Year at a Glance Songs; Body Parts; Colors; Numbers Apples Parts of the Classroom Letter of the Week (ongoing) The Farm Science Unit (buoyancy) Halloween National French Week Thanksgiving Winter Holidays Winter (clothing, weather, sports) Journal Writing (start writing) Black History Month 100th Day of School Valentine's Day Spring; Flowers Prepare for School Performance Food (fruits and vegetables) Change of Seasons Shapes The Community and Transportation The Zoo

School Profile
Jai Scott teaches kindergarten at Ecole Kenwood, a K-8 French immersion school in Columbus, Ohio. At the Kenwood School, instruction is in French, so that the school's 400 students learn to read, write, and speak French as they learn the standard curriculum mandated by the Columbus Public Schools. When students leave Kenwood, they receive two Carnegie Units (high school credits) in French. Students also study Spanish in grades 6-8, for which they receive one Carnegie Unit. The following table shows what percentage of each day students spend learning in French and in English at each grade level:

Lesson Design
When designing his lessons, Mr. Scott refers to the Columbus Public Schools Benchmarks, which are aligned with the Ohio Academic Content Standards (see Resources). The focus of each lesson is the academic content, with French as the means of instruction. Mr. Scott's students study the same sequence of units studied by all kindergartners in Columbus. However, because his students must understand the content in a new language, Mr. Scott, who is certified to teach elementary school, relies more heavily on visuals, hand gestures, repetition, songs, and movement to make meaning clear than he might in an elementary classroom taught in English. These strategies also meet the different learning styles of his young students and retain their attention during a full-day class.

The Lesson
In this lesson, students studied vocabulary for the different parts of the body while reading a story and singing a song about the chicken pox. Some students knew about the chicken pox from personal experience, and students had learned some of the body parts vocabulary in a previous lesson. Some also knew initial letter sounds in English, which helped them recognize the corresponding vocabulary words in French. The class next moved on to a lesson about the common cold.

• Developing Literacy: In a primarily oral class, the teacher begins to show the sound/symbol correspondence in written alphabetic languages. (In character languages such as Chinese, students develop connections between oral vocabulary and the character with the same meaning.)
• Storytelling: The teacher communicates the meaning of a story by paraphrasing the text in the target language and showing its illustrations, while frequently checking for learner comprehension and reaction.