This week has seen the Weihnachten, or Christmas, focus start.

Classes began by watching a version of Hansel and Gretel in German. We watched it twice, once all the way through and the second time stopping and translating along the way. The part of the story we focussed on was the ‘Pfefferkuchenhaus’ or gingerbread house!

We spoke about how there is another term for a special gingerbread from Germany, called Lebkuchen. The Year 1s and 2s then watched a short video about Lebkuchen making in Nuremburg.

Finally, the students began to make their own Lebkuchenmann, which will eventually go home with a recipe to make your own Lebkuchen over the summer holidays!

Another class have finished their weather comparative pictures! Families, see Seesaw for a close-up.

This week Frau Humphrys Klasse finished their comparative weather pieces. All have been laminated and look fantastisch! For a closer look of your child’s piece please look on their Seesaw account!

Here is our third and final Reception class with their very own Haustier and descriptions. Such creativity!

In today’s lesson with Frau Fern’s Year 1 class we used the Seesaw app in German for the first time!

Once each student’s weather comparison picture was finished and laminated we used the Seesaw app to add to individual accounts. The most exciting part was that we were receiving comments from parents before our German lesson had even finished!

Our Year 1 and 2 students have been very busy this week creating a weather comparison picture.

We’ve been looking at globes and discussing how Australia and Germany experience different seasons at the same time of year. We have been using vocabulary like equator, southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere.

The students then needed to draft two sentences into their books; 1 describing the weather in Australia and another describing the weather in Germany at the same time of year. This helps the students to compare the weather types. Our Year 2 students were challenged to create longer sentences using the joining word, ‘und.’

Once the sentences were drafted, the kids got creative! They could use crayons, pencils or colour paper and cellophane (or a combination of all of these) to create a comparative art piece.

The final products will be laminated for the students to keep.

The children in Frau Harry’s Klasse have been very busy creating their plasticine animals! What a wonderful job they have done in creating their pets and then including information – auf deutsch! – about them.

Fantastich!

What a lot of work our Reception children from Frau Dow’s class did today!

Each student first chose a pet that we’ve been learning about and created that pet out of plasticine. They then added a background to the card the animal sits on and then completed an information piece. The information piece included:

• the animal’s name
• the animal type (in German)
• the colours used (in German)
• their name

Aren’t the finished products ‘fantastich!?’

This week we have been doing some ‘Mathematik’ in German with the Reception students! We surveyed our class to find out how many of certain pets we had. We counted the number of children in German and recorded them on our worksheet. We then had to find out how to write both the animal name and number in German.

Every class owned different numbers of animals!

This week the Year 2 students started by playing a game with the ‘Wetter’ dice they made last week. The focus of the game was on pronunciation. One student had to ask, ‘Wie ist das Wetter?’ and then the other student rolled their dice and read out the sentence. The pair then swapped roles and repeated this, keeping a tally of the weather types that were rolled.

I heard some fantastic pronunciation as I listened to the groups and most students remembered to pronounce the ‘w’ as ‘v.’

After this activity students worked on a task that had them unjumbling weather sentences. However, these sentences were made longer using the joining word, ‘und.’

For example, one sentence might read, ‘Es ist sonnig und es ist heiB.’

Another week full of great learning!