Halloween Coloring Activity

I found an awesome new website: http://dessinemoiunehistoire.net/category/halloween/  Bookmark it!!!

And I am especially excited about the coloring activity for Halloween to go with my color lesson next week.  Download it on the link above.  Enjoy!!

Teaching Time with The Grouchy Ladybug - En Français

Used by Kindergarten and Elementary teachers around (I actually got the idea from a First Grade teacher), Eric Carl's The Grouchy Ladybug is a great resource to build literacy skills and teach time.  I have adapted many of their ideas to work for a High School French One Class.  This lesson idea is a great application for telling time and expressing the time in French, and building some reading comprehension skills in the Novice Level.  All of my resources I found FREE online from other primary teachers and I have explained how I adapted them to work in our High School setting.

• Establish prior knowledge of telling time in French and review the construction.
• Introduce the project of "Creating a Comic Strip" about La Coccinelle Mal Lunée and partner the students up with a "comic" partner.  Each group will submit one finished comic.
• Introduce a word wall with the animals from the book.   

• Read the digital version of the French text....or use a hardback version.  The hardback is now available from Teacher's Discovery: http://www.teachersdiscovery.com/search-results/?q=1B4027V
• Provide the same digital version to them through Google class, Weebly, or other classroom manager.
• Allow them 20 minutes to interpret the story into a comic strip where every box must contain: The time written in a complete sentence, a picture of the animal and its vocabulary, and the two phrases that the Ladybug repeats "Tu veux te battre?"  "Tu n'es pas assez gros pour moi."

 

Resources:

• Digital Version of Book in French  http://materalbum.free.fr/coccinellemallunee/coxalbum.pdf
• I copied my Comic Strip Template and got pictures for my word wall from: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/grouchy_ladybug.php

Chanson de la coccinelle… 

(Air de frère jacques) 

Coccinelle, coccinelle 

Bats des ailes, bats des ailes 

Pour rejoindre le ciel, pour rejoindre 

le ciel 

Tout là-haut, tout là-haut!

Haitian Days of the Week Song, "Ma Mère S'Appelle La Semaine"

This is a song I learned this summer while teaching in Cap Haitien, Haiti.  Caution, Sunday is described in the song as the day saved for prayer.  You can approach this from a cultural perspective and teach that 70-80% of Haiti is practicing Christian (Protestant and Catholic) and only 20-30% practice Voodoo.  You can also use as a discussion about the difference in laws of separation of church and state that The US and France both have and Haiti does not.  Then, decide per your demographics and administration if it will be a one-day song/cultural lesson, or if you can incorporate this into learning the Days of the Week.

"Ma mère s'appelle la semaine

elle a 7 jolis enfants.

Ma Mere s'appelle la semaine

elle a 7 jolis enfants.

Lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi,

dimanche est le plus tranquille,

il a vit for la prier."

Recording of La mere s'appelle la semain