We worked on a lot this week and the students did a great job!
We're still working on counting to ten. This video counts to ten and back to zero with a (kind of) catchy song. Students should recognize the number words. The refrain "Wieviel kostet das?" means "How much does it cost?" "Toll! Ich nehme es!" means "Great! I'll take it!" Then they go back to counting. OK, so it is actually kind of cheesy, but it is short and the song gets stuck in my head and it will help learn the numbers!
This link will take you to a page to practice numbers with some activities. The site can be a little awkward to navigate at first but it has a lot of great activities and I'll be using it fairly regularly. I think it is better than sending home worksheets because you get instant feedback and a chance to correct your mistakes. There are four online activities. Click on the first one and there's a link to instructions and near the top of the page you'll notice arrows to go to the previous or next lesson and you can use that to go through each one: German Numbers 1 - 10
Next, we introduced body parts in German. Herr Antrim has a lot of great videos for learning German. In this one, you can watch him sing Kopf, Schulter, Knie und Fuß until he collapses.
And Herr Antrim again, teaching body parts with his Mr. Potato Head doll.
And some activities to practice the vocabulary at home. This is the same site as the one I gave above to practice numbers. You can complete as many of the activities as you would like. Some of them are more challenging than others: German Parts of the Body.
Our grammar lesson for this week focused on German word order. We worked on a worksheet in class. The remaining questions are NOT homework. This is the heart of German grammar and is a lot to tackle at first because it is different from English. The German verb comes in the second position, but the subject does not have to come first as it is in English. This video explains the English grammar and then explains the German grammar. After discussing statements, she moves into questions which we haven't covered yet, so don't worry about that!
And finally something just for fun! We read a story in class about a little doormouse. This video is in English and discusses what a dormouse is. It's a popular little animal in Europe but not as well known here. We will read more about them next week.
And this is the story I read. We will be looking at it more closely to learn some vocabulary and a little German grammar and then we'll use it to start learning to read German so familiarity with the story will help!
Auf Wiedersehen!
~Frau Hanley
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