Artistic tendances, and studious Fridays.

At Adrien's house

"It's Friday! Papa's coming today!" Sacha is still very concerned about his goûter : should he take it to eat at school with the other children at 4 o'clock, or should he have it at home- time with Louis and Papa? I suggested that he take it in his satchel, and decide at 4 o'clock whether or not he could wait another hour.

Sacha's teacher said that he is now happy in class, and talks to the others, "but he is a rascal, as he talks to them in English." He also repeats very nicely when he is given model words and sentences. 

Remembering that Sacha was a late talker, and that he is a perfectionist who will only perform if he is sure that he can do it well, I am not at all worried that Sacha isn't speaking in French yet.  Sooner or later, it will come.

 When I take him up to his class, he goes first into the cloak-room,  puts his satchel into a big basket, and hangs up his jacket on a  peg with his name on . The children made their name labels themselves, with finger printing : for some reason he has a spare one, and so has brought it home. I like his colour choices very much.

Sacha still insists on choosing his own clothes the night before the next school day. At the moment, he is enjoying wearing jeans with a short-sleeved tee-shirt under a long-sleeved tee-shirt, and colour-co-ordinated socks and pants. As his long-sleeved tee-shirts are shorter than most of his short-sleeved ones, this gives  an interesting fashion feature around the hips, but apparently this is OK.

Here is Louis' timetable : 

Louis today will start off with English conversation rituals (Hello! How are you? My name's Louis!) Shouldn't be too hard. Next, mental arithmetic, or every other week in this slot, vocabulary and use of the dictionary. After the break, it's Maths problems, and then spelling. After lunch, it will be writing, and "literature." Then, off to the swimming pool for the class swimming lesson, the last lesson of the week. Then, it's over to you, Nick!