In five previous 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 last week of the six-week program.
This week the topic was animals. After introducing some common animal vocabulary (some of which they had already been exposed to in previous lessons), we looked at the map of the French-speaking world that we had been looking at for the past several lessons.
Next we looked at some animals in various French-speaking countries, which were shown on the map first.. As I have for previous lessons, I got the images from my own personal collection, WikiMedia Commons, and Photos for Class. Then we read a story that I used ChatGPT to create, and NightCafe to generate images for. Click here to read my previous blog post, in which I shared my process using the two AI programs.
After we read the story, I wanted to do some sort of game that would review all the topics we had learned over the six weeks, so I made a multiple choice game and used Eggspert to play it. Eggspert, if you didn’t read my last post, is a buzzer that allows up to six students to buzz in to answer questions, Jeopardy-style. The questions were mainly vocabulary related and all in French with images (emojis) for answers. The students answered what letter they thought it was in French. Since some students are just quicker at buzzing in than others, I switched things up part way through and changed to the “Wheel of Fortune” mode, which selects a random student to answer.
I decided to finish up with a classroom favorite, Le Poussin Piou. In case you’re not familiar, Le Poussin Piou is the French version of an Italian radio and YouTube song that first came out about 10 years ago. It goes through all sorts of different animals and the sounds they make (and the video has movements too!), so it’s a great tie-in when learning about animals. It goes a little fast, so it’s hard to keep up with, but it’s a lot of fun to try! Below is the video. Email subscribers, click here to watch the video.
The students and I had a lot of fun during the six classes and it was hard to say goodbye at the end. Luckily, another session is starting in a couple of weeks. Since I may have some of the same students in this next session along with some new ones, I am teaching all new topics, which I will share in subsequent posts.
Below is the PowerPoint I used in the lesson. For the multiple choice questions that don’t have a question (just answers), those were cognates (such as “un lion” or “un tigre”), so I didn’t put that in the slide because it would be too easy. Email subscribers, click here to access the PowerPoint.
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