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Friday 31 January 2014

Year 3 homework for w/c 3 February

Please complete page 7 in your books on the days of the week. Remember to add some colour to keep it neat. Can you sing your song, too of the days of the week and do the actions with it. You have 2 videos to help you which have been posted earlier to help you with the dates and days and months. Please watch and remember your months. Have a lovely weekend.

Thursday 30 January 2014

Year 4 Places in Town - help with revision for test next week - 2nd lesson

This is the video of some places in town, which will help you with your revision and preparation for the oral test next week, 2nd lesson.  You can also revise from linguascope.com - en ville

Year 3: dates - this will help you remember the days of the week and dates



Monday        = lundi                          
Tuesday       = mardi                 
Wednesday   = mercredi            
Thursday      = jeudi                  
Friday         = vendredi             
Saturday      = samedi              
Sunday         = dimanche              


January       = janvier               
February      = février              
March          = mars                  
April           = avril                          
May             = mai                    
June            = juin                   
July            = juillet                
August         = août                  
September    = septembre          
October       = octobre              
November     = novembre            
December     = décembre

Year 3: classroom objects to help with the vocabulary - please revise as homework for week beginning 3 Fev




Mots masculins
1. un cahier - a book
2. un crayon -  a pencil
3. un stylo - a pen
4. un sac - a bag 
5. un taille-crayon - a pencil sharpener

Mots féminins
6. une chaise - a chair
7. une gomme - a rubber
8. une règle - a ruler
9. une trousse - a pencil case
10. une table - a table

Year 4 Homework for the upcoming week 3 Feb

You must revise for your oral presentations, which, for 4B will be next Thursday and the following Tuesday.  You have the sheet on where you live, your nationality, how you get to school etc.  This will be done in class and you need to memorise it.  We will cover some places in town next week that you can add.

Good luck and thank you for your wonderful lessons this week, when you 'beat the teacher' in your transport!

Wednesday 29 January 2014

Year 5 - h/w for this week

Your presentations on family on the ipads will be the second lesson this week.  Please ensure that you know your presentation and have a script to introduce your work.  Most of you are ahead with this.

I am delighted with the quality of the work so far.  Well done!

Year 6: my routine


1.   je me lave              = I wash
2.   je me douche         = I have a shower
3.   je me lève              = I get up
4. je rentre a la maison    = I return home
5.   je me brosse les dents   = I brush my teeth
6.   je prends mon petit déjeuner       = I have my breakfast
7.   je m’habille                   = I get dressed
8.   je me couche                 = I go to bed

Year 6 Homework for week commencing 3 February

Please do sheet on daily routine, ie the times you get up, wash etc. If you lose the sheet, please see me before due date and can you make sure I have all books by Monday to mark. Also, please think about what you are going to put in your ipad presentation on school and daily routine, which we will be starting this week. The video below is a reminder. Thank you for the wonderful rap routines this week!

Thursday 23 January 2014

Year 3 Homework for week commencing 27 January,

Please decorate your front covers with French posters/pictures. Well done if you have already done so. Can you also revise numbers and the classroom instructions, as we will have a quick check to see that you know these. Have a good weekend.

Year 4 homework for week commencing 27 January

Please finish off your sheets on transport. The video link below will help and also help you to revise verb aller

Year 5 Homework for week commencing 27 January, 2014

Remember, we will be doing our presentation on the family in 2 lessons time to the class on the iPads.  You need to be fluent in what you are going to say, so please make sure you have prepared your little presentation and you can speak about your family in French

Year 6 Homework for Monday 27 January

Please do the sheet on your school subjects and opinions of them.  Remember they are jumbled up.  If you need help, please use the website atantot.com u/name mspicer
and the password is 6547 go on to Francais, KS3 and Le college and you will find box, c'est comment?
Please remember to hand your books in!

Thursday 16 January 2014

Year 6 Homework for Monday 20 January

Please make sure all your sheets on school are stuck into your book and complete the timetable sheet with True or False. Have a good weekend.

Year 5W and 5C

Please draw your immediate family tree as funnily as possible, using help from the Family Video posted last week. Then write 5 sentences, in French, on your family. Start off with "Dans ma famille, il y a 5 persons..."

Year 4 General Info for homework

Please make sure your sheets on nationalities and maps, flags etc are finished. Learn and recognise countries and nationalities. For help revising, use the linguascope.com website, go into elementary, and it is Galaxy 2, nationalities.

Year 3 Your New Spring Booklet

If you want to and have time this week, you can decorate your front cover with French pictures/drawings, as some of you have already done so.

Year 3 Homework for Monday 20 January

In your new Spring Term booklet, please label the numbers, in French, on page 9. Do not do the extension work for the time being. There is a video on numbers, which was posted recently to help you.

Monday 13 January 2014

Year 3 Numbers 1-20

Hello, this is revision and will help for this week's homework for the numbers 1 - 20


Sunday 12 January 2014

Mon bébé: Eleanor Rose Wraight!

Bonjour, ça va?

Moi, ça va très bien, j'ai la forme!

Je suis née le neuf janvier 2014 à 15 heures cinquante. Je pèse 3 kilos 600 (je suis un gros bébé!) et mes parents sont très contents!

I hope to meet you all soon and that you are learning French well with Mrs Spicer!! Be good!

Gros bisous et câlins,

Eleanor, Maman Couture et Papa Wraight xxx



PS: that's me in my penguin and caterpillar outfit, did you recognise me??



Thursday 9 January 2014

Year 4 Homework for Monday 13 January

Please complete the flags and label countries with the capital (in French). Learn the countries for homework, ie be able to know the French for the main countries. Most are easy, as they are like English, but be careful of spelling and remember Germany is different.

Wednesday 8 January 2014

Year 3 Homework for Mon 13 January

Page 23 in your exercise books. Please fill in the conversation with the blanks from the box on the right. The video below will help with this www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/all_about_me/videos/

Year 6 - Some ideas of French-speaking schools

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/au-coll-ge-earthquake-safety/1716.html
For Monday 13 January, can you please research school subjects that do, draw and label them in French, you can either do this using IT or draw them.