Making paper bûches de Noël… I know, they should be edible and chocolate, but after all the cookie baking, I just didn’t have it in me.

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Today in French Club we took turns playing a hypnotist who can make people believe crazy things about themselves. Tu t’appelles Alex… tu as 3 ans… tu as 21 frères… French club parents: my apologies if your child wakes up believing that he or she is a dog, a dolphin, or has 21 brothers.

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Or I could title this: Chromatography in the kitchen. What happens when you put a drop of food coloring on a paper towel and then submerge one end of the paper towel in water? The water travels up through the paper towel and then through the color blot. Molecules that are attracted to the water flow with it, and those …

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French Club kids unleash their energy on the library.

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Story of the World Club made crafts for an unrehearsed and quite fun performance of the myth of Perseus and Medusa. There were so many parts to play that some of the kids had multiple roles. I even got drafted to play Andromeda, chained to a rock. Sam had three parts: one of the Grey sisters, a guest at Polydectes …

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Sam read about the Princes in the Tower today–poor Edward and Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their Uncle, Richard, who was supposed to protect the throne for Edward but instead took it for himself. The princes disappeared and were presumed to have been murdered. Sam, of course, is fascinated by this …

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French Club is split into two groups this year– Les Grands et Les Petits. With Les Grands we are working with a textbook program called Alex et Zoé. The kids recently completed the first unit and today they presented a skit to Les Petits. I don’t think Les Petits were too impressed, but I was quite pleased. In this …

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Sam is obsessed with the plague, aka the Black Death that swept through Europe in the middle of the 14th century. We read about the costume that doctors who treated plague victims wore, and today she wanted to make one for herself. Apparently the beak-like nose could hold fragrant herbs and flowers. Doctors believed …

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What French club was asking after I changed everyone’s names and gave them chapeaux to wear. (Sam is wearing a beret that I bought at Galeries Lafayette in 1987 on my first trip to Paris.)

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(Guest Photographer: Nathalie!) The Long Jump event at our monthly history club’s exploration of the Ancient Greek Olympics. I was running the discus throw event and Nathalie was kind enough to get this great shot and share it with me.

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