Nursery - Prep 6: Je vais à l'école!

Watch the video - what does the little boy forget to pack? How do you say each thing in French?

Nursery and Reception: Mon Petit Lapin

Here's an Eastery song about jumping rabbits!

Nursery and Reception: Frère Jacques

Can you sing along to this?

Prep 4: Quelle heure est-il?

Prep 4 will be learning to tell the time in French when we return after the Easter break. Watch this video and see if you can work out what time it is each time the clock strikes!

Nursery and reception: Les Fruits

Nursery and Reception have both been learning the names of some fruits in French. We counted fruits on a fruity number puzzle, played fruit guessing games and watched the video below before having a go at singing the song. Reception also learnt why the apricot is the odd one out in the song - because it is masculine and the other fruits are feminine!

 

We have learnt the following fruits: une pomme, une orange, une prune, une pêche, une banane, une fraise, une poire, un citron, un abricot.

Form 2: Barbapapa

Form 2 will be meeting the Barbapapa family this week! Over the coming weeks they will be counting and practising their colours with the help of the characters, reading some books and watching some episodes from the DVD. Lucky them!

Reception: Le Vieux Macdonald

Reception are about to learn the names of some farm animals. They might enjoy this version of Old Macdonald in French!

Here is another version!

Form 2: Quel âge as-tu?

Form 2 have been learning to say how old they are. This video might help them remember the question and the answer!



Look at the BBC Languages Website for more practice saying your age.

And if you've forgotten your numbers...

European Day of Languages

We celebrated the European day of Languages a day early today when Andrea, mother to Benito and Celina, came to visit Form 1 and Form 2. Rather than their usual French lesson, the children practised greeting each other in Spanish and learnt to count to ten, having watched and listened to La Gallina Turuleca, a lively song about a hen who lays her eggs all over the house but never in her nest. The children all enjoyed the new language, were very keen to join in with the singing and counting and we'd all like to thank Andrea for coming in to help us celebrate languages. Muchas gracias!

Here is the video the children watched. See if you can spot the Spanish numbers!

The older children had their first ever German lesson, where we practised greeting each other and counting to twelve. As well as watching the number video below, we also sang Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken. You can listen to this below too!

European Day of Languages 2012

This coming Wednesday (26th September) is the European Day of Languages. This is a day to celebrate the many languages spoken in countries all over the world.

To celebrate this day at Spring Grove, rather than having their usual French lesson, Form 1 and 2 will be having a special Spanish taster lesson on Tuesday morning with Mrs Diaz Razul, and Preps 3-6 will be learning some German during the course of the week. We will finish the week on Friday morning with our first French Breakfast of the year.

Have a look at this song. How many languages can you recognise? Why don't you try answering the register in as many different languages as you can this week? This poster can help you pronounce the word for hello in lots of different languages.



Here are some more things to do this week:

Have a look at this BBC languages site where you can learn basic words in lots of European Languages.

Play the Let's Explore Europe Game on your own or with some friends.

Can you recognise European countries by their shape? Have a go at putting the falling countries into the right position by playing this Europe Map Match Game.

How well do you know the flags of Europe? Have a go at this Flag Dropper Quiz to find out.

You could watch this video featuring European flags before you try it!




Prep 5 and Prep 6 might like to try this trickier Council of Europe Quiz to test their knowledge on European Languages. How much can you score?

Little ones could explore the CBeebies Lingo Show website and learn some new words.

Have fun!

Prep 4: Quel temps fait-il?

Click on the play button below to hear 4C singing our weather song! They will be doing some forecasting this week!

listen to ‘4C Le Temps’ on Audioboo

Prep 5: 18 jours!

Not long to go now, Prep 5! Have a look at last year's video just to feed your excitement!

Then have a look at this lovely book we made...

Au Château de la Baudonnière du 5 au 11 juin 2011

Finally, just for fun, watch La Chanson des Souris! I think you'll guess why I chose this. Don't forget to learn your lines!

Prep 3 - Prep 6: L'Arche de Noé

This is a song all about the story of Noah's Ark (l'Arche de Noé) Listen and read the words of the song. how many animals can you spot?



D'abord avancez les girafes
Et puis les vaches et les chevaux
Les crocodiles et les corbeaux
Les souris, les hippopotames
Et les chimpanzés
Rangez-les moi bien dans le ventre
De l'Arche de Noé

Les hommes nous ont gonflé la tête
Avec les guerres et la misère
Et la bêtise, alors on a décidé le déluge
Mais les animaux n'y étaient pour rien
Et c'est pour ça qu'on a fait
L'Arche de Noé

Alors rentrez les hyènes et les serpents
Les autruches, les pies, les dindes et les faisans
Les zèbres, les chèvres, les perroquets
Rangez-les moi bien dans le ventre
De l'Arche de Noé

Les tigres, les aigles, les buffles, les lièvres
Les mouches et les chameaux
Les éléphants, les tortues, les escargots, les marsupiaux
Les chiens, les chats, les puces, les tiques
Les ours et les blaireaux
Rangez-les moi bien dans le ventre
De l'Arche de Noé

Et tous les autres
Qui n'avaient pas pu rentrer
Regardaient la pluie
Qui commençait à tomber
Ils étaient des milliers
Devant la porte fermée
Pendant que la mer emportait
L'Arche de Noé

Prep 3 - Prep 6: C'est l'Halloween

In what order does the witch put the vegetables into the soup?
des tomates
un chou vert
trois carottes

Now watch this Halloween video. Can you work out what the following words mean?
un fantôme =
la lune =
une chauve-souris =
une sorcière =
un tigre =
un serpent =

Prep 3 - Prep 6: Quelle heure est-il?

Watch this video with dancing skeletons. Can you tell the time in French?

Prep 5, Prep 6: Les pouces en avant!

Prep 6 do you remember doing this dance as a warm-up for the assault course at the Château last year? Prep 5 get ready!

Prep 3 - Prep 6: Les Parties du Corps

How many of the body parts in the song did you remember? Did you learn any new ones? How do you say bones and muscles?

Prep 3 - Prep 6: Les Jours de la Semaine

A song all about the days of the week!

Prep 3 - Prep 6: Les fruits

Lots of good fruit vocabulary for the older ones in this fruity alphabet song!

Nursery - Prep 3: J'aime les fruits

Which fruits are mentioned in this fruity song? Can you say them all in French?