You can coach your child's soccer practice, but you're not allowed to play on the field with them.
You can help your child with their science project, but you can't help them present it.
You can take German lessons with your child, and you can have a blast speaking German together!
Over the past year, multiple parents have signed up to take German lessons with their children. And they have so much fun every week! If you'd like to really do something with your child, this is for you!
Here's how it happens:
Mom Barbara signs up for lessons for herself and her daughter Rachel, who's 10.
They share a German learning book that was written specifically for children learning to speak German as a Foreign Language, and they each have their own workbook.
Once a week, we meet in their online classroom for a lesson and Barbara and Rachel and I write on the shared whiteboard, speak together, and play German guessing games.
Throughout the rest of the week, Barbara and Rachel have vocabulary cards to work with and exercises to do for "homework." The "homework" is something like singing a song, unscrambling a word scramble, correcting a few misspelled words, or simple fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Don't leave home for German.
There's no driving, no extra scheduling to be done because you have the same lesson time every week, and no paperwork to get lost in a backpack.
The holidays are in full swing all over the world and this year I've chosen to feature the holiday of Hanukkah. This year Hanukkah takes place from December 6 (today!) to December 14.
