Visit #4: All About Ogres!

Hello everyone!

We finished up our segment on area and perimeter and the next subject is literacy! Every week, the students read a new French story and this week the story is all about an Ogre! We really wanted to give the students a chance to expand their minds a little about ogres before they read the story. Since the children are learning a whole new language, it's best for them if they understand the concept of an English word before they have to learn it in French. This means that we needed an activity that was all about ogres so the students could become more familiar with them! Needless to say, this was a very exciting week, but it was also kind of difficult to find an aspect of the arts that was based on ogres. I couldn't find a song about ogres that was short enough for them to learn in one session, and so I spent some time making one up for them! They seemed to really have a ton of fun with it, and I was so glad to see they were excited about what they were learning. For the musical aspect of it, I taught the students how to use actions with a song to make it more interesting for an audience. They REALLY got into it and I got a ton of students wanting to stand up with me in front of the class and show everyone the actions they had come up with to dramatize the song. Here's a short video that I think you're really going to enjoy of the class practicing the song!