French with Madame Vestey

🍋🍊 La Fête du Citron de Menton (épisode 1)

🍋🍊 La Fête du Citron de Menton (épisode 2)

🍋🍊 La Fête du Citron de Menton (épisode 3)

🥞 Crêpes Classiques - RECIPE

Le 2 février, c' est la Chandeleur!
Here is the recipe for classic French crêpes. Miam Miam! Délicieux!

250g de farine - plain flour
3 oeufs - eggs
50cL/0.5L de lait - milk
1 pincée de sel - pinch of salt
(1 cuillère à soupe de sucre - Tbsp of sugar, if you're making a sweet batter)
25g de beurre, fondu - butter, melted

👑 Crocolou aime la galette (STORY - listening, reading)

Crocolou likes the "galette". He is sharing the King's cake with his family. Who will get the "fève" and be crowned King or Queen?

👑 LE tout petit roi (STORY - listening, reading)

🎵👑 J'aime la Galette

👑 RECETTE: la Galette des Rois

The Galette des Rois is found all over France in January. It's filled with almond cream or frangipane (a mix of almond cream and crème pâtissière).


French and English subtitles available (click on the wheel, bottom right of the video).

👑 RECETTE brioche des rois

A recipe for the brioche des rois, the traditional Kings' cake in the South of France.

ps: yes, bakers used to make the hole with their ELBOW! 😜

French and English subtitles available (click on the wheel, bottom right of the video).

👑 Epiphanie: History and interview with a master baker (video in English)

interview with a historian
interview with a master baker (starts around 4min)

🎨 Les couleurs

🎨 Les Couleurs d'Elmer (STORY)

I know you're a bit old for Elmer stories... yet it is a great way to revise your colours and learn some fun vocab: "I am white like a snowman", "green like grass", "red like the sunset".

🎨 Pop mange de toutes les couleurs (STORY) + colour cards to print out

After the story you will find ideas of games and activities to do with the cards. They look great so I added the file below (ask your responsible adult for help if you'd like to print them out).

🎨 Toutes les couleurs (STORY)

🎨 Petit Poisson Blanc (Colours)

Petit poisson blanc is looking for his Mum...

Mamie Petronille et le pirate

Mamie Petronille et le ruban Jaune

🎨 DE QUELLE COULEUR SONT LES BISOUS (Colours)

Monica loves painting, but she has never painted a kiss before... What colour is a kiss?
Note: The word kiss in French is also used at the end of a message. Instead of "Love" or "x x x", we write "Bises" or "Bisous".

😀 Aujourd'hui je suis... (Emotions)

In order:
curieux - curious ..... nerveux - nervous ..... courageux - brave ..... timide - shy ..... émerveillé - amazed ..... triste - sad ..... furieux - furious ..... fier - proud ..... jaloux - jealous ..... amoureux - in love ..... en colère - angry ..... content - happy ..... confus - confused ..... satisfait - satisfied ..... peureux - fearful ..... sûr de moi - confident (sure of myself) ..... effrayé - frightened ..... surpris - surprised ..... morose - morose (when you feel blugh) ..... heureux - happy