This week the Year 3 and Year 3/4 classes revised short weather sentences in German. They did this by a matching activity in small groups – which showed that most students remembered the language!

We then started to create a weather dictionary in our books. This weather dictionary is a little different though. For each short weather sentence, the students need to fill out 4 boxes of information. They are:

• the sentence, for example, ‘Es ist windig’
• how it sounds, for example ‘es ist Vindig’
• definition, for example, ‘it is windy’
• picture of the weather

The new learning point in this activity is learning how to write it as it sounds. The older primary years are already practising this and it results in much better pronunciation. The young primary students did a fantastic job giving this strategy a go after being introduced to it this week.