Country Studies - Germany

For our week in Germany we learned mostly about:

- Composers
   We spent much of the week listening to Bach & Beethoven (whose biographies we have read in the past) and a little bit of Wagner.  Dale also read a second Bach biography:

- Fairy tales
We particularly enjoyed these storybook versions of Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, with beautiful illustrations!

- World War II
  Dale and I put together from various reference books we have on hand and from the library a very basic history of WWII, including who Adolf Hitler was and just a shadow of what he believed.

- The Berlin Wall
  Dale and I were both especially interested in the Berlin wall.  Its fall has been one of the major world events in my lifetime and I knew so little about it!  We enjoyed researching it more together, including watching a short youtube clip of Ronald Reagan's famous speech. 

Also for Germany week we...

- Discussed landforms, major cities, and the capital.  Also visited our favorite Time for Kids site.

- Found it interesting to discover and/or remember that Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Schumacher are both Germans.

- Did a little bit of reading from this website:
Germany for Kids

 - Celebrated Oktoberfest, complete with food, music, and games!  That event was fun enough to merit its own post you can read here.