“O Tannenbaum”, Christmas song with German lyrics, sung at our Christmas Concert Dec./2016
Students learned about the significance of the Christmas Tree to Germans. We spoke about how this tradition started in 16th century Germany, and how it burst into popularity after the English Queen Victoria, and her German Prince Albert, were sketched with their family standing around a tree. We learned common pronunciations of letter groups, (example, ie makes a long-e sound, whereas ei makes a long-i sound), and then looked to see if any of the words looked similar to English words, French words, or words spoken in their home. We talked about how language evolves, and how some words in different languages are all rooted in one word from previous language, and we journaled about this. This was to help emphasize that our roots are all very similar, if not the same. Much practice listening, and then singing, turned quiet uncertainty into loud, joyful sound. The final performances on stage were very successful, and it gave the students more confidence to try out new words and sounds in French class as well!
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