Parent Breakfast in Lukas' Preschool Class

We were invited to Lukas' school on Friday to observe the children singing and dancing to some songs that they learned during their Medieval Unit. According to their teachers, the children have enjoyed this unit the most out of the entire school year so far. In the imaginative play area, the children played in a painted cardboard castle, dressed up with princess clothes, rode stick-horses etc., they made authentic breads and stews from the period and read some fairy tales. (Olli has a video of Lukas in a dragon costume and Isabel wearing "glass slippers" from the imaginative play area on his Facebook page.) Apparently, the children played knights and princesses on the playground as well and Lukas was the "protector" of the girls/princesses and would fight off the evil intruders with this pretend sword. It was so much fun to see how excited the children were to share what they had learned the past few weeks!

During this song, the children "magically" turned these glittery balls they had made into animals (masks they made) and danced out the verses to the song about the various animals they were representing. Lukas was a a dog (of course!) and his job was to sleep during his verse.

This video shows the song (in German) that I described above. The kids are singing the equivalent of "abracadabra" in the beginning and then come the animals. The verses are "fly, fly, all ladybugs fly, 1, 2, 3 all ladybugs fly, everyone is there; all lions roar..., all dogs sleep..., all monkeys climb..., all birds chirp..."

Lukas is promenading with his partner, Elisa, for this Medieval dance. He is holding a self-made sword and his partner has a self-made scepter.

During this dance, the children essentially walked around in a circle, bowed to each other, and then turned themselves around. Here is Lukas' partner bowing to him and then Lukas answers with a bow.

After the children demonstrated this dance with each other, they invited one of their parents to dance with them (Isabel wanted to join in too, so she's also in this video clip).

Lukas' preschool class from left to right: Aliena, Elisa, David, Lukas, Timmy, Kamila, Alina Isabel (Moritz, Lukas "best friend", was missing that morning). They're getting ready to sing a four-verse-long song about a king and a royal ball. Lukas was delighted to sing this song to us at the dinner table several days in a row leading up this performance so we can also sing this entire song by heart. :-)