Class Presentation

Amelie wanted to bring our big red leather-bound book of beautiful color photographs from throughout China to school recently. I said we'd need to check with her teacher first and suggested we both do a presentation about China and showing the pictures from the book. Amelie was very excited about this idea and even more excited when we got approval from her teacher.

We focused the presentation on the cities we'll be seeing on our trip. We started off by showing the globe and having the kids point out Florida and China so they could see that China was on the other side of the world from where we are now.

We showed Beijing on the map of China and asked if anyone knew of anything really big in China. One of the kids yelled out the Great Wall, so we showed pictures of the Great Wall and mentioned the fact that Amelie would get to be there. We talked about the Forbidden City and how, a long time ago, there could be a child actually ruling China. The kids got a kick of of this!

We then showed Sichuan on the map and pictures of the Sichuan countryside and the pandas.

We talked about Hunan and how it was known for it's great artwork with silk. We talked about silk worms (at which the kids yelled "Ewww!"). We then showed pictures of the process of how the cocoons are taken to the factories and made into silk.

Amelie had a great time and did a great job presenting by walking the pictures around the circle so everyone could see what we were talking about. The kids were very interested and asked a lot of questions and made some observations (some were even on topic!).