Farewell to Deauville
There are
several activities that the Americans will be participating in as the year
comes to an end.
Each year,
the kids in Deauville get awards. This year, the team of animateurs (which
includes us) is in charge of it, so we have a prize for each child and I think
they are all getting books. The prizes are anything from “best big brother
award” to “dance award.” The actual awards will be given out tonight during the
normal time of our APEs and a little afterwards as well, and families are
invited to attend.
The
Americans are also going to the D-Day beaches with the 5th grade
students from Deauville, where they will learn about the history of the
Normandy landings and World War II. This is an all-day outing and we will not
have English classes that day.
There will
also be a triathlon taking place in Deauville along the beach and we will be
spending a morning helping out with that and pointing the kids in the right
direction.
For lesson
plans, in my older classes, we have been working on the evaluations that they
need to have taken by the end of the year, and in my younger classes, we have
been working on summer vocabulary and food. They really like playing bingo, and
the younger ones like to play vocabulary dominoes, where they have to connect
the image of an item to the word.
This is the
last blog entry before we go home at the end of the month. I’m thankful for all that I've learned here in these past 10 months!
