Le Soleil: momstown Milton French Tales for Tots sponsored by Scholastic Canada

On a bright and sunny Wednesday morning, the momstown Milton families gathered together for a delightful Contes pour les bouts d'choux - French Tales for Tots at Indigo Milton sponsored by Scholastic Canada. 

The sun outside could not have been more symbolic of the feature book: "Quel temps fait-il? Le Soleil by Christopher Hernandez. 

momstown Milton mama Sam Kassam-Macfie explained that the group was going to create their very own sun to take home. Unleashing their crafty selves, the group got busy working on their very own vibrant soleil (sun). Little hands, with the help of their families, enthusiastically pasted colourful rays to make a radiant sun of jaune (yellow) and orange. 

Once the pieces of tissue paper and paper plates had been made into soleil masterpieces, it was time to gather round in a circle for story time by Madame Liz. Summertime adventures delighted the group as they thought about being at the plage (beach), eating a crème glacée (ice cream), and making funny silhouettes (shadows) thanks to the rayons du soleil (sun’s rays).

After the story reading, we talked about handy essentials to have during été (summer) such as a chapeau (hat), écran de soleil (sunblock), sandailles (sandals), mailhot de bain (swim suit) and lunettes de soleil (sunglasses).

And then we had the group go on an exciting search through the kids section of Indigo Milton looking for items that are great for the summer.  Les enfants (the children) found amazingly fun items: un jouet de cible de tortue (turtle game), un jouet des boules (bubble set), un jouet de sable (sand toy set), un jouet pour le petit jardinier (toy set for the little gardener), and une balle (a ball).  

We then sang some of our favourite tunes en français (Alouette, Petit poisson) and also sang a new one in honour of the sun: “Si tu aimes le soleil” (If You Love The Sun, which was sung to the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It.” )

The event ended on a very exciting note as we drew the name for the winner of the book. A very excited little girl smiled brightly as she clutched her brand new “Quel temps failt-il? Le soleil” book courtesy of Scholastic Canada. 

As always, new members are welcome so register here to join us next time!  All  one year memberships purchased in 2013 will receive a Today's Parent magazine subscription for 12 months!

 

Written by Liz Marques Kogan, a momstown Milton member and mother of two children. 
You can check out her site at: OrchidaWords.