This year one of my sections of German 2 is Block 3 with C lunch, which means that class is from 11:35 - 12:55 with lunch at 12:55. Which means that we are all hungry during class. Which means that we talk about food a lot!
I promised this class that sometime soon I would schedule a baking tutorial so that we could bake in tutorial and eat in class. (Tutorial is our intervention/enrichment period, which meets right before Block 3 for 40 minutes.) Naturally, they were all in.
Of course we had to sing "Backe, back Kuchen" for the students who hadn't learned it last year.
Most of the students who participated were from the section of German 2 which meets right after tutorial and before lunch, but it was open to everyone, and some German 1 students and students from other sections attended.
Since the cake wouldn't be done until after tutorial, I promised students who weren't in my Block 3 class that we would save them a piece of Kuchen that they could pick up before Block 4.
We used a very simple recipe for Apple Streusel Cake, which I found online: https://platedcravings.com/wprm_print/4265
I divided the students into three groups: one for the dough (it was Throwback Thursday for Homecoming week)
one for the apple filling
and one for the crumble topping.
And they really took it from there - I didn't have to do much more!
I even had two very enthusiastic dish washers!
The cake was done baking during Block 3 and cool enough to eat by the end of class. Delicious!
It was a definite success, and not especially stressful or tiring for me - also a plus.
Students asked to do this every week. I don't think I'll be able to pull that off, but we definitely will do it again!
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