Play Dough and Coloring

Instructor: Ms. Cobb

Ages: 3-5
Level: starting at A1, some German required

Using play dough and other art materials we will expand your children's vocabulary. Painting and kneading are productive and fun methods to promote sensorimotor skills and create a healthy development of a child.

Materials needed: Printer for worksheets, paper, watercolors, coloring pencils, various play dough colors and possibly small craft materials.

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/15/2021
Week 4, 7/20 + 7/22/2021

Tu + Th, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
$60 per week

The World of Books

Instructor: Ms. Hylla

Ages: 3-6
Level: starting at B1

Let’s enter the world of books and stimulate creativity and imagination to expand your children's vocabulary in a fun and playful way while promoting their holistic development.

No materials needed!

Week 4, 7/19 + 7/21 + 7/23/2021

Mo + We + Fr, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
$90 per week

Fun with Words

Instructor: Ms. Cobb

Ages: 4-5
Level: starting at A1, some German required

In a relaxed atmosphere we will make it fun for your children to learn new and build on their vocabulary with simple worksheets, painting and/or play dough projects. Together we will explore letters, words, numbers and shapes, while all senses are being addressed.

Materials needed: Printer for worksheets, paper, watercolors, coloring pencils, various playdough colors and possibly small craft materials.

Week 3, 7/14 + 7/16/2021
Week 4, 7/21 + 7/23/2021

We + Fr, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
$60 per week

Relaxation

Instructors: Ms. Hylla and Ms. Haggerty

Ages: 4-6
Level: starting at A1, some German required

Through a variety of exercises we will create a healthy balance between movement and relaxation. On this imaginary journey your child will learn techniques such as yoga, progressive muscle and breathing relaxation.

Materials needed: The children will need comfortable clothing and a mat or a blanket.

Week 1, 6/28 + 6/30 + 7/2/2021

Mo + We + Fr, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
$90 per week

World of Movement

Instructors: Ms. Hylla and Ms. Haggerty

Ages: 4-6
Level: starting at A1, some German required

This course offers different physical exercises which require a little bit of
space. Through these activities we will foster and support the joy of motion, coordinated movements, hand-eye coordination, and help build a positive body image as well as muscle strength.

Materials needed: The children will need comfortable clothing, 1 ball, 2 tennis balls, balloons, 2 fabric cloths (e.g. scarves), a big box (plastic bin works as well), a mat (blanket or a big towel also work), 2 cooking spoons, 2 pairs of socks, 16 DUPLO pieces or wooden block pieces.

Week 4, 7/19 + 7/21 + 7/23/2021

Mo + We + Fr, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
$90 per week

STEM in the German Classroom

Instructors: Ms. Hylla and Ms. Haggerty

Ages: 4-7
Level: starting at A1, some German required

During this fun and educational journey of discovery, we will awaken the researcher in your child and experiment with elements of Water, Light, Air, and Nature.

Materials needed: Water based colors (e.g. food coloring). Aluminum foil, dried beans, bowls, water glass, cotton balls, milk, dish liquid. Vinegar, baking powder, baking soda, corn syrup, corn starch, flour, oil, balloons.
Some parental assistance might be needed!

Week 1, 6/28 + 6/30 + 7/2/2021

Mo + We + Fr, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
$90 per week

The ABC

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 5-7
Level: starting at A2

Together we will learn the German ABCs with fun stories and hidden pictures. Each week we will cover one or two letters of the alphabet.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7/2021

Week 3 , 7/13 + 7/14/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/21/2021

Week 5, 7/27 + 7/28/2021

Week 6, 8/3 + 8/4/2021

Week 7, 8/10 + 8/11/2021

Tu + We, 8:30 am – 9:15 am
$50 per week

Cooking with Susann

Instructor: Ms. Kollmar

Ages: 6+
Level: all proficiency levels

We will cook a new dish every week, entree and soup, dessert or salad... just about everything your heart desires.

Materials needed: Prior to the class, Ms. Kollmar will email you a list of the necessary materials needed.

Parent supervision for the hot tasks required!

Week 1, 6/29 + 7/1 + 7/2/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/8 + 7/9/2021

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/15 + 7/16/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/22 + 7/23/2021

Tu + Th + Fr, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
$120 per week

Baking with Susann

Instructor: Ms. Kollmar

Ages: 6+
Level: all proficiency levels

From ‘Ratz-Fatz-Cake’ to Carrot Muffins to Lemon Pretzels, we will bake it all! The teacher will send a list of necessary ingredients prior to the start of the course.

Materials needed: We need bowls, a mixer, a scale and measuring cups, and... an oven.

Parent supervision for the hot tasks required!

