Back at it …
I’ve been back for three days, and it has been pretty good so far. On Wednesday, I focused on the German Candy that had come in, using an all German lesson to talk about the products, and intorduce some new language adn vocabulary. Of course, as expected I piqued the interest of the students who didn’t participate, so I let them enroll at this point, and will purchase more candy before a general re-enrollment.
Thursday was short, so I did Kindergartentag with my 7th graders. Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt. All but first period were energetic and excited. I think I need a bit of extra push for them. 8th graders all had 1/2 hour periods, so I worked on verb conjugations with them.
Friday — I reviewed the translation of the first story in class, then we sang a song. 8th graders practiced using the time in sentences (TIME - ACTION - PLACE) and we did mad-libs as a sponge for the end of class.
Two issues:
Got my voice recorders, though sadly they are not Mac compatible. I think if I get parallels, it will work. I need to do thank yous, and start using them in an activity.
My last period class is getting pretty bad. I need to get them under control. Perhaps it it time to talk to some teachers, and start working on a real solution.
