le pompier [leuh pomp-ee-ay] the fireman When we teach we like to use exciting songs that make the language experience fun for the children. As you know our motto is ‘Making Languages Fun!’ We often put a twist into songs or adapt them so that it reinforces our questions or the vocabulary that we have been covering. When we sing Au Feu les Pompiers we
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Sébastien, our mascot monkey, often likes to play the game cache-cache with the Petits Poussins as we practice our counting and verbs. Chercher [shershay] is the verb ‘to look for’ in French and Trouver [troovay] is the verb ‘to find’. We often ask the children ‘on va chercher Sébastien?’ [ohn va shershay Sébastien]- are we going to go and look for Sébastien? When we
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’Le Poussin Piou’ Song… http://youtu.be/6GsPLAslPIA We have already posted the Italian version of this song, it’s brilliant!! It exsits in lots of languages too! This is a great way of learning the animals and the noises that they make. Believe it or not the dog doesn’t say “woof-woof” in French, he says “ouaf ouaf” The cow says “meuh”…Watch out for the ending, poor poussin! À
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Voici Pocoyo encore! He finds a radio with his friends and they all have a go at dancing, but can Pocoyo dance like Elly and Pato? Get your children to encourage poor Pocoyo to dance and get them up dancing with Pocoyo in his own special style! Check out some of the key words and how similar they are to English!! la radio [lah
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A little while ago I reviewed the brilliant T’choupi App for learning colours. T’choupi is a big part of French children’s lives, please share and watch this with your Petits Poussins. This is a great compilation for you! As you know the more exposure your children get to the language the better! Don’t worry if you don’t understand, they will follow it, their brains
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<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/vjgrvtN2F9k” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Bonne fête des mamans! Here’s a lovely videoclip for you and your Petits Poussins! Have a wonderful day, you deserve it! xx
http://youtu.be/7DdOhOwRr0k Belle la coccinelle want to become a fly, she’s upset because the caterpillar – la chenille [la seuhnee] becomes a butterfly – le papillon [leuh papee-yon], but what does she become…it’s a lovely little lesson for our Petits Poussins, to love ourselves just as we are! Gill x This is a great story for reinforcing vocabulary…check out this video clip…the word ‘coccinelle’ means
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http://youtu.be/x_GqzWecDZg This song is about an elephant who is balancing on a spider’s web – une toile d”araignée [oon twal da-ray-nyay], literally translated as a ‘web of spider’. The elephant was having such fun in his game – ce jeu [seuh jeuh], that along comes another elephant. Then two elephants balance….and so on! I just love this song, it’s so fun and the children
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juqyzgnbspY&sns=em At Petits Poussins we work really hard to maintain our reputation and motto of ‘Making Languages Fun!’ This is what I deem to be a rather addictive video clip that will get us in the mood for our up and coming Italian classes, Piccoli Pulcini! Grazie mille Alexandra! This is just the kind of song we love, it’s educational but it also teaches
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It’s always a pleasure to share a special moment whilst learning languages… We had a great session in Little Diamonds today and look what they have to educate their Petits Poussins! Beaucoup de Petits Poussins! We always use visual stimuli in our teaching, it made my day to be able to show the children real Petits Poussins! Check out our video clip… Les Petits
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