Curriculum Map 2006-2007      

The Dwight School
French K / Kindergarten (Primary Years Program)  

Content  Purpose/ Objectives  Activities/ Assessments  Resources 
Friendship 
(Week 1, 3 Weeks)
Say hello.
Ask someboday's name.
Count 1 to 5.
 

Oral commincation
Understanding people introducing themselves & their friends
 

Learn song about greetings "Hola me llamo..." , "Buenos dias como estas?"
Introducing oneself & one's friends.
Answering questions about oneself & friends.
 

Spanish for children.
Skip, hop and sing in spanish.

 


Our School 
(Week 4, 4 Weeks)
Counting 5-10
 

To learn to count in spanish
To recognize the numbers in the spoken and written form
 

Counting objects in the classroom
Pair game: recognizing the figure and the word
Number songs
 


 


Nov: weather 
(Week 8, 5 Weeks)
days of the week and the vocabulary of the weather
 

To talk about their surrounding in school
 

Making of a calendar of the class with the day and the weather on that day.
Games: lotto and "el casador de estrellas"
 


 


Dec: weather 
(Week 13, 3 Weeks)
The weather and the seasons. review of the numbers days and the colors.
 

To be able to talk about the the days and how we feel: cold, hot, the weather we like the best.
 

songs, dances and games
 


 


Machines & Additions 
(Week 16, 4 Weeks)
Simple machines:Les outils
vocab:Le marteau, le tournevis,la scie
verbs:pousser, tirer, tourner,couper

Addition
 

To identify different tools and to be able to say what they do.

To learn to do additions in French
 

Looking at picture books of workshops and talking about what they see, including quantities and colors.

Adding groups of things
Dice games
 

Usbourne first 1000 words in French
DK picture dictionary

ABC pour commencer
 


cent jours: cent mots 
(Week 20, 4 Weeks)
Les cent jours: preparation to celebrate the first hundred days at school by collecting our first hundred words in French
 

Revision of vocabulary learnt so far.
Revision of alphabet, plus introduction of vowels and consonants.
 

Making "bonhommes" with one word per man
Recognizing the first words and writing them
Playing hangman
 

Usborne video "First fun for French"
Barron's Picture dictionary
 


exploring art 
(Week 24, 3 Weeks)
French painters and their paintings
Grammar: prepositions, (dans, sur, sous, derriere, devant)
 

To learn about some painters
To know how to describe where things are in a painting
 

Looking at pictures of various painters
Talking about where you see things
Hide and seek activities
 

ABC pour commencer
Monet pour enfants
Renoir pour enfants
The French Culture Coloring Book p52 onet at Giverney
 


rain forest 
(Week 27, 3 Weeks)
The names of animals in the rain forest
Grammar ; verbs: grimper, ramper, voler, nager
adjectives :grand et petit
Descriptions of animals and their bodies
 

To learn to talk about rain forest animals and say what they are like and what they do.
To recognize that adjectives change in French with masc/fem/pl
 

Songs
Listening to descriptions of animals
Miming animal actions and saying the corresponding verb
Labelling pictures with parts of the body
Labelling pictures of the rain forest & rain forest animals
 

ABC pour commencer : lecons 44 et 45
Alex et Zoe 3 Unite 9 lecon 1
CD;Folies phoniques ; la chanson des animaux
Zap sciences: Une foret tropicale
 


From field to table 
(Week 30, 5 Weeks)
Vocbulary about different foods and how they grow or are made.
 

How to talk about foods and how they grow.
How to express likes and dislikes.
Grammar: J'aime, je n'aime pas, on plante, on achète.
 

Reading, L'histoire du gruyère
Looking at pictures
Songs "Plantez les choux"
Tasting different cheeses and expressing likes and dislikes
Watching video, Au supermarché

 

Zap Sciences
Lyric language French video
 


From field to table continued 
(Week 35, 2 Weeks)
As May
 


 


 


 

Updated: Thursday, December 21, 2006
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