everyone! Remember, do NOT copy sentences! That is plagiarism!  Instead, take notes and put your facts in your won sentences!

Friendship, Blogging, and Learning

This year has been an exciting one! Back in January, Theo joined our class. He and his family moved here from France, and Theo knew very little English. He has made tremendous progress in a few short months! 

Garland by Chloe

Theo and his mom came in recently, and they shared information about France. Here is a photo from their presentation. Notice his classmates from France in the background! After, everyone enjoyed some homemade crepes!

Photo by Mrs. Yollis

Mrs. Yollis has been getting emails for Theo from his friends in France. His French classmates are learning English as well. Here is one of the letters:

Hello Théophie,

How are you? Do you like living in Los Angeles? What's your favourite colour? My favourite colours are blue and purple. What's your favourite animal? My favourite animals are  dolphin , horse and dog. Do you understand everything  in English?

Perrin



We are hoping that Theo's French classmates will leave comments here, and we can correspond on the blog. To correspond is to communicate, usually via letter. However, we will use our comment section! 

Our New French Student!

Today we got a new student! 

Garland by Chloe

Theo is a hard-working boy and quite friendly. What is surprising about our new student is that he does not speak much English. He is from France, so he is fluent in French! 

We've been using Google Translate quite a bit! 

The students welcomed Theo with smiles and posters!

Some students worked with Theo in the library teaching him phonics. Today the focus was long a.

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How did you help Theo today?

Use World Book Online to compare France and America.

If you use Google Translate to write to Theo, be sure to copy and paste both languages in your comment.