The ultimate goal of the CLIN class in French schools is to prepare the students to succeed in a regular French public school classroom. In general, the students are able to attend French classrooms full time by their second year in French schools. Of course, we won't be here for their second year in French schools, but they'd be able to if we were.
The students are moved gradually from being in CLIN full time to being in a regular classroom, beginning with short periods of time each day. Yesterday, Sapphire and Ezio and the six other students that started the school year with them (there have been 4 more students that have joined them more recently) spent one hour in regular classes for math.
Sapphire goes to a 4th grade class (CM1-classe moyen [middle] first year) in Henri Wallon B, which is a separate elementary school (has its own building, principal, etc) within the same complex. I asked her how it went, and she said there were a few things she didn't understand, but mostly it went pretty well. Then I asked how many students there were in her class, and she said she didn't know, but all of them were in groups of 4 or 5. So I asked how many groups there were, thinking I could at least get an estimate, and she said, "I don't know. I had to concentrate. Don't you know that the teacher was speaking French?"
Ezio is going to a 1st grade class (CP-classe primaire) in Henri Wallon A, which is the same elementary school that the CLIN class is in. He also said that it went well, though there were a few things he didn't understand, though not, evidently, because he didn't understand the math. He wanted me to be very clear on that. Evidently he has somewhere between 16 and 20 kids in his class. I'm not sure whether he counted, or whether he has a good eye for estimates, or whether he just pulled the number out of thin air, and there are actually 50 kids in his class.
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