Breakfast was accompanied by a revision of Louis' "Excercise instructions : " he has to know how to say "read," "write, " "underline," "put a ring round," "put a cross ," "put into order," "say if it's true or false," etc. Sacha joined in enthusiastically. They have chosen their breakfast drinks :"café", ( hot milk and a dash of coffee from the cafetière) for Sacha,and "thé "( hot milk with a tea bag waved over it) for Louis. I will know in future that it has to be Earl Grey : Yorkshire tea or PG Tips just don't cut the mustard. Sorry Louis. Also, the usual cereals, without milk and with much crunching.
After meals, they are allowed to pump up their chairs to their highest level, where they perch like circus acrobats, and swivel round.
François and I walked to get them from school this evening. At the moment, he drops us off in the mornings, which allows us all to spend a much-needed extra quarter of an hour in bed.. They don't think much of doing the 20- minute walk home, and grumble quite a bit.
Here they are, after school in the playground . When we got home, I had to spend quite a while with Louis revising what he had seen today in class. Sacha had a rest, then went into the garden to play football with Papy, and then to pick some raspberries. It is going to be a problem to do any reading with him,( how did I manage when mine were small?) and so when I see my neighbour's daughter I intend asking her to come in from time to time to help Louis while I see to Sacha.
Before supper we played Animal Lotto, in French, which was a great success . Amazingly, they won one game each.
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