This week the Year 3/4/5 students have a challenge: to find German food and drink products in their local supermarket!

Going home this week is an activity that children can undertake over the coming weeks. If/when they go shopping with friends or family members, they have been encouraged to see if they can find German products on the shelves. We have talked about many supermarkets now having small speciality sections that have products from other countries.

Students have also been encouraged to look in the cupboards, or other cupboards (with permission, of course!) to see what they can find.

It would be fantastic if you could comment on this post as you find products to share them with us all!

I will add findings as they come in!

This week our Year 3/4/5 students will participate in their first ‘Snap Chat.’

A ‘Snap Chat’ is designed to be a short activity focussing on surveying other students about a particular topic. The topic this week will be, ‘What is your favourite fruit/vegetable/meat/sweets,’ etc.

The main aim of Snap Chat is to get the students speaking in German – and to have fun!

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 ‘checkout’ our answer.

Here are some more finished products from our Year 3 – 5 students – what am amazing job they are doing with their German language and art skills!

Our Year 3-5 students have been very busy creating creatures using coloured paper, crepe paper and cellophane paper. Students needed to sketch a portrait of a creature of their choice (person, animal, monster, anything!) and write 5 sentences describing it. The sentences were based on the jumble task but needed to be changed to reflect their own creature. Here are some photos of the process and final presentations – the students very much enjoyed the creativity of this task!

In German we are learning how to describe ourselves and others. We have played, ‘Wer ist das’ in small groups, completed online activities and have practised writing lots of our own sentences. It can be tricky because when we talk about ourselves, we use ‘ich’ but when we talk about others we have to change it to ‘er’ or ‘sie.’ With lots of practice we are getting very good at changing between the three!

We have decorated faces and described them and unjumbled sentences. To show we understood what we had unjumbled, we had to draw a picture of what the sentences described. We were so proud that we were able to read German!

This term the Year 3-5 students have been learning how to describe themselves and others. One fun game we played to help us with our learning was, ‘Wer ist das?’ – the German version of ‘Guess Who!’ All classes were SO enthusiastic while playing this game and the German language coming from every corner of the classroom made it a very fun classroom to be in!