"It's Back To School We Go!"
By Ellen Jackson
Illustrated by Jan Davey Ellis
Summary
Additional Resources
- First day of school stories from around the world
- Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Peru, Germany, India, Russia, USA
- Composites of real children’s lives & school experiences
- Gives a brief description of children in each country
- Celebrates diverse lives of children from different cultures
- Emphasis on common humanity
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/ForChildren/Its-Back-to-School-We-Go-by-Ellen-Jackson-330227.html
http://www.circletimekids.com/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/
http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/
http://kidworldcitizen.org/category/geography/
- Apps: Geo Walk , Barefoot Atlas Map
Global Trek
http://www.circletimekids.com/songs-and-games/chinese-clap-your-hands-video
Reading the story students will...
- Discuss the diference between their first day of school vs the children in the book first day of school.
- Students will then use World Atlas to learn about the different places these children are from and discuss the difference
- Differentiation: push pin map
Standards
RI.1.3 - Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
HSS.1.1.2 - Students compare and contrast the absolute and relative locations of places and people and describe the physical and/or human characteristics of places.
Foldable
- Information from story about children's first day and about children in the country
- Students pick the countries that most interest them
- Differentiation
- Sentence starters for students to use
- Large enough for all students to access and manipulate
Anticipatory Set
Ice breaker activity
Students answer questions about their first day experiences:
- What is the best thing about the first day of school?
- What did student wear?
- What did student eat?
- How did student get to school?
Nicole Cesar
Justine Feaster
Kaitlin Gebbie
Laura Kuelbs
Kevin Mobley
EDMS 555 Book Project