Classes Duo Videos – Nature’s Way Montessori School

The Classes Duo students from both sides of the Atlantic recorded brief videos to share their thoughts and feelings about the first semester of the Paris / Knoxville program.

Below are the videos recorded by the students at Nature’s Way Montessori School in Knoxville.  All the students gave their interviews in French!

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Andrew

Favorite memory: The sleeping sheep
Favorite activity: Making sculpture of Josephine Baker
Biggest surprise: So many sculptures!

Asha

Favorite memory: Painting with oils
Favorite activity: Painting
Biggest surprise: One of the French students does circus acrobatics

Crispin

Favorite memory:  Zoom conferences with the French students
Favorite activity: Painting trees
Biggest surprise: The French students have chocolate for breakfast

Gabriel

Favorite memory: Speaking French with the French students
Favorite activity: Painting with oils
Biggest surprise: Learning that we will travel to France!

Isabella

Favorite memory: Making sculptures
Favorite activity: Sculpting Josephine Baker’s cheetah
Biggest surprise: Painting with oils

Jesse

Favorite memory: Sculpting Josephine Baker’s cheetah
Favorite activity:
Sculpting Josephine Baker’s cheetah
Biggest surprise: Painting with oils

Judah

Favorite memory:  Drawing trees
Favorite activity:  Drawing trees
Biggest surprise:  Learning that we’ll travel to Paris in October!

Julian

Favorite memory:  Painting trees
Favorite activity: Sculpting with clay
Biggest surprise: Painting with oils

Katie

Favorite memory: Finding out that she was chosen for the program
Favorite activity: Painting with watercolors
Biggest surprise: Studying more French

Lydia

Favorite memory: Learning that she was selected for the program and communicating with the American students
Favorite activity: Painting
Biggest surprise: How well the Nature’s Way students speak French and how well they draw and paint

Madeleine

Favorite memory: Talking with the American students
Favorite activity: Modeling clay
Biggest surprise: The Nature’s Way students’ accents when speaking French

MaKenna

Favorite memories: Sculpting
Favorite activity: Painting with oils
Biggest surprise: Lots of questions by the French students

Manjit

Favorite memory: Sculpting Josephine Baker
Favorite activity: Sculpting with clay
Biggest surprise: One of the French students speaks English

Meah

Favorite memory: Sculpting Josephine Baker
Favorite activity: Sculpting Josephine Baker
Biggest surprise: The large number of French students

Mia

Favorite memory: Making art
Favorite activity: Sculpting
Biggest surprise: The French students

Sarah

Favorite memory: Sculpting
Favorite activity: Sculpting Josephine Baker’s cheetah
Biggest surprise: Painting with oils