keep kids active in winter

How to keep kids active during the winter

It’s easy to make sure your child is staying active during the warm summer months when they’re more than enthusiastic to play outside. Keeping them active during a cold and snowy winter is a different story, but it’s just as important! That’s why we’ve created this list of  winter activities – both indoor and outdoor – that the whole family

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getting rid of first day jitters

Getting Rid of First Day Jitters

In a previous blog, we’ve talked about how parents can help their children prepare for the first day of camp, by helping them review their schedule, listening to their worries, reminding them they aren’t alone, creating a goodbye ritual, and taking your time in the morning. Anxiety of the unknown, however, is still very real, and so we’d like to

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develop french skills at camp

French Skills Developed at Camp Tournesol

    Each week at camp, we strive to ensure that our campers at French summer camps fun while improving their French. We work very hard to ensure that the activities and games that take place for campers are enjoyable, reflect the interests of the campers, and can be used to help campers practice their French language skills. But how

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jobs that require french speaking skills

15 Jobs that Require French Speaking Skills

Many parents wonder how their child’s future will  impacted by jobs requiring french language skills. The truth is that when you decide to put your child in a French immersion or extended French program, you are opening up a plethora of job opportunities in their future. There’s no doubt that speaking more than one language, especially French, is an enormous

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texting in french

How To Text In French

Remember when you had to click a number on your cellphone keypad three times just to type one letter? Maybe your child isn’t even aware that it was ever so frustrating to text, but they’ve kept the tradition of shortening every. Single. Phrase. ‘I don’t know’ becomes ‘idk’, ‘to be honest’ becomes ‘tbh’, and of course ‘laugh out loud’ becomes

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