Activities for all the family
Looking for a way to help your child pratice with French?
In this section, you will find activities that complement activities from Mon Magazine that your child is doing in school. Making them available online allows the Foundation to reduce paper, printing, and postal costs, making that money available to pursue its primary mission: giving children in developing countries access to education. Our thanks to all parents who are helping the Foundation to fulfill its mission by taking to the Web.
2007-2008 Here are the activities we propose:
1- Association game (PDF)
Peace messengers
Link each of these people to their country of origin, the reason they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the year it was awarded.
2- United by the same goal (PDF)
Circle the letters to indicate your answers and find the mystery word.
3- The parents' quiz (PDF)
Answer the following questions to know more about the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie.
4- Dare to dream (PDF)
Unscramble the quotations by placing the letters in their correct position within the column.
5- A dictation for children to give to their parents (PDF)
Ask your child to read to you the dictation below.
To download The Parents Workbook 2007-2008 edition,
click on the following link : The Parents Workbook - PDF [ Ko].
2006-2007 Here are the activities we propose:
Activity 1 - Associating games
A) Known works from unknown writers (PDF)
The following tales are some of the world's best known texts.
Do you know who wrote them?
B) A new kind of fable (PDF)
The passages below are excerpted from four of La Fontaine's fables. Find which fable each line is from and write the appropriate letter in the parenthesis.
C) The moral of the story (PDF)
Associate each fable listed below with the moral to be learned from it.
Activity 2 - History and biographies (PDF)
Ask your child to read to you the dictation below.
Activity 3 - A dictation for children to give to their parents (PDF)
Ask your child to read to you the dictation below.
Activity 4 - The parents' quiz (PDF)
Answer the following questions to know more about the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie.
To download The Parents Workbook
2006-2007 edition,
click on the following link : The Parents Workbook - PDF [960 Ko].
Looking for a way to spend some fun time with your child?
Put the quality of your written French to the test with on-line exercises in La Dictée P.G.L. en ligne! An audio tape reads the dictaction, and you can pause, and start again, as needed. You can even retake the whole dictation as many times as you wish. Now, which one of you two will fare better?
Want to send a kind word to someone you know? Then click on Cartes virtuelles ("virtual postards")! You can select one of our colorful postcards and send it by email. A unique way to send a message of love, friendship, peace, thanks...or how about something funny? Go ahead and make them laugh!
We also have screensavers for you to download to your computer. We're sure you'll find one to please both you and your child.
