{"id":320799,"date":"2025-08-28T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=320799"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:21:09","slug":"week-1-in-french-what-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2025\/08\/28\/week-1-in-french-what-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 in French, what a success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dear parents,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week in French we set the tone for the year: talked about our focus, agreed on our WoW\u2019s (Ways of Working), and launched our essential agreements. You should have seen your child\u2019s French notebook by now (some of you may even have signed it!).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We practiced what a collaborative classroom looks and sounds like, discovered how to fidget <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">quietly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and put Talking Chips into action &#8211; ask your child, they\u2019ll be delighted to explain!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been impressed with every class, but Grade 9s deserve a special cheer: their energy, questions, and participation have been outstanding. They\u2019ve already shown strong <\/span><b>collaboration ATL skills<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and embodied the <\/span><b>Communicator learner profile attribute<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brilliantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week, we dive deeper into our units: discussing teenage mental health, planning dream holidays, reflecting on the activities we love, and exploring identity. Grade 10s will also take their French <\/span><b>diagnostic test<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and as the name suggests, no stress! It\u2019s simply to see our starting point so we can plan the learning journey forward together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merci, and here\u2019s to another lively week ahead!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warm wishes, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miss J<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear parents, This week in French we set the tone for the year: talked about our focus, agreed on our WoW\u2019s (Ways of Working), and launched our essential agreements. You should have seen your child\u2019s French notebook by now (some of you may even have signed it!). We practiced what a collaborative classroom looks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":321151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,32,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-9","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}