Lesson 16

Here's what we did today.
We also learned about fruit (here and here and here) and dishes (here)
Here's a great vocabulary page.
Who also played "Guess who?"Keep up with the body and colors!

lesson 15

We did:

Questions/answers from previous lessons.

If you're happy and you know it song: "Wenn du froehlich bist, dann... Here ist the text.

New days of the week song: "Jede Woche hat sieben Tage". Here is the text.

Months of the year.

Numbers from 0-30

Feelings

Family members (you will get a work sheet).

Lesson 14: Feelings, days of the week and months of the year

We reviewed a few things and then introduced a few more feelings. Here's the feelings memory I made.

We also started learning the days of the week and the months of the year.

lesson 13- feelings

We went over the body, numbers up to 30, counting by 1o's and colors.
It's time for a new topic: feelings

Here's our new song and the text.

Feelings from Wikipedia You need to scroll down and click on the recording for pronunciation help.
You can make flash cards from these feelings words in German.

How are you?	Wie geht's? (longer: Wie geht es?)*
great	prima
good	gut
very good	sehr gut
miserable	miserabel
bad	schlecht
not (so) good	nicht (so) gut
O.K.	ganz gut
all right	Es geht so. (Or shorter: Geht so.)

Nice web page for doing reviews. We have studied some of the topics on there. Check it out!

lesson 11

The only new thing we did this week was this nice body parts song. We also went over the numbers, letters greetings and sang "head, shoulders, knees and toes."

Video up soon!

Some Videos For Practicing

lesson 10

We sang our new "hello" song and went over farm animals and the body. Whenever we go over one big topic, I try to incorporate colors and numbers as well.

The following web pages have the body vocabulary and the two videos will give you some pronunciation help. You will have to copy and paste the links.

http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/list/608452

http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang15.htm







Here's a link to "Kopf, Schulter, Knie und Fuss" and the video:

lesson 9

This lesson we went over the farm animals and did a little review on the things we already learned.

We also learned a new "hello" song. You can find the text here. We only sing the first part in class.

Lesson 8

We did our hello & good bye song from the previous lessons.

We reviewed farm animals and started learning this song. It will help us learn to remember the names of the animals and their sounds. Check out lesson #7 to know which animal is which.

Then we practiced greetings and said the phonetic sound cards.

We're continuing to learn the numbers up to 30.

We now know 5 stanzas of "Grün, grün, grün sind alle meine Kleider.

Lesson 7

We did our hello, ABC and good bye song from the previous lessons.

Then we practiced greetings and said the phonetic sound cards.

We're up to 30 with our numbers.



We now know 4 stanzas of "Grün, grün, grün sind alle meine Kleider.

Finally we started to learn farm animals. Click here for pictures and names.

Lesson 6

We basically repeated the last lesson, learned the 2nd stanza of "Grün, grün, grün sind alle meine Kleider" and played a color game.

We will start learning the farm next Friday.

Lesson 5

We did our hello, ABC and good bye song from the previous lessons.

Then we practiced greetings from the previous lessons, did colors and reviewed the numbers from 0-20 by playing games.

I started phonetic sound cards with the kids this week. We are going with Thomas Lotterer's cards on this site:
Here's a printable version. If you want to print these cards, check if everything is arranged right before printing.

lesson 4

We did our hello, ABC and good bye song from the previous lessons.

We practiced greetings and simple conversation again. We will do this for a weeks now, so the kids will have it down and can say it without my help.

The kids did very well saying their numbers from 0-10 today . We started learning them from 11-20. You have or will get a copy with the written numbers on them.

Here's my big helper Luca saying them:



Next, we did a few colors games and then learned the first stanza of "Grün, grün, grün sind alle meine Kleider". Here is the text in German and English.



Karaoke Version:

lesson 3

We did our hello, ABC and good bye song from the previous lessons.

To practice the greetings, we went over them in form of a role play. I asked the kids several questions like:"What would you say if you met someone during the day?" Then they got to talk to their friends. We used this document (cut into strips) to guide our little conversation.



Then went over 10 colors by playing several games. Cick to open a color document and watch the video below for pronunciation. Here's also an online activity.

For some extra practice, do these "Blinde Kuh" online activities:

ABC's
numbers
colors

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!