After a two-week spring break, school resumed today with our first movie night (Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen). While it was odd to hear someone else’s voice come out Alan Rickman’s mouth, watching the movie in German gave our students the opportunity to pick up some slang expressions like “voll krass” (‘wicked’ in the movie).
Date: Saturday, February 25th, as an extension of our regular German school activities. (Please not that this is a change from the original plan to hold the party on Feb. 26. We made this change based on parent feedback.)
Location: Lake Edge United Church of Christ, 4200 Buckeye Rd. , Madison
Time: 3-5.15 p.m.
We are looking forward to celebrating with you!
*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT*
Following the lead of the Madison School District, we will be canceling our classes tomorrow (Dec. 17) due to weather-related reasons.
Please stay safe and enjoy the holidays with your loved ones!
Einen guten Rutsch and the best for 2017!
The GSoM Board of Directors
We encourage our students to participate in a variety of German language contests open to international students. Our Deutsch 3 students (teacher: Catalina Thomsen) participated in a letter-writing contest, organized by the Deutsche Post, earlier this year (“Mein 1. Brief”) and were recognized with a “Schreibset für Profis.” Congratulations!
If you are looking for materials to teach children how to write a letter in German, you may find these materials provided by the Deutsche Post useful.
This article, by linguists Joe Salmons, Chris Tabisz, and Mike Putnam, talks about German heritage speakers in the US. Among other things, it talks about the history of schooling in German:
We are very happy to announce our second summer camp. Because last year’s camp was such a big success, we’ll be offering two weeks of camp this year.
The night before Nikolaustag (St. Nicholas’ Day), many German children put out a boot, hoping St. Nicholas will fill it over night with sweets. (The Austrian version, Krampus, is less benign.)
We had a fabulous Nikolaus celebration on Dec. 6 (St. Nicholas Day)! Christmas songs were sung, delicacies enjoyed, and heaps of praise and mild admonishments were delivered. The highlight, of course, was a visit from St. Nick himself. He had brought his Golden Book and seemed to know everything about our students’ behavior in class.
Iris Hengst led us in singing German Christmas carols, accompanied on the piano by a Deutsch 3 student.
And then it was time for our special guest: Nikolaus called up each child by name and congratulated them on their accomplishments — but he also let them know where there was still room for improvement (top three: clean up your room, be nicer to your brother/sister, speak more German). Most children took their conversation with him in stride.
Everybody was handed a little gift bag.
And then it was time for our potluck dinner. While in line, guests could study the Krampus pictures produced during our weekend class.
A big thank you to our volunteers for all their work in making the event happen, our teachers for providing St. Nick with important information, and, of course, to St. Nick himself for taking the time to visit our school.
Wir wünschen allen eine schöne Adventszeit!
(If you ordered t-shirts or hoodies with our logo, we will notify you by email when they arrive.)
German School of Madison 
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