What's the weather like

Our new topic is the weather. We have already started last week. Here are some links that may be useful for you:

Notre nouveau thème est la météo. Nous avons déjà commencé la semaine dernière.Voici quelques liens qui pourraient vous être utiles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUAvodj0dA The children love this song and video / Les enfants adorent cette chanson et la vidéo: Itsy bitsy spider

A picture book with the vocabulary we are using can be found here / Un livre d'images avec le vocabulaire que nous utilisons peuvent être trouvés ici: http://genkienglish.net/picturebookweather.htm

Cartoons related to weather can be found on youtube, for example / Dessins liés aux conditions météorologiques peuvent être trouvées sur YouTube, parexemple

Disney's Aladin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ugfxg5u7Gc

or Tracy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_z69ByfE0&feature=related

New Topic

Just on a quick note .. we have started with the Coccinelle and Girafe the topic "winter clothes" - les vetements d'hiver.

New vocabulary:

hat

scarf

boots

coat

sweater

put on

take off

The book that we have with this, can be looked at here:

http://www.genkienglish.net/picturebookclothes.htm

Snowman activity

This activity can be downloaded here: http://www.first-school.ws/t/ap/snowman_ap1c.htm (good scissors practise)

Week 3.January - 7.January 2011

The holidays are over and we are returning to our schedule.
In english we will continue with our winter and snowman topic. This week we repeat our snowman theme to slowly continue with the topic "winter clothes" next week inshaAllah.

This week we will (for example) talk about the cold weather, build our own snowmen (key vocabulary: snowman, head, body, hat, scarf, buttons, carrot), learn a small poem with the older children:

Head ball,
belly ball,
bottom ball,
Done!
Building Mr Snowman
is always lots of fun!

We will watch the cartoon Frosty the snowman (ATTENTION; only until minute 4:36!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeVaj4zkWy0
because after this the christmas topic starts, so if you watch with your children at home, please stop at 4:36 min.

Here is another video that describes exaclty our activities and vocabulary for the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESgy65Hjpbk
for those who like to work with the children at home and like crafting, you can try to build a snowman made of paper like in the video.

I wish us all a great start into the second trimester
Salam alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh

Let's build a snowman!

This activity was a bit harder. Each child received an envelope with cards (snowball for the body, snowball for the head, carrot for the nose etc). The child had to put them into the right order, so that at the end it would have a real snowman!

Cette activité a été un peu plus difficile. Chaque enfant a reçu une enveloppe avec des cartes (boule de neige pour le corps, boule de neige pour la tête, la carotte pour le nez, etc). L'enfant a dû les mettre dans le bon ordre, et à la fin, il aurait un bonhomme de neige réel!

The Mitten 2

This activity has been done by Atelier Coccinelle, Papillon and Luciole