In my last four 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 fifth week of the six-week program.
This week, the topic was colors. In addition to learning how to say the most common colors in French, we continued our study of the French-speaking world, and through coloring flags of various French-speaking areas, students learned more places where French is spoken. I again showed them the map from last week:
After being introduced to the colors, I showed them the below video, where they listened again to the colors and repeated (email subscribers, click here to watch the video):
After we watched the video, I showed students various colors and they had to see if they could remember how to say them in French. Then students named which color they prefer. You can see the prompts for this in the PowerPoint below. After that, it was time to work in their books again (they have been working on these since week two). Below is the page they worked on this week. Click here to access the whole book.
This is essentially a color by number activity. It should be noted that I learned after making this up that Martinique recently changed their flag. I showed the students the new flag and I have updated it in all the materials I have posted on here with it. After coloring in the flags, I showed the flags on the PowerPoint so students could see if they had colored correctly, and I showed some photos from each place so students could get an idea of how varied the landscapes and scenery of the French speaking world are. Once again, I used Photos for Class, the wonderful tool that Swaz Piron told me about, and WikiMedia Commons to source the photos, as well as some of my own for the places I’ve been. Below is the PowerPoint I used. Email subscribers, click here to view the PowerPoint.
After looking at the photos of the French-speaking world and checking their flags, we played “Tapez” (the flyswatter game), where students take turns squaring off to see who can be the first person to tap a color on the screen. Then we finished up with a video I show my 7th grade students, Pop mange de toutes les couleurs. Below is the video (email subscribers, click here to watch the video):
In my next post I will share how we finished off the 6 week program.
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