mercredi le premier octobre!!! (Wednesday, Oct. 1st)

"L'Etat, c'est moi."

Trivia Today: Identify A.) the French King, pictured above, who allegedly said "L'Etat, c'est moi" and b.) the English translation of said quote.

Monday's trivia: Port Salut, Gruyère etc are all types of French what?

Déjeuner: Fresh pizza

7th Grade: By the end of today you will be able to pronounce and identify many of our classroom objects by memory - and ask a very important question about them..."Qu'est-ce que c'est??"

• Do now: First 2 parts of little worksheet (save for tomorrow.)
• Check homework: Vocabulary Sheet/LOTTO card.
• Qu'est-ce que c'est dans la boîte?!?!?
• LOTTO

Homework: Blue Book pages 16-21 exercises B-D

8th Grade: By the end of today you will be able to translate all your phrases from French-English and English-French!

• Check homework (Reading and Culture Packet)/ review some questions (1o minutes)
• Computer Lab to use the online text flashcards for tomorrow's 'examen.'

Devoirs: Étudiez! Examen demain!!

lundi le vingt neuf septembre (Monday, Sept. 29th)

'Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent, et qui portent où l'on veut aller.'
Rivers are moving paths that take you where you want to go.

Blaise PASCAL, Pensées I, 17

Trivia today: Port Salut, Gruyère, Neufchätel, and Pont-L'Evêque are varieties of this French product.

Thursday's trivia: Who was Jean-Paul Marat's assassin???

Déjeuner: Oven baked 'poulet.'

7th grade

• Commencez Chapitre 2: Les Objets de la Salle de Classe/Les Ordres Donnés en Classe.
• Répetez le vocabulaire...
• Vocabulary Sheet.
• Qu'est-ce que c'est dans la boîte????

Homework: Fill in Vocab. Sheet/Lotto Card (if not finished)

8th Grade

• Do Now: Multiple choice questions Leçon 3B
• Do you know? Quel temps fait-il?
• À quelle heure est....?? Activité 4A - This is all review!!!
• Vocabulary Bee buzzzzzzzz

Devoirs: Unité 2 Reading and Culture Activities Packet: all pages/activities.

EXAMEN: JEUDI!!!

vendredi le vingt six septembre (Friday, September 26th)

Today is a half day for all you students...therefore I will only be seeing periods 1 and 2. Period 1 we will be playing LOTTO and period 2 we will be watching a film of some sort (haven't decided what yet!)

Sorry, no quote for today, no trivia...just wishes of a BON WEEKEND!

Next week: 7th grade - Begin Chapite 2: Les Objets de la Salle de Classe.

8th grade - Review Vocabulary: La Vie Courante, Wednesday Computer Lab quiz

review, Thursday Vocabulary Quiz.

jeudi le vingt cinq septembre (Thursday, Sept. 25th)

' Avant que d'être à vous je suis à mon pays. '
Above belonging to you I belong to my country.
Pierre CORNEILLE, Horace, acte II, scène 5
(The assassin was a descendent of the above French playwright.)

Trivia today: On July 9th, 1793, this assassin took the life of French Revolutionary figure, Jean-Paul Marat. At trial, this person stated "I killed one man to save 100,000."

Yesterday's trivia: What region is famous for lavender, le Mistral, the Riviera, etc?

Déjeuner: Nachos with cheese

7th Grade

• Word Relay (Only two rounds- to practice last minute for quiz.)
• Take Quiz: Chapitre Un.
• Go over parts A and C together with hi-lighters.

BON WEEKEND!! (8th period) À Demain (2nd period)

8th Grade

• Do Now: Foods list separated by feminine vs masculine nous. Which side of the room can produce the most?
• Check homework : Leçon 3B Packet: Au Café (Pass up)
• Regardez DVD : Section 2, Au Café
• LOTTO

*Note: I have taken down your projects so now I can actually grade them. Remember, they counted as TWO test grades. One mark for the composition component, one mark for the artistic 'nameplate' component.

Devoirs: None. However, keep on your radar that we will be having a quiz next Thursday. Wednesday we will be in the computer lab using the online flashcards for review.

mercredi le vingt-quatre septembre (Wednesday, Sept. 24th)

'On se donne en donnant. '

One gives to oneself by giving.
Marcel MAUSS, Essaie sur le don, deuxième partie, chap. 2, 3

Trivia today: Lavender, Roman ruins, The Riviera, Bouillabaise, and the Mistral are associated with what well known region of France (that makes my heart hurt when I think of it...?)

