100 days' project at school

100 days of school, 100 objects and learning to count to 100!

presenting to a group of older students

Skating at School

Living in a very cold climate provides wonderful opportunities for children to learn to skate, cross-country ski, snow shoe and toboggan!  J gets to skate at school every Tuesday afternoon.  This particular day it was probably around -17 degrees celsius.

Birthday Celebration

It was a significant Birthday. "Cabosse" the leopard arrived home from school in J's backpack and joined the party. For homework we took photos and wrote about the weekend Cabosse came to stay.  This project, for the first year at school, helps children delineate school life from home life.

Freezing temperatures in Quebec, January 2015

It's -31 degrees celsius outside!
(inside at 6:52am on a school morning, and that's the moon)

YES, we walked to school and with the windchill factor 

it felt like -40 degrees celsius!

What's New: Quebec City writer publishes "Daisy and the Donkey Church"

Daisy and the Donkey Church is available for $15.00 

at La Maison Anglaise and features real life animals who live at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Old Quebec!

Merry Christmas : Celebrating "The Twelve Days of Christmas"

Tradition in many cultures continues today with a lovely celebration of the twelve days of Christmas through until the 5th or 6th of January.

The celebration of the Epiphany with a King's cake galette des Roi in Quebec city, symbolising the journey of the Three Wise Men to baby Jesus, in biblical times, still continues with several bakeries offering this cake in my neighbourhood.

photo courtesy of the French Embassy, Ottawa

I love the idea that I can continue wishing family and friends a Merry Christmas into the New Year!

Decorations and festivities can stay up around the house.

There's no need to tear down the tree with all its trimmings straight away.

It is even said that Shakepeare's Twelfth_Night_(holiday) is an ode to the celebratory end of the twelve days of Christmas.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas) sung in French by children

sung in French by Jozef's school class (maternelle I and II) at L'Arbrisseau