Sunday, February 3, 2008

Guten Tag from Germany!

Well it is almost time for you to start school for 2008 and I hear you have been having fabulous weather to enjoy those last few days of your holidays in. The weather has been a little colder this week compared to our warmer weather we had been having- down to 2 degrees during the day. Today it is a beautiful sunny day but the temperature outside is -1 degree so I think it will be a VERY cold night! At the moment I can hear the church bells ringing around the city.

I started my new job on Monday. I am working at a Kindergarten with German 3-6 year old children. It is very different from teaching Year 5 and 6 children! I play a lot of games with them and do puzzles and craft activities. Even though they speak German, I have to speak to them in English. It can be a little tricky at times but if I listen carefully I can work out what they are saying and then I reply to them in English. They understand a lot of English already but are just a bit shy to practice it.

On Tuesday it is Fasching in Germany. It is a big Carnival where everyone gets dressed up and goes a bit loopy for the day. They do it to scare away Winter and to have one last party before Lent begins. At my kindergarten we are having a Fasching party where we will be eating lots of food and dancing. All of the teachers are dressing up as Hula Dancers. I will try to put some photos of our celebration on for you.

Ella, it was great to hear that you received your postcard! I sent one to Mrs Thompson too so hopefully she has had hers arrive too.

Keep in touch everyone and let me know you are still reading the blog by leaving a comment on the comments page!

Miss Millward
xox

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey miss Millward
How are you?
I'm great my new teacher is called ms Blackmore and she is really nice and I'm really enjoying school.
I have started an after school maths class and you play all sorts of fun computer games and Mrs thompson has organised it and she said hi to me to pass on to you so "hi".
Thanks, I am glad you are enjoying teaching in Germany.
see ya
Love from Ella
xoxoxoxoxox

Anonymous said...

hi miss Millward
The other day because I'm a yr 6 I did asembly It was great fun I hope you having fun I am school is great1
from the who comes on the blog....

Anonymous said...

ELLA!

Anonymous said...

from THE ONLY ONE who goes on the blog. sry bad mistake

Anonymous said...

Guten tag miss millward,

This is one of your old year 6's.
But now im a year 7!
By the way im a boy.
I go to AJHS and it's really weird there.

We just did tests on formal letters and i hope i did well.
We also have tennis with the guy that we had last year.

Heres a clue on who i am, the tennis guy used to call me "converse" because of the jacket i wore.

Anyway i hope your having a good time, because i know i am.

Thanks!
Bye!

From someone with 7 letters in their name. Hehe.

Bye!

Anonymous said...

Hey ella,

This is the anonymous guy again hehe,

So who is ms blackmore?, i will come on teachers only days and days like that.

And hows Ms ross, tell her i said hi and im going to reveal myself soon.

Bye!

Thanks

Anonymous said...

Ok im revealing, I am MATTHEW!

Tell ms ross i said hi, Again, hehe thanks.

Anonymous said...

Hi miss Millward I'm so sorry I have not been on the blog for ages,I hope you are having a good time in Germany....
bye love from ella
xoxooxoxooxo

Anonymous said...

Hi Matthew, its Ella, miss Blackmore is a new teacher for the school to fill in for mrs boulden cause she has gone to university she visits occosianlly but not to teach...
From Ella

Anonymous said...

weird, whos looking after the library?

Anonymous said...

um miss...............?
I'm actually not sure I think its mrs Jenson yeah that might be her

Anonymous said...

good morning miss millward

Anonymous said...

Hello miss Millward,
I'm still missing you and wish you would come back any way happy holidays!
love from Ella
xoxo

Anonymous said...

Hi Matthew
I'm sorry I made a mistake mrs behauge (wrong spelling) is looking after the library.
why are you so interested in miss Ross are you in love with her?
just joking she says hi back to you and asks you how u r so hope you hav a great holiday
bye

Anonymous said...

bye!

Anonymous said...

HI MY NEW TEACHER IS CALLES MRS GRAHAM SHE IS NICE. SHES FROM ENGLAND AND IM LEARNING GERMAN FROM HER WITH MY NEW FRIENDS WHO ARE SO NICE AND IM IN BLOOK 3 ROOM 9 MISS U

Anonymous said...

Hi

Ive gone to murrasy bay intermediate adn ti is great. My teacher mrs Strand said im i the best teacher in the worl and i said not really the taecher i had ni year5 was the best.Jess and Ray say hixoxoxoxox

Anonymous said...

Hey Sorry i havn't checked in a while, how are you miss millward?

Hi tyla and ella and alexis... Lol Tyla can u please tell every1 i said hi and yea...

My new teacher is called Mrs Dokter at Albany Junior High School. She is REALLY MEAN!
Everyone hates her, including Ben C he is in my class...
I've been learning Maori and Japanese and next term im learning Spanish, And we have whanau teacher and my whanau teacher is Miss Yoon. Shes my japanese teacher too and she is actually Korean. (Which every1 thinks is really weird...)

Anyway i hope your having fun and im having fun...

And ella, Tell miss ross i said Hi and good thanks and you should tell her to make a blog too and then i can talk to her there. thanks bye!

Seeya Miss Millward.

BYE!