Les Petites Pommes

It’s a very exciting time for Les Petites Pommes! One of our instructors, Richelle is going to be graduating from Teacher’s College in the next few weeks! We are all so proud of her!

Typically those who just finish an intense year of teachers college take a rest right away after. Not Richelle! She is just so passionate about French, teaching, and education that she cannot wait to get started! She has put together a very special Spring Program that is very exciting! Classes will take place on Saturday’s at Colin Macdonald Community School (near McMaster University) Registration Space is limited!

Please CLICK HERE for more details!

Hi Everyone!

Just a reminder that summer camp registration had already begun! Currently, there is still space in all the sessions.

We will also be holding an open house and book sale on Monday June 18th from 6:30pm-8:00 at the location of the camp (215 Cline ave N). However, if you already have dates you are interested in enrolling, it is recommended that you do so sooner rather then later.

Thanks everyone for a great March Break Camp! We were fully booked and it was a great success! Like always, we had an awesome mix of new and old petites pommes and we had AMAZING weather! So that just made things even more enjoyable!

Our March Break class was particularly into story writing, which quickly became a highly requested activity! The students enjoyed writing all sorts of different creative stories  and then presenting them to the class! The younger students, Richelle, Natalie and myself were very eager spectators!

I will upload pictures soon..stay tuned!

Hi Everyone!

March Break registration forms are up! We’d love to see you this March Break! Please visit our March Break Camp link to download registration forms!

Thanks to everyone who made winter camp extra special this year! I was only expecting to have one classroom, then we ended up with 2 full classrooms! We did lots of fun things throughout the week including playing games, singing songs, playing in the park, going on wintery nature walks and making  fun craft projects! We also had a visit from our favourite story teller Anna!

Another special treat was our trip to the McMaster Art Gallery! When we went in the summer it was much less hoppin’ compared to our last visit when all the students were having their first day back from winter break! All our petites pommes got to witness the hustle and bustle of our university neighbours!  Like in the summer we were welcomed into the art gallery for a special tour which was followed by fun arts and crafts!

Here are some pictures from our super fun week!:

I hope everyone had restful holidays! Winter Camp registration is closed as we are full! Looking forward to camp on Monday! Happy almost new years everyone!

There are only a few spots left for Winter Camp! If you’d like to register please visit our Winter Camps page to download the forms

Thank you to everyone who voted for us for the Readers’ Choice Awards 2011! We are so lucky to have such supportive parents and students! You are all the best!   We will continue to work hard to offer you excellent French programs and welcome any suggestions you have on how we can improve to serve you and our students better!

This is in the Hamilton Spectator today in the winners section!

We just found out Les Petites Pommes is an official nominee in the Hamilton Spectator 2011 Readers Choice awards! We’re already so excited to have been nominated but if you would like to help us even further please cast your votes today at www.thespec.com  There is a pink bar at the top of the page that reads: It’s time to vote!

We are located under Favourite Business/Service : French Lessons!

Voting ends today!

Thank you everyone so much! We really work hard to make sure all of our students have fun and learn French so it was really great to find out about this!

Bonjour friends of Les Petites Pommes,

Thanks to all the children and families who attended Les Petites Pommes this summer! It’s so great getting to see returning campers and how much they’ve grown and learnt over a year’s time and getting to meet new campers! We are so lucky to have such awesome families come spend time with us at Les Petites Pommes.

Things were so busy that I didn’t get to keep up with the daily photo blog updates! However, I have finally finished updating the photo galleries on the website which can be viewed here: http://www.lespetitespommes.ca/?page_id=3560

So many events filled this summer including trips to The Aviary, The McMaster Art Gallery, and fun visits to the splash pad on those very hot summer days! Some other highlights include a mini-play of “Blanche Neiges et les Septs Nains” put on by the older class of session 2, and lots of fun theme days planned by our instructors including:  La Course Incroyable, La Journée Verte, Le Cirque, Les Animaux et Les Beaux-Arts!

Our new summer location at Temple Anshe Sholom (215 Cline ave. N) was an excellent host. We had so much green space just outside our doors. We also got to help out with Kehila’s school community garden and learn together the discipline and rewards involved with caring for our plants and vegetables!

This summer we had new and returning instructors. We were very lucky to have Mathilde Danet as an instructor who is originally from Lille, France and was also one of our T.A’s from McMaster! Cory was also a new addition and is the current President of the McMaster French Club. Returning, we had Natalie, Richelle and Andrew who I can’t say enough about! I love them and they’re the best!

Another milestone of this summer was for first time in Les Petites Pommes history we had 3 classrooms running at once! The last 2 weeks seem to be very popular!

Thanks everyone for such a great summer! If you ever have any French questions or think there’s anything we can help you with please DO NOT hesitate to ask! We truly care for all of our students and we want to see them succeed!

Sincerely,

Mary Clements

Owner of Les Petites Pommes