Freitag 24. September

Freitag!!!  Friday!!!

The students were quite excited that today was Friday!

German 1

They took their ABC quiz today and did quite well.  I was very happy with the results.  Good Job!  Then we read a short dialogue and answered some questions about it out loud.  They like to do it out loud instead of writing it down.  Hmmm-I wonder why.  Then they began to learn their numbers.  We will continue with numbers next week.

German 2

They too had a couple of reading passages.  First they read page 241 about the protocol for visiting a German's house.  It is proper to bring a gift when invited for dinner.  The students thought this was a little odd.  Then they read page 241 and worked on exercises 14, 15 on page 240.  

German 3 & 4

They watched another part of "The Tunnel."  The action is getting a little more intense.  They saw Fritzie's finance shot while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin.  Also, the diggers hit a water main while digging the tunnel.  Next Friday the action will really pick up as we finish the movie.

Have a super warm weekend!

Frau S

Donnerstag 23. September

SSR Today - 15 minutes of Silent Sustained Ready

German 1

ABC Pre-quiz today.  Tomorrow we will do an ABC Quiz.  We then read about greetings and farewells on pages 10-11.  Then they did exercise 8 on page 11.

German 2

We had quite a few assignments to correct today.  After that the students worked on a worksheet packet of rooms in the house.

German 3

We talked about the one word past tense of irregular verbs.  This is the confusing one because of all the stem changes within the verbs.  The students will really need to memorize these changes.  Then they started to work on the assignments that practice this verb form.  Exercises 12-15 on pages 80-81.

German 4

They read about another German festival that goes on about the same time as Oktoberfest.  They then worked on the questions that go with the reading passage.  Exercises 14-15 on page 246.

Es is fast Freitag!! - It's almost Friday!!

Frau S.

Mittwoch 22. September

German 1

Today we watched a short video from the Muzzy series.  "Norbert" a German speaking cartoon character introduced greetings to us.  Then they read and translated a section on greetings.  They did quite well.  We did activity 4 on page 8 together.  They took a few notes and then worked on their assignment for Thursday.  It is exercise 3 on page 4 in their workbooks.

German 2

We reviewed the vocab that goes with a house or an apartment.  They will eventually be working on a house project.  They will draw and label their dream house.  They worked on their assignments for today, exercise 12 page 238 - identifying furniture in a house, workbook exercises 8, 10, 11 on pages 118-123.

***Two quizzes next week.  September 28-8B Verbs & Others.  September 30-8B Nouns.***

German 3

We talked about late work and staying on task.  The students received a grade printout for what we've done so far.  They worked on assignments from Monday & Tuesday.  We also reviewed the one word past tense some more.  Some students were still a little confused.

German 4

The students worked on their reading passage.  They need to read for understanding which usually means that they must translate these longer passages. 

Remember - SSR Tomorrow & Academic Eligibility!!

Frau S

Dienstag 21. September

Guten Tag!

German 1

First day in the text books.  Today we looked at the introductory pages in the text and listened to a CD that read page 2 in the text book.  The students then repeated their new vocabulary.  We did exercise 1 on page 3 together.  I asked and the students answered in German "who is that?" and "what is his/her name?"  They did quite well.  Their homework for today was to do exercises 1, 2 on pages 1-3 in the workbook.

German 2

Where did everyone go?  Both boys and girls soccer were gone today and hit my German 2 classes pretty hard.  We did continue on with our new vocabulary.  We went over 8B vocab and conjugated 12 new verbs.  The students seemed to remember how to conjugate still!  They then looked at a layout of a house with the contents labeled in German.  They will eventually be making their own house plans with labels for a project.  

German 3

They students continued to work on their reading passages for Monday & Tuesday.  They were to read page 76 and do exercise 10, 11 on page 77.  Then they were to read page 77-78 and do workbook exercise 9 on page 56.

German 4

Today we went over more notes on adjective endings.  It is so challenging in German.  Adjectives get different endings if there is a "the" word, an "a, an" word in front of the adjective or if there is no article in front of the adjective.  Ach du lieber!  Oh my goodness!  They did exercises 16, 17 on page 248 and exercises 18, 19 on page 250.

Wow!  So much grammar!

Frau S

Montag 20. September

Homecoming is over & now we're back to work.

German 1

We finished up our vocab that we started last Friday and then took notes on how the letters and vowels were pronounced in German.

German 2

Personal Pronouns - We talked about the grammar aspect of changing nouns to pronouns.  In German it can be a little more challenging because of the three different genders - we just can't say "it"  for everything.  I think they are starting to pick up on it though.  We will see...  They then worked on exercises 8-10 on pages 230-231.

German 3 & 4

Both of these groups got their new vocab for the week.  German 3-3B Vocab & German 4-8B Vocab.  German 3 read p. 76 and are working on exercises 10-11 on page 77.  German 4 read pages 242-243 and are working on exercise 13 on page 244.

Have a great week!!

Frau S