So, we will start with the toddler session. Our new song this week was a song that Little Imp and I love in English - 5 currant buns in a baker's shop. I have spent hours working on a translation which would (hopefully!!) make sense in French and still fit with the original tune. I just think this is such a great song for practicing counting in English and I was certain it would be just as valuable in French if I could get it to work. So, I was finally happy with the words a few weeks ago and have been practicing to commit it properly to memory before launching into it at toddlers this week (on a side note we also sang it at the preschool class this week too!)
The lyrics are as follows:
Cinq brioches aux raisins chez le boulanger,
rondes et grosses avec une cerise surmontée.
Un jour (Little Imp) avec un cent est arrivé(e)
acheté un brioche et l'a emporté.
Un, deux, trois, quatre brioches aux raisins chez le boulanger...
and so on until you have sold out!
I made some cardboard currant buns and cents before the session and laminated them. The children then took it in turns to have a cent and to come up and buy a brioche during the song. It was good fun and they all seemed to enjoy the tactile element of the song.
Our craft acitivity naturally had to involve making our own currant buns that we could take home to play with :o)
To make your own you will need:
white card,
brown felt pens/tissue/foam/felt etc
black felt pen/sticky dots
red materials for the cherries - we had buttons, pom poms, tissue paper, cellophane, shiny paper, crepe paper, ribbon etc to choose from
glue
scissors
If you are feeling arty you can draw your own currant bun shape - if not I found a lovely template here:
http://loonsandquines.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/flannel-friday-five-currant-buns-with.html
Decorate the buns as you wish, not forgetting to add your currants and a cherry.
I googled for an image of a euro cent and made up a sheet in word to print out so that the children could also cut out coins to take home with their brioches to play with.
Here are our fabulous brioches aux raisins (well the ones I managed to snap a picture of!) to give you some ideas:
The preschool class topic for this half-term is greetings and the numbers 1-6. The first session we sang our bonjour song (the same one I use at the toddler session as this is simple to pick up and join in with) we also met and said bonjour to Jacques my French puppet friend. We all introduced ourselves to Jacques using Je m'appelle and then we did some counting. We practiced counting a variety of objects to 6 in French and we played a game which I will share with you now. We took turns to roll the die and count the dots in French - the children are too small to instantly recognise the number of dots on the die anyway and counting from un up each time helps to reinforce the numbers for them as well. Once we had counted the dots the child that had rolled the die could colour or cross out that number on their gingerbread man sheet, giving them the opportunity to start associating the number deux with the digit 2 for example. The children all seemed to enjoy the game and by the end were confidently chanting the numbers out as we counted the dots together :o) Here is a link to the worksheet that I used for the activity in case you would like to try it at home:
So, happy singing, crafting and counting this week!! Look out for the week 2 preschool class post coming later in the week! :o)
I love all of your posts! What is the "Bonjour" song that you mentioned in this post?
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