Struggling with Third Grade homework...must be Sunday

[janedavitt]

Part of L's homework this week was to take jumbled French words and arrange them to make a sentence.

No problem with (excuse the lack of accents)

riviere, Les, dans, nagent, la, poissons.

No. That went, heheh, swimmingly.

But when it came to

Le une bourgeron deviendra petit feuille

I had to resort to logic as we were stumped.

"See, Lauren; 'Le' is the only one that starts with a capital letter, so that goes first."

"I know that, Mommy."

"Fine. Well, 'le' is masculine and ooh, look, there's no 'e' on the end of petite, so that's masculine, too and quick, where's the French dictionary, 'bourgeon' is masculine and means, uh, 'bud'. Or possibly 'pimple'. Huh? Never mind. Bud it is. So they all go together and 'feuille' is feminine, so the 'une' has to go with that and we shove the verb, my God, what is that? Future conditional of devoir? ELEANOR! COME DOWNSTAIRS AND HELP, WILL YOU? BECAUSE YOU'RE GRADE EIGHT, THAT'S WHY.

So, Lauren, do you get that?"

"No."

"Oh."

Mommy rearranges words and says doubtfully, "The small bud must become a piece of paper."

"What?"

"Just write it down."

We're now COMPLETELY stuck, all three of us, on

un drole Felix est petit de bonhomme

Has to start with 'Felix' who's clearly a funny good fellow, but where does the 'de' go?

:;weeps quietly::

ETA Sorted and thank you all so much! ::hugs;: