To start the morning off on a crafty note, momstown Milton mamma Sam Kassam-Macfie, showed les enfants and their families how to put together the alligator puppet perfect for an interactive reading session with the featured book: Un bébé Alligator? by Robert Munsch.
After les enfants got help with cutting out the shape for the alligator body, they zealously coloured in their alligator body to their heart's content, allowing their imaginations to take free reign. Once their alligator puppets were ready to be displayed and of course, to be played with, they sat down in a circle around Miss Liz for the story time.
The children cackled with laughter and eyes widened in interest over the hilarious chain of events following a human family's quest to find their baby after accidentally leaving the baby at the zoo and bringing home a bunch of zoo animals instead. Eager to be an active part in the storytelling, the children made animals sounds as Miss Liz read through the story.
Following the reading of Un bébé Alligator?, Miss Liz held up flash cards of pictures with animals and the children repeated the French name for the animal in loud clear voices. "Zèbre!" they cried out when the picture for the zebra came up. "Ourson" they said sweetly when a bear picture was shown and Miss Liz explained that they could see it as their own little teddy bear.
To complement the featured book, we sang the popular "Alouette" song which was a wonderful way to reinforce body part names; pointing to mouth, ears, eyes, and more, the children were learning all the while having great fun! Our next song, "Petit poisson" (little fish), is always a crowd favourite at the momstown Milton French Tales for Tots and little arms love showing their swimming motions.
The grand finale is always the draw for the book and the lucky winner Quinton happily held his Un bébé Alligator book tight with pride!
We can't wait to meet again next month for another French Tales for Tots - Contes pour les bouts d'choux. We'd love to have you join us!
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Written by Liz Marques Kogan - a momstown Milton member and mother of 2. Her blog is: OrchidaForever.
