Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Jacadi a dit... (Jacques ah dee ah dee...)

Well- another unintentional grasse matinée this morning! I slept past my alarm, but 50 minutes over this time... which is much worse than 20 or 30. Must still need to catch up on sleep... But all was not lost. I got ready in record time, made it to school as the bell rang, and had good lessons all day.

With the maternelle class (Corinne's class), I worked in a small group like usual, but this time I started working with them on animal names. I was just going to use the Brown Bear, Brown Bear book to work on colors, but Corinne asked if I had anything to work on animals... and what do you know, the book is all about colorful animals! Parfait! So we did a quick little animal overview, even though I had Maxime in my group. Maxime is a challenging little bugger, he enjoys having lots of attention and making up wild stories. He's adorable to me, at least, because of his little man French voice, but he gets in trouble a lot. He also likes to make lunettes, or glasses, with the blocks... and then puts them up to his face. So cute. During our good morning song with the whole class, he sang in a really high pitched voice and Corinne had us all sing the song again so that he could participate correctly. Silly kid.

Then with my CP groups, I had them sing Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. It was so great and they loved it. And miraculously, it really did teach them the names of those body parts...albeit being pronounced just slightly off... and them thinking that the word "toes" meant "feet." Oh well, close enough. After we sang, we played "Simon says." The kids are familiar enough with the French version of the game, so it wasn't too too hard for them to get it...even though "Simon says" is a nonsense phrase to them. In French they say: "Jacadi a dit..." which to me seems silly. If you didn't see it written, it sounds like "Jack said, said..." because Jac-a-dit, a-dit is what you hear. Well- I was confused for a bit, but after looking it up, I comprehend why a dit, a dit was said twice. In any event, I did it all in English, so I said Simon says (not Simon says, says).

With my CE1 group, I read Froggy again. They loved it like yesterday, teachers and kids alike, hurray!

I left without eating lunch at school so I could go grocery shop and have food to eat. I must have been in a rush to just buy things I was craving, so I came home with a pineapple, kiwis, some frozen vegetable casseroles, and stuff to make tomato/mozzarella salads. I'm going to have to go back... and buy chicken or something with more substance because I've already eaten 2 kiwis, an entire cauliflower casserole thing, and a salad... and "I have hungry." Perhaps I will just make pumpkin bread my dad brought me and call it a night. It's weird to eat and make dinner for just yourself after eating with people for a week!

Tomorrow is part 1 of the laundry fest. I have at least 3 loads to do, but I'm only taking one in hopes that I get a response about the washing machine I've requested. I know it's a long shot, but one never knows until they ask. I sent my landlord, aka the lady from the mairie, and email asking if they would install a tiny washing machine for me because with as much as I pay for laundry at the laundromat, I could have bought my own washing machine and saved myself money and trips out. It's not that big of a deal, but if I do at least 10 more loads of laundry, that's almost 100 euros that could go towards a cheap 1K mini-washer. We shall see what she says!

Hope you are all having a nice week! I may be purchasing train tickets to Italia tomorrow too! The sooner I buy, hopefully the cheaper they'll be for my March trip!

Reste cool:)







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