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This site has been designed to facilitate communication between the students of Watt Public School in Ullswater, Ontario, Canada, and their pen-pals in Belgium and France, as part of their Core French program. In our links, Watt students present information about themselves, and present what they have learned about their pen-pals via the foreign schools' websites, e-mails, and letters received from abroad. This is an opportunity for students to improve their French and to learn about the cultures of French-speaking regions. Watt Students wrote about their pen-pals, their country, and themselves in French. Click on each grade to see their French work.:
LINKS: To Our School Board's Site, About Canada, Back to our school site OUR SPONSORS: www.tldsb.on.ca, www.opsoa.org, and www.grassroots.on.ca
E-MAIL YOUR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS SITE TO: k.bell@tldsb.on.ca (Katy Bell, Core French Teacher grades four to eight) You are visitor
# The Assignment, In Mallorie's words Our project started out as just writing small letters to our pen-pals in France. After a while, Mademoiselle Bell came up with the idea to make a website on our pen-pals and our school. While still writing to our pen-pals, we started the website. This became one of our major projects. We started to make rough drafts of things such as: what we learned, and what we are learning from our pen-pals. Then we began to type them. After we finished typing them Mademoiselle Bell would copy and paste the entries etc. onto the website. After we finished that, "C'est complète!" Students' Reflections On Their Pen-pal and Website Projects The assignment was good because we learned how to write in French. The assignment was hard because it was hard to write it in French. I had to use a dictionary. - Andrew, grade six My pen- pal is Cecil she lives in the south of France and she has a dog named Stinky. And when she writes to me she sends me lots of pictures, and one picture she sent me was a witch and it was cool. And she sent me a picture of her dog. And she likes the colours blue, green, and purple. Also she sent me a picture of her best friend. Also her best friend is my friend's pen- pal. And when she sends me letters I learn more stuff about them. And when we send them letters about us they learn stuff about us. And so both of us learn about each other. And I think it's good that we have pen-pals because if we didn't have pen-pals, we wouldn't be able to know what they like or what their name is. - Melissa M., grade six Je n'ai pas aimé le projet parce que c'était trop facile. C'est facile parce que je suis très bien dans la classe de français. J'aime le projet parce que c'est amusant et j'aime répondre à de petites questions. - Mallorie, grade seven The assignment was good because we got to say what we have learned about our penpals. We also got to finish the sentences the way we wanted. I also got to e-mail mine from home. - Danielle, grade six I think that the assignment was good, to put it on the web site, so then the pen pals can see the information faster. -Dylan, grade six I think (this project) was fun because the whole world can see it on the internet. - Liam, grade six I think that some of this project was fun and some of it difficult. The fun part was we got to communicate with kids the same age and grade but they live half way around the world! Our pen-pals sent us very unique letters, but the down part on this was they wrote in French. The only difficult thing was we had to write in French (full letters) but I got used to it. - Frances, grade six It was easy to type and we got a sheet to put our information on. - Zach, grade six I think this website is cool because our pen-pals can look at it and learn more about us. I think having pen-pals is awesome because we can learn more about French people. - Jonny, grade 4/5 I had to have Mademoiselle edit it (my work) but I had most of it right. - Bromley, grade 8 I really enjoyed doing this French assignment. It is another good way to communicate with pen-pals instead of writing a letter. - Stefan, grade 7 I think the pen-pal system we have is very interesting because we have a chance to see what life in a different culture is like. - Dustin, gr. 7 What I liked about this assignment is I got to write more stuff in French and that will help me more in French. What I didn't like is that I had to wait a long time for a computer. Overall, it was challenging and fun!! - Jenna, gr.7 |
