"Delight in the little things."Rudyard Kipling (English novelist ~ 1865 - 1936) On the first day of school, I encourage my students to choose a German name for class. This is the name they are known by in our class from then on. This is purely optional although almost every student wants a German name. How I do this and a list of names is in my free product ~ * German Baby Names Once they've done that, right at the start of school, we do our first project. Students trace a hand pattern,