Class Update

The majority of my day and week is spent in the classroom, and I'd love to give you a glimpse of each class. (Not that we did all of this in one day, of course!)

Here are some 6th graders creating clay tablets with Cuneiform. We had been studying Hammurabi's Code, so they created various laws for our classroom, e.g. "If a student arrives late to class, he must do 20 push-ups." Pretty funny. It's wonderful that Kandern is a pottery town, and the clay only cost a couple of Euros, plus we have free access to a kiln. Hopefully the tablets will all be fired this week and displayed in the Middle School soon.The 7th graders just finished a unit on U.S. History. At the end, we had a "dress-up-as-a-U.S.-history-character" day. Among others, we had a Native American, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., a WW 2 pilot, a flapper, and a survivor of Pearl Harbor.
The 8th graders are in the middle of wrapping up a World Religions unit. Here's a picture of them doing research. Tomorrow (Nov 29) will be the exciting day because their videos are all due. :-)Finally, my Beginner's German class is lucky because they get to have Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake) every other Friday. We invite a German speaker guest, and they all have to interview the guest in order to deserve the cake and coffee part. It's been a fun application of what they're learning, plus I get to bake! :-)Lots of fun to be had in the Middle School when we are able to take a break from the books.