Today, Lilly and I used Quizlet flashcards to review transitions, conjunctions and prepositional locutions, expressions that allow her to elevate her French to a more sophisticated register. After exploring the flashcards, we completed a worksheet to reinforce her understanding of the difference between transitions and conjunctions as well as solidify her vocabulary knowledge. Thereafter, we did a matching exercise with the same expressions and created original sentences once the pairs were made. We closed with one final flashcard review of the same vocabulary and some short conversation in French.

Today, Lilly had to prepare a speaking presentation for tomorrow in her IB class. She had to select an image related to health and well-being (a theme of the IB exam), describe how it relates to health and then tie it back to a French-speaking country. Together, we selected an image related to Quebec, a region of interest to Lilly. We decided that universal healthcare coverage could be an interesting topic and therefore began to generate a vocabulary list related to that. With that vocabulary in hand, Lilly began to describe the image and practiced using more elevated vocabulary to discuss the controversial nature of universal healthcare. On Quizlet, we created a health glossary for her to continue to expand both in and outside class.

During our first meeting, Lilly described her struggles with French and provided some background on her previous French courses. Together, we discussed the format of the IB exam and each language skill that is activated via each task. I underscored the importance of continually building those skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) through consistent and daily practice; I shared various ways (Quizlet, YouTube, Netflix shows and movies, vocabulary applications, podcasts, etc.) in which she could practice. Thereafter, we engaged in a short conversation about Lilly's family to activate her speaking skills and give me an opportunity to gauge her vocabulary and speaking abilities. Finally, we explored a wealth of vocabulary pertaining to transitions, conjunctions and locutions that will help set herself apart from her peers on the exam and allow her to elevate her register to a more sophisticated level.

Sebastian clearly had a blast this last day of program this year. There were fun activities planned, so after playing outside at recess, he participated in an ice cream sundae party. After that indulgence, I encouraged Sebastian to practice a drum solo for the talent portion of the day, and without hesitation, he improvised awesomely. Hoping for a safe and enjoyable summer for all. I look forward to seeing Sebastian in the fall!

Schoolwide activity - popcorn and movie-time. Sebastian was actively involved in helping us distribute the popcorn to students this morning, and we worked in a few French terms that pertained to the movie.

Sebastian participated in an ice cream sundae party this fun Friday afternoon.

Sebastian learned that to order food, he can simply use the indefinite article 'un' (masculine) or 'une' (feminine) + the item. For example, If he were ordering a cheeseburger, he could say "Un cheeseburger,'and add please at the end. Sebastian enjoyed ordering a specialty sundae on this fun Friday to end his session with me.

Today, Sebastian was asked to finish a reel showing a compilation of his best work. His film teacher, Ms. Marsha, requested that he finish the final 45 seconds of it during my class, so we used half our session for Sebastian to complete his assignment. He is to share it with his mother this evening. We then worked on Duo Lingo for the second half of our session. Sebastian was given exercises which enlisted his listening skills to answer multiple choice questions. These lessons help him practice his understanding and speaking of French. We worked on greetings today, which reinforced and consolidated recently acquired skills from prior lessons.

We reviewed prior learning at the onset of our session. We reviewed common conversational ways to greet someone and exchange pleasantries. I explained formal vs. informal language codes, and we learned the most common formal and informal greetings in the French language. We practiced using nasal sounds in the pronunciation of certain words; the general rule is that when the consonant 'n' or 'm' appears after a vowel, the pronunciation of that word is nasal. We used the words 'bonjour' and Monsieur as examples as the former is pronounced 'Bo-(n:silent)-jour, and the latter "Mo-(n:silent)-sieur. We finished our academic session listening and repeating French pronunciation and spent the final 5 minutes playing a fun game of corn hole on this fun Friday afternoon.

Dutch was absent today.