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"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
  • Book Quiz

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/ForChildren/Its-Back-to-School-We-Go-by-Ellen-Jackson-330227.html

  • Circle Time Kids

http://www.circletimekids.com/

  • Global Trek activity

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/

  • Recipes

http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/

  • Kid World Citizen

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

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