In any case, welcome back! I'm glad I didn't manage to scare all of you off back in the 5.Klasse and that you decided to stay long enough for them all to experience the 7.Klasse with me.
This year, we are endeavoring to be organized. As your kids may have informed you, our typical day will go a bit like this:
Greetings - we have a little intro routine where we ask "Wie ist das Wetter heute?" and discuss that with motions, e.g. "Kalt!" (we all shiver) "Warm!" (bask) "Es schneit" (jazz hands) and so on; following is "Wie geht's uns?" whereupon everyone turns to their neighbor and asks how they're doing (hint: the answer is apparently *always* "müde") and then I ask "Wer bin ich?" to which they yell, "Herr Walker!" and finally, "Wer seid ihr?" responded to with "DIE SIEBTE KLASSE!" as loud as their adolescent lungs can belt it.
We have a new teacher next door, you see, so we have to show her the ropes by being as disruptive as we can at all times.
Listening Comprehension - daily, we will have an exercise where we listen to a song and try to fill in the blanks on a lyric sheet
Vocabulary - we will go through units or cycles of vocabulary, adding onto our list each week.
Cultural Study - our historical-cultural unit this year is "Iron Age Germany," believe it or not; it went remarkably well last year so it stuck. We will be focusing on the interactions between what was then "Magna Germania" and the Roman Empire in the first century AD and how that time period formed the Germany we know today.
Verbs - we have begun with regular verbs and modal verbs
Grammar - though we didn't manage to pull it off today, daily the goal is to talk about the finer points, such as cases and syntax.
Clean-Up - the last 10 minutes are time to clean the room and take out the garbage. Traditionally, if we play any competitive games, whichever group does not win takes out the garbage, whereas the others stay and clean the room. Today it was board races over regular verb endings, so the girls, team "Awesomes," ended up taking out the garbage.
To keep track of all this, they will need certain supplies.
I have requested the kids inform you that everyone needs a 3-ring binder for their notes and handouts. This should have various divided tabs for the following things:
- Vocabulary
- Songs
- Notes
- Verbs and Grammar
- Graded Papers
The homework for this week is to come prepared with all of this next week.
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