A French themed day or week can be a fantastic way to immerse your students in French culture, and Bastille Day is a perfect opportunity! There are a multitude of engaging activities that can be organised and to help you get started, we;ve designed a bundle of French cross-curricular activities which are sure to get the whole school involved!
1) I’m seeing Blue, While and Red!
Decorate your classrom with French flags and all things blue, white and red! Including your students in the decorating process is a great way to encourage excitment, so challenge your students to practice their basics with our ‘About Me’ bunting. Or develop their creative skills with our French flag templates which can be decorated using a variety of ways, our favourite idea is to create recyclable collage flags using off-cuts and materials leftovers.
French Flag
Animal Bunting
‘About Me’ Bunting
2) Bon appétit!
Host a food tasting session with croissants, crêpes and a cheese board! Students can have fun trying different flavours, especially with the cheeses ranging from camembert to roquefort. To make the experience truly aythentic, you could turn your classroom into a traditional French café. Simply play some beautiful accordion tunes and create menus for each table displaying what food your students can try and for how much. Adding a price gives your students the perfect opportunity to see and count Euros (whether plastic or real!) as they pay for their order.
Fruit and Vegetables Wordsearch
3) Cross-curricular
Literacy
There are many fun ways you can utilise our postcard templates. Firstly, you could read your favourite French book to your students and ask them to write a postcard to a character in the story. Alternatively, you could ask your students to imagine they are exploring France (either create a PowerPoint presentation of images or utilise tourist videos – we recommend changing the speed settings to x2) and challenge them to describe their favourite location to a friend and draw it on the back of the postcard. Acrostic poems are poems in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. Task your students with relating each line to something about France with our acrostic template. Test your students’ grammar skills with our Language Detective worksheets!
Postcards
Acrostic Poem
Language Detectives
Maths
We’ve created a bundle of number related activity sheets! Your students better put on their thinking caps to complete our French Sudoku. Students can practice their shapes and spaces by creating a dice from a net, with our One Pen, One Dice: First to Fifty game! Put your students in to groups of 2-5, ensuring each group has one dice and one pen, with an activity sheet per student. Now the competition begins! Either choose a student to go first in each group or see who rolls the highest number. That student will begin filling in their activity sheet, while the student to their left rolls the dice. They will keep rolling the dice until a 6 is rolled. As soon as a 6 is rolled, the pen is passed to that student who begins filling in their own activity sheet and the person to their left begins rolling the dice. This continues until the first student reaches 50! Roll to 100 is a simple activity in which your students have to race up the grid to 100. Equip your students with counters or ask them to simply put a cross in each tile they land on. They then have to write down the number they land on in the French word form.
Sudoku
One Pen, One Dice: First to Fifty!
Roll to 100
Science
Practice body parts with our mischievous monkey! If your students need a reminder of what the words on the bananas mean, this is the perfect opportunity for them to practice their dictionary skills. The same goes for our fun animal Tarsia puzzle – with this activity your students have to match the translations to try and create a pyramid. Lastly, we have included a simple food web exercise which allows your students to further their understanding of the flow of energy between producers and consumers.