Here is the third work sheet I made for my daughter for minority language homework. They have similar work sheets in class, where they label elements of a picture. I might have gone slightly overboard here.

Nach Conni im Zirkus und Gute Nacht Gorilla kommt hier das dritte und letzte Buch des Buchvorstellungsmarathons vom 15. Januar 2017 von meiner Tochter (zu dem Zeitpunkt war sie 6½). Eine Mischung aus Nacherzählung und Vorlesen, Teil 5 einer Serie: Wo ist Mami Autor: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler Übersetzer: Bernhard Lassahn Verlag: Beltz & […]

Following up on my previous post, here is the second work sheet I made after my daughter told me the other week that they had moved on from spring flowers to blackbirds. Again, I thought of scanning it only after she had already filled it in and I had corrected it. Note: She pointed out […]

Adam Beck of Bilingual Monkeys and the Bilingual Zoo forum repeatedly insists on the importance of an effective homework routine in the minority language. I tried my hand at it when my daughter was still in preschool, but life got in the way. And it didn’t get any better when she started at her bilingual […]

Als ich meiner Tochter vorschlug, doch mal wieder ein Buch vor laufender Kamera vorzustellen, war sie sehr begeistert. Aber nachdem ihr bei Conni im Zirkus doch sehr schnell die Puste ausgegangen war, hat sie ein anderes Buch ausgewählt. Dieses Buch hat nicht nur sehr wenig Text, sondern unsere Ausgabe ist auf Englisch (und eine Seite […]

Meine Tochter liebt Conni-Bücher, seit sie drei Jahre alt war. Jetzt (in diesem Video vom 15. Januar 2017) ist sie 6½ und versucht sich an einem ihrer Conni-Bücher. Aber es ist doch noch etwas schwierig. (Im März ging es schon um einiges besser, aber das Video kommt später.) Darum hier nur der Anfang des Buches. […]

I haven’t posted in some time. My daughter is now 6¾, and she’s been learning to read in both French and German. The other day, when I suggested she read in front of the camera, she chose one of her Conni books. It was much longer than she’d thought, and we took several breaks. At […]

My daughter has just started teaching herself to read (see my previous post), and they’ve worked on syllables and a bit of writing in French (the majority language) in preschool. On the first day of summer holiday daycare, she came home with a text she had sounded out and written down. In purple, her version, […]

I learned to read before I started school. With the preschool year ending and my daughter (who just turned 6) recognising letters and asking us to spell out words for her to write down, but not more, I expected she would learn to read in grade one. But she surprised me: On the last day […]

A few weeks ago, I don’t remember how exactly it started, my daughter and I began a spelling and writing game with nouns starting with SCH. (There are lots of those in German.) The idea was that I would spell the word, she would write it down, and then one of us would draw the […]