Yesterday's trivia: Which city and what nickname are associated with Jeanne d'Arc?

Lunch: Fresh Pizza

7th Grade

• Translate (without looking in your books!) the first 5 words on the word relay list. (5 minutes)
• Play Word Relay for 15 minutes...continuez demain.
• LOTTO - practice for quiz.

Homework: QUIZ DEMAIN! STUDY!

8th grade

• Period 1 - Check Lotto Card / Periods 4 and 8 - Fill in Lotto Card
• Finish watching Chapter video.
• Play Lotto.

Devoirs: Leçon 3B Packet. All exercises, 2 pages. Use your Vocabulary Sheets to help you!!!

mardi le vingt-trois septembre

'Les erreurs de langage sont des crimes.'

Language mistakes are crimes.

Marguerite DURAS, Les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia, 1953 (Gallimard), chap. 2, p. 76

Trivia Today: Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc: 1412 – 30 May 1431 ), famous French heroine of the Hundred Years War, died a.) in what French city and b.) was also known by what other 'nickname' ?

Yesterday's trivia: What year did the French last use the guillotine as a form of Capital Punishment...

Lunch: Popcorn chicken

7th Grade

• Do Now : Part C of little worksheet (talk bubbles)
• Review exercises D-F in Blue Book
• Vocabulary Bee buzzzzzzz
• Lotto (if time?)

QUIZ: Jeudi (Thursday)

8th Grade

• Warm-up transparency : Make a list of things you could order if you're hungry/ Review
• Check homework and returned books ( Vocabulary Sheet)
• Finish repeating Vocabulary from Unité 2.
• Watch DVD for Unité 2
• Fill in Lotto Card (if time allows)

Devoirs: Lotto Card (if not finished in class.)

lundi le vingt-deux septembre

'O Dieu, si tu veux que jamais plus femme n'élève la voix, crée enfin un homme adulte !'

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Jean GIRAUDOUX, Sodome et Gomorrhe, acte II, scène 6

Trivia today: In what year did the French government (in France) last use the guillotine as a form of capital punishment? (Please answer this question under TODAY's date.)

Lunch: School Pizza

7th grade

Do now: Parts B&C of sheet from Friday
Review questions and answers as a class
Look at the homework from Friday: pages 4-7 in Blue Book
First Vocabulary Bee buzzzzzzzzzz /rules and regulations.

Comment t'appelles-tu?

Tu parles français?

Comment vas-tu? Comment ça-va?

No homework.

8th Grade

Commencez La Vie Courante: Unité 2 - Food/Weather/Days and Months/Time
Lisez Notes Culturelles pages 45,49
Repetez, s'il vous plaît...
Vocabulary sheet Unité 2: Completez.

Devoirs: Completez la feuille de vocabulaire.

vendredi le dix-neuf septembre

'Il y a toujours du bon dans la folie humaine.'
There is always some good in human craziness.
Auguste VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM, L'Ève future, livre I, 3

Trivia today: In 1785, milions of skeletons were transported from overcrowded cemeteries to what network of quarries beneath Paris, which served as the headquarters of the Resistance during WWII?

Answers from yesterday's questions : The year French women achieved the right to vote?

Lunch: Turkey cubes and gravy!! (My favorite :))

7th grade

• Do now: parts A and B of new worksheet.


• Check homework Text book pages 4-7.


• Review parts of homework (les devoirs, en français)


• Jouez au LOTTO- hopefully more winners.


• Ticket trade-in.

No homework.

8th grade

• Do now: Reading comprehension sheet: these questions are similar to what you will see on the State Exam at the end of the year.


• Check packets Leçons 1B and 2A.


• Commencez Unité 2: La Vie Courante (Everyday Life)


• Within this chapter we will review: Food, time, weather, days of the week, months of the year/ however still no new grammar.


• Complete Vocabulary sheet: these are much longer than last year, but follow the goldish boxes and you'll find all your definitions.


• Ticket trade-in.

