I did several projects and so here they are:
☆ Firstly we did an E-twinning project with Slovakia, Czech, Poland, Turkey and Estonia. I was called Christmas in our country and the main goal was to describe habits, food, traditions in our countries using German language.
We chose to make ppt presentations since the 8th class was about to practice making them. Here are some of them:
Ein Tag beim Blankenburger Weihnachtsmarkt
Das Essen bei Weihnachten
Weihnachtsmarkt
Adventskalender
Adventszeit
Weihnachtsbaum
The Estonians also made their own nice blog with a lot of info and nice videos. Here you can find it and learn about their Christmas. Slovaks also made a presentation about Christmas in the east and Polish made a nice one too.
What I learnt here is that your expectations and ideas may differ a lot from your students'. :) However I we all express ourselves in different ways, I hope you enjoy them!
☆ With the 6th graders I did something about Christmas too. The thing was that I contacted a Slovak school, actually a teacher of German language in Slovakia and I offered her to exchange some postcards and posters about Christmas. Again, typical food, habits etc.
I was unlucky because she got ill and despite sending her a lot of materials she sent me only one postcards. Tomorrow I'm going to be with my class and I bet they will ask about the postcards from Slovakia, well I will show them one I have and probably give them sweets. I know, it's quite unpedagogical, but kids know how much time they spent doing something and they expect what was promised. No excuses.
So here are just some pictures of posters and "postcards" from them:
And this is how my room at school looks right now :)
So if this wasn't enough, I have some more Christmas presentations done in the computer classes :)
