French

Innovative ways to share our learning

French this Term has found us searching for new and innovative ways to share our learning. Here are some of the ways we are using technology:

recording ourselves speaking French
sharing videos and photos
creating digital pictures
adding text to our work
using our family and toys at home to create stories and videos

With Sid and Mimi locked away in isolation in France, we have had to rely on receiving online messages from them. Unfortunately Sid has not improved his French counting so Madame Suzanne has asked Sid’s friend, “Simon le singe brun” to help us out.

Each week Simon sends us different messages – in French of course. He might do some counting, tell us what he is wearing or what he might be doing.

We have also had some other puppet friends join our French family and we are looking forward to including them in our next story. I am delighted to introduce:

MONKEY D SNOOPY – as named by popular vote by the Peppercorns.

KEVIN – as named by popular vote by the Sunroom.

LIGHTHOUSE

The Lighthouse children having been thinking about thinking, and striking poses of one of the most famous French sculptures – The Thinker by Rodin. We investigated the life of Rodin and found out that he tried to get into art school three times and was knocked back each time. Fortunately for us all, he never gave up.

We learnt the phrase “je pense…..” (I think) and shared some of our thinking;

Wren: “Je pense… that dice have six sides.”

Scarlett: “Je pense…that I like riding my bike.”

Indigo: “Je pense…that flowers smell good.”

THE LOFTIES

The Lofties continue to demonstrate their understandings by making connections across their learning. They are combining their knowledge to produce new work such as describing numbers in different colours. This is a tricky task as we are using our number knowledge along with our French vocabulary.

The Lofties have also been doing a new story and one of the phrases is "au secours" HELP!!

SUNROOM AND PEPPERCORNS

The Sunroom and Peppercorn children have been learning how to use possessive pronouns and adjectives to describe their real or created families. Do we put the adjective of colour before or after the noun, and why do the French use “roux” to describe red hair rather than “rouge?”

Some of the children uploaded their photos, others introduced their families orally via Seesaw.