{"id":49227,"date":"2014-03-05T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=49227"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:08:17","slug":"french-classes-celebrate-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/03\/05\/french-classes-celebrate-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"French classes celebrate Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49228\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/French-Students-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49228 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"French students read books in French to first graders. (Photo submitted.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/French-Students-2.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French students read books in French to first graders. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The French 2 classes at Van Wert High School recently celebrated Mardi Gras with Mary Yackey&#8217;s first grade class at St. Mary&#8217;s Elementary School by sharing the books that they made about Mardi Gras celebrations in different French speaking countries.<\/p>\n<p>The French classes were divided into groups and chose one French speaking country to research, including Martinique, Quebec, Haiti, as well as several others.\u00a0 Next, each group wrote a story and designed a children&#8217;s book.\u00a0 They were \u00a0read their books in French to the first graders, and then \u00a0translated the stories into English.<\/p>\n<p>The French students finished their presentation by teaching the first graders how to count in French as well as conversational French words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French 2 classes at Van Wert High School recently celebrated Mardi Gras with Mary Yackey&#8217;s first grade class at St. Mary&#8217;s Elementary School by sharing the books that they made about Mardi Gras celebrations in different French speaking countries. The French classes were divided into groups and chose one French speaking country to research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vwcscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:43:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}