Welcome to Europe

We arrived safely in Paris, France yesterday to be greeted by Chuck, our customs agent (Una's dad).  We had a great view of the Eiffel Tower from the plane!  We have learned that Europe is the second smallest continent, but it has almost as many countries as Africa!  We heard about Vatican City, which is a country inside of a city inside of a country!  How cool is that?

This morning Zadie's dad, Declan, came to talk about the United Kingdom.  He was born in England and his mother is Irish.  He told us that there are no snakes in Ireland, even though they exist in other parts of Europe.  He also showed us some important images of England.  

It was Lilia's birthday today and we were treated to a couple of great stories (Extra Yarn, Zen Shorts) when her dad, Jeremy, and her mom, Sharona, came in to read to us.   

We ended the day with a poetry slam, of sorts.  Last week we read an assortment of poems about the falling leaves of the season.  Today the students had a choice to read one of those to the class or write one of their own.  We have some very creative poets in this class!