Friday, April 17, 2009

Reusing old workbooks and activity books to teach French

If you are like me you have a ton of workbooks and activity books laying around your house that you got free or bought or a friend gave you once upon a time. Your children probably did a few pages in each book and now you just have them sitting in a closet somewhere.

Well now is the time to get a few of them out and look for some activities that your children can do in French. The one that pops into my head first is a dot to dot page. As they connect the dots they can say their numbers in French. Also, coloring pages, you can tell them to use specific colors in French. Before each activity you can review the vocabulary this will enable them to remember it more quickly as they do the activity and in turn they will have more self-esteem in learning their new language.

Don't have any activity books? Print some pages off the internet. Here is a site that has free dot to dots:
http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/dot-to-dot/

And as for coloring pages you can find them all over the internet. Whatever interests your child do a google search for that plus coloring pages (ex: train coloring pages) and you are sure to find a lot.

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