Today we spent the entire time eating ice cream and watching movies.
Then I woke up.
Today we actually spent the entire time in class doing German-related things, much to everyone's surprise.
We did the morning intro of "Wie ist das Wetter?" and "Wie Geht's?" and "Wer seid ihr/wer bin ich?" as explained in the previous entry, and our song for the day for the listening comprehension portion was "Ein Elefant für dich" by Wir Sind Helden, an adorable pop band that I've come to like and hope your kids will too.
It's a challenge to find German music that meets all of these criteria, you see:
- Child-appropriate
- Comprehensible to someone who isn't at near-native level of fluency
- Able to be found online without "this song not available in your country"
Using the house and rooms vocabulary sheet we filled out last week, we broke into groups and designed and labelled our own houses, which shall be decorated and made pretty and then hung up in the future.
We then transitioned into the culture lesson, talking about the different features and amenities available in Iron Age German versus Imperial Roman homes, and how and why they were what they were.
The regular verbs unit continued with the verb forming rules for er/sie/es, and then we went into modal verbs with Wollen and translated verses from "Ich Will" (last week's song).
The day ended with a game that's often hit-or-miss depending on the class; it went rather well this time. It's called, "Wo bin ich?" and it involves *carefully* leading around a classmate, who has a bag over their head, and then stopping them in a random room of the school and asking them, "Wo bist du?" and they have to guess, "Ich bin in... *name of a room*"
And now, for the homework assignment:
we divided up among the students who shall do Roman style houses and who shall do old Germanic.
Accordingly, do the following:
Design (illustrate, label, color) one of the two styles of houses: a Roman Patrician Villa (rich house) or a Germanic stead (farm house/hut)
- Label all rooms
- Label any furniture or equipment
- Make it *feasible* even if not entirely realistic, e.g. no iron age water slides or ice cream makers
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