German mums, help me with dd's german homework please.

[admylin]

Dd goes to 2nd year of german Grundschule and today she has a list of animal noises to match to animals and I'm stuck so could any one help? These are the animals we have to fit next to their respective noises: sheep, cat, pig, dog, rabbit, goat, bird, guinea-pig, donkey and horse. A few of them are done but others we're not sure.
Here is the list of noises:

faucht - cat
meckert - goat
schreit
wiehert - horse
piept
quickt
knurrt
blökt - sheep
grunzt - pig
heult

Thanks alot if any of you can match the left over animals, what on earth does a guinea pig say?

Hi admylin, I will try my best . I think that the

donkey - schreit (i-ah)
bird - piept
guinea-pig - quiekt
dog - knurrt (growl)

which would leave the rabbit to "heulen" (howl). I think that is def wrong because a rabbit can scream or snuff (is that correct in English?) - schnüffeln. I am quite sure about the others. In German the donkey screams, but maybe you can (as an option) switch donkey and rabbit, maybe some people say donkeys howl???? Am I making sense?? Otherwise just leave rabbit and heult out, let the teacher explain that one because the others are correct!!
Hope this helps....

That's helped, so bird is for sure, but the guinea pig and rabbit are still confusing! I also didn't find what a donkey says in german so I reckon we will just fill in the "for sure " ones and let the teacher do the rest!
I know quite a few parents in the class but none of them are actually german so we will all be in the same boat!

Ecellent idea! But rabbit isn't on it. Do you think Hund heult and Kaninchen knurrt would sound OK? I used to have a decent translation website in my faves but the computer has gone and made them dissapear so lost it!

I think that if you leave out rabbit and howls, all the others are correct. I am German living in Germany, so I am sure about that. Guinea-pigs are making those soft noises that is called 'quieken'. I have never heard a rabbit do much more than sniffing.... Let us know what the teacher said! The donkey "schreit" i-ah for sure!

Never heard a rabbit make any noise either. Certainly not heulen und schreien! Sounds like Deutsch in year 2 is going to be a barrel of laughs!

Yes,we are going to have a great time with deutsch homework! Ds goes into year 4 in August, I am dreading it - contemplating paying a student (a real german one) to help twice a week!

faucht - cat
meckert - goat
schreit (scream) not sure wich animal screams?
wiehert - horse
piept - bird
quickt (should read quiekt) - piglet
knurrt dog
blökt - sheep
grunzt - pig
heult wolf

schreit (screams) could be donkey

Will let you know what the teacher says when she gets back from school! These are the sort of thing we've missed out when teaching the dc animal sounds when they were tots! I did make an effort to teach them the german style fairy tales and some songs though.

If most of the dp are non-German, they must all be having fun with this. No wonder you said they don't bother with the homework and didn't want their dc given extra homework!

I would be tempted to just write nonsense you know, like the rabbit schreit or some such thing. Might give the teacher a giggle...

I've just realised I may be missing out on year 2 German. I'm planning to take dd out of school for a year and spend a year abroad. Hopefully we'll be able to get back into year 3 in the same school on return. Year 3 German will be great, won't it? Can't wait. Definitely try the tutor. Does your dh know some nice student from work maybe?

Here is the official version from the teacher:

sheep - blökt
cat - faucht
pig - grunzt
dog - heult
rabit - knurrt
goat - meckert
bird - piept
guinea-pig - quiekt
donkey - schreit
horse - wiehert

He even said himself that the answer was in the teachers book but he wasn't 100% happy with it!

Only just seen this - wouldn't have got half of those. What a useful exercise

Re Y4, if your ds is coping with Y3 OK then he shouldn't have probs with Y4, here at least it's a fairly easy transition from Y3. The big jump I found was from Y2 to Y3.

Please do ask Am only too willing to ease anyone's experience of the German school system - more positive than banging my head on the table

Thanks finknottle! I honestly hope we will be in an english speaking country within the next few years but 'till then we will have to manage as best we can. One of the dads at school (also foreign, so non-german) has already employed a german woman to do the homework with his 2 kids after school. His german is not quite as good as mine so I guess he must be really worried.