6 tried and tested French lessons that use Music, Drama, and Art to teach children. Cross-curricular links to English, Social Studies. Fun and engaging and some songs include sign language actions too!
For Nursery/Reception to Year 4 (Preschool/Kindergarten to Grade 4).
Lesson 1: Embrosse Quatre Fois- Numbers, Family
Lesson 2: Je Suis Une Pizza- Food
**Lesson 3: **Animals
Lesson 4: Qu’il y ait Toujours le Soleil- Family
Lesson 5: Tout ce que je veux- la paix
**Lesson 6: **Name Change Day- French Greetings
Children loved these lessons and the teachers had fun participating too.
All music can be found on Youtube. Sheet Music can be purchased in a book which includes English/French/Spanish and other languages lyrics, actions and activity ideas (songs by Charlotte Diamond).
Not included in this mini-unit of lessons.
**Sink or Swim Story Drama: **determination, perseverance, resilience, never giving up. Character education, PSHE, PSED, Social emotional development. Literacy, Writing, English, Language Arts cross curricular links.
Complete lesson plan with guided instruction, teacher talk, games, activities, and assessment marking rubric.
Summary:
Valerie Coulman’s picture book (illustrations by Roge) Sink or Swim is about a cow named Ralph who wants to learn how to swim, so that he can get away from the summer heat. He asks several different animals to teach him how to swim and buys swimming equipment from the store to help him in his quest. Overall, this is a story about determination in trying something new.
Useful sources of tension in the story:
Ralph is trying to do something a cow is not conventionally thought to be able to or want to do. Because his aspiration is novel, he is first identifiable with as an outsider, trying to fit into the swimming world. Where, later, he becomes a trail-blazer or trend-setter.
Rationale:
This text has a definite theme of determination, perseverance and resilience. Children need to be encouraged to show determination and confidence in trying something new. Additionally, when the main character, Ralph, goes on his quest to learn to swim, the other animals he asks for help are sometimes very self-centered and even mock and tease him. Overcoming social pressure is a pertinent issue to address for our children.
Key Questions:
• What is determination?
• How can friends support you in achieving your goals?
Bibliographic information:
Coulman, V. (2003). Sink or swim. Montreal, Quebec: Lobster Press.
These simple ditty stories follow the sound order from RWI phonics and contains black and white hand drawn pictures for beginning readers. (Read Write Inc. Style and sound progression).
Phase 2 Reading- Early Reader- Easily decodable
Print, colour and laminate to read again and again!
This book contains no tricky words and is fully decodable. There is a practice page at the beginning of the book, and questions and game at the end of the book. Also included are letter tiles and word cards to continue to practice reading and decoding words.
If you enjoy this resource, please encourage your friends to buy it too!
PE Volleyball detailed lesson plans for how to teach the volleyball to children ages 8-12 years. Diagrams and pictures included.
Warm up, skill progression, drills, activities, games and cool down with timings included to make teaching volleyball easy!
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I myself have won a national, provincial and international tournament as well as coached players who went on to play at University level. So you can rest assured that this expert level knowledge (at a bargain steal price) will be top notch for coaching your teams or teaching young athletes in PE how to play volleyball and spark a love for the sport!
(notes for all 10 lessons, rationale, learning outcomes, IRPs, rubrics and more!).
More detailed lessons coming soon!