Germany

We left the country of England and landed in Germany last week There's so much to learn of Germany. There are so many cultures to learn in this curriculum. I am thankful that I am also teaching a World Maps class at co-op and we are making a binder of many maps from around the corner that are age appropriate. Evan Moore has wonderful geography programs for elementary students (and probably for older as well, I'm just not there yet).

The Berlin wall, we watched some great You Tube videos, but, explaining to a 8 year old how things were under Hitler was very hard. I am a World War II history buff and I read everything on the 101st Airborne in WWII and can basically recite their entire tour( ok, enough detail on my little obsession) but, those facts are for middle school. For now, we talk basics. I was surprised that she loved learning about why the wall was built and very thankful that "not very nice people who hurt other people for no reason" at times was good enough. Man is brutal with man, but, at 8 she really doesn't need to dive into those details just yet.

Here are the links to a few of the videos we watched......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCPdLlUgvo&feature=related
Peter Jennings on ABC News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanmD3HHv4M&feature=channel
ABC News