Adventures at the Caribbean Museum | Virtual Field Trip | KidVision Pre-K

The Caribbean is a group of islands and nearby coasts in the Caribbean Sea. It's known for its warm weather, beautiful beaches, and different cultures. The Caribbean is home to more than 26 countries and territories, each with its own unique traditions, languages, and foods. Hi KidVision kids, it's me, Miss Penny, and today we are at the Island Space Museum to find out about the Caribbean! So exciting! Let's go! I would love to take you guys on a tour of the museum, but we'll start here where you can see like our wall, our introductory wall, where you can see a little bit of information about many of the countries in the Caribbean region. Do they speak different languages in each country? So in the Caribbean, you can find English, Spanish, French, and Dutch languages spoken. So each island or each country has a different language. So you may have learned this at school, that there are indigenous people when the Europeans came to North America. Indigenous means people that were there at the very beginning. Those are the original people that lived there before, you know, other cultures made their way around the world. And these are some of the items that we have been donated that represent those groups of people. After we explored the museum, it was time to taste some Caribbean food with Chef Tia. Hello! Hi! I'm Miss Penny and these are the KidVision kids and we are so interested in the food of the Caribbean. Can you tell us what we're going to make today? Oh yes, oh I can't wait to tell you. Do you know breadfruit? You don't know breadfruit? Show me breadfruit. Which one is the breadfruit? Oh yes, that's the breadfruit. So today I'm going to show you breadfruit. Breadfruit is a tropical fruit with a texture like a potato. It can be baked, boiled, or fried. I'm going to show you inside, okay? All this, you can't eat that raw. You have to cook it. So here you go past it. So you see the smell is really stronger. So for me, I think why they call it breadfruit is because when you cook it, actually it tastes like bread. But this is how it looks like before you cook it. So I'm going to do this so you guys can try the breadfruit air fried. And in Haiti, we eat this with spicy coleslaw. So I'm not going to make the coleslaw, but I'm showing you what we usually eat it with. But because you guys are so special, I'm going to do like a sauce for you, okay? Chef Tia made a delicious sauce from ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, lime juice, and salt. We dipped our breadfruit in the sauce and it was delicious. Papaya. You ready for the papaya? Yes. Watch how she's cutting it. She's cutting it long ways. That's your papaya. So many seeds. Wow. Yes. And it tastes good too. We really enjoyed the food of the Caribbean. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you so much. You everyone want to say thank you? Thank you, Chef Tia. Thank you, kids. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Music is also an important part of life in the Caribbean. My friend Willie showed us some instruments. Put your hands in the air. Go like this. Go round, go round. So here we go. One, two, three, here we go. One. Excellent. One of our KidVision kids complained about the kids being too loud. Could he play with you? Oh, yes, man. Come. Great. He's going to... I'm looking at it now in the next 10 years. He'll be playing fantastic. And he has it naturally. So you put... When you sit down, you put... Excuse me. Yes. Very good. Put it between the light. The light. And go ahead. You start and I join. Go ahead. One, two, three, four. Excellent. Yay! Excellent. Wow. Good job. Great job. Let's talk about this instrument. Oh, yes. This is... I'm not a perfectionist on this instrument, but this is from China. The steel pan is over 90 years old and they make it from barrels, you know, oil drums. And they tune it. They cut it and they tune it and it can sound... I'm not a player, but I can hear it. And so the different tones in Trinidad you have many bands, steel band that play and they make it sound like symphony orchestra. Festivals too are a big part of life in the Caribbean. They bring people together to play instruments, dance, sing, wear colorful costumes and celebrate their history and culture. Hi Ms. Stephanie, what are we going to be doing here today? So today we're going to be making headbands based on Bahamian Junkanoo, one of the celebrations celebrated in the Bahamas on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas. Oh, so what do they do at Junkanoo? So at Junkanoo they wear a lot of these kind of very intricate, colorful costumes including headbands. I have an example of a Bahamian Junkanoo headpiece here that we are going to be basing our headpieces off of. This is made just paper, colorful paper. If you want to start off with your favorite color, put everything on there, you can do that. We have some crayons, some regular beads, different sizes to make it more fun and exciting. So we have some big ones here, we have some small ones and of course of all different colors. We have some feathers and some flute straws. A lot of the costumes are not purchased. Most of them are handcrafted and handmade of different materials. So these are actually not materials that would be too far off from some of the materials that could be incorporated into Bahamian Junkanoo costumes. Then it was time for our own Junkanoo parade. Thank you so much. We learned so much about the Caribbean today. It was awesome. Did you have a good time? Yes. Let's say goodbye. Bye.