The Classroom Kit: Premiers Pas | French Edition

Premiers Pas gives you 9 weeks of structured French learning without having to plan lessons, search for activities, or create your own materials. This French-only classroom program for ages 4–7 is fully guided and ready to teach.

Each week introduces a small, manageable set of new vocabulary through illustrated coloring scenes, short French sentences, vocabulary cards, games, and activities. As the program progresses, words from previous weeks return again and again, helping children recognize them in new contexts and gradually combine what they know.

Nine Weeks of Learning

The program begins with language children can immediately use with one another — saying hello, introducing themselves, asking names, and saying please and thank you — before expanding into their classroom and other familiar topics.

Over the nine weeks, students explore:

Bonjour !
À l’école
Les couleurs
Les nombres & les formes
Les consignes
Le corps
Ma routine du matin
Ma routine du soir
Je maîtrise les bases !

By the final week, vocabulary is no longer separated into individual themes. Children bring together what they have learned in everyday situations: ordering cookies and candy at the bakery, visiting the doctor, tidying a very messy kitchen, and exploring a library.

The goal is simple: help children discover that the words they have learned can work together to help them understand, describe, answer, choose, count, identify, and communicate in French.

A Consistent 5-Day Structure

Each of the first eight weeks follows the same rhythm, so teachers and students quickly know what to expect.

Days 1–3 — Learn Through a New Scene
Three new words are introduced each day through a new scene with Naya. Children encounter the vocabulary in context through an illustrated coloring page, short French sentences, vocabulary cards, and guided games and activities.

Day 4 — Let’s Play With It All!
The week comes together through review and play, while bringing back vocabulary learned earlier in the program.

Day 5 — Make It Personal!
Students use what they have learned to talk about themselves and their own lives — their classroom, favorite colors, body, routines, experiences, and more — and create their own vocabulary card.

At the end of each week, a simple self-assessment invites children to identify the words they feel they know. This gives teachers a quick picture of where students feel confident and where more practice may be useful, while helping children become comfortable recognizing and communicating what they know — and what they don’t know yet.

Built-In Repetition

Vocabulary from earlier weeks keeps coming back in new combinations and situations. Colors describe objects, numbers combine with shapes, classroom words return in instructions, and body and routine vocabulary reappear in later activities. By Week 9, students are drawing on words from across the program at once.

Vocabulary Made to Be Played With

The first eight weeks introduce 72 vocabulary words, with four cards for every word:

French + picture
French word only
Picture only
English word only

That gives you 288 reusable vocabulary cards to match, sort, identify, categorize, describe, hide, remember, and play with in different ways.

The English word-only cards are included as an optional resource for additional matching and game possibilities. They are not used in the French-only lessons and can be set aside entirely if you want to keep all classroom activities exclusively in French. For teachers who want them, they provide another way to match, sort, recall, and play with the vocabulary.

The colorful frames also create additional possibilities for sorting and games, and the Teacher Guide includes extra card-game ideas you can use throughout the program.

Print a complete set for each child, one set for small groups, or keep one classroom set and reuse it.

French Throughout

Premiers Pas is designed entirely in French. The learning scenes, sentences, instructions, prompts, games, activities, reviews, and personalized exercises are presented without English translations alongside them.

Illustrated scenes, visual vocabulary cards, repetition, familiar situations, and guided activities give children multiple ways to connect French words with meaning as they move through the program.

The optional English word-only vocabulary cards are the only English-language student resource included and can simply be set aside when not wanted.

For classrooms that prefer English support throughout the learning materials, the program is also available in a fully bilingual French–English edition.

Everything Is Ready for You

Premiers Pas includes printable pages filled with illustrated learning scenes, French text, vocabulary cards, coloring, activities, games, weekly reviews, personalized activities, self-assessments, and a final playful review.

A separate Teacher Guide PDF is also included, with weekly objectives, vocabulary, structure, teacher notes, self-assessment guidance, and additional game ideas. The guide includes a complete English section followed by a complete French section, making it easy to print and use the language version you prefer.

Print all nine weeks at once or work one week at a time.

No lesson planning. No searching for activities. No creating your own prompts.

Just print, cut, teach — and let Naya take it from there.

Printing

Student pages are designed to be printed in landscape (horizontal) format. Both US Letter and A4 versions are included.

At a Glance

Ages: 4–7
Length: 9 weeks
Vocabulary: 72 core words
Vocabulary cards: 288 (4 formats per word)
Language: French only, with optional English word-only vocabulary cards
Format: Printable PDF
Page sizes: US Letter + A4
Student pages: Landscape (horizontal)
Teacher Guide: Separate PDF, English + French sections for easy printing
License: One classroom

Multi-classroom and school licenses are also available upon request.

Premiers Pas is a complete 9-week French program designed to stand on its own.

For teachers who want to continue beyond Premiers Pas, it also forms the first 9 weeks of The Coloriettes Classroom Kit, a comprehensive four-part program designed to provide 36 weeks of French learning.