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Aktuelles


December:  Excursion to the Christkindl Market 

Students in 6th and 7th grade German enjoyed a day at the Christkindl Market in downtown Chicago. Vendors from Germany and other countries sell candy, food, ornaments and many other gifts in original wooden booths imported from Nuremberg.  The students had a list of questions they had to answer by speaking German to the vendors.  Afterwards, they sampled Bratwurst with Sauerkraut, potato pancakes or Brezel.  Frohe Weihnachten!

6th Exchange Trip to Munich

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Read more about it on our Blog page. 

February 2019: Bauhaus Workshop

In order to celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus, the influential design school of Dessau, Germany, the Goethe Institute and the Museum of Design in Frankfurt organized a workshop at the LFC.  After a theoretical part, students in High school and in Elementary School were asked to build a chair with just five basic craft supplies and in 10 minutes time. 

December 2018: Christkindl Market field trip (Grades 6 and 7)


Activities in the classroom

The exchange students from Munich arrived! Check out our Newsblog here:
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Munich Exchange Newsblog
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December 2017:  Annual Field Trip to Daley Plaza to visit the German Christkindlmarket


September/October:  The 9th grade and 10th grade German students are on their exchange trip to Munich.

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January 2017:  Field Trip to the Lyric Opera combined with the Music class
Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart


December 2016: Our annual field trip to the Christkindl Market
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in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade


October 2016: (Halloween) 8th graders present travel souvenirs to each other
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September 2016:  6th graders learn to communicate in pairs.
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June 2016: A 7th grader's grandfather talks to the class about the inflation in Germany in the 1920s.


June 2016:  Skits about meeting and going out together in 6th grade


March 2016:  Visit of our exchange students from Munich

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Munich Exchange Newsblog

December 2015: Christkindl market on Daley Plaza

An annual tradition of the German program and the most popular field trip for our students:
a visit to the German Christkindl Market with German food and Christmas decorations,
a scavenger hunt in German, Lebkuchen, Haribo, Glühwein, Bratwurst, Brezel,.......
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​Slide show of all three field trips to the Christkindl Market (6th, 7th, 8th grade)


Fall 2015:  Photos and Videos

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Click on the image to go to the skits of the 8th graders.

September/October 2015:  Class exchange-trip to Munich

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Newsblog Munich Exchange
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Spring 2015:  Videos

Check out the new videos of the 6th graders here: 


In the classroom
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April 2015:    Munich Exchange
Exchange students from Munich visit the LFC 
More photos here:  

Newsblog Munich Exchange
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December 2014:   Christkindlmarket in Chicago
Students in 6th-8th grade visit the German Christkindlmarket in downtown Chicago each December to enjoy German Christmas traditions, food, and festivities.  They speak German to the vendors and answer questions  in a scavenger hunt. 


January 2014: Lyric Opera of Chicago 
Die Fledermaus
Once again, German students of the LFC enjoyed a 

German speaking opera at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. 
In past years we saw: Zauberflöte.

March: UIC German High School Day 
Every year, high school students compete and win prizes 
in various categories with other High School students 
in the Chicago area:  poetry recitation, essay writing, skits etc.  

October 2013:  
Third annual Munich exchange  
Go to the Archive on the "Munich Exchange" page or click here:  
October 2013 Munich

March 2013:  
Celebrating 50 years of German-French friendship 
(Elysée-Treaty, 1963) in Daley Plaza.

March 2013:  The new German film "Hannah Arendt" 
German students attended a special pre-screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center which was sponsored by the Goethe Institute. The political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and her writings are part of the curriculum of German as well as History and Philosophy in 11th and 12th grade at the LFC.

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