Bonjour! Hello!

Bonjour a tous nos amis a L'Isle d'Espagnac de vos amis ici a Ainsworth, Bury et a Bolton.

Les eleves de St Michael a Bolton et de Christ Church Ainsworth ont recommence a leurs ecoles le 3 septembre!

Nous voudrions continuer de vous envoyer des photos et des nouvelles ! Nous esperons aussi recevoir vos photos et nouvelles.

Hello to all of our friends in L'Isle d'Espagnac from your friends in Ainsworth, Bury and Bolton.

The children from St Michael's in Bolton and Christ Church in Ainsworth started back at their schools on the 3rd September.

We would love to continue to send you our photos and our news and we hope to receive your photos and news too on this blog.

A bientot!  See and hear from you soon!!!

Merci pour les cartes. Thank you for the cards.

The Y5 children at Christ Church Ainsworth  have received the New Year's cards you sent to them. We do not normally send New Year's cards in England, we usually send Christmas cards. Thank you they are different and we like them.

Les eleves de Year 5 a CCA ont recu vos cartes por la nouvelle annee. Normalement en Angleterre nous n'envoyons pas les cartes por la nouvelle annee. On envoit les cartes de Noel. Merci. Elles sont differentes et nous les aimons beaucoup.

The children at St Michael's have sent you some letters! les eleves de St Michael's vous ont envoyes des lettres.

Les eleves de Y5 et Y6 a St Michael's vous ont envoye des lettres. The children in Y5 and Y6 at St Michael's have sent you some letters for CM1 and CM2.

We hope you like our letters!

Un petit-dejeuner francais. A French breakfast

The pupils in Year 4 at St Michael's enjoyed a traditional French breakfast. They ate pain au chocolat and drank hot chocolate. Yummy yummy! In England we do not drink out of a bowl like in France.

Les eleves de Year 4  a St Michael's ont goute un petit-dejeuner francais traditionel. Ils ont mange des pains au chocolat et ils ont bu beaucoup de chocolat chaud! Miam miam! En Angleterre en ne boit pas d'un bol comme en France.

Snow / La neige

We have a little bit of snow.  Nous avons un peu de neige.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer/Rudplph la Renne avec le Nez Rouge

Here are the words to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer a famous Christmas song with children here. 
Voici les paroles a la chanson Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer = Rudolph la renne avec le nez rouge.

If you want to know how to sing it listen to our nursery and reception children sing it!!
Si vous voulez apprendre chanter la chanson ecoutez nos eleves de maternelle et la premiere classe. Les petits eleves chantent pour vous!
http://www.christchurchainsworthschool.org/community/concert.htm 

Lyrics :

You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose,
And if you ever saw it,
You could even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright,
Wont you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee,
"Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer,
You'll go down in history.

Christmas time in England. The food we eat and about our Christmas traditions.

Hello. It is almost Christmas,. I am going to tell you what we eat at Christmas time and when. I will also tell you about our Christmas traditions.

Perhaps you can tell us about the food you eat and when? Please tell us about your Christmas traditions too.

We spend Christmas Eve with family and or friends. We do not have a special meal but eat things typical at parties or Christmas types of food.Some people just have a nice cooked meal.

On Christmas day - 25th December we eat our special Christmas dinner. Here are some traditional Christmas foods.

We might eat Pate, prawn cocktail or soup as a starter

Pate

Prawn cocktail

soup

For the main course we normally eat roast turkey, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, carrots, stuffing, cranberry sauce and gravy and sausages wrapped in bacon which we call pigs wrapped in blankets.

Christmas dinner on a plate.

Brussel Sprouts

Carrots

Gravy

Sausages wrapped in bacon ('pigs in blankets')

Roast potatoes

Sage and onion stuffing

Yorkshire puddings.

Cranberry sauce.

Desserts fot Christmas dinner

/The table set for Christmas dinner.

Christmas Pudding

Flaming Christmas pudding

Mince pies

Crumbling mince pie

Trifle

Christmas crackers

Christmas cakes

Christmas cake

On Christmas Eve, the children are very excited and go to bed quite early as they want Father Christmas to come.They pin up a stocking by the fireplace or at the bottom of their bed.They leave him a mince pie and a glass of whiskey or a glass of milk and some carrots for Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and the other Reindeer called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (or Donner), and Blitzen.

Santa in his sleigh drawn by his reindeer.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Santa getting into the house by the chimney.

Santa coming down the chimney

Father Christmas, Santa, as we also call him, travels on his sleigh, drawn by his reindeer and carries lots of toys and presents in a sack.His reindeer land on the roof and Santa comes down the chimney to get into the house to leave presents. He leaves presents in a stocking and by the fireplace, by the Christmas tree or at the bottom of the childrens' bed.

On Christmas Day the children get up very early to see if 'he has been'. After opening their presents families have a special Christmas lunch or dinner. Families also exchange gifts.

stockings on the fireplace. A Christmas tree

'He has been!'

26th December is called Boxing Day and this is a public holiday.
On New Years Eve many people have parties with family and friends to see in the new year. Many people let off fireworks too.

Big Ben in London with fireworks.

Published by Mrs Wilcock