It’s hard to believe we’re almost at the end of the 2020 school year! The German room has been a VERY busy learning space this term with all students engaging in a variety of different activities. Here is a snapshot of what has been happening! Junior Primary: This term the …
It’s hard to believe we’re almost at the end of term 3! The German room has been a VERY busy learning space this term with all students engaging in a variety of different activities. Here is a snapshot of what has been happening! Junior Primary: This term the junior primary …
During Week 6 the Year 3-7 students participated in a German food tasting experience! As part of the German language program the students had been exploring food through a range of activities from translating recipes, working with authentic German menus and learning food-related vocabulary. As a finale for this unit …
The SBS 2018 National Languages Competition has just started! Important information: To enter you need to send in a photo or drawing that shows SBS, ‘What amazing possibilities learning a language opens for you?’ Your entry could be a photograph, drawing or collage. It could show you connecting with your …
On Wednesday of Week 10 Craigburn Primary School welcomed 11 students from the Valentin-Heider Gymnasium in Germany. The visiting secondary students are part of a long-running exchange program exisiting between Reynella East College and VHG, located on Lake Constance in Bavaria, Germany. Every two years the German students travel to …
On Wednesday Week 10 (4th April) and Monday Week 11 (9th April) Craigburn Primary will be welcoming eleven German exchange students to our school. This will be an invaluable opportunity for our students to meet and socialise with German students and allow both the Australian students and the German students …
Here is a fantastic example of the project our 6/7 students have been working on this term. Since Week 1 the students have chosen groups, selected a play, practised their lines, used strategies to improve their pronunciation and in most cases, filmed their presentations. This process has not been without …
I found this poem last week while flicking through ‘Katzensprung’ and loved it so much, I had to create a display in our German classroom. Der Schnee ist weiB Die Lippe Rot Schwarz das Haar Und braun das Brot Das Blatt ist grun Das Wasser blau Bananen gelb Elefantan grau …
Sometimes the best explanations are written in chalk on the carpet! We found coloured chalk and a piece of carpet were perfect for breaking down the steps in translating bigger numbers in German. We can go from a numeral to a written number and then use some simple maths to …