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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?

The 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?

as tu un animal.MP3

'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?

un deux trois.MP3

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

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:

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

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.   

In Year 4 we are currently researching and learning about the topic of ancient Egypt. So far we have thoroughly enjoyed investigating how the pyramids were made and how the ancient Egyptians communicated through the use of hieroglyphics. We have even had a chance to get up close and personal with characters taken from actual ancient Egyptian stories such as Rhodopus, the Pharaoh and Horus taken from the first ever story of Cinderella. We in year 4 are still very excited as next lesson we are finding out all about mummification we'll keep you up to date on all the gory facts!