Week+12+Easter

Objective:[[image:spring.jpg width="118" height="125" align="right"]]
To learn about how Easter is celebrated in France (Intercultural Understanding).

Resources:
 Colours song - Year 3 French CD, Bon appétit Monsier Lapin and PP with flashcards and activities (T’s pool, year 3, planning, French). Colour by numbers Easter sheet (Easter eggs) > []
 * ~  ||~ Description ||~ Resources ||
 * ~ Starter || * **Sing colours song** using ‘London’s burning’ tune or watch this YouTube //'Arc-en-ciel'// (rainbow) song (click here)
 * Discuss information about Easter celebrations in France (from a child’s point of view) and compare with children’s own celebrations. Use wensites adjacent for background information.
 *  Teach children to say key phrases ‘Happy Easter’ ( //Joyeuses Pâques// or //Bonnes Pâques// ), ‘Easter egg’ (//un oeuf de//  //Pâques// ) , ‘Good Friday’ ( //Le Saint Vendredi// ) and ‘Easter Monday’ ( //Le jour de//  Pâques ) use the PowerPoint adjacent for support, || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Explanation in English of how Easter is celebrated in France from [] and

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// Teachers note: Most children will need the French words to copy and the skill will be to copy exactly - however other children may be more advanced and might be able to remember some of the colour words and try writing them from memory. // || * Click here download French instructions from Auxpetitsmains.com for children make an Easter chick card - can groups use the images to work out what to do?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A very simple PowerPoint introducing some Easter vocabulary and practising numbers/colours at the end
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:Easter_with_dragndrop_macro.ppt]] ||
 * ~ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Main Activity || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Children to write <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">‘Joyeuses Pâques’ in the centre of their Easter picture, and begin to make their own 'colour by numbers’, writing and reading French colour names.
 * Right click and save the link below for a black and white image of Easter eggs for children to add a 'key' in French of colours in order to create colour-by-numbers worksheets for each other to complete [|oeufs_de_paques.gif] (open and right click 'save as' to download) ||
 * ~ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plenary || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bon appétit Monsier Lapin // story (link to IU) and children respond with an action every time they hear a word with the “on” phoneme. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See link for PowerPoint of story, teaching sequence, flashcards of animals and follow up activities, if desired. || * Link for materials for Bon Appétit Monsieur Lapin story ||