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Teach French ColorsExplore les Couleurs FrançaisesThrough Songs, Poetry and Stories
Teach children colors and culture with "poèmes" and "chansons" from France.
Use the power of music, rhythm, and story to help your budding French-speakers discover les couleurs françaises. Traditional songs, poems, and stories reinforce colors vocabulary and complement the games and activities of this thematic unit. Colors VocabularyTeach the masculine and feminine forms of the French colors.
Practice the vocabulary online by listening to the colors at Hello World and playing a concentration game at KidsCom. Colors SongPractice the colors with this song to the tune of Frère Jacques:
French Flag CraftMake a simple French flag. All you need is a paint stirrer and 3-inch x 2-inch strips of felt or foam in blue, white, and red. Simply glue the colored pieces together and attach them to the paint stirrer. Voilà . . . un drapeau français! Poem: Les Papillons (Butterflies) Children can illustrate and memorize this charming colors poem by Pierre Gamarra:
Poem: Mon Chapeau (My Hat) Present this traditional poem as a CLOZE activity, with blanks where the colors belong. Students need to read the rhyme to determine the missing color. For a more hands-on activity, cut the poem into strips and ask students to arrange the lines into matching pairs.
French Children's Books About ColorsRead some classic picture books in French to reinforce colors. Follow-up with post-writing story extensions or copy-change activities.
Use songs, poems, and stories to learn les couleurs françaises. Source for poems: Momes website
The copyright of the article Teach French Colors in Learning French is owned by Diane Farrug. Permission to republish Teach French Colors in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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