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| Title | Review Activities for the Beginning of the Year |
| Body | A recent request on the AATG listserv for good first-week-of-school activities received several interesting suggestions. Here are three submitted by one generous teacher. Note: Some parts of this post have been translated from German into English. ---- Three things come to mind right away. I design a grid, five by five, and each square has a different question. For example, Do you like pizza? Do you have a red car? The students wander around the classroom asking these questions until they find someone who can answer "yes." Then the question, "Will you sign my paper?" When all boxes have been signed, the students turns it in and sits down. You can set up your own rules, but I don't allow the same signature more than twice and I allow them to sign their own name to one square. They can also ask me. You have to walk around and listen, though, to make sure all the questions are being asked in German. And there are always some who just point to a square or hand a kid the paper and let him sign without even saying a word. I have a form that they fill out and at the top is a place for their picture. I let them know ahead of time that on a certain day, they will have to bring a picture of themselves. It doesn't have to be current, and if they don't have one, they can cut out a picture of someone they would like to look like and glue it onto the space provided. The contents vary for each level. It always includes their name and where they live. Other topics are: My favorite music group is ____. I dont like studying ____. If I were rich, I would ____. You can gear the content to class ability. I let the kids decorate them to add color and then I hang them around the room. The principal always seems pleased to see what the kids can do with these. The last thing I can think of at the moment has to do with a box of "stuff" that I use to get conversation going. I have a collection of toys that come in McDonald's Happy Meals, little plastic animals, toy cars, etc. I pull things out one at a time and we talk about them. Again, you can gear this to the ability level of the students. Where did this gorilla go over the summer? What does he look like? What is his favorite food? Sometimes I pass them out and each kid has to stand up and talk about his item in German for one minute or they have to have a conversation with their neighbor about their objects. The all-time class favorite, though, has to be my Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) doll that my own kids found at the beach. He has no arms. I have a toy crocodile that I bought to go with him, so the two have yielded some wonderful conversations. And invariably, I'll find that someone has stuffed our miniature Barbie inside the crocodile... another source of creative articulation. McQueen, B. Re: [AATG-L] Review activities. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (3 Aug. 2006). |
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