Site

http://www.momes.net 

Before you get started on your virtual trip, you have to get used to navigating around the French sites you'll be visiting. 

Go to the site indicated above and look at the menu in the left frame.  The site will open in a new window, so you can switch backwards and forwards between it and this window.

There are two parts to this Activity, noted (1) and (2) below.
Click on the Notebook button to go to your Notebook. Navigate to lesson 1, activity 1. The Notebook will open in a new window. Leave the Notebook window open and come back to this page to read the following instructions.

See how many of the words in the menu of mômes.net are cognates you can understand, and (1) make a list in your Notebook of the French words you understand followed by their English equivalents. Then look at the first part of the main page of the site and see if you can work out the meanings of any words or phrases. (2) Type in a second list with 5 to 10 words or phrases in French with their English equivalents. You won't be marked on mistakes here, but you will be marked on how carefully you copy out the French. Note that mômes means kids.

Site

http://www.momes.net/comptines/comptines-ferme.html#chevalgris 

Go to the Comptines page by clicking on the link immediately above and work on the first poem you see (Sur son petit cheval gris). 

There are four parts to this Activity.
To work on the text, (1) copy it out carefully into your Notebook (in French).  This text has lots of repetition.  Use Cognates and common sense to work out the Meaning.  (2) How many places are mentioned?  Since the same structure is repeated three times, you should be able to work out the meanings of words by their correspondence to words in the same position in one of the other parts.  So the meaning of au pas should be obvious from au trot and au galop.  (3) Now type into your Notebook a free translation of the poem, leaving gaps for things you have trouble with if necessary. Here are a few very common words you will need: quand = when, sur = on, cheval = horse, va = goes. Gris, blanc and vert are colours. And you can work out what Rouen and Quimper are from their being in the same position as Paris. You don't need a dictionary yet. You won't be graded on the accuracy of the translation, but on how well you copy out the French and how good an effort you put into the work.

Comptine is related to the verb compter.  You can use the reading strategy described in Dismantling Words to make a good guess at its meaning before looking it up to check.
(4) Type into your Notebook the definition you find.