J went nuts when he discovered there was a picture of the suspension railway in Wuppertal:
Piggy pedagogy
Showing posts with label German geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German geography. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2015
New Germany coloring book
This came in the mail today:
J went nuts when he discovered there was a picture of the suspension railway in Wuppertal:
J went nuts when he discovered there was a picture of the suspension railway in Wuppertal:
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Media today 99
Reading: Wieso Weshalb Warum, Wir entdecken Deutschland (skipped around); Silvia Englert, Lorenzo Orlandi, Unsere Erde, 16-17 (first plants), 32-35 (volcanos); Milena Baisch, Dorothea Ackroyd, Bildermaus-Geschichten vom kleinen Hasen, 17-24.
Viewing: Let's Play Kung Fu Panda, Episode 3 (24:17) and Episode 4 (22:00).
App: "Alice im Wunderland" by Teknowledge Software/Story Time for Kids. He went to this voluntarily during his ipad time.
Today with the Germany book J learned about the cold war division of Germany for the first time.
Total audio 2015: 17.42
Total video 2015: 32.40
Age 5.5.25
Viewing: Let's Play Kung Fu Panda, Episode 3 (24:17) and Episode 4 (22:00).
App: "Alice im Wunderland" by Teknowledge Software/Story Time for Kids. He went to this voluntarily during his ipad time.
Today with the Germany book J learned about the cold war division of Germany for the first time.
Total audio 2015: 17.42
Total video 2015: 32.40
Age 5.5.25
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
"Der kleine ICE," a game app from German Federal Railway
Speaking of trains, J loves the app "Der kleine ICE" from the Deutsche Bundesbahn and has spent many hours over the last year and a half playing it.
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Basically you build track connecting cities in Germany, then drive your train from city to city picking up passengers and dropping them off. As you accumulate points, your character gets nicer uniform bits and your trains get faster and more elaborate:
For education purposes, a child can learn a lot about basic German geography. Where the big cities are and the names of the rivers:
I personally have not spent a great deal of time with J on such things; he has learned them from the game, and when in some other context he hears the name of a German city, he will often say that he has "gone there in the ICE game."
For L2 purposes, there is a nice clear voice-over speaking the directions and other little commentaries. For the more advanced child the language part is not terribly rich, but it does work the idiomatic German prepositions for travel von ____ nach ____. After he began playing this game, I noticed a measurable decrease in J's propensity to say von ____ zu _____ when speaking of travel.
Basically you build track connecting cities in Germany, then drive your train from city to city picking up passengers and dropping them off. As you accumulate points, your character gets nicer uniform bits and your trains get faster and more elaborate:
For education purposes, a child can learn a lot about basic German geography. Where the big cities are and the names of the rivers:
I personally have not spent a great deal of time with J on such things; he has learned them from the game, and when in some other context he hears the name of a German city, he will often say that he has "gone there in the ICE game."
For L2 purposes, there is a nice clear voice-over speaking the directions and other little commentaries. For the more advanced child the language part is not terribly rich, but it does work the idiomatic German prepositions for travel von ____ nach ____. After he began playing this game, I noticed a measurable decrease in J's propensity to say von ____ zu _____ when speaking of travel.
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