Guten Tag,
Saturday had a surprisingly small class with only 3 students present. I would ask that if your child is not going to be there, that you please let me know; activities planned for a full class do not necessarily work with 1-3 kids, so you'd be saving me a great deal of hassle. Thanks to those of you who let me know in advance.
This week, we took the time to discuss the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and to build our own, complete with all the necessary accoutrements to make it 'historically accurate': bricks, the occasional bullet hole, and oodles upon oodles upon oodles of graffiti. My instructions for the graffiti were simply, "write whatever you can think of in German." As a result, our wall is splattered with such niceties as, "SCHNITZEL!" "KATZEN!" "GRUNE HAARE" and so forth.
This also lead to the creation of our classes' new unofficial mascot, "Hans die Katze," whose visage was also drawn all across the wall.
At the very end of the year, on the last day of class, we will all take part in tearing our wall to shreds.
The lesson for the day was about arguing: how to express disagreement/have a discussion with negation and agreement words. We followed this up with a class debate, boys (the one boy present and I) against girls (the two girls present) arguing on just that topic, "boys vs. girls." Each side presented their argument as to why they were superior, and then we formed rebuttals and presented them. The girls' reasons were far more numerous, albeit not especially compelling, so in the end we were forced to conclude that, "hey, it's lunch time."
The homework is as follows:
Workbook
P.78 ex. 4,6
P. 82 ex. 5,6
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