{"id":8312,"date":"2012-05-03T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2012-05-04T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T05:15:09","slug":"imaginary-trip-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=8312","title":{"rendered":"(Imaginary) Trip to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple months before the end of Tobin’s final year of preschool, i finally got around to something i had on my mind since Mika went to the same school: take the class on an imaginary trip to Germany! I am not sure if the kids still carry “passports” like they used to<\/a>, but Sabine and i teamed up to represent our homeland … big time. We took the class via slideshow across the country, from north to south. The trip started at the waterfront near Bremerhaven. We took a famous sailboat<\/a> to Hamburg, and the ICE<\/a> to Berlin. We went on a short, age appropriate discourse about the Berlin Wall<\/a>, before we continued our travels via Autobahn<\/a> through the countryside. The kids got to see many cities, typical landscapes, local foods and traditional clothing. The last part of our trip was dedicated to famous castles, segueing to Grimm’s fairy tales<\/a> (a well known topic in our audience). All 26 kids stayed focused until the end, and we rewarded them with a silly dance to Germany’s 2011 kid music video sensation “Schnappi<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Below is a movie version of the slide show. It’s lower in resolution than the Powerpoint file and the colors are a little washed out … but this one has a soundtrack<\/a>. During our live presentation, we took turns narrating each section and answered numerous questions.<\/p>\n

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PS: if the airplane in the video looks familiar, it’s because i used a photo of Omi Hiltraud’s birthday travel coupon<\/a> as a base for the school’s colorful plane.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple months before the end of Tobin’s final year of preschool, i finally got around to something i had on my mind since Mika went to the same school: take the class on an imaginary trip to Germany! I am not sure if the kids still carry “passports” like they used to, but Sabine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[11,652,520,515],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t