Hello everyone,
Sorry that this post is a little late; my wife and I both have been sick this week and took turns taking care of each other. I spent the week sick, so it was apparently her turn this weekend. Don't worry--I've been fine for a few days now.
Saturday's class period began with our writing paragraphs describing our favorite animals such that the rest of the class would have to guess what they were, e.g. "mein Lieblingstier hat 8 Beine, wohnt tief im Meer und frisst Fische gern..."
Our modal verbs unit continued with the addition of the verb "wollen," leaving us with a list as follows: Dürfen, Können, Möchten, Wollen. There will be a quiz over the meaning, conjugation and usage of these verbs next weekend. We then played a round of mad-libs to practice proper syntax with modal verbs and helping verbs in standard, single-clause sentences.
We also played a revised version of the game that was played earlier in January while a sub was present, "Folge den Leiter," wherein one person commanded a group of his/her blindfolded classmates through an obstacle course using basic imperatives: "Geht nach Links/Rechts/Gerade aus/Rückwarts," "HALT!" usw.
After the break, the class earned a pop quiz by deciding to spend the lunch period hiding all my dry-erase markers. Every minute spent hunting down my markers and/or being loud earned a quiz question, leaving us with an 18-question pop quiz over modal verbs, regular verbs and imperatives. I will be returning these with the other pending papers to be graded.
To end the day, I asked the children to split into groups and try to invent their own games over any of the grammar points we have learned so far throughout the year. Their results will be presented next class period.
And now, for the homework.
Hausaufgabe: study for the modal verbs quiz. Review conjugation and meaning of each verb as well as how to form sentences with modal verbs and helping verbs.
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