Lundi: DVD of Unité 2 (and try not to laugh) / Fill out Lotto Card/ Vocabulary review.

Devoirs: Completez la feuille de vocabulaire si tu n'as pas fini.

BON WEEKEND!

jeudi le 18 septembre

'On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur.'
We see well only with the heart.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (from le Petit Prince)

Trivia today: Women in the US won the right to vote in 1919. In what year did women in France achieve the same right?

Yesterday's trivia answers...

Lunch: HOT DOGS!

7th grade

• Do Now: Parts C & D of yesterday's sheet...


• Check homework : LOTTO Card


• Jouez au LOTTO/ How to play and how to win!

Homework: Blue Book exercises A-F pages 4-7.

8th grade

• Do now: Leçon 2C warmup, dans vos cahiers/ using page 36


• Check (Period 1)/Hand out (Period 4 and 8) worksheets Leçon 1B.


• Where to find the sections in the book that correspond with the worksheets.


• In pairs, complete packet Leçon 2A - and then we're pretty much finished with Unité 1: as far as I'm concerned nous avons fini!

Remy is French, intelligent, and a friend.

Andrew is canadian, tall, and a friend.

Miss Battaglia is English, intelligent, and my girlfriend.

Devoirs: If not finished with sheets, completez...

Sacré Bleu!

I am receiving so many answers in response to today's (and even tomorrow's) trivia question! I want to let you know that I have read and noted who has responded, but I will not publish the answers until after 9PM (only for 9/16.) I will publish the comments/answers after 9PM each evening the day the question was asked to assure that everyone has gotten a chance to do their research...and not publish answers ahead of time to assure noone cheats! For instance, some of you have already responded to the "All for one, and one for all!" question, but I will not post your answers until tomorrow (Wednesday) after 9PM.

Bon travail, mes étudiants intelligents! I'm proud of you.

PS. I went out to dinner tonight and ordered a veggie burger and the waitress asked me "How would you like that cooked?" I looked at her befuddled and asked "Is there a difference?" She then proceeded to tell me that most ask for medium-well...I told her I didn't even realize there were options for cooking a veggie burger. 'Umm, just not frozen please?'
I'm still not sure if she was serious.
Random...

mercredi le 17 septembre

' Tous pour un, un pour tous!'
Latin: Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
All for one, and one for all!
Trivia today: Name a.) the author of this quote and b.) the work (novel) it is from.

'Félicitations' to all the winners. The correct response to yesterday's trivia: Name two of Victor Hugo's works -(see comments for answers!)

Preferably, please leave your answer with your name in the form of a 'comment' below today's date...I will check your answers and then publish the 'correct' comments. Merci beaucoup. Advice: Wikipedia is a great source online for looking up things!

Lunch: Fresh pizza

7th grade

• Complete parts A & B of 'do now' worksheet. Save for tomorrow.
• Check homework: Vocabulary Sheet/Chapitre Un : tickets.
• Review 'do now' worksheet.
• Today's trivia: Use the internet/ask a parent- anyway you can :)
• Instructions how to fill out LOTTO card - fill out and then play one round (or two.)

Homework: Blue Book exercises A-F pages 4-7.

8th Grade

• Periods 4 and 8- Complete/Hang posters.
• Textbooks - Unité Un: mostly review...
• Lisez 'notes culturelles' pages 23 et 27
• Discuss masculine vs feminine adjectives ex: Tori est americaine, mais Anthony est français. Une amie / Un ami ./ Une copine/Un copain.
• Hand out Unité Un packet: Leçon 1B.

Devoirs: Complétez les deux pages. (Both pages.)

mardi le 16 septembre

'Toutes nos passions reflètent les étoiles.'
All of our passions reflect the stars.
-Victor Hugo
Trivia today: Name TWO novels written by the person quoted above, to be collected tomorrow: for a ticket.

Lunch today: Breaded Mozzarella Sticks.

8th grade:

• Periods 2 and 8: Computer Lab to type compositions.


• Period 1 : Finishing touches on project/nameplates/mount them on paper with your compositions etc etc.

Demain: Take a look at our new textbook: Unité 1. It's mainly review! Lisez 'notes culturelles' pages 23 et 27. Discuss masculine vs feminine adjectives ex: Tori est americaine, mais Anthony est americain. une amie / un ami.

