Our Il club italiano (Italian club) is a huge success.
The lucky Year 3 children are learning a new language and having fun too!
This week the children made venetian masks. I am sure you will agree, that they are Fantastic.
Year 3/4 Winston's Wise Owls
Our Il club italiano (Italian club) is a huge success.
The lucky Year 3 children are learning a new language and having fun too!
This week the children made venetian masks. I am sure you will agree, that they are Fantastic.
As part of their Creative Curriculum topic 'The Tudors' Year 2/3, 3/4 and 4 had the opportunity to work with the co-author of 'The Terrible Tudors' (Horrible Histories), Neil Tonge. He explained to the children some of the gruesome and terrible things the Tudors got up to using costumes and poetry. The children loved learning fantastic facts from Neil as well as showing off their own Tudor knowledge.
Can you guess the kings and queens in our line up above?
Which Year 3/4 is Elizabeth I? Henry VII? Mary I? Edward VI? and Henry VIII?
Here are two songs to help you remember the names of some animals in French.
The first ('Un chat...') is a joint effort by our Y5 girls who love to sing in French (allez les filles - go girls!) How many animals are mentioned, and what are they?
un chat.MP3The second one is 'As-tu un animal?'. It's a song about which pet you have (and it's sung as a
solo - bravo!). Which animals are
mentioned?
'Un, deux, trois' - This is a song some Y5 girls have made up and recorded - an excellent way of remembering your numbers (bravo, les filles - well done, girls). Question - how many does it go up to?
At Lingey House, we sing lots of songs in French. Songs are a great way of remembering vocabulary (that's a posh word that means...'words'!). Oh, and singing is also lots of fun!
Here
is a recording of one of the songs that we regularly perform in French lessons.
It's Y4 singing the song that we
learned when The Sage came to Lingey House to perform their production 'La
Chanson du Retour' (The Song to Return). Almost the whole school watched it last year - it was the play with the blue man ('Bleu') and the magic lights on the characters' fingers.
Do you remember it? Younger children can listen out for 'Bleu', while older children can listen for all the colours.
An extra challenge - which of the question words can you hear?
This term, we are learning how to introduce ourselves.
This includes how to say name, age, where you live and which language or
languages you speak.
Here is a quick review of the vocabulary
Comment t'appelles-tu? - What are you called?
Je m'appelle... - I'm called...
Quel âge as-tu ? - How old are you?
J'ai....ans - I'm ... years old
Continue reading Je me présente - Let me introduce myself.
M&M productions came to our school to deliver a production of Peter Pan. Some of us dressed up as the characters. Take a look below.
Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!
Did you know that French children don't have stockings for presents - instead, they put their shoes in front of the fireplace, so that Père Noël (Father Christmas) can fill them with presents! Children also find that sweets, fruit, nuts, and small toys are hung on the Christmas tree (le sapin de Noël) overnight.
Here are the names of Père Noël 's reindeer in French:
Continue reading Joyeux Noël!.
Here is a list of words for the classroom objects we have learnt in Unit 1:
un crayon a
pencil
un stylo a
pen
une gomme a
rubber
un taille-crayon a
pencil sharpener
une règle a
ruler
une trousse a
pencil case
une calculette a
calculator
un compas a
compass
un livre a
book
un cahier an
exercise book
la colle glue
des feutres felt
tip pens
Continue reading Latest vocabulary - Unit 1.
Bonjour tout le monde!
Another snow poem for you ...
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
On ne peut plus aller à la mer.
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Il fait très froid dehors.
Comme il neige
Comme il neige
Dehors, j'ai construit un igloo, dans le froid, avec mes amis.
You might know some of the words already - il neige (it's snowing), il fait froid (it's cold), très (very), mes amis (my friends). You can also see a word the same as English (called a 'cognate') on the last line - igloo.
See how much of the poem you can understand, then scroll down to see the translation.
Don't forget, it doesn't matter if you don't understand all of a text - just try to understand the main messages.
Continue reading Snow!!!!.
In Year 3/4 we have been learning about Ancient Egypt! Today we had the chance to investigate the mysterious death of the pharaoh Tutankhamen! In groups we looked at a range of evidence and tried to decide how we thought he might have died. The evidence suggested a range of possible explanations, including illness, accident and murder! After studying the evidence each group came to their own conclusions about what might have happened and supported their arguments using the evidence provided. As a class we thought 'King Tut' had an accident on his chariot because the evidence included x-rays of head and knee injuries. We also knew the young pharaoh liked to ride chariots, a fast and dangerous sport. Year 3/4 really enjoyed being detectives for the afternoon!
We had an afternoon assembly with the hope that it would be dark to celebrate the Christingle. We celebrated our assembly with our friends and family. Our whole class made Christingles.
