Deutsche Ecke

R-2, 4/5 Libby Edwards
Yrs 3-6 Emma Chesterman

Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt

Did you know that the famous picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar was written by Eric Carle. Eric Carle was born in USA to German parents. The Very Hungry Caterpillar was first published in 1969 and has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.

The German version of the story is called Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt. It you translate that word for word, it means the little caterpillar (who is) never full.

The Mellor students have been learning German through the vocabulary introduced in this story. We have revised the days of the week, numbers and introduced names of many food items. We have also explored the lifecycle of a butterfly in German.

Highlights of our term's learning include making our own paper chain Raupe (caterpillar) as we practised the days of the week and ordered the paper strips to build our Raupe. We have also made a little concertina book and rehearsed sentences to help us tell the story in German when we share these books with our families at home. We sang a song to the tune of ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ all about the food that the caterpillar eats each day. We are very confident at singing this!

Some of you would have seen the Blue Bots which Frau Edwards and Frau Chesterman have hired for our school in the Mellor Media Room on Community Night. We are using this fun technology to revise vocabulary and learning programmieren (to program) the bots to move to follow a certain path. We will further develop vocabulary for directions to enhance this learning and programming next term.

Please ask your children to share their German learning with you!