Penguins Singing in French
Pop a Pigloo CD into the car player and start singing along. Soon the kids will join you and you're off. Voila!
Pigloo Table of Contents
- Pigloo - Moi J'aime Skier
- Learn the Verb: Aimer
- Je suis une cacahuète!
- More Peanutty Ideas
- Teach Me French
- French Games
- Penguin Bulletin Board
- Ice Cube Penguins
- Mr. Popper's Penguins
- The Facts about Penguins
- Penguins Sing in French
- Penguin Color Words
- Pigloo Noel
- Pigloo Penguin Eggs or Speakers
- Playing with Penguins
- Ready to Move to Paris
- Look Who's Twittering about Pigloo:
Pigloo - Moi J'aime Skier
The French YMCA song for Penguins!
Welcome to Pigloo.
These penguins sing catchy tunes that will get everyone in the car singing along in French. Watch and listen while this penguin sings about how he loves to ski to the tune of YMCA.
Pigloo recordings
Do you remember the theme song to National Lampoon's Vacation movies? That is the tune for the song Ca Plan por Moi which mean This is my plan. Since you already know the tune, singing along becomes easy, even in French.
Track Listings1. Papa Pingouin
2. Ragga des Pingouins
3. Boum Boom (Mon Coeur Fait...)
4. Ca Plane Pout Moi (Le Twist)
5. Bizoo d'Eskimo
6. Tous Les Pingouins Ave Moi (Oh Oh !)
7. Baleine Grise
8. Manchots et Les Pingouins
9. Yeti Superstar
10. Gla Gla Gla (Il Fait Froid Sur La Banquise)
11. Grand Rassemblement
12. Banquise S'En Va
13. Danse des Canards [Version Originale][*]
One Amazon customer, Carole, wrote: "know you probably think you've had enough dancing, singing penguins to last you a lifetime, but these penguins speak FRENCH. My daughter loves this music. At first, it drove me nuts, but then I began to tolerate it, and then actually enjoy it. It is repetitive and electronic, but it gets my daughter singing in French, which is a good thing! The cd comes with two pretty cute video clips - I don't think this was a full length movie, just a series of songs with animation. There's a bit of reggae, twist, and my personal favorite: samba. The final track, La Banquise S'en Va, is a sweet island song. "
Which was exactly my reaction.
Learn the Verb: Aimer
Aimer means to love or like
Moi j'aime skier[Refrain] :
Qu'il fasse bon ou mauvais
Moi j'aime skier
Qu'il fasse bon ou mauvais
Moi j'aime skier
En avant en arrière
S'envoler dans les airs
De surfer, je n'peux plus m'arrêter
You can hear the j'aime in the refrain of the Pigloo song Moi j'aime skier which means Me, I like to ski.
The French Present Tense for aimer
I like
You like
He/She likes
You like
We like
They like
J'aime
Tu aimes
Il aime
nous aimons
vous aimez
ils aiment
After you have gotten so that you can sing along with the song pretty well you might like to try out making up your own French phrases.
Je suis une cacahuète!
Which means "I am a peanut."
After reading Professor Q we started speaking french in the car everyday on the way to school. We make up silly sentences and ask eachother silly questions but when the laughing calms down we find that the words are coming faster and easier.
This is the best way we have found so far to learn french.
- French for Kids with Professor Q
What if I were to tell you that before you left this virtual
"class" today, you'd be able to write sentences in
French?
More Peanutty Ideas
Peanut Unit Study
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Nutty about Peanuts Unit Study
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Peanuts and peanut butter spread all across the curriculum in this new botanical unit study. Investigate peanut plants and learn how they fix nitrogen in the soil. Shell the peanuts and lean about mathematical averages. Grind the peanuts into peanut...
Potato Print Penguins
- Just For Fun: Potato Print Penguins
- 1. You will need to cut a potato so that you have a flat surface to stamp with.
- Footprint Penguins
- 1.Dip the child's foot in black paint or an ink pad and put on white paper.
2.Add eyes an orange beak and a small white circle for a belly and you have a footprint penguin
Teach Me French
My children and I have loved singing along with this tape. Again, it's great to just pop it in the car's cassette deck and start singing.
For the ones old enough to read, I like to post the lyrics on a wall in the bathroom or just keep the book in a basket there.
Teach Me French (Paperback and Audio CD): A Musical Journey Through the Day
A Musical Journey Through the Day Introduce kid's to the French language through songs and story. Learn days of the week, numbers, colors, and the alphabet as you sing along and learn. Sings include the ABC Song, Head Shoulders Knees & Toes, One Elephant and many more familiar tunes.