7th grade:

• Begin reciting vocabulary and phrases from Chapter 1.


• Practice some phrases: Tu parles français? Oui, je parle français! Tu parles russe? Non, je ne parle pas russe!


• Give out Vocabulary Sheet and Lotto cards.


• Explain how each is to be filled out - begin filling out in class.

Homework: Finish Chapter One Vocabulary Sheet and Lotto Card.

Attn:8th grade

I would like the rough draft of your compositions complete by Monday morning. I am taking 1st period to the computer lab on Monday to type and periods 4 and 8 on Tuesday. Period 1 will have extra time on Tuesday during class to finish creating the artistic element of the project (where 4th and 8th will have Monday.)

Oh, and if you can, please review the link to the right 'How to type French accents on the computer' so you are somewhat familiar with how to to it prior to a little explanation in the computer lab. When you use the ALT + code you must use the number pad on the right of your keyboard!

Merci.

dimanche le 14 septembre (a weekend interlude.)

I have had requests/questions regarding writing about my weekends...
Hmm. I suppose I would write about them if something happened that related to school, or my students: a weird dream (about class), a French restaurant, chatting with my French grandparents...you know, stuff like that.

I love getting your comments and questions, so keep them coming. I'll try to respond to as many as I can since that's why I started this whole thing.
I'm also loving that I see some of you have started your own blogs. Writing is an art that is often neglected these days.
Just make sure that your comments and writing are things that you would never mind me or your parents reading (since they have access to the blog, too.)

The randomness of your blogs makes me smile.

Je vais au "Gout de New Paltz" aujourd'hui. Voilà.

lundi le 15 septembre (Monday, Sept. 15)

(Pictured above: the port of St. Tropez. I miss my town...)

'Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer. '

(I push myself to laugh about everything for fear of having to cry about it. )
-Pierre Augustin Caron de BEAUMARCHAIS (from the Barber of Seville)

7th Grade

• Word relay activity with Le/La/L' - review rules and regulations!
• Hand out books / put names in at least 3 different places within the book. You must bring it to class EVERYDAY or you will be detained (detention) that day-no exceptions.
• Take a browse through the book/ look at the chapters/talk about activities we will be doing.
• Begin recitation of Chapitre Un: Salutations et Courtoisies (if time allows.)

No homework

8th grade

• Period 1 - to computer lab to type- we will finish the rest of the work on Tuesday (whereas period 4 and 8 will be in the computer lab Tuesday and finish the project today!!!)
• Don't forget to have me review your composition if you like...it can only help you in the end.
• Brief lesson on how to type accent marks, so when we are in the lab you know what you are doing :)

Homework: Finish anything you think you will not be able to accomplish in class by due date.

vendredi le 12 septembre (Friday, Sept. 12)

"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."
-Napolean Bonaparte

Lunch today: Mexican tacos with meat

I go home every day smiling. I talk about how great my job is, how wonderful my students are. On a Friday, how could I ask for more...to actually look forward to going back to work on Monday? Oh là là, j'ai de la chance.

7th grade:

• Check homework for a ticket (Le/la worksheet)
• Hand back vrai/faux quizzes. Exchange with a neighbor and grade me! If I have made any mistakes, you get another ticket.
• Review homework from last night.
• LE/LA/L' relay activity

WORD RELAY RULES

1. Each person in a row is assigned a number position.
2. That person is responsible for writing down the answer to the question on the overhead on a piece of paper (corresponding with his/her seat) that is passed back through the row.
3. Every answer must be filled in (1-5)
4. No person can fill in two answers at once!
5. Paper goes up and down row until all answers are filled in (if team members did not know answer...)
6. Papers are passed back to first desk. First desk owner raises hand to show me the team is finished.
7. Every correct answer is awarded one point. First team complete receives extra point.

TICKET TRADE IN!!!

Some items are 5 tickets only:

• Pen/pencil combination
• Free homework pass
• Mardi gras necklace
• 5 points on test or quiz coupon

10 ticket items:

• French laynard that says "Don't touch!"
• French wristbands

25 ticket items:

• French mousepad

8th grade

• Continuez avec le projet...
• Computer lab mardi...
• EVERYTHING MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY, so if you need to work over the weekend- you need to work over the weekend. Comprennez?!?
• Ticket trade-in (see above for item selection s.v.p.)
• Michael Green will be wearing his GREEN outfit today!!! (or else...)

