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New segment at the start of French class: we make a craft that we use later in songs or activities. These milk jug top ladybugs (ladybirds here in the UK) are pretty easy to make: all you need are milk jug tops, stickers or googly eyes, a permanent marker, and pipe cleaners for antennae. Like the lemurs of a few weeks …

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Eugénie the cat and Pascal the bear made their Brighton debut today in my new home-based French class for preschoolers. They met 5 new children today, ages 3-5, all of whom were saying (and shouting) “Bonjour!” and “Au revoir!” by the end. Afterward I offered to take Eugénie and Pascal down to the beach to sniff the …

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Sam and I are both missing our French class friends. So we made a little video carte postale (post card) pour nos amis. These are some of the songs we’d been doing in class, and you’ll see that I couldn’t resist using the iMovie editor to add a little lesson. Bonne année, les enfants!

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