L'âne Trotro

One of our favourite French characters is l'âne Trotro. Children in KS1 and even lower KS2 love his story books and episodes.

I have used Trotro to teach about la chandeleur, Easter, mother's day, father's day, birthdays, summer and winter holidays, Christmas, la rentré, friends, toys, etc...
The language in the story books is really simple, each page has usually a short sentence and the children love the pictures, they are so sweet!

I have created some worksheets on the topic of plants, but I recently bought two activity books and I am planning to use some of the activities about clothing, colours and shapes.

Fiches (Machouteam)

Fiches (Cercle Gallimard de l'Enseignement)

Trotro s'habille

Trotro petit jardinier

Trotro arrose

Trotro part en vacances

Trotro et le sapin de Noël

Trotro et les cadeaux de Noël

Authentic resources

In our language lessons, we love watching French videos and reading French books.

Authentic resources make the lessons more interesting and bring the language to real life. In addition, the current Program of Study aims to ensure that all pupils "understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic resources".

Madame Rivas is always searching for these type of resources to keep us engaged and to link French with the whole school creative curriculum.

Authentic materials and CLIL from NoeliaRG

Toto en Provence

Last year in Easter Toto went to sunny Provence, in the South of France. He visited Marseille and Aix-en-Provence.

Did you know that Marseille is the second largest city in Paris? The typical food in Marseille is la boullabaisse, a yummy seafood soup. You can also find handmade soap, Mrs. Rivas favourite is the lavender one :) and eat les navettes (sweet pastry with orange flower flavour).

In Aix-en-Provence, Toto visited a factory of calissons (delicious sweets made of almond), the house of the famous painter Paul Cézanne and the mountain that Cézanne painted 87 times!

 

Les repas de Toto

Qu'est-ce qu'on mange en France?  Qu'est-ce qu'on boit en France?

Our French Buddy Toto is going to show you his favourite food and drinks.

Year 1 are learning about Europe as part of the topic "Countries project". They have created these amazing buntings with the monuments and some of the French food on them.

Book hunt in Marseille

Madame Rivas spent some time book hunting in Marseille last week. There is a big book shop called Gibert Joseph where Mme. Rivas has found some new and second hand books.

Do you know the French painter Paul Cézanne? He was born in Aix-en-Provence. Madame Rivas visited his house and bought these fantastic books to plan some art lessons.

Toto voyage à Paris

Our French buddy Toto traveled to his home town in half term.

Can you name some of the landmarks in Paris?

Which one is your favourite?

                                                               Buntings by Year 1

Interactive map ofParis with short videos 

Les arrondisements de Paris 

Little Paris

Paper city Paris

Eiffel Tower craft

Book hunt in Paris

Madame Rivas went to Paris in half term and bought some French books to read in class.

As you know, we link the school topic to our French lessons (Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL) so Mme. Rivas wanted to find books related to our next topic: Countries project.

In the topic of Countries project, each year group will look at a different continent. In French we will read about the different continents and countries, learn key facts, traditions, landmarks, typical food, clothes and some geography.
We will be able to practise our dictionary skills and we will also be language detectives searching for context clues!