CPD hours

I meant to say to you to record your hours on your CPD online. Thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm. I hope to hear about how you get on with French int the classroom. Please keep in touch by email!

la fête

We had a lovely "party" playing games and trying French food. Thank you for being such fun. I will miss you!

Here is the version of the farmer wants a wife from momes.net

Le fermier dans son pré (the farmer in his field)

Le fermier dans son pré
Le fermier dans son pré
Ohé ! ohé ! ohé ! le fermier dans son pré.

- Le fermier prend sa femme
- La femme prend son enfant
- L'enfant prend sa nourrice
- La nourrice prend son chien
- Le chien prend son p'tit chat
- Le chat prend la souris
- La souris prend l'fromage
- Le fromage est battu

We also did a version of ten in the bed

six au lit et le petit dit
poussez-vous, poussez vous

cinq au lit etc until
un au lit et le petit dit
bonne nuit!

Fisherman's net for days of week, numbers, months, a song -choose a secret word to drop the net
mon père avait un âne
Could have done il court il court le furet game like I sent a letter

Games
people bingo, teams holding flashcards, sit down when card is called
4 corners game with coloured cones
grand pas petit pas (giant steps, baby steps) if you like cheese, fais deux grands pas etc
quelle heure est-il M Leloup? il est cinq heures, etc /déjeuner!
Chinese whispers in teams with numbers
balloons in bin bag - un ballon vert etc
holding animal snap cards find other animals by making the French sound eg hen "cot cot"
Elaine's colour song to if you're happy and you know it eg bleu bleu bleu et vert with FCs
Could have done pass the parcel with bricks or FCs

last day

On Wednesday we will revise by having a party with games, songs and activities like food tasting.
Can you each bring an activity to lead and any props you need eg a ball, toys or whatever to play it. No need to reinvent the wheel, something we have done or a variation of something you do in English.
Bon weekend

le premier mai - la fête du muguet

Demain c'est le premier mai, jour férié en France!

http://www.fete-enfants.com/1er-mai-enfants/1er-mai.htm

More information on holidays and calendars

http://french.about.com/cs/culture/a/calendar.htm

Websites

Apart from this site, I bookmark interesting sites on del.icio.us
In the box, type French or early or French+primary or French+early
This afternoon we will explore some!

Red fishhttp://www.poissonrouge.com/ and user guide
http://www.poissonrouge.com/bigfish/en/userguide.html

voki
http://www.voki.com

LittleRed Riding Hood storyhttp://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/languages/Little%20Red/index.htm

Recipes
http://www.teachnet.ie/clane/recipes.html

likes and dislikes

tu aimes les pommes?
oui, j'aime les pommes
non, je n'aime pas les fruits
je préfère les gâteaux

Note the use of the definite article (the) after likes etc!

grammar point (for those that like to know!)

I would like is
je voudrais followed by un/une or du/de la/ des eg
je voudrais une pomme I would like an apple (feminine noun)
or je voudrais de la pomme I would like some apple
je voudrais des pommes followed I would like some apples

I suppose if you were offered a choice between and apple or a banana then you could say
je voudrais la pomme I would like the apple

un gâteau a cake (masculine noun)
du gâteau some cake
le gâteau the cake
les gâteaux the cakes
des gâteaux some cakes

Since the plural of nouns sounds the same ie pomme = pommes and gâteau = gâteaux
it is really important to pronounce the preceding word carefully!

Food

We talked about French eating habits, cafés, markets, bread.
We practised asking for, passing food and being polite
We watched all of episode 2 of Salut Serge about food and played the pizza game on the whiteboard. We looked at my new songs site and sang some of the tagged food songs. (on the left hand side under labels click on food)

The link to the site where you can see the current school dinner menu in a school in France is here

I am still researching the word for dips. I think it might just be sauces [sohs]

Class resumes on Wednesday 23 April

It seems ages since we met! I have spent my spare time making a site dedicated to songs!
It is also a blog with labels eg body, so you can easily find songs to do with the body.
I will be adding to it.

I had not booked a class for Wed 7 May as I was meant to be elsewhere but that has now fallen through so we can do that one instead of 21 May. Let me know if you can't do 7 May by adding a comment or tell me on Wednesday.

We will make a start on food on Wednesday.

post it chairs

The class played this happily for half an hour!
This is the game with chairs in a circle. Each players had a chair and each chair is assigned a number (or colour) attached by a post it, not in any particular order. Each player has to rmemeber the number of the chair they are sitting on.
First player starts by saying je suis le numéro cinq. j'appelle le numéro trois.
The player who is number 3 must immediately respond by saying je suis le numéro trois. j'appelle le numéro huit. And so on. If there is hesitation, all players stand up and move a chair to the left moting their new number. The player who hesitated starts with the new number.
Make it easier for pupils by making the numbers or colours visible eg under the chair.
Pupils need to know the words quite well but there is no shame if they get it wrong - it is fun to change. And they get a new number to remember.
You could do it with any vocabulary provided the classs can see all the options eg flashcards on the board.

Day 6 parts of the body

song Jean Petit music also on youtube jean petit danse, words and video
Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De son doigt il danse (bis)

De son doigt, doigt, doigt,
Ainsi danse Jean Petit

Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De sa main il danse (bis)

De sa main, main, main,
De son doigt, doigt, doigt,
Ainsi danse Jean Petit

Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De son bras il danse (bis)

De son bras, bras, bras,
De sa main, main, main,
De son doigt, doigt, doigt,
Ainsi danse Jean Petit.

Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De son pied il danse (bis)
De son pied, pied, pied,
Ainsi danse Jean Petit.

Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De sa jambe il danse (bis)
De sa jambe, jambe, jambe, (bis)
De son pied, pied, pied.
Ainsi danse Jean Petit.

