I hope you are all happy and healthy and enjoy watching the season change 🙂

Mr. J and I are doing great, staying at home and playing with our 5 gorgeous dogs! They are really happy to spend so much time with us.

I’m so excited to see you all again! Some of you may be continuing to practice your English on my blog, or any other fun way, but the Minister of Education just put out a site for you too. So, if you want to explore new sites to continue your English ‘rock-stardom’, here it is:

Click on this link: //ecoleouverte.ca/fr/?

AND, my friends at Récit also created a wonderful site with so many fun links to games and videos to help you in English:

Click on this link: https://sites.google.com/view/ressourcesals/page-daccueil

If you have a chance, I would love to hear from you. Please write me a little message on my blog if you can. That will make me smile :).

Happy spring and bear hugs from far,

Miss Corrine

These are the CAROLS we’ll be singing this year:

Hi! Christmas is around the corner and so we are starting to learn our CHRISTMAS CAROL of the year. Sing with us at home 🙂 

For the little ones! Always my favourite 🙂

For our grade 2&3 class, and our grade 3&4 class:

http://www.learningstationmusic.com/blog/2013/12/07/wish-merry-christmas-lyrics/

For our grade 4&5 class. We are feeling silly this year 😉

And finally for our grades 4-6 and grade 6 class:

HAPPY CAROLING!

          Following the Yukon Quest has been exciting! And finally the gates are open.

The mushers hit the starting line yesterday 🙂

The race is on!

Mr. Jé and I, envious of the adventurers, decided we’d go to the Yukon and embark on the Quest ourselves (in our dreams). Off to the races 🙂

On your mark, get ready… GO!

Follow along with us on these sites:

http://www.newsminer.com/mushing/yukon_quest/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-quest-364-dogs-and-26-mushers-start-running-today-1.4513341

http://www.webcenter11.com/sports/yukonquest

Happy Holidays Everyone! What will you be doing?

We’ll be running our nine dogs 🙂 

After the holidays,

we’ll be following the YUKON QUEST…

follow along with us!

http://www.yukonquest.com/

Maybe we’ll see you there one day 😉

I’ll be putting it on my Xmas wish list.

Until then…

Hi all! This year all our classes will be singing Christmas Carols, for an audience 🙂

To practice, here are the links:

*For the little ones:

 *For the medium ones:

*For the big ones:

*For the even Bigger Ones:

*And for the very very motivated ones:

I was reminded today via CBC radio that studies prove learning and speaking a new language is a bonus for your brain.

In researching more on this I found a headline that must be shared:

”People who speak two languages are ‘better at multi-tasking and less likely to develop Alzheimer’s”

Check out the article this comes from to learn more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1358234/People-speak-languages-better-multi-tasking-likely-develop-Alzheimers.html

And this one too:

http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/bilingual-children-zm0z12jazros

Happy reading 🙂

Did you know that 1 out of 3 words in English come from French? That’s right!

It stems from Guillaume le Conquérant’s reign in England and the Norman french he brought with him, from the French’s love of food, and many other points in time of travel and trade.

Here is a really neat little video on how we can also find entire French phrases in some common English words.

Language is fun! Enjoy 🙂

Thanks for the share Mr. Simon

Hi everybody!

          I have recently discovered a new site to practice languages (English plus).

It is simple, rewarding and it works great to learn new vocabulary.

I am using it to learn Spanish, and I love it.

Here is the link: https://www.duolingo.com/

Beunos Dias!