Week 1, 6/29 + 7/1 + 7/2/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/8 + 7/9/2021

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/15 + 7/16/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/22 + 7/23/2021

Tu + Th + Fr, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
$120 per week

Word Puzzles

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 6-8 and 8-10
Level: starting at A2

Fun word and picture puzzles to increase reading comprehension and reading pleasure. Each week will be different and cover one puzzle per day.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Ages 6-8:

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7/2021

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/14/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/21/2021

Week 5, 7/27 + 7/28/2021

Week 6, 8/3 + 8/4/2021

Week 7, 8/10 + 8/11/2021

Tu + We, 9:30 am – 10:15 am
$50 per week

Ages 8-10:

Week 1, 7/1 + 7/2/2021

Week 2, 7/8 + 7/9/2021

Week 3, 7/15 + 7/16/2021

Week 4, 7/22 + 7/23/2021

Week 5, 7/29 + 7/30/2021

Week 6, 8/5 + 8/6/2021

Week 7, 8/12 + 8/13/2021

Th + Fr, 9:30 am – 10:15 am
$50 per week

Math Adventures

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 6-9
Level: starting at A2

Combine Math and German while joining Pipokapattl, a little green guy from outer space. He is going to take us along his adventures on planet earth while solving mathematical calculations.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 1, 7/1 + 7/2/2021

Week 2, 7/8 + 7/9/2021

Week 3, 7/15 + 7/16/2021

Week 4, 7/22 + 7/23/2021

Week 5, 7/29 + 7/30/2021

Week 6, 8/5 + 8/6/2021

Week 7, 8/12 + 8/13/2021

Th + Fr, 8:30 am – 9:15 am
$50 per week

The Land of Dinosaurs
(First Writing Trip for 1.-2. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 6-9
Level: starting at B1

Help Finn and Nele to return a dinosaur egg to its mother, a T-Rex. We will join them on an adventure through their land, where we face several challenges. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 1, 6/28 – 7/2/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

Mermaid in Trouble
(Second Writing Trip for 1.-2. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 6-9
Level: starting at B1

Join Noah and Emma on their adventure helping a mermaid find her magic shell, so she can return to her friends under water. We will help them on their adventure, where we face several challenges. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 2, 7/5 – 7/9/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

The Shrink Machine
(Final Writing Trip for 1.-2. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 6-9
Level: starting at B1

Help the twins Hayri and Leyla after their shrinking accident to become tall again! We will join them on their adventure, where we face several challenges being only as big as a toothpick. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 3, 7/12 – 7/16/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

Treasure Island
(First Writing Trip for 3.-4. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 8-10
Level: starting at B1

Join Rica, Lilly and their parrot Pepe on a treasure hunt through the sea. We will face several challenges on our dangerous adventure following a treasure map. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 4, 7/19 – 7/23/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

Expedition to Outer Space
(Second Writing Trip for 3.-4. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 8-10
Level: starting at B1

Help the twins Emil and Lena to rescue Astronaut Wilson. We will join them on an adventure through space, where we face several challenges. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 5, 7/26 – 7/30/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

Manhunt in the Wild West
(Third Writing Trip for 3.-4. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 8-10
Level: starting at B1

Help Bill and Mary to return their father’s gold from the thief. We will join them on their dangerous adventure through the wild West, where we face several challenges. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 6, 8/2 – 8/6/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
$150 per week

The Haunted Mansion
(Final Writing Trip for 3.-4. Grade)

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 8-10
Level: starting at B1

Join Felix and Anna on their way to find a ghost. We will help them on their dangerous adventure through a haunted mansion, where we face several challenges. Our task is to solve these challenges verbally and in writing.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 7, 8/9 – 8/13/2021

Mo - Fr, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
$150 per week

Reading Trails

Instructor: Ms. Rossbach

Ages: 7-10
Level: starting at A2

We will follow a map and a story while taking our own steps solving the mystery. To improve our reading skills, we have to find the one right way, however, there will be many dead ends on our adventure. Every Monday covers a new story.

Materials needed: Worksheets for printing will be provided by the teacher, pen, paper.

Week 1, 6/28/2021

Week 2, 7/5/2021

Week 3, 7/12/2021

Week 4, 7/19/2021

Week 5, 7/26/2021

Week 6, 8/2/2021

Week 7, 8/9/2021

Mo, 9:15 am – 10:15 am
$30 per week

Journey around the World

Instructor: Ms. Naciri

Ages: 9-12
Level: starting at A2

Join us on this exciting trip around the world to explore different traditions, food customs, climates and much more...

No Materials needed.

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30 + 7/1/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7 + 7/8/2021

Tu + We + Th, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
$90 per week

German for Beginners

Instructor: Ms. Naciri

Ages: 9-12
Level: no to little knowledge of German

This class is for German beginners with little to no German language skills. We will dive into different topics of our daily lives, build and develop basic language skills while talking about our family, ourselves, hobbies, the summer and various other topics.

Materials needed: Paper, pens and glue.

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30 + 7/1/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7 + 7/8/2021

Tu + We + Th, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
$90 per week

The Animal Kingdom

Instructor: Ms. Naciri

Ages: 9-12
Level: starting at A2

We will talk about animals from different areas of life, where they live, what they eat, how they get around and what they give us, milk, eggs, and much more...

