This guide outlines the Manitoba Department of Education's conversational French-as-a-second-language curriculum for kindergarten and first grade. The program is designed to introduce young children to the French language and culture through the learning of French sounds, vocabulary, and some sentence patterns. An introductory section explains the program's format, charts specific grade-level goals and objectives for grades K-3, and provides suggestions about the psychology and methodology to be used in the classroom, notes on preliminary preparation for teaching, techniques for teaching a song, comptine, or game, and a sample lesson. Subsequent sections outline the curriculum's thematic content for each month and provide instructional materials, activities, and visual aids for each theme. (MSE)