Valentine's Day exchange

I am doing a Valentine's Day card exchange with a 4 classes from my very good friend Annie's little girl's school and 4 of my most advanced classes. My classes are writing cards to 4 different grades in her school. Emily's (Annie's daughter) 1st grade class is one of the classes, of course. One 1st grade class, one 2nd grade class and a 3rd & 4th grade class will be participating. All of the kids are writing:

• My name is _______
  
• I am ____ years old.
• I live in ____, France or _____, Michigan
• My favorite thing to do is ______

In addition, my kids are also writing a question for each American kid they get paired up with. These questions are the most entertaining part of this project.

This weekend, I spent a few hours translating the questions AND the 4th sentence: My favorite thing to do is _____. Unfortunately, most of the favorite things to do were not very entertaining. I like to play sports, I play soccer, etc. However, there were some really cute or funny ones as follows.

My favorite thing to do is:

• pet my little cats
• hold my baby sister
• hit my older brother
• bug my older brother and sister
• archery
• horseback riding

As I mentioned, the questions proved to be very interesting. The most common ones were:

• What sports do you play?
• Do you have any brothers and sisters?
• Do you like your new president?
• Do you have any pets?
• What's your favorite food?
  

The most entertaining ones were:

• Have you ever seen a snake?
• Do you like tomatoes?
• How much allowance do you get?
• Do you have a very big Thanksgiving dinner/party?
  
• How many hamburgers do you eat per week?
• Do you like U2?
  

I really enjoyed seeing the kids questions about American/kid life. Now, hopefully, the American kids will respond to these questions at some point and my kids can be excited. My other 4 classes are just going to do Valentine's day card exchanges between the other classes so they won't be totally left out but I'm not going to translate anything. That took way too much time and effort. I failed to mention that French kids do not exchange Valentine's Day cards here like they do at home. It's normally just for boyfriend/girlfriend love type stuff. So my kids were pretty surprised that we have Simpsons V-day cards and Shrek V-day cards, etc. I asked my mom to bring them with her when she gets here in February so I can show my kids what American kids do.

By the way, my mom is coming to visit me from Feb. 7-21. I can't wait!