Amazon Price: $15.95 (as of 12/18/2009) 
Dr. Blair's French in No Time
Solve the mystery and learn french! It's surprising how much French you will know by the end of the CD's.
Great for pre-teens and teens.
Dr. Blair's French in No Time: The Revolutionary New Language Instruction Method That's Proven to Work!
If you plan to learn French in three hours, you're optimistic. But if you want to have fun learning a few introductory phrases and basic vocabulary, jump right in. Dr. Blair uses outlandish and silly conversations never heard in real life. During this program, the listener navigates through a spy mission having to do with cosmetics and scrambled eggs.
Amazon Price: $17.98 (as of 12/18/2009)
French Games
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French Card Games
Photo Credit: 6 + 8 = 14 sad penguins, WPA poster, ca. 1938
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Card games are a great way to have fun together while learning French.
Teach the phrases:
Avez-vous...
Do you have...
Oui, j'ai...
Yes, I have...
Non, je n'ais pas...
No, I don't have...
French Flash Cards by eeBoo
Amazon Price: $11.50 (as of 12/18/2009)
Linguafun! French: Language Learning Card Games (French Edition)
Play exciting games like Go Fish, Solitaire, Gin Rummy, and more as you combine red, white, and blue cards to form sentences. Become instantly fluent, with colorful cards making over 10,000 possible sentences.
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Hop, Skip, and Sing French
Hop, Skip, and Sing French (Hop Skip & Sing)
* Sing along to household words and funny phrases
* Learn to saute haut, haut, très haut (jump high, high, very high) by saying it and doing it
* Tell old stories in a new way--"Les trois petits cochons" anyone? ("The Three Little Pigs")
Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 12/18/2009)
French Bingo
Use the penguins for playing pieces.
Compose some French poetry for your Penguins
Magnetic Poetry Kids' Magnetic French Kit
2. Spray paint the cookie sheet white as the snow.
3. Children write French poetry for their penguins.
4. Compose some music to go with your poem and record your latest hit.
5. Teach your song to someone else.
Picture Cards for Learning French
or any other language
We put a couple of new words out on the French Word Wall each week. We have been learning Cheers and as soon as everyone learns the new words we all cheer.
Photographic Learning Cards - Early Learning Skills (227 cards)
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Cards with Words in French
French Flashcards
Berlitz French: Flash Cards (Berlitz Kids) (French Edition)
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French Flashcards (Usborne Everyday Words) (French Edition)
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First Words Flash Cards (Brighter Child Flash Cards)
Amazon Price: $2.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Penguin Bulletin Board
Make a bulletin board and add French phrases to tell about how the penguins feel or what they are doing.
Penguins: Penguins Prepack (Scholastic Word Wall Bulletin Boards)
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Playfull Penguin Bulletin Board,16-1/2 Lrg Piece,43 Pieces
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PENGUINS STRAIGHT BORDER TRIM
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Ice Cube Penguins
Add Penguin Shaped ice cubes to the sensory table and let the children move the penguins across the snow or swim down in the water.
Have the children put on rubber gloves to insulate their hands from the cold just like the blubber of a seal.
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper receives 12 Penguins from a friend who is doing scientific research in Antarctica. Thus begins an adventure in changing the climate of the Popper household into a polar habitat.
Penguin Pile-Up Game
Mr. Popper's 12 Penguins
We use the Penguin Pile-Up Game to practice addition and subtraction facts to 12.
12 being a very special number lends itself well to beginning the concepts of division and multiplication by grouping and dividing the penguins into sets.
Ravensburger Penguin Pile-Up Game
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Plastic Penguins
Penguins to add to your sensory table or for math manipulatives.
Make an addition or subtraction center with penguins, a white plastic tub with a large door cut out and paper for writing math problems.
Start with 5 penguins.
2. Put some penguins on top and some under the ice.
3. Write the numbers in the blanks:
There are ___ penguins on the iceberg and ____ penguins in the ocean. There are _____ penguins all together.
Have the children try to find all the possible combinations.
Safari LTD Penguins Toob
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Polybag Penguin Collection
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Plush Penguins
Melissa & Doug Plush Penguin
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Plush Baby Emperor Penguin 8"
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The Facts about Penguins
Penguin Chick (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science)
From the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series follows the growth of one penguin chick from egg to adulthood.
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Penguins: An Antarctic Journal
1. Have the children draw scenes to illustrate life there.
2. Help the children to write simple sentences in French to describe each picture.
3, Put the pictures together into a class book.
