Kartoffelsalat
As a part of our annual topic Year 3 German students were learning all about potatoes. We always start with learning all about potato plants, how it grows and what happens with it throughout the year. We spoke about food made with potatoes and about the food pyramid and the children were able to find the place for potatoes in it.
Everybody knows the very famous German potato salad. The children are always excited when they have a chance to cook or make something in the kitchen by themselves. Of course, we could not miss it out! The students watched a video about Opas Kartoffelsalat and they were sure, our salad will taste better!
The children learned all about the ingredients and steps and wrote a detailed recipe for the salad. But we could not tell if our recipe was good or not without trying it out. So, we made the potato salad, following our recipe. And what can taste better than a salad which the children made themselves.
Sankt Martin
The children on the German Programme enjoyed learning and reading about Sankt Martin a couple of weeks ago. Saint Martin was a soldier, who was baptised as an adult and became a bishop. The famous legend says that he had once cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm to save the poor man from the cold.
Sankt Martin was a friend of the children and helped poor people. The children like to celebrate Sankt Martin Day, which is celebrated on November 11th and famous in Germany.
In the German lessons we also learned about St. Martin, we spoke about sharing, as we learn from the story about St. Martin. The children enjoyed learning the story about St. Martin, making their own lanterns, sharing a pretzel, and singing special songs for St. Martin’s Day.
By Valeria Song
Head of German
