French for Kids: Les Saisons (The Seasons)

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Product Description ------------------- Winner of a Mom's Choice Awards GOLD Award; winner of a 2017 Tillywig Toy & Media Brain Child Award; winner of The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval; endorsed by KIDS FIRST!; Highly Recommended; by Midwest Book Review; winner of an Academics' Choice Smart Media Award Children love a birthday party, especially when it's their own. But when is Fritzi's birthday? Join the fun-loving Fritzi the mouse and his friend Marie for Les Saisons (The Seasons), a festive sing-along, dance-along introduction to French language-learning. From l'hiver (winter) to l'automne (autumn), it's a year-round celebration as children learn words and phrases associated with all four seasons. This lively interactive French immersion program engages children with colorful backgrounds, animated characters, catchy original songs, and live-action footage of familiar year-round activities, including sledding and snowball throwing, splashing in puddles, swimming, playing in leaves, and trick-or-treating. Upbeat live-action speakers introduce and reinforce basic French words and phrases through call-and-response and repetition. The video includes an easy-to-use translation guide for parents and teachers, as well as French and English subtitles. Designed for ages 1-7, Les Saisons (The Seasons) is fun for all ages! Make a playdate with Fritzi and friends for this delightful addition to Whistlefritz's award-winning French for Kids series. Review ------ It's not often that we get reviews from testers that call a product flawless and the gold standard, but this new release from multi-Seal-winning Whistlefritz garnered both reactions. We all know that kids love screen time, so getting them interested in watching a video is easy enough. But, getting them to watch half an hour in another language? That's another story. Les Saisons is hosted/taught by Marie, a warm, engaging and energetic host. Children were instantly drawn to her smiling enthusiasm. Together with her animated friend, a mouse named Fritzi, lesson time becomes fun time. There is live action mixed with colorful animation. Marie teaches about the four seasons directly into the camera, then draws the viewer's attention to an illustrated window with animation about the seasons. The tone is playful with just the right a of silly. There are a diverse group of children in the video, ranging in age and race, who also speak into the camera. They repeat the French words being taught and laugh at things that are funny. Laughing is a major component in immersion since it's a connecting experience. And the songs! There are extremely catchy, original tunes about the seasons that accompany videos of children playing in winter, spring, summer and fall. --The National Parenting Center, Spring 2017 Report Children find the perpetually playful mix of live action and colorful animation in this educational video to be so thoroughly entertaining that the cliche, 'They're not even aware they're learning', holds true. Behind this remarkable feat is the deep care and attention Whistlefritz puts into creating their language-learning products. The immersion method (everything is spoken in French) is a highly effective approach to teaching a second language, allowing kids to readily absorb meaning through context and repetition. This sing-along, dance-along funfest keeps viewers smiling and laughing the time away while onscreen players Fritzi, Marie, and a French-speaking entourage of children engage in a host of verbal exchanges and fun activities. The sheer pleasure of it keeps young viewers coming back, again and again, as they learn a variety of words and phrases associated with all four seasons. Available in digital file or as a beautifully packaged DVD. --Tillywig Toy and Media Awards As a French teacher and a parent with dreams of bilingual children, I consider Whistlefritz's Les saisons DVD to be an excellent tool for introducing young children to French. If your children are starting French immersion or have French-speaking family members, this is a great way to reinforce what they are already hearing. Even if your children have no previous experience with French, they'll definitely pick up some vocabulary and pronunciation after a couple of viewings. --Maman Loup's Den