dear santa,

if you really exist, please do not read the following, for what my kids said might bother you (a tiny bit).

two more days till xmas break, you would be crazy to try and teach them anything at all.

so with my little ones, i just did what i've done on monday, again.

but it just got super hilarious.

i drew a xmas tree, a xmas gift, an angel, a father xmas (i insisted on using this term cos that's what's written in the textbook, sure, rolling eyes), a xmas pudding.

after having gone over all of them first, i asked them one by one by pointing at the pictures on the board.

"penelope, qu'est-ce que c'est?" pointing at father xmas. (what's this?)

"pere noel."

"oui, c'est le pere noel, mais en anglais?" (yes, you're right, but in english?)

"euh, poisson?" (hm, fish?)

"presque, mais non." (close, but no.)

"papa noel?"

"non. c'est fa__ xmas?"

"euh, far-par xmas?"

"non."

"far-mar xmas?"

...

"theo, qu'est-ce que c'est?" pointing at the xmas tree.

"pere noel!"

"c'est pas vrai! regards, c'est quoi encore?" (you're kidding, look, what's this again?)

"euh, un sapin." (hmm, a xmas tree.)

"oui, tres bien, mais en anglais?" (very good, but in english?)

"say-pain?"

"non."

"sar-peen?"

"non! mais non! ca commence avec xmas tch..."

"kway-mah-s tchoo?"

"kris-mah-s tch-ree."

"kway-mah tch-ree."

...

"comment on dit pere noel en anglais?" (how do you say 'pere noel' in english?)

"je sais je sais! c'est penguin!" (i know i know, it's penguin!)

"peut-etre pas. le pere noel, il est pas de noir et blanc." (maybe not, he's not black and white."

"euh, c'est quoi deja?" (what's that again?)

"farther xmas."

"far-ar, kay-mar."

so yeah, he could well be anything, a fish, a sapin (xmas tree), a penguin!

but hey, at least they still believe in father xmas!