Full of Fun French
By Maggie and Mike
Did you know 8 cities in Wisconsin are French names? We learned that in French class from our teacher Madame Jacques. She teaches grades 1 through 5. At this point in the year we’ve been learning to speak and write French. Its lots of hard work but it all pays off if you ever go to France.
One way we practice writing and speaking French was, we had to write directions from the school to our house. We had to write everything in French execept for the names of the streets. We also did right and left (gauche and drought) and drew a map. On that assignment we needed at least 5 directions. Some of the people even had to go around blocks a couple times because they live so close.
For practice we also made wanted posters. Of course we had to use complete sentences. In the complete sentences we had to describe their hair color, height, heritage, eye color, name, and birthday. When we finished that we got together in-group and read ours aloud to them and we listened to theirs. When we listened to theirs we took notes on their name, age, eye color, hair color, and birthday.
Those 8 cities are Butte des Morts, Lac du Flambeau, Fond du Lac, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien, Eau Claire, Marquette, and Portage. We also learned about the Indians. The Indians had 15 tribes. They also had 18 forts, one was Boston.
We sure do learn a lot about French all these years!
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