Sunday, April 14, 2013

Knights and the letter K (April 8-12, 2013)

In Reception 1 this week, the students not only learned all about knights and castles, but were also knighted by Sir Bernard!
 
It was a very busy week. On Monday, Ms. Kristina talked about native Americans, the Hopi Indians from northern Arizona. The Hopi people believe in and dress up as Kachinas, which represent various spirits among their people. We got to color Kachina pictures.

The rest of the week, we learned a lot about die Ritter with Mr. Bernard. We made shields and dressed up as knights. Mr. Bernard showed us what a knight needs to succeed. We watched videos with Ms. Kristina, where we learned more, and we all worked on a knight packet with letters to practice writing, mazes, and pictures to color.

On Friday, the Tigers worked on reading and memorizing K words. In math, they learned about counting euro coins up to 20 cents. The Horses colored different shapes. Then, in the afternoon, a real Schmied came to our classroom to talk about making swords and what smiths used to do for knights and castles. Reception 2 joined us for this presentation.

This week, we also said goodbye to Miss Meghan, last year's Reception 1 teacher, whose last day was Friday. We will all miss her at MIS!!!
 
 
Coloring Kachina dancers
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
KNIGHTHOOD
 
 
Working on our knight packets,
with letters K and R for "knight" and "Ritter"
 
 
 Working on K word matching, while
never putting anything smaller than our elbows in our ears
 
We can keep trying! Oh, the things we learn from Ms. Kristina...
 
  Mr. Bernard talks about life in and parts of a castle
 
Holding the heavy chainmail
 
It can protect your head
 
It's really heavy!
 
A knight needs padding under her chainmail
 
 
A knight's coat keeps him warm and protected
 
Practicing for knighthood
 
Lucie shows the proper stance for swordfighting
(no modeling by Mr. Bernard required -- she knew it already!)
 
Devi, der Ritter
 
Knight Cody
 
Knight Gavrusha - рыцарь
 
 
Greta, cavaliere
 
 Coloring a castle picture
 
 Jacob gives us a presentation about his Playmobil knights 
 
 
 
Miss Clara, an intern, reads to us about die Ritter, auf Deutsch 
 
 Finn holds Mr. Bernard's lance... steady! steady!
 
 
Unser Schmied, Karlheinz Weiss
 
Talking about what a smith did for knights and in castles

 
Die Schmiede haben Schwerter gemacht

Holding an iron sword



We like swords...

but we don't get to play with them, because they're dangerous.
 
 
  
 
BEING KNIGHTED
 

Do you promise to serve the king and protect your teachers?
 
 
 
Future knights await their turn at knighthood
 
 




 






 




 
 
 
OTHER STUFF WE DID THIS WEEK
(if being knighted isn't enough)
 






















 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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