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February 2008 Blog Posts (7)

Jumping on the back of Jo's last blog!

Jo's ideas were inspiring as always and I just wanted to add my voice to one of her recommendations in particular... if you haven't tried using the 'Toutes les couleurs' story by Alex Sanders yet, then get on-line and order yourself a copy straight away! It's a fabulous little tale of a very endearing rabbit and how she manages to come home rather less white than when she left the warren earlier that day! I've used it successfully with Y2 pupils to reinforce colour vocabulary… Continue

Added by Jayne Jackson on February 28, 2008 at 21:30 — 4 Comments

Teaching Colours to Year 1

This post began life as a response to a question over on the TES staffroom. How do you introduce colours to Year 1? Here are some of my ideas:

I'd start with a phoneme eg 'eu'. Get the class to repeat the sound and devise an action to go with it (my class like to stick their tongues out). Then in a circle go around getting each child to say the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on February 27, 2008 at 14:30 — 2 Comments

Free SMART notebook stuff on animals

Been making some Interactive Whiteboard resources and thought I'd share a few with anybody who may be using the same software. I will eventually transfer most of this to powerpoint too and will add it to the post for those who don't have an IWB / compatible hardware. Thanks to Joe Dale's brilliant tip about adding the drag'n'drop macro to a powerpoint presentation, you should be able to move the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on February 23, 2008 at 10:30 — 2 Comments

¡Feliz Día de San Valentín!

I know I've shared this before but it is a classic! Listen to Mike and his beautiful Spanish love song ;o)

and here's more of the wonderful Mike!…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on February 14, 2008 at 9:30 — 2 Comments

Something to whet the appetite!

I'm intending to begin a series of blog posts later this week on the subject of storytelling in primary MFL. In the meantime I hope you enjoy these photographs of our school display, which exhibits work from both Y4 & Y5 pupils produced during a unit of study based on Eric Carle's much loved text 'La chenille qui fait des trous'.

The little mini-books you can see on the cupboards illustrate the sequence in which the caterpillar eats the different items of food throghout the… Continue

Added by Jayne Jackson on February 12, 2008 at 18:30 — 4 Comments

La Vaca Lola

Just found the cutest video on Youtube for Spanish.

I've just blogged about it on my blog but thought it was too good to not share with you (in case you don't read ¡Vámonos!)

So here it is -