Today was scary, absolutely terrifying. It was also the day when we unofficially celebrated Halloween.
The spooky day was begun with a spooky listening comprehension exercise courtesy of Rammstein's Rosenrot. I will remind again that there will before long be a quiz over the vocabulary-to-date from these listening comprehension exercises, so please make sure your child keeps these somewhere they can be retrieved when need arises.
We then stretched our spooky brain muscles with a scary essay, "Das Schaurigste Ding," wherein each child described in at least 10 sentences what to them seemed to be the scariest thing of all. Answers ranged from such staples as zombies and more zombies to invisible cats, fry cooks and 'blood and eyes'. Not disembodied or haunted blood and eyes, but just plain blood and eyes, apparently. At least one kid will not grow up to be a surgeon or taxidermist, it seems.
Expounding upon the previously learned my (mein(e)) and your (dein(e)) possessive adjectives, we went over kein(e) as well, which lead us into the beard game. "Bart, Kein Bart" is basically a mimicking game--each child would say a collection of phrases (Bart, Kein Bart, Mein Bart, Dein Bart) and do motions associated with them, and another child would have to mimic them exactly or else be cast forth from the game.
To exorcise our wiggles after lunch, we played "Vampir," a variant on "Stasi Mann" from earlier in the year. In a nutshell, each round the König(in)vampir would claim another victim, who would join the secret vampire army. Each round, the vampires grew in number. If the child who was the Polizist did not correctly guess who the König(in)vampir was in time, he would be overrun by vampires and lose the game. Out of 5 games, the Polizist only survived twice.
And then suddenly, there was a parade. We went ahead and joined this, marching around the school in costume. In case you were at all curious, my outfit was that of a Stasi Agent, for they can look like anyone.
Ending the day, candy was distributed, but only if the children used the terms they were taught for expressing desire (gern haben) and requesting (möchten, bitte). They were then allowed to trade candy amongst themselves as well, but only if they continued using the proper phrasing.
Now, the homework:
Workbook
P.20, Exercises 4,5
P.22, Exercise 9
P.23, Exercises 1-3
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