Days of the week

The school year is almost over but my little first grader still gets confused about which day of the week it is - part of the reason is the French system with four and a half school days (half being the Saturday morning) with Wednesday as a day off school. The Saturday morning was added this year (consequently, other four days now have shorter afternoon classes).

To help my daughter tell days of the week correctly I made her this little banner with paper flags (7 cm high), sewn together with a piece of lace trim (I use old, worn out sewing needles for sewing on paper). Every morning when she gets down to breakfast, she will move the little bird pin one day forward. 

Happy Monday, everybody!

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Šolsko leto gre h koncu, moja prvošolka pa še vedno ne ve točno, kateri dan v tednu je - zmedena je, ker ima francoski sistem štiri šolske dneve in pol (polovička je v soboto dopoldan), v sredo pa ni pouka. Da bi ji pomagala, sem hčerki izdelala koledarček iz papirnatih zastavic (visokih 7 cm), skupaj sešitih s čipkastim trakom (za šivanje papirja uporabljam stare, rabljene šivalne igle). Zdaj vsako jutro pri zajtrku premakne ptička / ščipalko za en dan naprej.

Lep ponedeljek vam želim!

Days of the week

I recently did a friendly swap with Fallon, an Etsy friend who runs the lovely pillow shop Olive and two other shops with vintage treasures and supplies; and today my package arrived!

In exchange for my zippered pouch and a key chain I asked Fallon to make me a special garland to mark the days of the week. My son goes to preschool here in France and the classes are only four days a week with Wednesdays and the weekends off. Sometimes he finds it difficult to understand which day it is and whether we have time in the morning to play a little or if we have to hurry to school. So Fallon made me a banner of little houses in two colours, green for school days and blue for no school days, and she sewed the names of the days on them in French. She added a sweet little bird clip to attach to each house as the days go by.

I love the cheerful garland so much I decided not to hang it in children's room, where they don't play very often anyway, but to pin it on the wall by the entrance to our appartment, where we put our shoes and coats on in the morning. From our breakfast table we can see over the kitchen counter straight onto the wall and from now on the whole family will have our day "synchronized".