How to maintain a learning environment during the summer

When parents and families are involved in their children's learning, children earn better grades, enroll in higher-level programs and are more likely to continue their French learning in the long term.

Here are some suggestions:

1. Spend quality time with your children! Take the time to look at them in their eyes and tell them that you love them dearly :) Be positive and encouraging when you teach them!

2. Reading any time, anywhere! Research shows that even if you read 1 to 5 books during the summer, you will help your child in keeping up his reading skills.

3. Join the Library Book Club for the summer. The libraries have tons of free activities organised for children during the summer.

4. Borrow French/English books. Pick some of them for your child and let them pick some of their own.

5. Collect pamphlets and organize these into a scrapbook. Summarize the main ideas from these.

6. Sketch places of interest and write up a brief story about each place

7. Printing or Writing: write few sentences or keep  a diary of a trip or of a daily visit. Be consistent in providing a daily or bi-weekly practice for their writing!

8. For a complete list of online activities, visit the Resource page of My French Club. Here are just some of them:

Tumblebooks .
Username:vheights ; password:books
Il etait une histoire
Chillola For French Beginners
Hello World
Language Games
 

Programs available during the summer at My French Club:
French Tutoring
Intensive Class for Adults and French teachers
2 Weeks of Back To School Camps

I wish you great quality time with your children this rainy summer!

French - The Fun Way

They say languages are learned more easily by children than adults and when we think about the reasons why, we can identify possible tools to help pick up a second language at any age. Children are less inhibited, and are fearless in immersing themselves in a new environment. They don’t worry about sounding imperfect or making silly grammatical errors. Children start with baby sounds, nursery rhymes and songs.

At MyFrenchClub, we try to make the environment as naturally filled with French as possible. That means that your children are hearing French in the smallest everyday ways. Beginning at the door when they are greeted, to instructions for making crafts and interacting during lessons. By hearing and using a new language in context, it enables the learner to remember more easily and use the phrases and words again. 

We did a Mother’s Day activity where kids learned a poem and created a special card. They were able to learn the poem by memory but by crafting the card at the same time, they were also reinforcing their comprehension and spoken French to talk about what they were doing.

The kids learned a new song, “Pirouette, cacaouete”, which was a fun way to practice pronunciation, learn new vocabulary and give the children the opportunity to answer questions about the song. The kids love being able to provide answers and get to sing and dance at the same time.

We love to LOL - Learn out loud :D