Les Dinosaures Apprenent les Couleurs was our Scholastic Canada Sponsored book at our French Tales for Tots Program

Spring has finally graced us with its glorious warmth. And our grateful eyes filled with its joyous colours as we take in the colours of the flowers and the brightness of the green grass. Colours were indeed on the mind of the momstown Milton group as little ones and their families gathered together at Indigo for another fun and educational French Tales for Tots session sponsored by Scholastic Canada.

After momstown Milton mama, Sam Kassam-Macfie, explained the easy-to-make dinosaur craft , the little hands went straight to work!  They had fun pasting the colourful scales on the dinosaurs body and repeating the names of the colours in French: "Jaune (yellow)! Rouge (red) as they assembled them.

Finished dinosaur crafts proudly in hand, it was time to sit down and read the Scholastic Canada featured book: Les dinosaures apprenent les couleurs by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. The children's imaginations soared to bright and colourful heights as they followed the adventures of ten dinosaurs as they described their lives in colour. Little eyes and ears were enraptured by the descriptions: une serviette violette sur le plancher (a purple towel on the floor) and pointed eagerly at the pictures and repeated phrases as Madame Liz read through the French passage of the book first and then translated into English.

Following the reading of the featured Les dinosaures apprenent les couleurs, Madame Liz went through another book called Les formes, les couleurs which reinforced the lessons of shapes and colours. The children were asked to show where the various shapes were (for example, square - carré)  and had a lot of fun doing it!  

After singing a few crowd favourites, the group played a fun and very interactive game reinforcing the colours they had just learned. Singing about a bakery stocked with delicious donuts, the children were asked to identify the number of donuts (for example, deux - two) on the ground and choose the donut colour (for example, brun - brown) as called out.

The children also got a hand in playing a colours matching game with their families as each child was given a sheet of paper and with the help of their families, had to match the name of the colour in French  as it was called out alongside with the colour block.

Before concluding, a draw was held for the Scholastic Canada featured book,  Les dinosaures apprenent les couleurs,  and the very joyeux winner was little Zachary!

Au revoir amis! See you next month.

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Written by Liz Marques Kogan, a momstown Milton member and mother of two children. You can check out her blog at: www.orchidaforever.blogspot.ca