BON WEEKEND!!

jeudi le onze septembre (Thursday, Sept. 11)

'I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.'

-H.H. The Dalai Lama

Lunch: Hot ham and cheese

Grade 7

• Collect/Check true/false quizzes and 40 question quiz on French words. (Tickets)
• Review 40 Question French quiz.
• Did you notice the "le and la" used with many of the words?
• Notes on MASCULINE vs FEMININE vs PLURAL vs "STARTS WITH A VOWEL" French nouns. Eeeek!
• Practice sheet of le, la, l', les.

Homework: Finish practice sheet if not completed in class.

Grade 8

• Collect 'about me' question sheet (tickets)
• Continuez avec le projet...
• Aujourd'hui c'est jeudi...et le projet va être fini lundi le 15 septembre! (If you are falling behind, work on it at home!!!)

Je suis = I am
J'ai - I have
J'aime - I like Je préfère - I prefer
Je n'aime pas- I don't like
Je déteste - I hate
Je fais - I play/I do
J'aime faire - I like to play/do
J'aime manger - I like to eat
J'aime boire - I like to drink
Ma mère s'appelle- My mom's name is...
J'habite- I live

Devoirs: None, unless you know you need to work at home!

mercredi le dix septembre (Wednesday, Sept.10)

'None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.'
-Comte de Mirabeau

PICTURE DAY!

Lunch today: Fresh pizza

7th grade

• Finish last few introductions
• Take vrai/faux quiz on the life and times of your French teacher. How much do you thiiiink you know?
• Grade quiz in class...you will be rewarded for cleverness, or perhaps just plain ol' good luck!
• Create true/false quiz about yourself and hand in for Mademoiselle to take.

Homework: Take home quiz on 40 French words (for a ticket!)

8th grade

• Continuation of in-class project: Bonjour Je m'appelle...
• Page 185 in Discovering French Nouveau/trusty old 'blue books.'

1. Je suis = I am
2. J'ai - I have
3. J'aime - I like
4. Je préfère - I prefer
5. Mon couleur préféré est...- My fav. color is
6. Je n'aime pas- I don't like
7. Je déteste - I hate
8. Je fais - I play/I do
9. J'aime faire - I like to play/do
10. J'aime manger - I like to eat
11. J'aime boire - I like to drink
12. Ma mère s'appelle- My mom's name is...
13. J'habite- I live

Homework: Page 1 of 'questions about you' packet. First page ONLY.

mardi le neuf septembre (Tuesday, Sept. 9)

'There is only one happiness in this life- to love and be loved.'
- George Sand

Lunch today: Italian meatball hero

7th grade

• Quelle est la date aujourd'hui?
• Finish introductions / Comment t'appelles-tu? - Je m'appelle... Enchanté.
• Tomorrow : True/False quiz on the life and times of Mademoiselle Battaglia! (How much do you know/think you know about your French teacher?)

No homework.

8th Grade

• Begin in class project "Bonjour, je m'appelle..."
• Remember you have until the end of the period Monday, Sept. 15th.

Elements

1. 30 sentence composition
2. 3 nameplates demonstrating who YOU are
3. Composition typed
4. Composition and nameplates mounted on colored paper

Things to remember

• Be creative
• Remember your basics : Je suis = I am J'ai = I have J'adore = I love Je déteste = I hate
• Be colorful
• Use your old book and page 185 of Discovering French Nouveau.

No homework (unless you care to work on your composition at home.)

lundi le huit septembre (Monday, Sept.8)

'Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
You can find me cryin' all of the time'
-The Mamas and the Papas

Lunch today: Chicken patty on bun.

7th grade

Quelle est la date aujourd'hui?

• Take out name cards and let's get to know each other...
• Question and answer: Comment t'appelles-tu? - Je m'appelle ___________ - Enchanté.
• Tell me some things about yourself.

No homework.

8th grade

Quelle est la date aujourd'hui? (Give 1st period tickets for winning activity Friday)

• Return vrai/faux quizzes and grade me
• Present first project: "Bonjour, je m'appelle..." This will be done in class.

