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Handwriting is an interesting issue in bilingual education, because it's so cultural.
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DD (11) uses French cursive when she writes in French and print when she writes in English.
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Am I seriously the only one who didn't know that you could put 2 pieces of meat on a sandwich until I was about 17 or 18? We've always eaten only one slice on a sandwich...I know my dad ate 2 on occassion, but that was because he was "Dad" and had done a lot of physical work prior to lunch...
No, you're not the only one. :)
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I grew up in Germany. I attended plenty coed sleepovers which were really just that. Often after parties so people could stay late (nobody had cars and public transportation did not run late at night). There were no sexual connotations at all. Even the couples who dated knew the unwritten rules on how to behave at a group sleepover.
This said: everybody would have had plenty of other opportunities for things outside these sleepovers.
I am constantly surprise by the many sexual undertones in this country.
But then - this came up in another discussion - one of my home town's public pools is a nude pool, for example, and nobody thinks twice about it.
:iagree:- I grew up in Europe.
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WOW! This is THE BEST explanation I have ever seen for this topic. Thank you! I'm going to print this out and save it!!:D
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And if Awtl does not want them, I will take them, Cleo.
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Merci !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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See, I love this board. I knew that given enough time, a balanced view would be given to this article.
Apparently the Swedish government didn't just swoop in to stop those "silly" homeschoolers for no reason. They have their reasons and some of them might be very valid. I'm not really in a position to know.
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CP: 6-year olds
CE1: 7-year olds
CE2: 8-year olds
CM1: 9-year olds
CM2: 10-year olds
6ème: 11-year olds
5ème: 12-year olds
4ème:13-year olds
3ème: 14-year olds
Hope this helps!
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Some other classic French books for children:
Les contes du chat perché (Marcel Aymé)
L'enfant et la rivière (Henri Bosco)
Contes (Charles Perrault)
Crin-Blanc (René Guillot)
Lettres de mon moulin and Tartarin de Tarascon (Alphonse Daudet)
Poil de Carotte (Jules Renard)
La Gloire de mon père, Le Château de ma mère, Le Temps des secrets (Marcel Pagnol)
La Guerre des boutons (Louis Pergaud)
Le lion (Joseph Kessel)
La sorcière de la rue Mouffetard : Et autres contes de la rue Broca (Pierre Gripari)
Bécassine series (Joseph Porphyre Pinchon et Caumery)
Martine series (Gilbert Delahaye et Marcel Marlier)
There are loads of bandes dessinees (comic strip style books) and manga books in France, some tolerable because they're classically French like Tintin or Asterix, but mostly sheer trash (imo.) I still remember coming out of a book store in Paris and seeing young adult boys/men sitting on the steps of the book store reading. At least 20 of them. Wow, I thought, that's impressive. Until I saw they were all reading bandes dessinees. :thumbdown: (Later I discovered that at least some (most?) of the bd's seem to have pretty graphic, disgusting sexual content. No wonder the big appeal for young adult males.... Yes, ok, I may be overgeneralizing, but after seeing a couple of them, I will never let any of them in my house besides Tintin and Asterix.)Le Marsupilami, Les Schtroumpfs and Boule & Bill are totally appropriate for children too. :)
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This is fun, I never thought our lunch could be so interesting :D
Did the 4 of you share one cucumber?What else is in cucumber salad?
Only cucumber, a little vinaigrette and chives.
I ate about 10 thin slices, the kids a little less.
How much pasta do you serve per person?About half the plate.
Did you cook the hamburger steak fresh for lunch? How much meat per person?3 frozen hamburgers for the 4 of us.
How large are your apples, and did you share one or two apples, or did everyone have their own?One apple per person.
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For example, I've read that the French are great at planning meals around foods that are seasonally/locally available. I've even read that and American living in France found a cookbook that had simple family-appropriate menus laid out by season (for lunches and dinners). Does anyone know a book like this in the U.S.? Or a website?
Do you speak French? I like http://www.cuisine-et-recette.fr/recettes-de-cuisine/recettes-de-saison#
Another example is that I've read (here on the WTM board and in other places) that French serving sizes are a whole lot smaller than here. But what does that look like or measure out to be? All of my cookbooks, even with French recipes, seem to have been written with American serving sizes in mind.
Yes, the serving sizes are much smaller then in the US - maybe half the size? :confused:
And how do you actually make it all happen (those of you who do or who have family who do)? All those courses -- I keep telling myself that "the French have toddlers too!" but it doesn't seem to be helping.
I don't know. It just happens naturally :D
A meal (lunch or dinner) in France traditionally consists of:
- appetizer (mixed salad, soup...)
- main dish (protein, vegetables, pasta or rice...)
- lettuce salad, cheese
- dessert (fruit, yogurt...)
For example, what my 3 kids and I had for lunch today:
- cucumber salad
- pasta with tomato sauce (canned) and hamburger steak
- lettuce salad
- Gruyere cheese
- apple
A very simple meal. It does not take more than 15 minutes to fix. :)
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The base ten blocks. :)
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Little History of the World was written by the well known art historian E.H. Grombrich. Gombrich was an Austrian Jew who fled Nazi Germany in the '30's. He wrote the book during WWII. It's secular and extremly well written. It is a brief world history for the middle school years. While not as detailed, it outshines similar texts like the Story of Mankind by Van Loon in the quality of its writing. The audio book version is well read and cheap. http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-Classic-Collection/dp/078617286X/ref=tmm_abk_title_0
:iagree: I love this too.
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I use MM as the spine, and use MEP for enrichment. It means, I only ask my chldren to do select problems from MEP only .. usually the ones with the logic bend, which are not available in MM.
I like MEP for enrichment only because it's much easier to teach math using MM. I still can't wrap my brain around MEP so I choose it for enrichment.
I also add S-pore Word Problem (select problem only) as a enrichment to my second grader.
They work really well in terms of easiness of teaching, thoroughness and challenge.
We do MM, MEP and CWP here for my 9 and 6 year old & :iagree:
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Cleo - Can I ask you another question? Do you have any idea how much of our French book and our history book is meant to be done orally, and how much is meant to be written work? Or how much is meant to be memorized?
I am using http://www.enseignants.hachette-education.com/pi/fiche.php?idArticle=182746# with DD(9)
Textbook:
We do everything orally (except le "projet d'écriture"):
" - 2 pages d'ouverture introduisant le thème d'histoire ou de géographie (en alternance)
- 4 pages de leçons de français contextualisées, en lien avec la double page d'ouverture d'histoire ou de géographie (1 page de vocabulaire, 1 page d'orthographe, 1 page de grammaire, 1 page de conjugaison)."
She memorizes a short summary of the content of the lesson.
"Je retiens - pour synthétiser les connaissances."
Workbook: she writes everything.
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:D
Voyons voir... le Larousse nous dit :
"Faire du soleil, faire soleil. Les deux expressions s'emploient pour signifier que le soleil brille, qu'il n'est caché par aucun nuage : il fait du soleil ; il fait soleil, il fait grand soleil."
http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/soleil/difficulte
On dit les deux dans le Nord de la France.
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On peut dire "Il fait soleil". C'est un peu moins fréquent, mais correct. :)
On peut aussi dire "Il fait grand soleil".
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Lands End or L. L. Bean :)
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Sorry I did not make myself clear... :o
"CDI" is the name for any library located in a school in France (middle schools and high schools only, I think)
In your history book, the author asks the kids to go the the library and check out some resources (les documents du CDI)
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Hi!
The CDI is the school library (Centre de Documentation et d'Information)
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Netflix series recs?
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MI5 (Spooks) :)