septième jour

All day it rained and rained.. So we were stuck inside most of day. I did go get Natasha, and I am happy that was the only time I had to spend outdoors! The two girls play really well together, so well in fact it leaves me with nothing to do. So I enticed them into some baking, we made cookies from one of their cook books, complete with the cookie cuttouts and sprinkles.

laurence has previously told me where to find the sprinkles, and tried to explain what they were before she found them. They are called "vermicelles" in french, and as she explained it, |ver| is worm, they are like little worms you put on your cookies. I asked if they were made of worms, still oblivious to what we are talking about. Yes they are made of wormsm she replied.

I was kind of of excited to be doing some baking, but now I was not sure. Fortunatly she pulled them out and tried to tell me again that they just "look" like worms,,, which is way better than being made of them.

Another funny baking name is for the sugar, the brown sugar is called auburn- and I have no idea why.

After cookies and lunch ( cous cous lemon tomatoes and chicken) we practiced some english. I had the girls study and read out loud all the english names of the body parts. Then we put the timer for five minutes and had to draw a person and identify as many parts of the body as we could. My drawing was in french, while theirs was in English. Is was pretty funny looking at each others drawings afterm and filling in ones we missed. The whole thing went over really well, and I would like to find some other fun ideas of how to teach vocabm or verbs...or just english! Any ideas anyone?