Tag: paris

My Paris Video for The Invention of Hugo Cabret

February 19, 2010 Children's Books, Interwebs, Teaching, Travel , , , , , , ,

I finally showed this 3 minute video to all my 3rd graders this week. Adam filmed this video of me while we were wandering around Montparnasse on New Year’s Eve, and I meant to show it to the kids at the beginning of January. I’ve been reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret with them since Thanksgiving. But then I got sick, then I had to catch up, then we had snow days. So this week I showed it to all of my 3rd grade classes, and it was a big hit. It took 15 minutes to watch the video because we paused it a lot so they could ask questions.

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A New Year’s Video

January 4, 2010 Events and Celebrations, Travel , , , ,

I’ve been sorting through the videos I filmed in Paris. All I can say is, I have missed the speed of our internet here at home. Thirty seconds to upload a video that took 45 minutes at the hotel in Paris. W00t!

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Travelogue: Paris, Day 4 and Happy New Year!

December 31, 2009 Events and Celebrations, Food, Shopping, Teaching, Thoughts, Travel , , , , , , , , ,

Happy New Year! It’s 1:30 am here, but I keep this blogging-every-day thing on EST.

We spent the day at Montparnasse. I shot some little videos at the old and new train station and the cemetary so that my students could see where The Invention of Hugo Cabret takes place. I’m reading it with the 3rd graders from now until…whenever we finish it! Then we wandered around the area, debating whether to get on the very long line for the Catacombs. We did not.

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Travelogue: Paris, Day 3

December 30, 2009 Art, Food, Travel , , , , ,

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Me outside the Louvre.

A short video of what we saw.

But before noodles…

national library france

La Bibliothèque nationale de France. We swung by on our way to noodles. Most of the books are in a new, modern building now. But this is the original.

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Travelogue: Paris, Day 2

December 29, 2009 Art, Food, Thoughts, Travel , , , ,

We had a rough start to the day, but it was still so much fun. It was pouring rain and in the 50s, which was inconvenient since Adam and I had heavy, too-hot winter coats and no umbrellas. Almost all the museums in Paris are closed on Tuesdays, so we tried and failed to go to the Centre Pompidou. Adam’s stepfather thought it would be open, but when we arrived it wasn’t. But it’s an incredibly cool building. I don’t even need to go back to see the inside, the outside was enough for me.

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