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2020 Year In Review
2020 Year In Review Brouillet Academy and Camp Tournesol In 2020, we planned to expand our in-person camps even further across the GTA and welcome a record numbers of French learners, but needless to...
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6 Fun Bird Feeders To Make With Your Kids
The holiday season has passed once again (sigh) but we’ve got a great idea to keep you and your children’s spirits up: awesome do-it-yourself bird feeders! The best time to put bird feeders out is...
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Five Favourite Kid-Friendly Crafts For Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is on the horizon, so we’ve put together a list of our staff’s favourite kid-friendly crafts for Valentine’s Day! Set aside some time for crafts on the Valentine’s Day/Family Day long...
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Top 5 French Books For Kids For Black History Month
In honour of Black History Month, the Camp Tournesol/Brouillet Academy librarian has put together a list of French books for kids that can help you and your children learn more about Black history and...
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FREE “Les sports” Workbook in FRENCH!
Sports are integral to how we create an immersive French experience at our camps. Learning language through play is effective and more importantly, it’s fun! We don’t have to wait for summer camp to...
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Top 16 French Books About Friendship
Our resident CampT librarian is back with another list of French books, this time on the topic of friendship! Friendship is an important part of life and learning about making friends and what a...
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FREE “L’espace” Workbook in FRENCH!
Free French “L’espace” workbook Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wished that you could name the planets in French? Or wished that you could watch your favourite French sci-fi space...
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9 French Books About Diversity
Camp Tournesol’s resident librarian has been working hard in her virtual library lately! She has put together a lovely list of the nine best French books about diversity for children of varying ages....
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How To Help Your Child Maintain Their French Over The Summer
With the summer break fast approaching, parents become increasingly concerned that their children will have diminished French speaking ability by the time September rolls back around.Language...
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The Best French Comic Books For Kids
Camp Tournesol’s resident librarian is back! This time she has put together a collection of the best French comic books for kids. To make it easier for parents, we’ve added a short synopsis of each...
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5 Tips To Creating An Easy Breezy Transition To French Immersion
September is near and the anxiety has started creeping in.Early last winter, you decided to enroll your child in French Immersion (FI). But now that the school year is almost upon us, the worry is...
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8 Must-Have French Baby Books
Camp Tournesol’s librarian has been busy lately. This time, she’s put together a list of French baby books anyone with a bilingual little one must have! Reading is one of the most important aspects of...
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Top 7 Child-Friendly French Activities For This Holiday Season
Snow has fallen and the cold weather is here, and Camp Tournesol can guarantee a happy holiday season sprinkled with la Francophonie!What’s better than spending time with your family, drinking hot...
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Camp T’s Favourite French Playlists For Kids!
Camp T's Favourite French Playlists For Kids! There are lots of different methods with which different kids can learn and practice the French language, but to find the right way, sometimes it’s more...
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Top Interactive Tools For Classroom Engagement
Times are changing...and so are students: Back 5, 10, even 15 years ago, when students pulled out their phones in class, the teacherwould make it seem like the sky was falling. The phone would be...
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FREE French Activities Workbook for March break!
March Break French Printable Workbook: It’s finally time for March Break! We love this time of year; it’s the first chance to truly enjoy the arrival of spring. Our team has created a new free French...
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Why You Should Work as a Camp Counsellor
WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A CAMP COUNSELLOR: Choosing a summer job can be overwhelming just because of the sheer number of opportunitiesout there for young people looking to make some good money during...
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The Best French Resources for Students in Kindergarten to Grade 1
French Resources for kids: beginner French Finding good resources and practice material for French beginner students can be difficult, this is why we have created a curated list of resources for...
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Opportunities in Canada as a French Speaker
Benefits of Being a French Speaker in Canada While many people in Ontario and most other Canadian provinces outside of Quebec may not consider Canada’s second national language—French—to be important,...
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Netflix Movies for Kids in French
The BEST French movies for kids you can watch on Netflix: Learning and maintaining a new language like French can be difficult and at times a littlerepetitive and boring, so when you’re trying to...
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