This week we’ll be starting our work on the letter O! The words in this unit are:

• das      Obst                          fruit
• das      Ohr                            ear
• die       Oma                          grandma
• der      Opa                          grandfather
•             orange                      orange (color)
• die       Orange                     orange (fruit)
• der      Orang-Utan               orangutan
• das      Ornament                 ornament
•             ost                             east
• das      Osterei                      Easter egg
• der      Osterhase                 Easter bunny
• der      Otter                          otter

I would have liked a little more variety. There are some sets of similar words – Oma & Opa, orange & Orange, Osterei & Osterhase – but sometimes it depends on what objects I can find!

I think I will try to group them by the kind of sound that the O makes.

1. Oma, Opa
2. Obst, ost, Osterei, Osterhase, Otter
3. Ohr, orange, Orange, Orang-Utan, Ornament

Here’s what the cards look like:

This are the all-caps version. You can download the cards below in all-caps or in upper and lower case letters.

I also decided to try creating a backing paper for the cards. Sometimes you can see through the cards, even when I print on cardstock. That doesn’t make for a very good game of memory or go fish! So I created these papers to be printed on the opposite side of the word cards. To be fair, I haven’t tried them myself yet! My print-outs were already laminated. But I’ll try it for sure next time and report back on how it went.

• Download PDF: Wortschatzkarten O – ALL CAPS – GitA
• Download PDF: Wortschatzkarten O – GitA
• Download PDF: Wortschatz Karten letter backing O – GitA

There has been a lot of activity on the blog recently! But I never hear from my visitors 😦  I would love to hear how you are using the materials! And if you have other ideas, that would be great!

Viel Spaß!