"SOME DAY, WHEN I GO TO SCHOOL..." "Are you helping build it, elke?" "Come along." "But I'm building the teacher's room!" "Are you looking forward to school?" "Yes!" "Get out of here, Erna!" "Some of them hold hands with their teacher." "tell us your names?" "I'm MarieIuise." "But not all at once." "My name's..." "EIke." "IIona Grosskreutz." "EveIine Schneider." "And the rest of your name?" "So, have you all said hello?" "Yes." "hello." "My name's Jürgen Weber." "So, Jürgen, do you know what you want to do when you grow up?" "Who packed their own school bag?" "Me!" "Me!" "Miss GreII wants to see what you learnt in nursery." "When I reach "three" I want you to start singing." "One, two, three..." "When it's time for school for me I will learn my ABC I will learn to read there too" "E and O and I and U" "And how does it continue?" "Once I've learnt to count real well l'll start adding up as well" "One plus one is always two" "Two plus one is three mind you I can't wait for school and so" "Rucksack on, it's time to go" "Watch me proudly every day" "As I go to school, hoorayl" "On a day like this we are often moved by grandiose thoughts." "All I'll say on this first school day for the children and their young teacher." "their school is in Golzow, a small village in the Oderbruch." "LEARNING IS FUN" "Stand up." "AII of you stand beside your desk." "Everyone look at me." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Sit down." "So, children, this is no Ionger nursery." "You are now at school." "Together, we are going to Iearn..." "For these children this is work." "Serious, disciplined, and often difficult work." "They start by learning the first letter of our alphabet." "The pupil who pays the most attention will be the first Young Pioneer." "Like on the first day of school," "I have a gift cone on my desk." "Which of you have the same one?" "Jürgen and Jochen." "What about you, elke?" "Yes, I have one like that at home." "Who wants to draw a school gift cone on the board?" "Jürgen." "Bernd." "Go ahead and draw a school gift cone." "One of you here, one there." "Who else wants to draw one?" "I don't want to draw one." "EveIin, you go up to the board too." "The rest of you watch carefully to see if they do it right." "Now let's have a look at the drawings." "Which one is the nicest?" "Bernd Oestreich's, the big one." "And now let's all trace a gift cone in the air." "First we make an angled line downwards, and then we draw one upwards and we close it." "Here, I'm going to do it with you." "An angled line down..." "And you all do it with me in the air." "An angled line downwards, and then one upwards." "An angled line downwards, and then one upwards." "Before writing we have to relax our fingers." "You learned how to do that in nursery." "AII eyes to the front." "Ten little jumping jacks" "Jumping to and fro" "Ten little jumping jacks lt's easy, just like so" "Ten little jumping jacks" "Jumping up and down" "Ten little jumping jacks" "Repeat this round and round" "Ten little jumping jacks" "Playing peek-a-boo" "Ten little jumping jacks" "Go hide behind youl" "Yesterday I held the gift cone like this." "I said that we've got the point here and here at the top it is round." "But now I've turned it the other way around." "Now our gift cone is upside down." "I turned it on its head and now my gift cone looks like this." "What else is there on a gift cone that we've forgotten?" "The ribbon." "Yes, very good Jürgen." "So now we want to draw a ribbon on it." "Who knows what that is?" "Jürgen?" "It's an A." "Yes, now we have learned our first letter for the day." "And now let's all say it together nice and loud." "A." "We don't all talk at once." "And now once more all together." "A." "Now very loudly." "A!" "Don't copy." "Tubby?" "Tubby?" "Look over here, I'm drawing a little man." "I went to my grandma's yesterday." "You too?" "No way." "Turn around, Jürgen." "Start at the beginning of the line and not in the middle of the line." "That is their work, struggling to learn the letter A." "25 other letters will follow." "Then their first word, first sentence, and their first numbers." "They all do their duties, have their plans, help one another." "And it won't be all that long until they are standing next to us, citizens of the German Democratic Republic." "WE'RE LEARNING FOR TOMORROW" "One plus two equals three." "You reduce a fraction by taking the numerator and denominator..." "Four over 24 is equal to four over 24 divided by..." "For a right triangle you calculate the relationship using the angle..." "THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE REPORTED ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN GOLZOW" "Copyright © 2010 TITELBILD, berlin subtitles:" "Nathan Fritz et aI."