Community Stories
Stories, memories and everyday moments shared by families, volunteers and the wider Spielwelt community.
These posts help show the people, relationships and traditions that make Spielwelt feel lived-in and connected over time.
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Gerda’s Bunny Craft
Hallo Kinder! Our gorgeous GAP teacher Gerda has made a fun bunny craft video for you all. Click on the link here to enjoy Gerda’s bunny craft video. Want more rabbit fun? Jump and wiggle your ears to this fun action song/dance about Hoppelhase Hans. Imagine if the wrong Easter bunny had come along. Find out…
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Easter Lesson Plan 2
Today’s activity is creating a German Osterbaum (Easter tree). This is a very German way to celebrate Easter, so enjoy! You’ll need eggs (or card/paper) and a few branches (either indoors or outdoors). Eggs: Decorate some eggs for Easter and hang them in your Osterbaum (Easter tree). Option 1: Real eggs.Either blow them out or…
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Easter Lesson Plan 1
Today’s lesson plan has a story, some craft, a rhyme, a song and a game… all on the Easter theme. Here is a short story for you to read aloud to your child, about Pips das Osterhasenkind: Hilfe für Pips, das Hasenkind. Here is an Easter colouring in sheet. Talk about colours, shapes (will you decorate your egg with…
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Make The Most of Your Mail
Here is how you can augment the education factor (and feel like such an awesome home school teacher) before you even open the envelope of ANY mail! (Children who are lucky enough to be enrolled at GAP will be getting some personalised mail this week, too!) Spend time talking about: * what does it say on the…
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Six Animal Stories
Looking for School at Home story ideas? Here are three nicely told and illustrated quiet time stories by Eric Carle, and three classic German children’s shows. You could play them as audio only, or watch the video as well. Quiet Story #1: CaterpillarYou can’t go past this classic story: It has numbers, days of the…
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Tanzen und Turnen – Getting Exercise
Been on your Baerenjagd walk and found all the neighbourhood bears for now? Tanzen und Turnen (dancing and gymnastics) to music at home is a great way to lift one’s spirits and stay fit and healthy. The ABC has some great advice for young and old about staying healthy during the shut down. Here are some of our…
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Prepare Your Home School
Here are a few staples that it would be great for each child to have at their home-school. The basics: crayons (wax crayons; don’t go with oil pastels as you will never get it off your carpet/walls/furniture/work clothes/dog’s fur) pencil crayons (the little tiny packs you get on airplanes are rubbish… invest in 12 or…
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Rest Time is Important
Want to maintain a GAP-like routine at home at rest time? (Hint: The correct answer is yes! It will keep you and your children SANE!) The GAP children are used to listening to 40 minutes from our Ruhezeit (rest time) playlist at rest time every day. It is their cue to lie down and relax.…
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Going on a Bear Hunt
Looking for some extra fun while you are walking in your neighborhood? Perhaps you and Oma and Opa would like to join in the fun while staying safe indoors, too. Pop a teddy bear (or a few of them) in your window, and walk around the neighbourhood in the coming days and see if you can…
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Setting Routines at home
Here are our tips for setting a routine at home, now that the family are working and schooling from home. * Set a routine schedule for the kids; it helps make things predictable for the children. * Communicate with your partner and share the workloads: one of you works (the paid work) while the other…