Immersion Schooling

Adventures of a monolingual mom raising two bilingual preschoolers. The column I write for Nola Française, nolafrancaise.com.

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La Mère Aventurière: The Halfway Mark

January 26, 2012 Immersion Schooling

It seems like minutes ago that I dropped my 3-year-old off for her first day of French immersion school, but the year is already half over. During the holiday break I was able to take stock of what my daughter Éva was learning. In between baking batches of cookies and coloring reindeer I’d sneak in [...]

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La Mère Aventurière: French Week’s Education Fair

November 30, 2011 Immersion Schooling

In today’s La Mère Aventurière article at Nola Française I cover French Week’s Education Fair. A bilingual Louisiana native keeps the panel laughing with his stories of traveling in France. As an immersion school parent I was interested in seeing what French Week had to offer at its Education Fair. Organized by the French Consulate, [...]

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La Mère Aventurière: French Themed or French Speaking?

November 11, 2011 Immersion Schooling

Finding French themed activities in the New Orleans area is fairly easy. Between the French immersion schools (about ten now), local French organizations, and numerous French artists and French-owned businesses, it’s not hard to get in touch with your Francophile side here. There is always some event featuring French food, wine, art, film or other [...]

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La Mère Aventurière: Singing and Cursing

November 8, 2011 Immersion Schooling

“Mangent, mangent, mangent…” the soft little singing drifted from the room next to me. “Is there a little French zombie in my house?” My giggling daughter enters the room. “Nooooon, Mommy! I’m not a zom-vee!” “ZomBEE,” I clarify. “It’s the same word in French too.” “I’m a poisson.” “You’re a zombie FISH?” More laughing. “No, [...]

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La Mère Aventurière: Kids vs. Grown-Ups

October 14, 2011 Immersion Schooling

My French challenge has been going on for two weeks now and things are still going steady. I only manage about four days a week of home immersion instead of the seven I’d hoped for, but some schedule changes might improve that. My weekly conversation class is fun and I’m noticing results already, but I [...]

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