lesson 2

We started our lesson by singing the welcome song.

Next, we continued with these questions & answers and greetings.

The kids very much enjoyed singing this ABC song from you tube. We just sang the first part. We don't want the kids get too confused for now, right? :)



This week we tried saying and signing the ABC's (From this web site http://americansignlanguage101.com/page/40/american-sign-language-dictionary )and will continue that the next few weeks. We'll add the phonetic sound of each letter in our next lesson. Here's a great demonstration in English for the American Sign Language ABC. If you already know the benefits of learning sign language particularly with a young child, then you will also believe that sign language is very helpful in learning a foreign language. This has worked for us in Spanish class, so I will apply it here and there for German class as well. Sometimes we'd first ask the kids for a certain word, but only after we did the sign, they could think of the word. It's amazing!



We reviewed the numbers from 0-10 by counting objects and then pretended to call our friends by saying their phone numbers out loud. We used this work sheet from http://www.kidsweb.de/ to write our friends numbers down.

Lastly, we sang our good bye song from lesson 1.

Lesson 1

We started our first German class with this song. You can find a video just below the lyrics.

Welcome song:

Hallo

Wir woll'n uns begrüßen und machen das so:
Hallo! Hallo!
Schön das ihr heut' da seid und nicht anderswo!
Hallo! Hallo!
Hallo-hallo-hallo,
hallo-hallo-hallo!

Hello

We would like to great each other and do it like this:
Hello! Hello!
Nice you’re here today and not somewhere else!
Hello! Hello!
Hello-hello-hello,
Hello-hello-hello!

Here's the video to the song:

We started learning how to say our name, how old we are and where we live. You can find a work sheet by clicking here.

Here you can watch Luca pronouncing it:



We started learning how to count from 0-10. You can find a work sheet by clicking here.

Here you can watch Luca saying his numbers from 0-10:



We started learning the German alphabet. You can find a document with pronunciation by clicking here.
Make sure to watch the ABC you tube videos on the right.

This good bye song is one of my favorite songs from preschool. I'm pretty sure it's a favorite among German kids.

Good bye song:

Alle Leut' geh'n jetzt nach Haus' Alle Leut', alle Leut' geh'n jetzt nach Haus' Alle Leut', alle Leut' geh'n jetzt nach Haus' Grosse Leut', kleine Leut', Dicke Leut', dünne Leut' Laute Leut', leise Leut' Alle Leut', alle Leut' geh'n jetzt nach Haus' Alle Leut', alle Leut' winken sich zu, Sagen auf wiedersehen, Das war heut' wieder schön. Alle Leut', alle Leut' winken sich zu.

Everyone, Everyone Is Going Home Everyone, everyone is going home. Everyone, everyone is going home. Big people, little people, Fat people, thin people, Loud people, quiet people, Everyone, everyone is going home. Everyone, everyone is waving goodbye. Say goodbye, That was fun again today! Everyone, everyone is waving goodbye.

Here's the link that will lead you to the audio file of "Alle Leut" on Mama Lisa's webpage. There are some high pitches in the song, turn your volume to low!