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German

German - Wir lernen Deutsch

Language learning experiences include listening, speaking, reading and writing.  Students interact with peers through action-related talk and play. They exchange greetings, express likes and dislikes and use repetitive language to respond to simple instructions and create simple spoken and written texts, using modelled examples and formulaic language.  Participation in routine oral interactions such as responding to the class roll, guided activities like singing songs and playing games reinforce vocabulary and help students to gain confidence using the language.  Students will understand that all nouns in German begin with a capital letter and recognise the different words for ‘the’ (der/die/das), introducing the concept of gender for nouns.  Repetition and question and answer dialogue is a significant way for conversational language to develop.  Our friends, Felix and Franzi (puppets), will continue to be a part of some of our lessons. 

Frau Edwards 

Elizabeth.Edwards559@schools.sa.edu.au  (Libby)

Please encourage your child(ren) to tell you about what they have been learning in German. See what they can teach you!  

The Arts

In Mellor for 2020, the classes have been rotating through the Arts subjects of Drama, Music, Dance, Media Arts and Visual Arts on Friday afternoons. Students have been attending six-week workshops and have completed  rotations on three arts areas. All arts areas will engage students through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with the world.

Drama

Mrs Jones is teaching Drama in M1. This involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama. Students will become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond, explore voice and movement and learn how their ideas can be expressed through role and story.

Students will focus on making connections with Aboriginal Dreaming Stories and Australian animals to form the basis of drama productions.

Music 

Ms Kite is teaching Music. Students explore with sounds as they learn to listen to, make and perform music. They will become aware of rhythm and pitch, beat and tempo and learn to differentiate between sounds and silence, and loud and soft sounds. They will learn to compose music, using notation to represent the music they have created, and perform music while keeping in time with group members.

Students will focus on listening to Aboriginal music, representing animals and creating our own music to sound like animals.

Dance 

Miss Maddy is teaching Dance. In Dance students will become aware of their bodies, and explore space, time, dynamics and relationships as they make and observe dances. Students will observe various movements and explore and compare dance through the decades. They will focus on selecting and organising their own movements and are encouraged to incorporate fundamental and technical dance moves into their own dances to perform them to an audience of their choice. 

Media Arts 

Mrs McCulloch is teaching Media Arts in M4. Media Arts involves students engaging with communication technologies and incorporating their Drama, Music, Dance and Visual Arts to design, produce, distribute and interact with a range of print, audio and screen-based artworks. Students will learn fundamental skills and processes to communicate in different forms such as movies and songs.

Visual Arts 

Miss Moore is teaching Visual Arts in M5. Students will be exposed to artworks and discussions around why and how they are created, as well as become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail. They will experiment with applying visual conventions such as line, shape, colour and texture, as well as looking at different forms, styles, techniques, materials and technologies to create their own artworks.

Students will be focusing on various artists, in particular Indigenous Aboriginal artists, to explore the techniques they have used and to then create their own artwork.