since we're spending time in france this december... oh la' la' that sounds impressive! we're not actually in france but our homeschool lessons are taking us there! our chapter book is "the family under the bridge."


anyway, i googled easy french recipes and found a really nice site: click here.

I weaved a little cooking into our homeschooling and had tommie make poulet provencal (chicken stew in the crockpot!) it's amazing how when "he" prepares a meal or new recipe...he's all game to taste it! there are other really easy recipes on the site... i'm hoping to have him make more gourmet dishes... especially since our local meijers has a international food section!

we also enjoyed learning about the seine river watershed. i required tommie to read and learn about the vanishing salmon in the river and write a short report about it. by the way, since cleaning up the river, the salmon have came back!

i also used the book for dictation, sentence dissecting and "making new adjectives out of old ones!"

the other handy multi-subject lessons we did today... which covered european geography, the waterway system, tributaries, the french government, and french fashion... all of this was done by creating a poster about the above. simple and effective.