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The aim of this activity is to teach the children new vocabulary that relates to die Jahreszeiten, which in German means the seasons. As seasons are one of the crucial rhythms of nature, I thought of it as this is an important topic.
Target group and Time
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Instructions to set up the activity
The students Students are asked to take a seat in a circle and are provided with a card that they should read for themselves and think about what the sentence could relate to. (They can ask questions if necessary.) In the next step, students can discuss their ideas in the large group. Once the topic is clear and discussed in the plenary, the student are given words/facts/actions that relate to the seasons (see PDF below) which they have to perform in front of the group. The other students need to guess what this pantomime could be.
Letting it run
There are different cards - each holds a fact about one of the four seasons - for example "people with allergies are sneezing" or "leaves are falling to the ground".
- Each students gets one card and they should first (by themselves) read it and think about what which season the fact could relate to.
- In the the students Students are asked to to read out their sentence and take a guess (aim: students . Students can mention something like weather , during spring/fall/winter/summer, "Jahreszeiten").
- When the hint has been mentioned the plenary group talks about what are the seasons - names are, the their circular order - the students get cards that say "the four seasons", "winter", "spring", "autumn/fall", "summer".
- The students are asked to visualise the seasons by using the cards (e.g. create a circle or listing them in a chronological order)
- Lastly, the students should put their "fact" cards next to the corresponding seasons seasons.
Visuals/ cards
I have cut out the images which I gave to the students to let them guess the topic.I did the same with the words from the PDF and used them as described above.
