German Reading Club (GRC)

I was fortunate enough to stop by the AEA library last week for the German Reading Club (GRC) kick-off event. Librarian Corie Julius and Assistant Birgit Rutz introduced the GRC's mission to a group of interested parents, many of whom are native German speakers (and several who are eager to practice their German).

Birgit Rutz kindly provided the following overview:

"We just founded the German Reading Club (GRC) in the library at the German Kick Off. In this club we gather with parents who are German native speakers. The goal is to read in German to the students during library time and also as a support for the German teachers during school time in the classrooms. We will include the program from the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, in which we participate. This program sends volunteers (the volunteer for AEA is Birgit Rutz), that are trained before from the Old Globe, to schools to read with the children in four languages (English, French, Spanish, German) and encourage them to write their own stories. At the end of the school year the Old Globe will pick the best stories and transfer them in a theatre piece that will be played in the Old Globe. We will also print a real book with all the stories from our school at the end of the year."

Birgit is actively seeking interested parents for the GRC. Please contact her at brutz@aeacs.org. We are looking for native German speakers to volunteer in the middle school classrooms, especially in Frau Goehler's beginning German class. Email Frau Goehler at sgoehler@aeacs.org.