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Au feu, les pompiers
This video is the 19th in a series of videos of nursery rhymes in French. It can be found on my YouTube channel. Please do subscribe to it: I think you will find my videos useful! This one (click here for the video) is about a fire and...
Weekly French schedule – week 11
WEEK 11 - PRACTISE FUN WORDS AND PHRASES TO SOUND FRENCH, part 2 Please note: from now on the activities are the same for all children; the extra activities are more suitable for older ones. They focus on a different French sound each week and now also tie in with the...
Weekly French schedule – week 10
WEEK 10 - PRACTISE FUN WORDS AND PHRASES TO SOUND FRENCH, part 1 Please note: from now on the activities are the same for all children; the extra activities are more suitable for older ones. They focus on a different French sound each week and now also tie in with the...
Pomme de reinette et pomme d’api
This video is the 18th in a series of videos of nursery rhymes in French. It can be found on my YouTube channel. Please do subscribe to it: I think you will find my videos useful! This one (click here for the video) is about apples! Click...
Weekly French schedule – week 9 – May half-term
WEEK 9 - FRENCH ACTIVITIES FOR HALF-TERM Please note: the activities are the same for all children this week. Are you looking for the planned activities for the other weeks?
Promenons-nous dans les bois
This video is the 17th in a series of videos of nursery rhymes in French. It can be found on my YouTube channel. Please do subscribe to it: I think you will find my videos useful! This one (click here for the video) is about having a walk...
Stories about wolves
I was delivering training in London a few years ago when someone put their hand up and asked: "What it is with the French and their obsession with wolves in stories?". She seemed so annoyed! Up to that point, I had never thought anything of it, having grown up with a...
Weekly French schedule – week 8
WEEK 8 - PRACTISE 5 SPORTS IN FRENCH Please note: the activities are the same for all children this week. Are you looking for the planned activities for the other weeks?
Il court, il court, le furet
https://youtu.be/5hTmfXlisM4 This video is the 16th in a series of videos of nursery rhymes in French. It can be found on my YouTube channel. Please do subscribe to it: I think you will find my videos useful! This one (click here for the video) is about a ferret.. and...
Weekly French schedule – week 1
WEEK 1 - LEARN SOME ANIMALS IN FRENCH Click here for an alternative version of the song "le poussin Piou" : slower and with clearer pronunciation. Thanks to Rhiannon Perkins for sharing! Are you looking for the planned activities for the other weeks?
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- Are you someone whose child I teach at Shotley Bridge Nursery School Ltd? Click here for resources which will help and your child practise at home what we have learnt at nursery!
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- Did you know that in Newcastle upon Tyne we have a Saturday morning French school? I am one of the teachers there and absolutely love it! Click here for more information.
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