Alexis' homework and cat

Alexis is in CM1 (year 5), and he's loving every minute of it. He has the head of the school as his teacher 3 days a week and Mme D once a week and it's working out great.  His teachers are motivators, and boy they get a lot of work done and even manage to do sport everyday (this was never the case in the south of France, nor in the Uk for that matter. 

 Alexis will get his school report at Christmas, one with averages out of 20, his first like this. The other day he got all of his tests out and calculated his average, bearing in mind his worst mark this year was an 17 in dictation.  So he's doing just great with a 19.68 of average overall. He's one happy chap and we're proud of him.

He gets lots of homework,  it seems that he has more than his brother who is in terminal S (last year of high school or sixth form), but Oliver is lazy.  At least once a week he has a good hour of homework, but most days in 20 to 30 minutes.

 It's a dream year, Alexis loves sport, he likes to work and he's very competitive. What else do they find time to fit into 4 days of school per week? Well lots of art and sculpture with a real sculptor from the village, and don't know about you, but I just love the cat he brought home.

Soon as you enter our house, it's the first thing that greets you.
I yes I nearly forgot, Alexis' class are learning to play the harmonica and the recorder, too, hats off to Mr B and Mme D, they are just amazing.

back

So many things going on here, I haven't had anytime to post and when I did have a spare couple of minutes, guess what, my camera cable plug snapped!

So what's been going on here....

Back to school has been easy to deal with, the children are all happy despite the amount of homework they have each night, yes, even Marie Kate aged 7 has written work and reciting to do, everyday.

This morning, after I've finished here, Alexis has two assignments to do, plus some History etc...

Changing the subject, almost two weeks ago, I had to go back to the UK for the funeral of my auntie. I went on the Friday(funeral day) and came back on Sunday, so not much time, and rather sad.

I did manage to buy some clothes for the children from T K Maxx and George (Asda) and pick up a copy of my favourite English cooking magazine.

Marie Kate helped me make this supposedly delicious lemon butter icing cake, I didn't taste it as I have a couple of pounds to shed.

I found a couple of cookbooks at the airport that looked good and later ordered them on Amazon, one's by the Hairy Bikers (Mum knows best...I think), great book with lots of yummy recipes. Marie Kate made these Empire Biscuits, this time I got to eat one and it was delicious

Tasted a lot better than they looked, we had a problem with the icing

Back to school 2011/2012

They really were happy to go back to school, just not happy to have their photo taken

Alexis and Marie-Kate went back to school yesterday. There were some last minute changes with regards to Alexis' class which was supposed to be a mixed level CE2/CM1 class, but three new pupils changed that and his class is now just a CM1 class which I'm pleased about.

Marie-Kate's ce1 class has a couple of new children in it too. In fact there are 21 new pupils in all that have joined the school this year, so many that a new class has been created, amazing.

Gaby went back yesterday, but just for a couple of hours. She's in 5eme 4 with the the same classmates as last year as hers is the only bi-langue class (English/German) and this year she has all the pupils that have chosen Latin as an option which totals 7,( 3 already do German).

Camera shy Charlotte

It's Charlotte's first day at Lycee this morning. She'll find out which class she's in, and which option she's got between here two first choices, either Lab Science or Philosophy.

Oliver started back yesterday too, this year he's in his last year of Lycee and he's in terminale S speciality Math.