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 

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