From: Nancy Gloe <nancygloe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:12:42 -0500

I often turned to *It's back to school we go!: first day stories from around the world* by Ellen Jackson. This is a non-fiction picture book with a world map on the endpapers. I would ask kids to choose a country they wanted to hear about and then would read the double page spread about that child's first day of school. Often kids who have family in another country would choose that country, allowing us to discuss the different traditions (uniforms, no walls to a school, girls and boys with different expectations, lunch routines, etc.) with someone who knows a lot more than the rest of us. And it gave those kids a time to be appreciated.

The other advantage of this book is that you have control of how much time to spend with it. It can fit your schedule so easily. And you can engineer it to include any country the kids will be studying that year.
Received on Thu 08 Sep 2011 04:12:42 PM CDT