Open house Collège Danton & Village Fermier, Jardin Bonheur Levallois

Nassim, Alex & Vincent - fun at middle school orientation

Alex will attend Collège Danton in the Fall, which equals middle school in the US (6th-7th-8th-9th grades).  Saturday was the open house and we received a nice tour of the school from a current student.  We went with Alex's friend Nassim and his mother Florence.  Vincent came too.  It's a very big school, 750 students, with nice classrooms and great gym facilities.  Everyone enjoyed the Science class (ok, maybe not the dissected sheep's heart) and Math class sessions.  Vincent knows all the planets too!

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I kept wondering when they attend "Health" class in France.  My experience in the US was 5th and 8th grade.  Well, in France, it seems to be all in 8th grade - (called 4e = quatrieme = 4th - they count backwards to the last year 6-5-4-3-2-1, then last, senior year)

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Annual Farmer's market and Garden show in our town.  The sun finally came out!

"Vincent, go stand by that tee-pee, we don't see this a lot in the US!" Ok Mom.

It's good to be Vincent: