Piggy pedagogy
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Media today 163
Reading: Kathryn Lasky, Die Legende der Wächter 2. Die Wanderschaft, loc. 0 - 228/2997 (kindle edition). Listening: A. A. Milne, Pu der Bär, 4.40 - 5.27; Gudrun Mebs, Harald Lesch, Evolution ist, wenn das Leben endlos spielt, 0-40:00. Viewing: Rabadabading, "Meine knuffige Minecraftwelt" (39 min.).
The Mebs/Lesch evolution Hörspiel is the third junior science production by this team we have listened to (the other two are discussed here). They are fantastic. This one features the same cast of characters as the others. Here's a passage from around 25:20 that caused J much hilarity and several sentences of which he recited verbatim at bedtime tonight:
"Ja, diese Vielfalt [der Lebewesen], die ist ja Wahnsinn! Alle leben irgendwie und alle pflanzen sich fort. Es gibt also immer wieder neue Generationen von Lebewesen, immer wieder! Von der gleichen Sorte und *meistens* sind sie so wie die alten. Kinder von Pudeln sind auch Pudel. Elefanten bringen keine Mäuse zur Welt [much laughter]. Und aus einer Rose wird keine Tomate!"
Total audio 2015: 46.43
Total video 2015: 71.23
Age 5.8.29
The Mebs/Lesch evolution Hörspiel is the third junior science production by this team we have listened to (the other two are discussed here). They are fantastic. This one features the same cast of characters as the others. Here's a passage from around 25:20 that caused J much hilarity and several sentences of which he recited verbatim at bedtime tonight:
"Ja, diese Vielfalt [der Lebewesen], die ist ja Wahnsinn! Alle leben irgendwie und alle pflanzen sich fort. Es gibt also immer wieder neue Generationen von Lebewesen, immer wieder! Von der gleichen Sorte und *meistens* sind sie so wie die alten. Kinder von Pudeln sind auch Pudel. Elefanten bringen keine Mäuse zur Welt [much laughter]. Und aus einer Rose wird keine Tomate!"
Total audio 2015: 46.43
Total video 2015: 71.23
Age 5.8.29
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Media today 162
Reading: Roger Hargreaves, Miss Sonnenschein, Miss Ärger. App: Philipp Buchklub, Schulstart.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Media today 161
Reading: Kathryn Lasky, Die Legende der Wächter 1. Die Entführung, loc. 2423 - 2900 (end)(kindle edition). Listening: A. A. Milne, Pu der Bär, 4.18 - 4.40.
So we finished the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It was pretty good. The conclusion has been very exciting. But the middle section, where the owls Soren and Gyflie are prisoners in St. Aggie's, dragged quite tediously at times.
A generous interpretation would perhaps consider this tedium as reflecting the feel of experience being narrated. With a five-year-old, however, it's nice to have more action.
Total audio 2015: 46.16
Total video 2015: 70.53
Age 5.8.24
So we finished the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. It was pretty good. The conclusion has been very exciting. But the middle section, where the owls Soren and Gyflie are prisoners in St. Aggie's, dragged quite tediously at times.
A generous interpretation would perhaps consider this tedium as reflecting the feel of experience being narrated. With a five-year-old, however, it's nice to have more action.
Total audio 2015: 46.16
Total video 2015: 70.53
Age 5.8.24
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Media today 160
Reading: Roger Hargreaves, Miss Prinzessin; David Macaulay, Das große Mammut-Buch der Technik, 120 (pressure).
Vocabulary walk & talk 7
Yesterday I took along the verbs + preposition notebook (see here) on my walk with J and worked the following:
achten auf
sich abfinden mit
sich ärgern über
aufpassen auf
aussehen nach
sich beirren lassen durch
sich bemühen um
The new notebook is helpful in collating all the basic forms these expressions can take so I can work on them individually. For example, when J and I were walking a labyrinth nearby our house, I worked on ways of saying "pay attention to the path" using the verb/prep combo achten auf. There are three ways of using this.
1) Achten auf + accusative (auf A in the notebook)
2) Achten darauf, dass + subordinate clause (darauf, dass)
3) Achten darauf, infinitive clause (darauf, Inf.)
So I came up with sentences for all three forms and used them within a short period of time:
Achte auf den Weg!
Achte darauf, dass du den Schlängelweg einhältst!
Ach, ich muss darauf achten, den Weg nicht zu verlieren, während ich mit Thusnelda rede!
In terms of tactics, it is very helpful to have a puppet along on our walks to criticize me for repeating myself so often! ;)
achten auf
sich abfinden mit
sich ärgern über
aufpassen auf
aussehen nach
sich beirren lassen durch
sich bemühen um
The new notebook is helpful in collating all the basic forms these expressions can take so I can work on them individually. For example, when J and I were walking a labyrinth nearby our house, I worked on ways of saying "pay attention to the path" using the verb/prep combo achten auf. There are three ways of using this.
1) Achten auf + accusative (auf A in the notebook)
2) Achten darauf, dass + subordinate clause (darauf, dass)
3) Achten darauf, infinitive clause (darauf, Inf.)
Achte auf den Weg!
Achte darauf, dass du den Schlängelweg einhältst!
Ach, ich muss darauf achten, den Weg nicht zu verlieren, während ich mit Thusnelda rede!
In terms of tactics, it is very helpful to have a puppet along on our walks to criticize me for repeating myself so often! ;)
Monday, June 22, 2015
Media today 159
Reading: Roger Hargreaves, Miss Vielfraß; Kathryn Lasky, Die Legende der Wächter 1. Die Entführung, loc. 2274 - 2423 (kindle edition).Listening: A. A. Milne, Pu der Bär, 3.18 - 4.18. Viewing: Rabadabading, "Meine knuffige Minecraftwelt" (39 min.) Das Leben der Verlassenen #01 (15 min); Die Sendung mit der Maus, Sachgeschichten, "Filmtricks" (29 min. x 2)
The passage in A House on Pooh Corner ch. 4 in which Pooh and Piglet discuss how "Jagulars" sit up in trees and "drop on you as you walk by" is even funnier in German than in English because "dropper" is translated "Fallenlasser," a much sillier word; J wanted to listen to this scene five times.
The Sachgeschichte about film special effects really baked the boy's noodle. We watched it together and discussed it, and he was so fascinated that I then let him watch it again right away. (I find that a second viewing—or listening, or reading—especially when it follows right after the first, is very good for language-understanding purposes, since one knows what is coming and can understand words better when the context is known. Moreover, Arnim Maiwald, the host-narrator of the Sachgeschichten ...
... has a very mumbly way of talking that is good training to listen to and contrasts with the typical audiobook or television narrator, who artificially pronounce every. word. very. clearly.)
Also, when the arrow-through-the apple trick was demonstrated using a scene from Wilhelm Tell, J mentioned that this scene is used in the apple app he plays with alot. I was impressed; we haven't ever discussed the story before. Guess it's time to order this:
Total audio 2015: 45.54
Total video 2015: 70.53
Age 5.8.22
The passage in A House on Pooh Corner ch. 4 in which Pooh and Piglet discuss how "Jagulars" sit up in trees and "drop on you as you walk by" is even funnier in German than in English because "dropper" is translated "Fallenlasser," a much sillier word; J wanted to listen to this scene five times.
The Sachgeschichte about film special effects really baked the boy's noodle. We watched it together and discussed it, and he was so fascinated that I then let him watch it again right away. (I find that a second viewing—or listening, or reading—especially when it follows right after the first, is very good for language-understanding purposes, since one knows what is coming and can understand words better when the context is known. Moreover, Arnim Maiwald, the host-narrator of the Sachgeschichten ...
... has a very mumbly way of talking that is good training to listen to and contrasts with the typical audiobook or television narrator, who artificially pronounce every. word. very. clearly.)
Also, when the arrow-through-the apple trick was demonstrated using a scene from Wilhelm Tell, J mentioned that this scene is used in the apple app he plays with alot. I was impressed; we haven't ever discussed the story before. Guess it's time to order this:
Total video 2015: 70.53
Age 5.8.22
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)