Drew Speaks German (Part 2)

I had a parent-teacher conference at Drew's school last week.  The teacher and I spoke for an hour.  She had detailed notes (as well as photos) to share about Drew's social and cognitive development, his fine and gross motor skills, his language acquisition, and more.  Everything was very positive: the teacher says Drew is an open, friendly, well-liked classmate and his German language skills have improved so much since the beginning of the year!  I have been seeing this first hand.  After ten months in German Kindergarten, Drew is speaking in complete sentences in German!  (Remember how I wrote about how he was saying words and phrases in February?)  I wanted to write down some of the things I have heard him say recently:

To another girl in his class after her dad dropped her off: "Wo ist deine Papa?"  (Where is your dad?)

At a birthday party, while playing with a shark toy: "Ein hai kommt!!" (A shark is coming!)

"Guck mal, Mama, ich habe ein stein gefunden."  (Look, Mama, I found a rock.)

"Geht weg!" (Get away!)

"Spiel mit mir." (Play with me)

"Mama, kannst du mir hilfen?"  (Mama, can you help me?)

He is doing some code switching.  The other day as I was about to cut up an apple for him, he asked me, "Are you going to schneid it up?"

And today, when I was bringing him to school, "Ich kann alleine, Mama. Tschuss!" (I can do it alone, Mama. Bye!)

Our boy is growing up-and speaking German!  I am so proud of him.