Jean Petit qui danse (bis)
De sa tête il danse (bis)
De sa tête, tête, tête, (bis)
De sa jambe, jambe, jambe
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C'est Coco le petit singe, au zoo de Toronto (Cecile's song that Elaine mentioned with body parts - we'll do it next week)

C'est Coco le petit singe, au zoo de Toronto
Il m'a dit, attention, la main droite va commencer !
(start verse again)
la main gauche,
le pied droit
le pied gauche
la tête
la langue
, jambe,
De son pied, pied, pied.
Ainsi danse Jean Petit.

Day 5 animals

Activities (underlined text is a link to another page)
cane cane oie = duck duck goose Elaine's suggestion

animal noises for whiteboard on http://www.uptoten.com

see earlier post for other activities

Songs
une chanson is a song
une comptine is a nursery rhyme
un chant (de Noël) is a carol

une poule sur un mur
une poule sur un mur a hen on a wall
qui picote du pain dur pecking hard bread
picoti, picota
lève la queue lifts her tail
et saute en bas and jumps down

Le cerf
Dans sa maison,
un grand cerf
Regardait par la fenêtre
Un lapin venir à lui
Et frapper chez lui
"Cerf, cerf, ouvre-moi
Ou le chasseur me tuera !"
"Lapin, lapin, entre et viens
Me serrer la main !"

J'aime papa, j'aime maman I love daddy I love mummy
Mon p'tit chat, mon p'tit chien, mon p'tit frère my little cat my little dog my little brother
J'aime papa, j'aime maman I love daddy I love mummy
Et mon gros éléphant And my big elephant

played like “I sent a letter to my love”
Il court, il court le furet The ferret runs
Le furet du bois, mesdames The ferret of the wood, ladies
Il court, il court le furet The ferret runs
Le furet du bois joli The ferret of the lovely wood
Il est passé par ici He came this way
Il repassera par là He will go that way

Tried to find something like old Macdonald and found this
bird rock and roll
then found le vieux Donald in uptoten

2nd April replaced by 21st May

Sorry I can't do 2nd April. Can we do 21st May instead?

Day 4

New today was classroom language, birthdays and fêtes, and some traditional singing games. We also discussed Easter in France. Main difference is that it is not the Easter bunny that brings children the Easter eggs. Church bells fall silent from Maundy Thursday. Children are told that the bells have flown to Rome to see the Pope. On their way back on Easter Sunday morning they drop eggs and other sweets in the gardens. So in shops you see chocolate bells as well as bunnies, hens, and ducks.

Here are some bunny poems

Le lièvre a de la fièvre

Le lièvre a de la fièvre - the hare has a fever
L'escargot a mal au dos - the snail has a sore back
Le pivert a mal aux nerfs - the woodpecker has nerves
Oh là là ! que de maux ! - oh dear me what a lot of troubles

Mon petit lapin

J'ai un petit lapin - I have a little rabbit
Qui mange du pain - who eats bread
J'ai un petit lapin - I have a little rabbit
Qui mange du thym - who eats thyme

Mais un lapin ça fait des crottes, - but a rabbit does poo
Un jour, il a fait dans mes bottes. - one day he did it in my boots

Maman dit que c'est un vilain, - mum says he is naughty
Moi je dis que c'est mon copain. - but I say he’s my pal

Voki fun

Get a Voki now!

Day 3

Here's what I can remember doing
greetings: walk about with animal puppets
bonsoir good evening
bonne nuit good night (bed time)
à demain see you tomorrow
à plus A+ see you later
days of week
fortune teller game: download from My teaching files
weather with gestures
il pleut, il mouille
http://descomptines.free.fr/comptines/il_pleut_il_mouille.html
escargot de Bourgogne
http://descomptines.free.fr/comptines/escargot_de_bourgogne.html
colours with Elaine’s circles – guessing game
Elaine’s colours song
Salut Serge episode 8 couleurs

Next week bring props from your class for colours numbers and cuddly animals!

Audio files

I will burn you CDs of the course material audio files. If you can't wait to practise your pronunciation, download them from LTScotland

Bienvenue à Dalrymple!

Le bonjour à la classe qui a commencé aujourd'hui à Dalrymple.

It was lovely to see so many of you. Hope you enjoyed our first steps!

We looked at video footage of Flowerbank Nursery's children who switched effortlessly from Gaelic to Spanish to French in one session.

We saw a bit of Salut Serge DVD (French is fun - see previous Resources post) and looked at some other resources.

We practised greetings, names and numbers to ten and discussed approaches to teaching language and culture in the early years.

We concentrated on French accent, intonation and pronunciation.

For next time bring some props for practising numbers and colours - things you have to hand in your classroom.

Au revoir! A mercredi!

Nursery rhymes on You Tube

I found lovely videos of nursery rhymes on youtube

Including j'aime la galette the song for la fête des rois and a cat singing la souris verte

Animal games

Here are some of the games we played with the cuddly toys, several cats, dogs, a snake, a monster un monstre, a tortoise une tortue, a badger un blaireau a bear un ours /l'ours or teddy un nounours :

• pass the parcel with the animals - when music stops you say le chat and anyone holding a cat should hold it up. You should have one to show as well
  
• show me /point to Montrez-moi le chat
• find in the pile 1 child comes out Trouve le chat
• repeat if it’s true eg hold the cat and say lapin - try to trick them
• teacher has to guess. Child hides animal, teacher guesses, clues of animal noises. kids say oui or non
• magic bag - le sac magique put cuddly toys in a bag and put your hand on one. Kids have to guess. ie say an animal they know. You can show a little bit of the animal tantalisingly. Kids could take turn with the sac magique

There are lots of songs with animals and they feature on the salut Serge DVD