Elements of Project
1. Write a 30 sentence composition about yourself, your life, your interests, your likes and dislikes, your family, your house, your everything...
2. Create at least THREE 'name-plates' (examples will be shown) that represent one of the elements that 'make you, YOU!' ex: Je m'appelle Janine et j'adore les chats. (I design my name in tiger-print.)
3. Type composition at home or in computer lab.
4. Mount name-plates and composition on colored paper and hang in hallway for Back to School Night.

Project due date: Monday, September 15th.

No homework.

vendredi le cinq septembre (Friday, Sept. 5)

Today is Friday...that means it's time for the "Friday dance." So far, it's been such a good week. I actually love all my classes. (I'm sort of waiting for the other shoe to fall...haha.) Too bad it's going to rain on Saturday. Le sigh.


7th grade

Quelle est la date aujourd'hui?

• Complete procedure sheet

• Check materials (folder for French only) - ticket
  
  
• Finish name tag cards and illustrations



• Begin introductions if time allows

Homework : Passez un bon weekend!

8th grade

• Give out packet of review material/ Complete

'about me' mad-libs.

• Collect homework (true/false quiz and folder and notebook) - tickets



• Question Face-off for as much time as possible. Brush up on your questions: Tu as combien de pieds? Tu as faim? Où habites-tu? Qu'est-ce que tu aimes manger?

Homework: Passez un bon weekend!

jeudi le quatre septembre (Thursday, Sept. 4)

Ahhh. I'm relieved yesterday is over (even though it went 'magnifique!)
Now we can really begin...

8th grade

• Make sure everyone is in correct seat
• (1st period) Hand out Class Picture forms
• Hand out envelopes for tickets
• Check Homework - Signed Rules/Rewards sheets (tickets)
• Check the blog? Did you find La Tour Eiffel?
• Select French names to use on all papers (and remind me)
• Take Vrai/Faux quiz on Mademoiselle
• Review quiz as a class / rewards for cleverness

Homework: Folder and notebook for tomorrow.

Creation of your own vrai/faux quiz about yourself.

7th Grade

• Remember and find seats
• Bonjour Mademoiselle Battaglia / Quelle est la date aujourd'hui
• Hand out envelopes for holding of tickets
• Check homework (Signed Rules Sheet)
• Did you check the blog?
• Begin first assignment - selection of French names.
• Write selected name on colored index card.
• On back draw three things that represent you.
• Inside give me all your 'vitals.' (Home phone, email, address etc.)

Homework : Folder to be checked tomorrow. Make sure you have it! FRENCH ONLY!

Our class policy question sheet. Only one answer required per question/although more accepted.

mercredi le trois septembre (Wednesday, Sept. 3)

• Seating charts and seats assigned.


• Blog overview and distribution of rules and rewards sheets.


• Disussion of class and materials needed.


• 8th grade discussion of course work and online textbook.


• Selection of French names (if time allows.)

Homework:*

Bring "Rules" sheet back signed by parent/guardian (for ticket.)

Remember seat for tomorrow.

Bring in necessary materials by Friday: 7th grade- FOLDER w/ paper.

8th grade- One subject notebook AND folder.

*Homework policy: Students have ONE day to bring in late/absent homework. They will receive a full grade of 100 if they bring it in within that time period. (They will not receive a 'ticket' as a reward for completing homework on time. After the one day grace period a grade of 'zero' will be entered in the assignment column. A grade of 50 can also be issued for partially done/poorly completed homework.

'Tomorrow never knows'

I think I'm ready? Are they?

I hope they don't think my blog is stupid and fall asleep. Well, they won't fall asleep. I'm far too loud - other teachers hate that. Ahh- but too bad.

I hope I sleep tonight. If I don't I bet they're not sleeping either.

I hope I don't sweat through my shirt and I hope they don't moan and complain about their seats.

I get older and they stay the same.

But every year I get better and they get a better me.

Verb songs.

Fashion shows.

Yummy food.

Vocabulary Bees.

(Bumble) bee stories.

Baby Frankie stories.

Wild Wild Woolzie stories.

Randi Rizzo stories.

Pet squirrels.

The sprinkler, the lawnmower. The shopping cart.

Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

-because he was dead.

Why did the squirrel fall out of the tree?

-he was stapled to the monkey.

It's September 2nd. Allons-y.