thanksgiving
Food Drive and Other Service Projects in French and Spanish
With the arrival of Thanksgiving, the holidays will officially be in full-swing! I’ve already been admiring the Christmas lights and contemplating the Black Friday sales. But it’s also a time to think of others. Consider some service projects in your French and Spanish classes over the holidays. Your students can help others while improving language [...]
Talking About Thanksgiving Foods and Preferences in French and Spanish
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November is the ideal time to teach French and Spanish learners about food. Tukey, stuffing, and pumpking pie . . . mmmmm! Get your K-6 language learners using the target language for authentic communication this Thanksgiving holiday. Find out what foods they like and what foods they don’t like through highly structured pair work/interviews.
Younger children need [...]
Handprint Turkey Printables and Finger Play in French
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I wrote a simple little turkey finger play in French for Thanksgiving last year. Check it out here on video:
Voici la dinde, dinde, dinde = Here is the turkey (hold up hand)
Elle a une tête, tête, tête = She has a head (wiggle thumb)
Et quatre plumes, plumes, plumes = And 4 feathers (wiggle 4 [...]
Send Free Thanksgiving eCards in French and Spanish
A hot cup of coffee, a warm blueberry muffin, and Detroit’s Thanksgiving Day parade are waiting for me, so I’ll make this quick.
It’s not too late to wish someone special a Happy Thanksgiving. Why not send a free greeting in French or Spanish? 123 Greetings is the place to go! Check out:
Free Thanksgiving eCards in [...]
ESL and EFL Thanksgiving Story and Activities
English language learners will enjoy discovering the American Thanksgiving celebration with a special Foreign Language House holiday download. You’ll find an engaging story, vocabulary games, songs, coloring pages, and basic writing activities. We’ve taken our popular “A Dinner at Plymouth Rock” story about Jane the Pilgrim, Running Strong the Native American, and Tom the Turkey, [...]
French Thanksgiving Turkey Finger Play
I started my French Thanksgiving lessons at the preschool today. It was all about turkeys–les dindes. I always get a kick out of asking a group of kids to imitate French turkeys with a glou, glou, glou. It’s just hilarious, especially with the random gobble, gobble and cock-a-doodle-doo!
I wrote a finger play as part of [...]
