Mia's School Performance

Last week, the entire Maternelle (3 years of Kindergarten) held a performance for the parents called Spectacle. It was unusual and very French. Mia's class acting like sculptures to strange music and pictures on the overhead. No wonder when I asked Mia the night before what she'd be performing she answered, "I don't know".






From left to right: me with Mia; Mia's 'best friend' Ignace and his mom, Catherine

Mia with her teacher, Claudia. Mia's great friend, Olivia.

Mia's on and off 'boyfriend' Abel

Mia School Work - Feb 2008

This is an example of what Mia is working on in school. She's doing well with at school and seems to get an A on everything. I thought this was neat how she had to use a different design from the left column for a different section on the dress. She's also doing a lot with letters and numbers. All in preparation for primary school.

Mia's version of school

On Thursday when I picked up Mia from school I noticed there was a medical evaluation test in her little book. She has a book that the teacher's put notes into for the parents (ie about upcoming field trips, school projects, etc). Whenever her book is in her little cubby hole I know it's because there's a note for me to look at. The notes are always in French but sometimes they are accompanied with a Hungarian version. Between the 2 I can usually work it out.

When I opened up her book I found her medical test results which mainly consisted of height (113.5 - she towers over all the kids at school), weight (20.5) and what I guess are things like blood pressure (I've included a copy below). I inquired about the doctor visiting her class today at school and she confirmed that the lady doctor did come and visit them at school today. Then she told me that the lady doctor gave her tummy massage and it tickled. She also said that it was the same lady doctor that was at the hospital where she was born. I asked Mia if the doctor remembered Mia as a baby and Mia said, 'yes, she remembered me when I came out of your tummy and I was a crying little baby'. Very funny. The doctor must also work at Telki and noticed that Mia was born there. Maybe she even recognized Mia's name.

Side note: Mia's shoe size is a 32 European right now; 13 1/2 - 1 US.

Mia's School Work

Here are some examples of what Mia is doing in the Moyenne Section at the French School. They seem to do a lot of puzzles where they have to connect dots, draw straight lines or follow patterns like this:

The other main area that they work on is reading, writing and recognizing their names. Mia has known how to write 'Mia' for almost a year but 'Emilia' is a bit harder and new to her. She still seems to pass all the tests with ease.