Guten Tag,
Gestern haben wir viel Spaß gehabt! Es wurd gequatscht, geschrieben, gelernt, gesehen, und Deutsch gesprochen. Ich habe's mir gewünscht, es war auch unter uns etwas essen worden, aber leider hat niemand Snacks mitgebracht.
The day began as it tends to, with Herr Walker talking about something. He has an interesting habit of doing that.
This week we introduced the "Mitmachen Tabellen," where students gauge their own participation (with my prompting) in each class period. Whenever someone volunteers to do something, or makes an honest attempt to answer a question, they get to write a point on their sheet; the goal is to get at least 5 points per day. These sheets are taken up every quarter, and based on their score, I determine their "Fleiss" (effort, participation) grade at semester's end.
As is uns gewöhnlich, we started with Meine Woche which is always nice for working up Mitmachen points.
Then, we did our listening comprehension for the day, a satirical "cooking show" by one of my favorite German podcasters called, "Kochen mit Kimberly." This week's recipe (a conglomeration of Twitter follower-suggested ingredients) was "Nutella-Ingwer-Sardinen Suppe" which was exactly what it sounded like.
To review (and wrap up) the lesson from last week over expressing preferences, we did a Kahoot on the topic, whereupon the winner was "Grape Juice." We then reviewed the previous week's content and covered use of gern, lieber, and am liebsten with haben (to refer to objects and people) and verbs (to refer to preferred activities).
After lunch, we paired/trioed up and made and presented dialogues as an in-class assessment and wrap-up of that lesson. This was an easy topic to start the year with and to help me gauge the Sprachkenntnisse of the new 7th graders.
I'm not certain whether we will have a combined 7th and 8th again next year or whether there will be another teacher with a separate class--as soon as I know for sure, I will let you know, because I have been asked several times so far this year.
As this week was a wrap-up, there was no homework assigned.
~Mit Vergnügen
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