My students this year are doing an amazing job learning to count! Almost everyone has learned to count to ten so I briefly went over the numbers to twenty. We will keep praticing in class, but if your child is ready to move on, German in Three Minutes has a nice overview of counting to 100. It's a little tricky at first, but once you get used to the numbers being "turned around" and saying one-and-twenty instead of twenty-one, it is pretty easy.
And we won't get to this year, but once you get past the millions, I think German is much easier than English. At least I can count much higher (well, if it were actually possible to count that high!) Where English goes million, billion, trilion, German goes Million, Milliard, Billion, Billiard . . . So one trillion is also a much larger number in German!
In class, we mostly did a little review. We reviewed numbers, commands and the nouns we've learned. We practiced the next line of Silent Night which they are getting pretty well, though they're reluctant to sing. Next week's line is the most difficult in the song, so we may work on it for two weeks. This is the song all together just so they can listen and get used to the sounds and practice what we've learned so far.
We also made a Bingo board and reviewd vocabulary with a few rounds of vocabulary Bingo. Next week, we're going to start looking at German verbs a little more as well as starting to learn parts of the body. That's why we finished off with a little Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Foot, in German). Watch Herr Antrim play until he falls over!
And since we've talked quite a bit about animals, a nice song about how God created them all.
And because it seems like it just won't stop raining, this week's Tro Tro is about the little donkey splashing in puddles.
Auf Wiedersehen!
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