My preschool keeps “daycare” hours because it’s a Reggio-inspired school…this means school in the summer…it’s fun though, because each week is themed out like summer camp.
This week is ‘Globetrotters’ and the country we’ve chosen is the UK.
The Anglophile in me is squealing and clapping like a little girl!
This morning discussed why Great Britain has so many names and that the flag is called the Union Jack. We looked at photos of Her Majesty, Big Ben, and of course, the iconic red double decker buses.
I’m teaching them a bit of British slang, (Only age appropriate things like. ‘loo and ‘telly’.) and introducing them to a musical genre called Punk. (Though not enough to have to explain anarchy…)
I’m wearing my Union Jack Chucks all week!
At our ‘Parade of Nations’ on Friday, my friends will be “riding” in the double decker bus they’ll make this week.
Some days I know my co-teacher and I have more fun than our students…this week will be five of those days! Though, one of our little friends, in a fairly decent English accent said: Excuse me sir, could I please use the loo?
(I’m already “chuffed”!)
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You have just got to show the children ‘Mary Poppins.’ I have been an Englishman for more years than I care to remember, and that movie still says something to the England in me. Kudos.
If you want to know about the real England, just ask me.
I absolutely adore that movie! Hmm…we might be able to watch at least some of it this week.
Thanks for the offer…I’ll make a list of questions for you!
See what they did today: