Learning articles of clothing

To introduce articles of clothing, we learned Das Hamplemannlied, a fun little song about a jumping jack toy. There are several versions of the song, so I modified it a little to fit the most important articles of clothing I wanted to teach. This version is similar to what we sang in class and has pictures of the articles of clothing to help students learn the words.




Homework for this week was to color the Hamplemann anyway they wished and then to describe their Hampelmann. The articles of clothing they need are written on their Hampelmann and then they just need to write in the color in the blanks. A couple of children were not able to finish making their toy in class. The directions for making the Hampelmann is here. It also includes the template I used (I modified it slightly to write the clothing words on it) if you are missing parts or would like to make one for other children in your family.  (The link in the materials list doesn't work, but the one in the directions does.)

This week's episode of TroTro includes the little donkey dressing himself. I decided not to do a separate introduction for this one because it is pretty concrete. He grabs each article of clothing as he says it. Enjoy!