4. Record the children reading their pages.
5. Attach the CD to the back cover and add this book to a Literacy Bag so that the children can share it with their families.
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal (Robert F. Sibert Honor Books)
An enthusiastic traveler, she shares the trials (keeping paints from freezing in Antarctic temperatures, using a bitter-cold outhouse) and joys (seeing three snow petrels on Christmas) of her two-month expedition to study and sketch Ad?lie penguins
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 12/18/2009)
Teaching about Penguins
Penguins Thematic Unit
Penguins provides lesson plans and cross-curricular activities based on the following pieces of literature: The Penguin, Mr. Popper's Penguins. This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities. Also included are management ideas, creative suggestions for the classroom, and a bibliography.
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Magic Tree House Penguin Book
Magic Tree House #40: Eve of the Emperor Penguin (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
Children go into the Magic Tree House, open a book, and magically are transported to a different time and place. This time it's Antarctica.
Amazon Price: $8.63 (as of 12/18/2009)
Penguins and Antarctica (Magic Tree House Rsrch Gdes(R))
HOW DO PENGUINS survive in frigid conditions? What happens at a research station in Antarctica? How long can an emperor penguin go without food? What other creatures live in the Antarctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more
Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Penguins learn to Count
1. On an index card put one penguin sticker and write the number one, the word for the number one and the French word un.
2. Do the same with the number 2 etc. for as high as your class needs to go.
Variations:
1. Make the Penguins with Stamps and a stamp pad and have the children color them.
2. Make two sets to play card games such as Go Fish or Concentration. Be sure to teach the basic phrases for the game in French.
ie: Avez vous un trois.
Oui, J'ai un trois. I have a three.
PENGUINS STICKERS 120 STKS
Amazon Price: $1.74 (as of 12/18/2009)
Penguins Sing in French
These cute little penguins not only like yo sing in French but they can be used as cards to match with color word cards that match their scarves.
Penguin Coloring Pages
- Penguin Color by Number
- Again change the numbers to words in French.
- Penguin Color by Number 2
- Write color words for each of the shapes.
Penguin Color Words
File Folder Game for Learning Colors
Make a file folder game similar to the one above but write the color words in French. The children match the colors on the penguin's hats with the color words on the penguins in the folder.
The color of the hats makes it self-checking.
Draw Penguins
- How to Draw Penguins
- Laminate and post this How to Draw Penguins sheet near the art table to help children illustrate their stories.
Club Penguin
Club Penguin is an online game where you can interact with friends and play games, even adopt a puffball pet...thing....So waddle on up to miniclip.com to get your own penguin character today!
- Club Penguin - Miniclip.com - Free Online Games
- Make friends and play games in wonderland that is Club Penguin.
Pigloo Noel
Penguins singing Christmas Songs in French
Pigloo Penguin Eggs or Speakers
As a craft project you could blow out eggs, paint them with acrylic paint and hotglue on eyes and feet.
- Penguin Speakers-Penguin Geek
- At first glance, these penguin-shaped speakers look like eggs but they are actually speakers. Their eyes move and go crazy to the rhythm of the music.
Playing with Penguins
Penguin Salt and Pepper Shakers
Penguin salt and pepper shakers can be fun to add to the dollhouse, sensory table or used as game pieces. How many other ways could you think up to use there cute little penguins?
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First Thousand Words in French
Amazon Price: $9.35 (as of 12/18/2009)
French Translation
- Free Translation Online
- Free online multilingual translation software for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish languages.
French for Adults
Teach Yourself so you can Teach your Child
Rosetta Stone Version 3: French Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
Amazon Price: $439.00 (as of 12/18/2009)
Ready to Move to Paris
So you've done it! You have learned some French. You are now an expert on Penguins. You are ready to take the next step. Just hop on the plane to Paris.
Penguin Passport
Photo Credit: Passport
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
This idea could be adapted to recording information about different varieties of penguins.
Don't forget to add some French to each page.
- Penguin Passport
- A booklet for recording habitat, predictor and prey of various species with a Penguin on the cover.
See It and Say It in French
I keep a copy of it in the bathroom and flip through it often to add another phrase to our French vocabulary.
Occasionally I take it out to read with the kids while we snuggle in a comfy armchair. It seems to bridge all age ranges. It can even inspire art and writing exercises which lead to writing your own French Beginning Reading Books.
See It and Say It in French
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
Fancy Nancy believes that French is a Fancy Language
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Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy Nancy likes sparkles and glitter, lace and tulle. No amount of jewelry is too much. Tutus, boas, and satin are the latest fashion and she will wear them anywhere. Fancy Nancy is not just for little gi...
