Life With E

When we go to the Super Marche I like to look at the French coloring books and play on the boxes and cases of beer while Mommy & Daddy get our groceries and practice their french with the workers. I also like to hold a basket and help carry our things.

Tuesday Toe Day: The day where we cut our toe nails and get them painted. (This way I don't bite them!)

One of my chores is to fold the washclothes. I'm getting really good at it.

We ate african food at a restraunt with our french teacher. I really liked it and ate alot, but look at this HUGE plate of food they gave me for less than $2 USD. I liked the cabbage. The owner of the restraunt really liked me and called me his wife. I liked all the attention. He did something similar to "this little piggy" to me with my hand. It made me laugh.

We went to a village about an hour away from where we live to meet our french teachers' family and spend time with some new friends. Ms.E's family was very nice and I had a great time playing with her nephews. One of them was just my size and age and a ham just like me! We had a great time together. While we waited for lunch to be prepared we ate peanuts for a snack.

We also spent some time with new friends. We ate pizza for dinner at their house and I got to use this Barbie cup. I wanted Mommy to take a picture of it. We played and had lots of fun at their house and even got to spend the night.

Love, E

The Mystery of H

(She came up with that title on her own.)

One of my chores is to fold the towels.

We had our first african food. It was good but a little bit spicy. I always had to take a sip of water when it got spicy.

We went to our french teacher Ms. E's house in a village about an hour away. We met her family. This is her nephew. While we were waiting for lunch to be prepared we played with some of her nephews.

We had some pizza and spent the night at some new friends house. The pizza was really good. We played games and watched Bambi the first and second movies.

We played outside a lot when we were there and it was fun. We jumped on a big trampoline and played boxcar children on the roof and swam in their pool on the roof too.

Love, H

Some more Silly Times With C

Fatayas are yummy. it has meat inside.

I had fun moping. my dad helped me.

I got my hair done by an african.

On thursday our teacher showed us a restaurant it was a lot of food it was good.

I rode my friends bike it was a lot of fun.

My friend has a trampoline it is a lot of fun. I learned how to do a bum war.

Love, C

More E Happenings

Sometimes at "Siesta" time during the day (the hottest part of the day around 1:00-4:00 when life around Africa slows down) I end up falling asleep even though I usually don't take naps anymore.

I got this hippo after my first hippo turned my hands purple becasue it was dyed instead of being made out of dark wood. This one is the real thing made out of dark wood.

I love going to the bakery. This is my favorite. A yummy doughnut the size of my head!!! What more could a girl ask for?!

One night we had hamburgers for dinner. I decided to put my zucchini on my burger instead of on the side like everybody else. Mabye I am a future chef?

Today we went to the outdoor Market and I got a pair of flip-flops. (Mine got left in the US.) I kept saying, "Thank you, Mommy, Daddy, my new flip-flops." (Daddy got a new pair too. His got left behind too.)

Love, E

More from H

Having fun doing school with Daddy. Daddy does school with us when Mommy is having her French lessons.

I love my new turtle. Mommy and Daddy bought it for me from an African boutique. I picked it out.

We also got new African clothes. Mine looks like seashells and crab hands. It is brown and black and white. I picked it out. It is pretty.

Love, H

Fun with C

My Mom and Dad got me a pretend Elephant.

Ms. E is Teaching me French and this is some of what she taught me:

pomme, mangue, bonjour, and rouge.

it rained for the first time while we are here.

it does not rain very much in Africa.

by C

All Those Secrets of the World by, Jane Yolen

This week for homeschool our unit was on this book. It is a book about a little girl whose father goes off to fight during World War II. We had lots of fun this week with lots of neat activities. Here are a few of the things we learned:

We learned about a first person point of view, we studied a little geography, we learned about tubas and sycamore trees, we studied some new vocab, we learned about forshadowing, and about times of war in history.

We also learned about:

*Illustration mediums and did some watercoloring (like the illustraions in this book).

*We did some science and history learning about horizons and myths. (Is the world round or flat?)

*We learned about viewpoints in art and did some drawings to practice what we learned.

Daddy helping H:

C and her drawing of me:

*We learned about oil and water and did an experiement to see if we could get them to mix.

*We learned about shadowing in artwork and practiced this too. (They chose penguins because they love 'em just like their Mimi!)

Here are just a few more pics:

E doing school too.

Daddy working with the girls on some math.

E finds lots of ways to entertain herself while we do school. Here she hijacked the camera and hid in her hiding place under the kitchen table and got a picture of me doing reading with H.

*Guest Post by the Mommy of the house. :)