when do I stop getting homework?

The kids have another day off school.  Do you know what that means?  Homework for parents.

Each day, including weekends, I work with 6-year old N through her LaRoue reading and this long weekend we have an assigned book for her to read as well.

Eight-year old K?  She has a science project on "l'ours polaire" that she needs to type up for school.  (She's already had to do a PowerPoint presentation earlier this year).  This project seems a little advanced for her considering she doesn't know how to type.  In addition, we work on her dictée (aka spelling) and she reads aloud to me in English or French during the work-week.

Needless to say, my first knitted scarf is advancing rapidly as I am soon to complete its second (and final) skein.  I think I'm experienced enough that, on my next scarf, I will incorporate purls and not just knitting.  Yes, there will be a second scarf as I'm only 2/3rds through the school year and I started on my current one at the end of January!  Knit away, I will, as I've got many more days of homework ahead!

I can only imagine the homework that awaits me during the upcoming Easter break!

a change in season

This past weekend I drove the girls to their last cross-country ski lessons for this winter and donned my new skis to venture out on my own.  I have only cross-country skied twice this year (three times in my life) and the first time this year was a miserable experience as I wiped out 4 times within 45 minutes.    That was hard on the ole ego!

I hesitated on venturing out on my own but was positively delighted that I didn't wipe out once on Sunday!  I went down two hills ~ the first one was a little scary as I almost wiped out and almost wiped out a mother skiing and pulling her sleeping son on a sled as well!  Ah-ahahaha!  It was a great day for skiing with the weather being mild (& hovering around 0 degrees C).

As the week has progressed, we've been having a battle of the boots.  We are slowly shifting from winter boots to rubber boots intermingled with regular shoes as the weather shifts.

It is a cold splashing season!  The girls haven't outgrown heading out into the alley and curbs to splash and then they venture indoors cold and wet.  I know too soon that this will pass too!

Happy spring!

je ne sais pas!

K (8 years old) and N (6 years old) are determined to teach my unilingual English-speaking dh to speak French.  They have been working with him utilizing N's Grade 1 LaRoue book.  (LaRoue is effective in that it teaches French in a phonetics format but it is a painful way to have to practice reading in a new language for both the reader and the listener).

While my dh was in the car with the girls yesterday, my dh asked N a question to which N replied, "Je ne sais pas".  Dh asked, "What does that mean, N?"  N replied, "I don't know."

My dh asked K, "What does that mean?"  K replied, "I don't know."  My dh was becoming frustrated and said, "K, you've been in French immersion for 3 to 4 years and you don't know what that means?"  K replied, "It means: I don't know."

My dh's reply?  "Oh."

(PS: If you were wondering what the "Mar" bingo card is about, the bingo cards are part of the Big Picture Class' "Twelve" that is ongoing for 2012.  Each month, I fill in the card as I read the email prompts.)