Resources

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Recordings of the LPE "book of the month" from Scholastics, including Mademoiselle Nancy, Gros Grognon and others:

http://willmoremusic.com/lpe/

 

Daniel Boone Regional Library has online books available at:http://www.dbrl.org/kids/ From there, click on the Tumblebooks icon and then enter your library card number.  There are many books appropriate for preschoolers, some of which are read out loud and some of which are in French.

 

This PBS site contains fun activities with Caillou such as singing French songs, painting, paper dolls & coloring pages.

http://pbskids.org/caillou_french/activities/index.html

 

This page contains more games with Caillou including a chance to dress him according to the weather.

http://pbskids.org/caillou_french/games/index.html

 

This is a collection of games & resources to support French learners in primary schools.

http://www.realfrench.net/index.php

 

The BBC has games, songs & activities at two different primary levels.http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/pf2/index_flash.shtml

 

This site contains about 30 games that quiz French vocabulary.  It includes some audio files

(the “food” game does include the French words for beer and wine).

http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm

 

This site is almost overwhelming in all that it offers:  games, animation, stories, and activities for various ages.  http://www.uptoten.com/enfants/uptoten-home.html.  For a matrix of available activities and learning objectives, go to this page:  http://www.uptoten.com/enfants/uptoten-features-search-searchpage.html.

 

A site with Christmas activities, including a chance to write to Santa Claus.

http://www.laposte.fr/pere-noel/LaPoste-PereNoel.html

 

The local library has online books available at: http://www.dbrl.org/kids/ Fromthere, click on the Tumblebooks icon and then enter your library card number.  There are tons of books appropriate for preschoolers, some of which are read out loud, some of which are in French.

 

The Milwaukee French Immersion School has a large selection of links to fun French sites for the kids: http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/mfis/Homework.htm

 

One of the more helpful sites on this list provides a search engine for French sites.  This page contains the results of the search for activities for young children:

http://annuaire-enfants.kidadoweb.com/sites-pour-enfants/petits/index.html

 

This page contains links to sites which provide more direct instruction in French instead of games or activities, including pronunciation. http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/mfis/Les%20Parents.html