Parlez vouz francais?

If it's Tuesday it must be french day. Well our wonderful teacher really likes the children and thinks they are doing well but feels we should try to add more time. Now we will have him come over on Thursday afternoon as well. I think this will last for only a few weeks and then we take a break! I enjoy the freedoms of homeschooling and while I like having the children learning fun and exciting things that a brick and mortar would limit, I hate being tied to schedules. That seems to go against all my ideas about bringing the kids back home. Anyway, I will try the second day.

Progress

What a very productive day we had today. So hard to believe yesterday was just yesterday. Today was a completely different day with different attitudes to go along with. We were able to finish all our work and then some. We started our new writing. Very enjoyable and funny. How I hope that the humor does continue. I have all the children sitting down and doing the program even though it is geared for 4th grade and up. I just assist Joshua. Not that he needed much help. The most difficult is him keeping up with the writing while the teacher is teaching from the DVD. Good ol' pause comes in handy. There were tears but we were able to eradicate that quickly. The humor helped us to forget our tears!!!

French was good. Lots of new words. But we did not practice so much last week and boy did it show. They had a very hard time remembering the words or even what Monsieur Placide was saying. I also left for a little walk while it was going on so I am at a little bit of a loss as to what they should be studying. That is where I will have to ask Ste for his assistance. Overall a very good day!!!

Doctors visit part un

Today was Abigail's check up. She is doing smashingly. Has grown 2 1/2 inches and gained 11 lbs. She is in the 50-75% for both. She is also right on par for the BMI, under the 80% is good! She also needed to have her blood drawn to check for a food allergy. This was her first time ever having blood drawn. She was amazing. I must remind you that a few years ago during one of the immunizations the nurse approached and did not tell her what was happening and she moved and now has a nasty scar on her arm because of it. Ever since then she has been very apprehensive about getting any type of needles. The technician was a pro. She was very comforting and spoke to Abigail and explained everything as she was doing it!! Abs did feel a little pinch but was unaware of the needle staying in to get the three vials needed.

Notice the use of the french word for one - that is because lesson number two took place today. I get to listen in and I hope to "pick up" some words too. Monsieur Placide left us a great french-english dictionary for us to use throughout the week. I will be looking into purchasing that for our own personal use! The children have been very excited about french class. All is good. Au revoir.

Bon Jour!

This afternoon was our first french lesson. We have the privilege and honor of having a man from Congo available to us to learn french. It has been very fun and interesting to listen to the lesson. He does a great job of using both french and english to speak and teach the kids. I hear that Joshua seems to understand what he is saying first. Stephen has the better ear and Abigail has been saying it the best. It will be very interesting to see how the year unfolds.