JAJ

If the objective is to talk about Britain, then perhaps include Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in scope?

McZaki

Bob

And Golden Syrup, so you're not entirely mean That or a stick of Rock, if you can get some.

Passport, compare it to a US one to pass around?

Wool, get some fleece should be easy enough to get and show some knitted jumper or a lamb roast

Show a episode of Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine, with the English voices, so they know what it sounds like undubbed.

Talk about the difference in mothers day, how it's coming up in just over a week in the UK.

Show some pics of some of the iconic castles? Kids love castles, Windsor, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Warwick etc.

National stadiums, Wembley, Light etc and distances apart being large for the UK but not much for the US.

penguinsix

Football anyone?

I think a bunch of kindergarteners would love to know more about the history of 'soccer'.

Uncle_Bob

I'd love to see their faces when they find out that Sir Topham Hatt is really called the Fat Controller

Hiro11

Geography: England, Scotland, Wales, NI, GB, UK
Union Jack and its symbolism
Castles
Football
Cottages / Cotswolds stuff
Big Ben / Parliament
The Beatles
One Direction
Beefeaters
Toad-in-the-Hole
Harry Potter
America/India/Australia/colonial history
Modern GB / London / The Shard
The Queen

londonbee

I think it's better to focus on the positives rather than the differences. Too much cultural teaching emphasizes the differences between A & B which simply reinforces stereotypes.

I'd recommend you teach them about Jordan (Katie Price), British Dentists, Eastenders, Are You Being Served?, Prince Phillip, Howsyerfather?, Scousers, Pie'n'Mash, Apples n Pears, Benny Hill (which they love) and Jellied Eels.

Leslie

The opposite side of the road driving and steering wheel on the other side situation. That's pretty cool.

McZaki

Sally Redux

Britain's intellectual tradition.

londonbee

Dambusters, morris dancing, fried mars bars and (Saint) Jayde Goodie.

Martin H

When we did an International night at work, we set up an iPad rotating through a set of unusual facts for the UK. You may want to use some of the following:

1) The UK has the second highest number of tornadoes per square mile (after the Netherlands)
2) Latest research suggests that Baseball was invented in England in the 18th century
3) The London Tube was the world’s first underground railway system (1863)
4) In Chester by law you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight
5) The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6) In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes
7) Nowhere in Britain is more than 74½ miles from the sea.
8) The military salute comes from medieval knights raising theirs visors to see each other
9) England is 74 times smaller than the USA
10) London is the largest city in Europe (12 million)
11) The music for the Star Spangled Banner was composed by an Englishman (John Smith)
12) The first modern Olympics were held in a small town in Shropshire, Wales in 1896
13) The first electronic programmable computer was built in the UK in 1943, but was a state secret until 1974
14) British people drink 165 million cups of tea every day (more than 20 times as much per head as the US)
15) In the Houses of Parliament the elevators have hooks for visitors to hang their swords
16) In Britain, motorists drive on the left except for one road, leading to the Savoy Hotel
17) The current London Bridge is the third one – the second was shipped to Arizona in 1968

Martin

taffie77

Take them some Pickled Onion Monster Munch

MsElui

when we did this at our school they were fascinated with the coins/notes we had and the english monopoly set.

we also has a toy (matchbox) double decker bus and a taxi cab and a police car - but you could use pictures if you dont have those handy.

They also wanted to know about the food - ie fish and chips, roast beef etc.

strim

I did a presentation on UK for my 6 year olds class which was a lot of fun

I started with a map...where is UK, how far it is from USA
The union jack flag and how it builds up
royal family, kings and queens, castles
things that are different to NY -- taxis, buses, phone boxes
the word game--- i gave a word e.g. football, sweets, pavement and they guessed the american equivalent. -- this was the most fun
Currency. i brought in some english money which they enjoyed
and i did food -- toad in the hole, fish and chips

i put lots of pictures in powerpoint and printed out a mini deck so they could see what all these things were and left them all with a packet of smarties so they could try english sweets!