4th Grade French Unit 1 - August & September -Unit 1- August - We will begin the year with our School Unit. We will review school vocabulary and the names of places in the school. We will learn several verbs associated with school (for example, to write, to walk, to run, to glue, to cut, to ask, to look, to look for, to want...) and will use gestures to help us remember the verbs. Our first project, is to watch a video about a dog in a school who is looking for the French Class. The students will watch the video without sound and will then tell the story together using the verbs and vocabulary that they have learned. Later, students will read the story that they created in both English and French. The class will then create a new story with the teacher about two students who are in the class, who want something somewhere in Morris Brandon. Finally, students will work with a partner to create their own version of the last story using the same vocabulary and verbs. They will present their story to the class for a grade. Our second project under the School Theme will be to read a story about an alien who comes to Earth and visits a school. Students will identify the verbs and vocabulary in the story and will later use them to create an ending to the alien story. This is always a very fun project! Students will share their ending stories with each other.
Unit 2- September - School Unit with telling time In September, we will continue the school unit by working with prepositions and telling time. We will talk about military time, how we write and read time in French, and they will read a story about a boy and when he does certain activities during the day and the problems he runs into because he is late. The students will sequence the events of the story to demonstrate their comprehension. Finally, we will read the story, Voyage a La Planete Terre, Voyage to Planet Earth. Students will create a poster about a community place on Earth and how it is different on a fictional alien planet. (for example, a movie theatre on Earth is a trip on another planet/you actually go into the movie!)
Unit 3 - October-November - Les T-Shirts - We will explore various sports. We will ask and share our preferred activities and we will sing about winter and summer sports. We will read about regions in Quebec and what activities are popular in different regions. For their final project, students will write about their preferred activities for each season of the year.
Unit 4 - December - Les T-Shirts & Holiday Performance - we will finish the T-shirt unit and will practice our Holiday performance song - Moi J'aime Skier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4y0FsYnrS0 December 22nd at the MC
Unit 5 - January - Les Animaux en Danger - In this unit, students will explore the names of animals that are endangered around the world. They will describe the animals, what they look like and what they eat and where they live. Each student will choose an endangered animal and create a report in French about the animal to share with the class.
Unit 6 - February -Geography Unit - In this unit, students will explore, compare, and contrast the continents. They will identify several countries on each continent, geographical features, and the surrounding oceans. Students will also identify a few endangered animals that are specific to each continent.
Unit 7 - late February - March - Pizza Unit - Students will enjoy identify various toppings that they like on their pizza. They will interview each other about their preferences and they will create a step by step recipe for making a pizza. Students will be asked to bring in one dollar to pay for the ingredients for our final project - making a pizza.
Unit 8 - April - May Le Temps Unit (weather) - Students will identify, describe, and finally create a poem about one type of weather (blizzard, tornado, etc.) We will use adjectives and verbs to create metaphors for our weather patterns.