German Conversation Practice Set: Weather, Days of the Week, Months, Seasons
Today I’m going to share our German worksheets about the weather and seasons, winter words and sickness/illness.
These and a dozen other pdfs are icluded in German BUNDLE 1.
I have found it difficult to find good German materials and curriculum for kids. Early on we used a lot of free German worksheets and materials, but then at a certain point the kids were ready for more. Last spring I made our first set of German conversation cards. It consisted of a family tree and various family members (brother, sister, mom, dad, aunt, uncle and grandparents). We used these to practice greetings and for basic conversations asking and answering questions like What’s your name? How old are you? Is this your aunt? etc. Wow! Having props absolutely transformed German for us. So this summer, I made a half-dozen more sets. The kids have made amazing progress with these already.
We started off with…
German Conversation Practice Card Set – Weather, Months, Seasons:
In this portion of our German unit we covered the weather, seasons, days of the week, and months of the year. It’s been fun with lots of jumping around, singing, and action. The kids are really loving it! I think the key to learning a language is the energy you put into it. Some of the time I ask the kids questions, but the ultimate goal is always to get them to be able to ask each other questions and to answer each other. 🙂
The kids and I hold up various cards as we ask (and answer) each other’s questions… I have glued all of our cards onto foam Popsicle sticks like this. In the picture below, you can see that we are using blank cards, though the weather cards have a space for the student to write in the vocabulary if you want to use them that way.
Weather: das Wetter
When we started back to school, we started back up with basic greetings and reviewed family words (sister, brother, grandma, etc.). And we started adding new chit-chat to our conversation. So now the conversation grew from Hello! How are you? What’s your name? How old are you? We started adding in bits about the weather and the date:
- What’s the weather like today? What’s the weather like outside?
- Is it warm today?
- Is it raining? No, it’s sunny.
Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Seasons
The kids also started asking and answering: What day is it today? Was yesterday Tuesday? and things like that.
We quickly added in the seasons and months as well.
Going over some of this vocabulary, we’ve just been loud and energetic. We’ve chanted and jumped around, clapped and danced the days of the week. We’ve sung about the seasons (Es war eine Mutter…) and talked about the months. Being energetic, memorable, and using the vocabulary over and over has been another important strategy for learning these words. Once we get to the section on clothing (we just started today with shirt and shoes!), we’ll incorporate a lot of this vocabulary into that next conversation unit. (ie. What will you wear in the spring?)
Update! This file has recently been updated and is now over 50 pages! Here are some of the new materials in this packet:
Winterwörter
From there we went on to learn some basic winter words (also included in German BUNDLE 1). These include some matching pages (German to pictures, English to German, word cards, and 6 bingo cards).
Krankheiten und Schmerzen
It made sense for us to talk about getting sick, illness and being in pain next. Again, we have some worksheets to go over this vocabulary. (German to pictures, German to English, picture cards, and a picture/reading game). On our cards, we have sentences (rather than phrases).
- Ich habe Kopfschmerzen.
- Ich habe Fieber.
- Mein Knie tut mir weh.
This worked well for the kids.
I made a Lesespiel game to help the kids practice these sickness terms. The kids have really enjoyed it!! (They beg to play more rounds!) It has suggested dialogue on the card… Who has a headache? … I have a headache… Who has a runny nose? etc.
This material is all included in German Bundle 1
Click here to see pictures of what is included: German Bundle 1 Quick Preview
German BUNDLE 1 includes 13 pdfs. See the list and more pictures below.
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German BUNDLE 1 includes ALL of the packets listed below (for photos you can click on the Quick Preview or scroll below. There are 12 pdf files in German BUNDLE 1:
- German Conversation Packet – die Familie (2 pdf files)
- German Conversation Packet – das Wetter die Jahreszeiten die Monaten
- Weather & Seasons Conversation Starters (Bonus Packet!)
- Weihnachten und Farben
- German Weather Packet -Winterwörter-Krankheiten-Schmerzen
- German Conversation Packet 3 – Kleidung – Clothing (black & white)
- die Kleidung (in color) – 25 pages
- German Vocabulary Builder – Valentinstag
- German Worksheets – Easter Spring Words – Ostern und Frühling
- die deutschen Zahlen, die Farben
I started making conversation cards and sets for the kids as we worked hard on their speaking abilities. We did a lot of role playing!
We used this family set *every day* during our conversation practice… to talk about the weather, how we’re feeling, where we’re from, what we’re wearing, what we’re up to and on and on! 🙂
This is what we will be covering this semester.
- Family tree for greetings and family words (See this post.)
- The days of the weeks, months, weather and seasons… Winter Words and Sickness/Illness
- Clothing
We use these card sets each day as part of our language class. (We also do other things during German time such as sing songs, listen to Bobo Siebenschlafer (affiliate link) stories, use a language CD set, and also the kids have started using the free app: DuoLingo etc.)
If you are interested in checking out our general German conversation plans for the semester, you can click on the photo below. That will show you how I added cards week-by-week and this is just a free pdf and quick glance at what we’ve been doing:
German Conversation Practice Plans
Visit our German Store to check out some of our other German Packets including Clothing; Sickness/Symptoms to Daily Routines/Hobbies/Free Time Activities; Adjective Opposites and Much More!
Visit our German Store to see more details about German Bundle 2 which covers topics such as Lebensmittel; Daily Routine, Chores, Free-time Activities das Haus Wortschatz; Auf dem Land; der Bauernhof; Sommerwörter – Worksheets and Activities; Adjective Opposites
Visit our German Store to see more details about German Bundle 3 which covers topics such as Tiere (Animals), der Ozean – Unterwasserleben (The Ocean – Marine Life), Körperteile (Body Parts), Berufe (Occupations – Professions)
That’s about it for today!
If you have any questions, feel free to email me!
~Liesl
