Friday, June 21, 2013

Honouring Dad, "Mais papa...", French Tales for Tots sponsored by Scholastic Canada


Indigo Milton was filled with the happy sound of children and their families getting together for another fun-filled educational session of momstown Milton’s French Tales for Tots - Contes pour les bouts d'choux sponsored by Scholastic Canada.

Sam Kassam-Macfie, owner of momston Milton, created a colourful and eye-appealing craft display to whet the imaginations of the little ones as they envisioned what their very own monkey puppet would look like. In honour of the upcoming Father’s Day celebration, Scholastic Canada’s choice of the book: Mais, papa! was just parfait!
 
Glue, stickers, Bingo markers, crayons and more – els petits enfants amazed us with their creativity! Little sheets of construction paper were transformed into ready-to-play monkeys; perfect for an interactive storytelling.



 
But wait! There’s always more with momstown Milton. Sam very cleverly thought of creating extra special “Father’s Day” themed ties – the children pasted the Father’s Day poem provided by Sam and decorated their ties with immense and enthusiastic pride. You could only imagine how thrilled they will be to present the ties to their daddies on Father’s Day.


 
Craft time over, the children gathered together in a circle to listen to Madame Liz read the story. Throughout the reading of this delightful tale, the children cackled with laughter at the hilarity of the forgetful papa who during the little monkeys bedtime, forgot “les pyjamas” (pyjamas) and “les verres d’eau” (glasses of water) and of course, how could papa forget the “le monstre dans le placard” (monster in the closet)?

 
Following the story-time, the group sang some of their favourite songs loudly and clearly en français:

To the tune of “Where is Thumkin?” the momstownMilton families sang, “Ou est la famille?”
(Where is the family?) 
 
     To the tune of “All Around the Mulberry Bush”; we sang “Voici ma famille”
(Here’s the family)
 
Our sing-a-long complete, we drum-rolled enthusiastically as Sam chose the winner for the Scholastic Canada book. Triumphant cheers resounded as Hannah was declared the winner!


As we bid au revoir to our amis , we smiled happily thinking of the fun to come next month at our French Tales for Tots - Contes pour les bouts d'choux sponsored by Scholastic Canada.


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Written by Liz Marques Kogan, a momstown Milton member and mother of two children. 

You can check out her site at: OrchidaWords.

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