Look Who's Twittering about Pigloo:
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- AliTheAli
- Remy & Teddy have duked it out & are now laying down in the same igloo (aka pigloo). I think it's a good thing!
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- suzibewell
- @icpjones amélie & Gabriel are big pigloo fans even if I don't use in class - only have 4 x y10 classes to teach¬ sure it's their thing!
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- PuppyaGuineaPig
- @lahondaknitter hmmm. maybe exercise will help. thank god I have my pigloo to hide in.
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- EuroRadioTVHD2
- [les tubes - 2006] Pigloo - "Der Pinguin Rap" @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/bwku
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- radioshows
- Pigloo - Der Pinguin-Rap (Playlist - Roland Rube, Ariane Kranz)
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Sing your way into French with Pigloo
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What methods have you tried to teach your children French?
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- LearnToSpeakFrench LearnToSpeakFrench Nov 27, 2009 @ 10:38 pm
- Heh, this looks awesome for kids! I wish I'd had something like this.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Nov 28, 2009 @ 4:40 am
- One of the advantages of learning French in the car is that you can do it at any age. I improved my French while singing along with Pigloo while teaching my children. The songs have catchy tunes that are fun to join in with.
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- rms rms Apr 28, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
- Very cute way to learn French!
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- JenniferAkers JenniferAkers Apr 12, 2009 @ 4:44 am
- Fun lens with lots of resources! I love fun with learning kinds of activities.
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- WhitePineLane WhitePineLane Feb 28, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
- What a great lens! J l'adore! But now I can't get "Moi, j'aime skier" out of my head!
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- DesignedbyLisa DesignedbyLisa Feb 8, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
- Welcome to the Winter and Snow Group!
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- WhiteOak50 WhiteOak50 Dec 7, 2008 @ 7:43 am
- I just love the way you write your children lenses. Very good!! I'll tell you a secret, your lens are even cool for us big kids!! Have a great day!
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- AndyPo AndyPo Dec 5, 2008 @ 8:36 am
- très bonne lentille. Pingouins très jolis. Magnifique!
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- ArtByLinda ArtByLinda Dec 2, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
- Exquisitely creative lens, love it! Bon appetit! (I probably spelled that wrong...lacking in my french skills...need to sing with some penguins!) lol
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- JustBon-Crochet-Designs JustBon-Crochet-Designs Dec 2, 2008 @ 11:46 am
- Fun way to learn a language. My hubbies a French major, so I have my own walking French dictionary lol! 5*s
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Dec 2, 2008 @ 11:43 am
- penguins are so cute. Cool lens.
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- bgamall bgamall Dec 2, 2008 @ 9:59 am
- Wow, another great lens Evelyn.
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- rockycha rockycha Nov 22, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
- hehehe we're playin tagback - lensrolled to my english speaking penguins.... ;)
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- Tigga Tigga Oct 28, 2008 @ 10:45 am
- Welcome and thank you for joining the Just Kids group. I have featured your lens on the site. If you have a moment please visit my lensography
Best Wishes
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Sep 24, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
- Great lens, Evelyn.
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- beeobrien beeobrien Sep 24, 2008 @ 9:30 am
- If I'm going to learn French, I will definitely learn from a penguin. Nice lens.
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- funwithtrains funwithtrains Sep 23, 2008 @ 10:27 am
- Another great lens, Evelyn! 5 stars and a Digg!
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- boutiqueshops boutiqueshops Sep 23, 2008 @ 10:05 am
- J'aime this lens! Always fun ideas presented with sparkle and dazzle. Love it, love it! 5*'s my friend! Keep it up!
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- spirituality spirituality Sep 23, 2008 @ 9:37 am
- I would not count on a music video teaching kids French. I know I knew a few English songs before I went to the US at age 12 - but I knew them phonetically. Took me ages to figure out the meaning of what I had long ago memorized phonetically. Otherwise great lens as always.
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- OhMe OhMe Sep 23, 2008 @ 7:56 am
- Precious. Maybe the penguins can teach me French. 5*
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- groovyoldlady groovyoldlady Sep 23, 2008 @ 6:56 am
- We used a cassette tape of fun songs and a computer program made for traveling business folk. Unfortunately, because we don't speak it daily, all I can remember is "Je m'appelle Jim Rodgers. Ou es la concierge?"
However, I am marking this lens because this approach looks VERY FUN. Are the videos accompanied by any print material?
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- Susan52 Susan52 Sep 20, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
- I haven't, but I surely do love this lens! Great job! SquidAngel blessings to you!
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