No Materials needed.

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30 + 7/1/2021

Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7 + 7/8/2021

Tu + We + Th, 9:45 am – 10:45 am
$90 per week

Reading Club - Follow the thieves through Germany

Instructor: Ms. Cobb

Ages: 9-12
Level: starting at B1

This course meets every Monday to follow the thieves step by step through Germany. What do you think - will we catch them? Kugelblitz auf Gaunerjagd durch Deutschland. Since the individual weeks/chapters build on each other registration is only possible for all 6 weeks!

Materials needed: A printer for worksheets provided by the teacher. Book order information will be emailed to participants.

Week 3, 7/12/2021

Week 4, 7/19/2021

Week 5, 7/26/2021

Week 6, 8/2/2021

Week 7, 8/9/2021

Week 8, 8/16/2021

Mo, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
$210 for 6 weeks

Short and Fabulous

Instructor: Ms. Genzel

Ages: 12-18, 7.-12. Grade
Level: starting at B1

Let's watch some Short Films of different topics, develop your own ideas, change the script or set audio to a silent movie.

Materials needed: The only things you need are imagination and creativity.

Week 1, 6/29 + 6/30 + 7/1/2021
Week 2, 7/6 + 7/7 + 7/8/2021

Tu + We + Th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
$90 per week

Grammar for DSD Students

Instructor: Ms. Macfarland

Ages: 12-18
Level: starting at A2

The Case for Case: Our love/hate relationship with those tricky word endings. We will review agreement endings and apply what we have learned in short texts on a culture project.

The course is conceived as a 3-week whole, but each week could be taken individually as well.

Materials needed: Internet, a computer, camera, and microphone.

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/15/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/22/2021

Week 5, 7/27 + 7/29/2021

Tu + Th, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
$60 per week

#everynamecounts

Instructor: Ms. Macfarland

Ages: 14-18
Level: starting at B1

We will participate in the Arolsen Archives’ #everynamecounts project https://enc.arolsen-archives.org/en/about-everynamecounts/ . This crowdsourcing initiative offers a new and very direct way of actively engaging with the past – not only to remember the victims of National Socialism persecution, but also to promote respect, diversity, and solidarity. Along the way we will reflect, in speech and in writing, on memorials, digital as well as ‘real’, and on the ways of and reasons for memorializing culturally significant events.

The course is conceived as a 3-week whole, but each week could be taken individually as well.

Materials needed: Internet, a computer, camera and microphone.

Week 3, 7/13 + 7/15/2021

Week 4, 7/20 + 7/22/2021

Week 5, 7/27 + 7/29/202

Tu + Th, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
$60 per week

DSDII Essay Review - Preparing for the Exam

Instructor: Ms. Minami

Ages: 14 -19
Level: starting at B1

We will go over the structural elements of the DSD-II written exam and practice writing in portions. We will spend time reviewing how to pick up points for incorporating sentence structures, grammatical features, and relevant content.

This course focuses on the written parts of the Exam.

This course complements the DSDII Talk course, during which the focus lies on the oral component of the Exam.

The course is conceived as a whole, but individual weeks can also be attended as standalones.

Materials needed: Textbooks and material from the regular DSDII class.

Week 1, 6/28 + 6/30/2021

Week 2, 7/5 + 7/7/2021

Week 3, 7/12 + 7/14/2021

Week 4, 7/19 + 7/21/2021

Week 5, 7/26 + 7/28/2021

Week 6, 8/2 + 8/4/2021

Week 7, 8/9 + 8/11/2021

Week 8, 8/16 + 8/18/2021

Mo + We, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm,
$90 per week

DSDII Talk - Preparing for the Exam

Instructor: Ms. Minami

Ages: 14 -19
Level: starting at B1

Preparing for the unprepared. We will review the elements of the unprepared oral presentation and practice delivering spontaneous presentations on various topics under "test" conditions. This course focuses on the oral parts of the Exam.

This course complements the DSDII Essay Review course, during which the focus lies on the written component of the Exam.

The course is conceived as a whole, but individual weeks can also be attended as standalones.

Materials needed: Textbooks and material from the regular DSDII class.

Week 1, 7/2/2021

Week 2, 7/9/2021

Week 3, 7/16/2021

Week 4, 7/23/2021

Week 5, 7/30/2021

Week 6, 8/6/2021

Week 7, 8/13/2021

Week 8, 8/20/2021

Fr, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm,
$30 per week

Stammtisch

Moderator: Mr. Hylla

Adults 21+
Level: starting at A2

Just like being in a German bar or restaurant, we talk about all kinds of topics, have fun laughing and learning about each other. You must love to communicate in German, and don’t worry making mistakes is ok!

This course is for everyone 21+ who likes to speak German.

Week 1, 6/28 + 6/30 + 7/2/2021

Week 4, 7/19 + 7/21 + 7/23/2021

Mo + We + Fr, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
'Special' - $60 per week