Noël Madness!

And the winner is....

But for fans of the Migros elf, here's the continuation of his story.

What a fun couple of weeks in sixth grade it has been! A HUGE shoutout to my friend Dustin Williamson, a French and Spanish teacher in Maine, who has created his second annual Noël Madness bracket. He has found eight holiday commercials in French, and in sixth grade we have spent the past two weeks working with these ads. Students vote on their favorites after each class (we watch two commercials per class), and then next week we will do some follow-up activities with the winners. It's modeled after "March Madness," so we will have a winner for the bracket before vacation! Check back in to see where things stand! If you're on Twitter, you can see what students around the country are saying about these commercials with the hashtag #NoelMadness

Here's the note that my principal included in his newsletter to families last week:

SEMI-FINALS​ (winners in yellow)
Coca Cola vs. Bouygues
Migros vs. Loto or PayPal

JOUR #1 - ​ Milka vs. Coca Cola

JOUR #2 - Intermarché vs. Bouygues

JOUR #3 - Chez U vs. Migros

JOUR #4​ FDJ vs. PayPal
(one class voted for the loto commercial and in the other two, PayPal won.)