In my last two posts, I shared my plans from my first week of teaching elementary French once a week after school to 3rd through 5th graders. Click here to read my previous FLES-related posts. In this post I’ll share my plans from the third week of the six week program.
This week students learned the parts of the body. I used some emojis to illustrate the parts of the body as I introduced them. Below is a PowerPoint with words and emojis. Email subscribers, click here to view the PowerPoint.
Students continued to work on the book they started last week. This week, they labeled the parts of the body and colored in the person to look like themselves. Click here to access the entire book.
I found a version of “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” in French that I thought would be perfect. The kids loved it! It’s a lot of fun, because it progressively gets faster and faster until it’s almost impossible to keep up with. We played the video twice and got a good workout! Email subscribers, click here to watch the video.
Next we played to old standard, Simon Says, or Jacques a dit, in French, using the newly learned vocabulary. Of course it was still pretty new for them, so I did the actions as I said them instead of just expecting them to know.
Although we had already done one song, I had to include Igor le Gorille, a song which incorporates body parts that my 7th graders love. The elementary students loved it just as much. Email subscribers, click here to watch the video.
To close out, we repeated the “Voilà” game we played last week, because the students enjoyed it so much, and it’s nice to review previous material.
If you’re interested in ideas for teaching body parts to middle school students, click here for more ideas. I’d love to hear your ideas for teaching body parts in the comments!
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I went to the blog post from 2017 to see your other ideas and teaching body parts and love the “Abstract Art” feature. It would be such a nice activity as an introduction to Picasso or other such artists!
That’s a good point, Swaz!