Radio-night at school

Reading and writing is important for learning a language, but also listening is really important. Last friday to saturday two classes of our school practiced a whole night "listening" and had a stay-over at our school. A big german radiostation broadcasted a whole nigth little storys for children. After listening, we had prepared little tasks and games for them belonging to the topic. The big theme was "traveling through past times" - they really enjoyed working and listening and of course sleeping at school :-)

                     

Janine Herzog, Christiane Dube

What friends do

In ethics/ ethically education we talked about friends - how necessarry they are to us and what we like and dislike to do with them.

During our visited in Wales we were impressed, that the teachers work in all subjects at one theme and so we try combine more subjects in Germany too.
So I decited to work with the childrenbook "Freunde" (Friends) from Mies van Hout for this theme.
It shows in a special and very simple way what friends are needed for and it combines ethics, german and art in a great way.
At first we talked about the theme "friends" (ethics), then we read the book  (german language), after this we talked about the drawings and later we painted pictures on our own (art). At the end we translated the words into English (learning other languages).