Thursday, December 12, 2013

Christmas in Germany

This week, we have been learning about how children in other countries celebrate Christmas.  We learned that we have adapted many of our traditions from Germany!  The christmas tree, singing carols, and the advent calendar all came from Germany.  We have also learned that Tannenbaum means christmas tree in Germany.

The students were asked to put numbers in order 1-25 to create our very own Advent Calendar to use to count down to Christmas.  It is so neat the children in Germany have many of the same traditions as us. Below is a picture of our Advent Calendar that we created:
 
 
We also had the opportunity to sing a Christmas carol to Dr. Patterson!  Please enjoy the video of us singing below:  (At the end, they decided to sing the song "O Christmas Tree" in German).
I hope you enjoyed hearing their sweet voices as much as I did!
 
We also completed our scrabook page describing everything we had learned from our visit in Germany.  Below are 2 examples of their scrapbook pages.
Nicholas

Hayden
 


6 comments:

  1. Too cute!!! The boys have been singing all day!

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  2. You all did such an awesome job caroling! I hope you enjoyed it as much as our class did! That is a great way for you to remember that children in Germany also sing carols! Keep up the great work, friends!

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  3. Cute! We sang "O Tannenbaum" last night at home and talked about how a "tannenbaum" is a fir tree in Germany.

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  4. The kids had such a great time learning about how Christmas is celebrated in Germany. They especially loved singing the Christmas Carol to Dr. Patterson!

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  5. Nicholas told me all about "tannenbaum" when he came home, and he loved carolling for Dr. Patterson! Thanks for sharing the video... :)

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