Frohe Weihnachten!
This Saturday, we brought back a tradition that was started years ago in the 5.Klasse: Cookie Saturday!
We spent the class period with each student decorating their own bundle of cookies, both sugar and gingerbread, of various shapes. Shortly beforehand, we went over the vocabulary for the shapes, so as to make the whole cookie thing at least slightly academic.
Also provided was a handout containing the following: a German-style Lebkuchenfiguren recipe, exposition over the differences between European and American recipes (ingredients done by weight instead of by volume, metric instead of standard, etc), vocabulary for the various words listed in the German recipe, and for the parents, a copy of the recipe that we actually used to make the cookies--I hope you like it!
There is no homework assigned over the break; however, the week after we come back, there will be a redo of the test that was taken last week.
Mit Vergnügen~
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
8.Dezember - Prüfungstag
Hello all,
As you are doubtless aware, I was not present for class on Saturday thanks to the flu that'd likewise kept me out of the office all week.
The majority of scheduled class time was to be spent taking the first major test of the year.
Next week, we originally were not supposed to have class due to the museum trip; however, as you have been informed, this trip was cancelled. Soooooo for those students who are in attendance on 15. December, we'll be spending our class time with something fun, whimsical and, most importantly, tasty.
Mit Vergnügen~
As you are doubtless aware, I was not present for class on Saturday thanks to the flu that'd likewise kept me out of the office all week.
The majority of scheduled class time was to be spent taking the first major test of the year.
Next week, we originally were not supposed to have class due to the museum trip; however, as you have been informed, this trip was cancelled. Soooooo for those students who are in attendance on 15. December, we'll be spending our class time with something fun, whimsical and, most importantly, tasty.
Mit Vergnügen~
Saturday, December 1, 2012
1.Dezember - Befestigt euch; Winter kommt.
Today saw the beginning of a new tradition in the 5th grade class here, namely the naming of our class mascot: the Spielzeugkuh. I will have to find a toy cow to display in the classroom somewhere for years to come now.
It began like any other Saturday, but quickly this illusion was shattered when I wrote 8 ominous columns on the board: 8 categories, 8 topics, each with numbers 1-1000. It was time... for Jeopardy.
As is tradition, since next week is going to be our cumulative semester test, today was review day in the form of a class-long game of Jeopardy.
In the end, the team "Augen" beat out the team "Kluge" by about 1500 points.
After lunch, and before the Singprobe, we went over Nikolaustag and read the poem, "Nikolaus, ich wart schon lange," reading it together, translating it in stanzas, and then finally acting it out. One of the many things wished for in the poem is a "Spielzeugkuh," and somehow the kids thought the idea of a toy cow was just hilarious, so one of them took it upon himself to dress up and act like the cow during the acting portion. He then wore that costume (made of notebook paper colored in with black blotches and taped to his clothes) to the singing practice, mooing all the way.
And so was born our new mascot, the Spielzeugkuh, forever immortalized in toy form once I can find a cow. If you have a toy cow you would like to donate to the class instead, just let me know and this shall be gladly accepted and prominently displayed.
For next week's test, I recommend studying the following:
It began like any other Saturday, but quickly this illusion was shattered when I wrote 8 ominous columns on the board: 8 categories, 8 topics, each with numbers 1-1000. It was time... for Jeopardy.
As is tradition, since next week is going to be our cumulative semester test, today was review day in the form of a class-long game of Jeopardy.
In the end, the team "Augen" beat out the team "Kluge" by about 1500 points.
After lunch, and before the Singprobe, we went over Nikolaustag and read the poem, "Nikolaus, ich wart schon lange," reading it together, translating it in stanzas, and then finally acting it out. One of the many things wished for in the poem is a "Spielzeugkuh," and somehow the kids thought the idea of a toy cow was just hilarious, so one of them took it upon himself to dress up and act like the cow during the acting portion. He then wore that costume (made of notebook paper colored in with black blotches and taped to his clothes) to the singing practice, mooing all the way.
And so was born our new mascot, the Spielzeugkuh, forever immortalized in toy form once I can find a cow. If you have a toy cow you would like to donate to the class instead, just let me know and this shall be gladly accepted and prominently displayed.
For next week's test, I recommend studying the following:
- Modal verbs, meaning and usage of möchten and dürfen
- Food vocabulary as gone over earlier in the year (sausage, hamburger, pizza, pretzel, orange juice, milk, tee, coffee, fries, bread, water, egg, cake, cookies) with articles
- Family vocabulary
- Regular verb conjugation
- Definite articles in nominative and accusative
- Negation (nicht, nichts, nie, niemand)
- Interrogatives (wo, wer, wie, was, wann)
Mit Vergnügen
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