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And here is the January edition of the Badger Blättchen
Click here: Das Badger Blättchen 2015 Januar, written and designed by students in our youth group class (teachers: Chris Tabisz and Iris Hengst).
Badger Blättchen, December Edition
The latest edition of the Badger Blättchen, produced by our youth group (teachers: Chris Tabisz and Iris Hengst), has arrived. Check it out and read about the visit from St. Nikolaus: Badger Blättchen Dezember 2014.
Two Waldsee scholarships for our students!
Fantastic news: Concordia Language Villages is setting aside two $500 Passport Fund scholarships for GSoM students to help pay for a two-week or four-week summer camp course at Waldsee, the oldest and largest German language immersion program in the US.
Applicants need to fill out an application form and need to provide additional documents. Details about the application process can be found here. Rates and dates for Waldsee summer camps can be found here. We ask that you let us know if you are applying for the scholarship and that you specify “German School of Madison” as your school on the application form (don’t list the elementary or middle school your child goes to — this would put them in the general pool for scholarships). If you have any questions about the process, please contact us by e-mail (germanschoolofmadison@gmail.com).
Besuch vom Nikolaus / A visit from St. Nick
Please join us for our first St. Nikolaus Day Party!
When: Saturday, Dec. 6, from 4:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Shorewood Hills Community Center, 901 Swarthmore Court
All welcome!
We will be enjoying a visit from St. Nikolaus himself, who will be speaking with the children and hearing all about how well-behaved, hard-working, and kind they have all been over the past year. He will have a treat for every child. Afterwards, we will enjoy a potluck buffet of cakes, cookies and other treats, along with coffee, tea and lemonade. Each family is asked to bring something for our Kaffee & Kuchen buffet. We will provide paperware, coffee, tea, and lemonade. As always, feel free to bring your own plates etc. to reduce waste. For families with a child/children enrolled in one of our classes, the event is free; otherwise we request a donation of $10 per family to cover our costs.
The party will start immediately after the end of our weekend project classes (Deutsch 1/2/3, Vorstufe, DaF1). St. Nikolaus will visit their classes as well.
In order to know how many treats to prepare, we need to know how many children will attend. If you plan to attend the party with a child/children, please use this link to sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4dada822ab9-stnikolaus (If your child is a student enrolled in Deutsch 1/2/3, Vorstufe, or DaF1, you have already been sent a different link via email. Please use that link to sign up. The link above is for children who will not be at the project class.)
We hope to see you on the 6th! Be good — and don’t forget to put your boots out the night of December 5.
Badger Blättchen, November Edition
Read the November edition of our monthly bulletin Das Badger Blättchen, written and designed by students in our youth group class (teachers: Chris Tabisz and Iris Hengst).
Book grant from the ZfA
We gratefully acknowledge our first grant from the German government: The Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA) generously provided funding for the purchase of more than 60 textbooks, workbooks, Duden grammars, teacher resource books, and poetry collections for our students.
Selection of books provided by ZfA
These books will mostly be used in our Deutsch 1/2/3 series. Board member Catrin Weimbs was delighted to deliver them to these classrooms.
Educational director Catrin Weimbs distributing textbooks to Deutsch 1 teacher Morgan Achterberg
Deutsch 1 students with their new textbooks
The books belong to the German School of Madison and can be checked out by teachers for short-term or long-term use. If your child received one of these books (they are marked with a ZfA sticker inside), please make sure that they do not write or draw in the book. Books will be collected at the end of the year and redistributed in the new academic year.
Deutsch 1 student enjoying working with her new book
Great turnout for St. Martin’s celebration
Laterne, Laterne… Sonne, Mond und Sterne
More than 140 friends of the German School of Madison celebrated St. Martin’s day with a lantern parade tonight. And what a parade it was! Owl lanterns, moon lanterns, dino lanterns, panda lanterns … connecting to a row of glowing dots, moving through the beautiful Shorewood Hills neighborhood.
Before the parade, we sang traditional lantern songs and enjoyed a performance of the legend of St. Martin by the students enrolled in our DaF1, Vorstufe, Deutsch 1, Deutsch 2, and Deutsch 3 classes. There was even a snowflake dance!
At last, it was dark enough to venture outside.
After the lantern walk, we enjoyed a fabulous potluck meal…
..with Stutenkerlen and Christmas cookies, the latter generously donated by Clasen’s European Bakery.
It was a wonderful evening to connect with old friends and make new ones.
Copyright pictures Ralph Grunewald.
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