L'école des Youngsters: THE FRENCH CLASS: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013

Dear parents, I would like your child/children to get a Santa Cruz Public Library card if they don’t have one already, I planned to have the children read books in French via the library on the internet.

Hello!

Today we returned to our class opener, the "discussion in French", each student told the class one event that happened in his/her live last week.

Then the Youngsters group worked on the sounds that we had practiced last week, as few students were absent last Wednesday, we reviewed them again: ill, ouil, ail, euil, eil, below are few examples,
ill: bille
ouil:    grenouille
ail:      paille
euil:    feuille
eil:      réveil
We studied the phonetic and the spelling of several words in each sound.
After a short recess we reviewed the Unit 16 of the blue book Fiches de Lecture, and worked on the back of Unit 16. Good work kids!

Homework for Wednesday, January 30, 2013: please finish the exercises (2-6) of each sound we studied today, do the best you can.

Have a great week,
A la semaine prochaine!
Chéryfa

learn about what we will celebrate on Monday

Galette des rois

Après toute l'excitation de Noël et du Nouvel An, il reste une dernière tradition française intéressante : le tirage des rois. Cette célébration a lieu à l'Épiphanie, dont la date n'est pas figée - elle peut être soit le 6 janvier, soit le premier dimanche de ce mois.

Plus intéressant encore, il y a la galette des rois. Ce gâteau particulier se mange généralement tout au long du mois de janvier. Selon la région, la galette des rois se fait de plusieurs façons : elle peut être feuilletée ou briochée, certaines sont fourrées à la frangipane, et d'autres décorées de fruits confits. Mais ce qui distingue la galette des rois des autres gâteaux, c'est la fève à l'intérieur, voire deux : une vraie fève, et souvent aussi une figurine ou un petit bibelot.

Pendant le tirage des rois (la découpe de la galette), la personne qui tire la fève (c'est-à-dire, qui la trouve dans sa part de galette) devient roi ou reine, reçoit une couronne en carton (fournie par la boulangerie) et choisit son compagnon. J'ai tant aimé les fèves que j'ai trouvées dans ma première galette (chez une amie) et ma deuxième galette (chez moi) que j'en ai acheté une troisième - mais ils avaient oublié d'y mettre la fève. Quelle déception !

Three Kings' Cake

After all the excitement of Christmas and the new year, there's still one more interesting French tradition: the "pulling of the kings." This celebration takes place at Epiphany, which has a variable date - it can either be 6 January or the first Sunday of the month.

Even more interesting is the galette des rois (literally, kings' cake). This special cake is generally eaten throughout the month of January. Depending on the region, the cake comes in different varieties: it can be made of puff pastry or like a brioche, some are filled with almond paste, and others are decorated with candied fruits. But what sets the galette des rois apart from other cakes is the fève inside, or even two: a real fava bean, and often a figurine or small knickknack as well.

During the tirage des rois (the cutting of the cake), the person who pulls the fève (that is, who finds it in his/her slice of cake) becomes king or queen, receives a paper crown (provided by the bakery), and chooses a partner. I liked the fèves that I found in my first galette (at a friend's house) and second galette (at home) that I bought a third - but they'd forgotten to put the fève inside. What a disappointment!

L'école des Youngsters

THE FRENCH CLASS: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013

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