Art and Games Workshop - Seasons
Second Easter holiday art and games workshop today - and the theme was The Seasons. After learning and revising words for the days of the...
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- Apr 23
- 1 min
Art and Games Workshop - colours and face
So, the first "art and games workshop" during the Easter holidays and we started the session singing songs. We revised colours - each...
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- Apr 10
- 1 min
Happy Easter
Easter! and that is the theme of our lesson this week. Four enthusiastic children, some card, some Easter stickers and the lesson is...
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- Feb 11
- 1 min
Passage du Gois
I live near Noirmoutier, a popular island off the coast of France – apart from boat and a bridge to get to the island there is also a...
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- Aug 26, 2022
- 3 min
Do you know the difference between GB and UK?
Have you ever heard of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic? As you might guess from the name, it is a convention that sets rules for...
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- Apr 14, 2022
- 1 min
False Friends
False friends, or faux amis in French, are words in different languages that sound similar or have similar spellings but don't have the...
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- Apr 10, 2022
- 1 min
Numbers and Colours Bingo
Today we were revising colours and numbers from 1 to 20. Before the lesson, I made 4 bingo cards with 9 squares on each and cut up about...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
April fool's day!
April fool’s day is when people play practical jokes on each other however traditions are not the same everywhere. In France, it’s known...
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 1 min
Telling the time ..
To help learn how to tell the time, we made clocks: Can you tell the time? What's the time on the clocks? Leave me a message with your...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
Using A and AN
Do you get confused on how to use the a and the an ? Here are a few simple rules.... A and an are used with singular nouns and are the...
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- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Scones
Today we were making scones. Scones are typical English cakes that are usually eaten with cream and jam! There is a debate on how to eat...
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Future Continuous
“I'll be staying in France!" This is the future continuous! It is used for something that will be in progress in a time in the future....
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Past Continuous
"I was running when I fell over!" This is the past continuous. It's when something is happening in the past and something else happens....
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Present continuous
"I'm running as fast as I can!" This is the present continuous. It's when we're in the process of doing something - here, it's running....
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- Aug 24, 2021
- 1 min
Freedom!
We didn't really plan the trip it just sort of happened. We left Challans and were on our way to Switzerland! Having been confined and...
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- Aug 4, 2021
- 1 min
Seasons of the year.
This week we have been learning seasons - and what better way than decorating a paper plate with the four seasons of the year. So getting...
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- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
Immoral testing to find “real” princesses
By ISOBEL Government of Fairyland has reached a new low: immoral tests performed without consent to find “real” princesses. The first...
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- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Making a felt cloud!
Today was a craft lesson! So out came the felt, glue, needles and thread ... My student had never sewn before, so not only did she...
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- May 17, 2021
- 4 min
British vs American terms
Since America declared its independence, English evolved differently in Britain and the US. This is what is commonly known as British...
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- May 3, 2021
- 6 min
Writing a letter
The Layout Though it no longer happens all that regularly, when writing a letter to a friend or family, the layout is freestyle. But when...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
Back to basics - Punctuation
Some punctuation we used on a daily basis and we no longer have to think about its use. There is some punctuation, however, that we do...
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- Feb 21, 2021
- 5 min
St Valentine's Day
So what is St Valentine’s day, and how did it originate? Love is in the air right now and for good reason. But what exactly is St...
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- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
So you want to go to the hairdressers?
When making an appointment, I find it easier to go into the hairdressers rather than using the phone. They will have initial questions...
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- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
Making a calendar
Incorporating the shapes that we had learnt in a previous lesson, the youngsters made calendars. (I remembered the newspaper this time)...
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