11.März '17 - Pretty Pictures

We began our day like any other day, only this time with sugar. There was so much sugar. I had way too many cookie bars, so I brought them to class. The class ate their fill, so I gave it to the 8th grade. That class ate their fill, so I gave it to the 6th. Then the teachers. Then the parent volunteers.

After our sugar, we began the People of Teutoburg presentations. We ran through half the class, and the other half will present next week.

Most of the time was then spent with a review of the dative case, followed by our Unicorn Hunt (a scavenger hunt) wherein the class had to locate the unicorns I hid throughout the school, using only the riddles I made for them. Once found, they had to describe (in complete sentences with dative prepositions) where the unicorns had been.

After the break, we fulfilled our annual tradition of making a new Teutoburg mural. It's a beauty, really.

Starting next week, we will begin work on our Teutoburg play.

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4.März '17 - Beginning Teutoburg

Guten Tag,


Today we opened with finishing out most of the "Meine Nächste Woche" Presentations, followed by my week as well.

We wrapped up the Future Tense unit with a pop quiz on the topic.

Then, we introduced our new unit over cases. First we are doing the dative case, the case used for stating spatial location.

Beginning a new aspect of our overarching historical unit, we read and went through a packet I made summarizing the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. We discussed the key figures in the event, and as homework each child present is doing independent research on said key figures as well.

In coming weeks, we will do our annual Teutoburgerschlacht mural as well as the class play and, of course, the Roman Murder Mystery Banquet.

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