Research shows that if students do not participate in "review" activities for at least 2-3 hours per week, children can lose some of of the progress and skills they have gained throughout the academic year. If possible, maintaining daily French usage in reading, writing, speaking and listening will help your child be ready for grade 2. If you would like some ideas for practice, please see below for multiple options to help your child keep their skills sharp! :)
French:
-Daily Calendar: Each morning, tell your parents how you are feeling (Comment ça va?) and why. Try to help everyone in your family describe this in French at the breakfast or dinner table!
-Review the month, date, season, year etc in French each day (when you wake up or before bed)
-Weekly or daily journal: Describe your day, describe a picture, describe a book you've read, talk about a family vacation, talk about a play date with a friend... etc This is great for printing practice, and proper sentence formation (Parents: be sure to reinforce capital letters, spaces between words, writing on the line and using punctuation)
-Find opportunities to gain new vocabulary: help write out the grocery list in French, describe all the items you need to go camping in French, write about the items of clothing (type and colour) you are wearing today in French.
-Reading! Visit your local library, and find some French books, google French poems ("comptines") for kids, watch read alouds of French children's stories on youtube.
-Listen to the stories below to review letter sounds and combinations. Before grade two they should know: A, E, I, O, U, ER/É/ET/EI ("eh"), È/Ê/EST, AU/EAU ("o"), IN/IM, AN/EN/EM/AM, OI, ON, OU)
French:
-Daily Calendar: Each morning, tell your parents how you are feeling (Comment ça va?) and why. Try to help everyone in your family describe this in French at the breakfast or dinner table!
-Review the month, date, season, year etc in French each day (when you wake up or before bed)
-Weekly or daily journal: Describe your day, describe a picture, describe a book you've read, talk about a family vacation, talk about a play date with a friend... etc This is great for printing practice, and proper sentence formation (Parents: be sure to reinforce capital letters, spaces between words, writing on the line and using punctuation)
-Find opportunities to gain new vocabulary: help write out the grocery list in French, describe all the items you need to go camping in French, write about the items of clothing (type and colour) you are wearing today in French.
-Reading! Visit your local library, and find some French books, google French poems ("comptines") for kids, watch read alouds of French children's stories on youtube.
-Listen to the stories below to review letter sounds and combinations. Before grade two they should know: A, E, I, O, U, ER/É/ET/EI ("eh"), È/Ê/EST, AU/EAU ("o"), IN/IM, AN/EN/EM/AM, OI, ON, OU)
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English: To help your child continue to make gains with literacy, be sure to read on a daily basis. Ask follow up questions like the "Five Finger Recall", Beginning/Middle/End, and the 5 W's.
Completing activities such as a daily/weekly journal mentioned above even in French will help your child get ready for grade 2!
Completing activities such as a daily/weekly journal mentioned above even in French will help your child get ready for grade 2!
Math:
Math Prodigy: I will create multiple "review" assignments that will be open all summer long. Please log on and keep skills sharp this summer :) If you cannot remember your log in, feel free to scroll up in our Dojo conversations (message with username and password was sent on May 1st). Whenver possible, try to have your child say the answer in French to keep French vocabulary on their mind.
https://www.prodigygame.com/
-Numbers: When you have time to spare (long car rides, at a sibling's soccer game ...), ask your child to skip count by 2s, 5s or 10s, or do simple addition/subtraction in their heads. These kind of mental math skills help reinforce French numbers/terminolgy and strategies such as doubles, counting forward etc.
Math Prodigy: I will create multiple "review" assignments that will be open all summer long. Please log on and keep skills sharp this summer :) If you cannot remember your log in, feel free to scroll up in our Dojo conversations (message with username and password was sent on May 1st). Whenver possible, try to have your child say the answer in French to keep French vocabulary on their mind.
https://www.prodigygame.com/
-Numbers: When you have time to spare (long car rides, at a sibling's soccer game ...), ask your child to skip count by 2s, 5s or 10s, or do simple addition/subtraction in their heads. These kind of mental math skills help reinforce French numbers/terminolgy and strategies such as doubles, counting forward etc.
-Time: Have your child tell the time on a daily basis using an analog and digital clock. Review important times of day and what this looks like on the clock.
--> morning = matin
--> afternoon = après-midi (12:00pm = midi)
--> evening = soir
--> night = nuit (12:00am = minuit)
-Money: By now, students should be comfortable identifying all Canadian coins and building amounts to 20 cents. Practice making change whenever possible and make it relevant. If this Tim Horton's Timbit cost 15 cents and I give the cashier a quarter, how much change will I get back? (25-15 = 10, they could give me one dime, two nickles, one nickle and 5 pennies or 10 pennies)
Religion:
Prayer: Find time to pray together each day (in French or English).
Keep a Gratitude Journal: Engaging in regular gratitude reflection helps us manage our stresses/worries, be more present and mindful and be grateful for what we have. Not to mention it will help your child develop his or her writing and spelling skills :)
Go to Church: This will help your child learn how to be still and reflect, and help prepare them for grade 2 where they will begin Sacrament Preparation.