Deutschklub: Pfefferkuchenhaus

This year we started a German Club.  It's been fun (and definitely interesting) going through the process of forming a club and holding events.

To celebrate the holidays, we put together and decorated ginger bread houses.  I got pre-made sets from Target and Harris Teeter.  They were really nice in that they had all the supplies - walls, frosting, candy decorations, all of it - but we did have a few problems with the ginger bread breaking.  One of the houses had a broken piece when they opened it and some of the other students accidentally broke some of their pieces during construction :(

The kids did have fun though (even with the broken pieces).  We put together the houses today and we're storing them in our office freezer over night - tomorrow I'll have other teachers judge them for stability, appearance and creativity.  If you're interested in the rating sheet we'll be using, just click here.

Loved this event - can't wait to see what else the German Club does this year and can't wait to do this event again next year :)

Check out how it went:



 - Frau leonard

Just For Fun

Just a few pictures one of my students sent me from 9GAG.com, just for fun!  They're fun for the classroom - I printed them out and hung them up.  It definitely got the kids talking and laughing.

Perhaps not appropriate for Middle School levels, but my High Schoolers loved it.  Word play that even Level 1 students have the vocabulary to grasp and characters that the students might know from video games (Sniper, Spy and Medic from the game Team Fortress 2 - the Medic speaks German).

Good warning for kids - you can post this by your craft supplies.  Also a good cultural reference - the kids will want to know who's in the picture!

This was more fun during election time, but I brought it back out when we did Dative Prepositions at the end of the year.  Probably won't be current enough to use past this year...

- Frau Leonard