Today in our German class we learned about chestnut trees. The trees are all around us here, dropping their prickly pods. Frau Enger taught us all the vocabulary associated with trees–trunk, branches, twigs, leaves, roots, nuts, leaves and more.
She explained the different kinds of chestnuts under our feet (really, they are falling EVERYWHERE). She’d collected several bowls of chestnuts to show us. They have big prickly pods, the size of a child’s fist. Inside are 2 smooth brown chestnuts. There are sweet ones for eating called Marone and others you don’t eat called Kastanie. Pigs and animals eat them.
After reviewing the vocabulary, we went to her small kitchen table. She had containers of chestnuts, in prickly pods and smooth for us to make things out of. She had nails for poking holes in the hard shell around the nut and we used matchsticks to put into the holes we poked to put 2 nuts together. She told us to make an animal or figure or whatever we wanted. It was fun. We felt like school kids! Lots of laughing and creating. She loves teaching us and showing us German traditions.
We all LOVE Sister Enger!
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