Multicultural Family Pack Giveaway

Oh, this is one of my favorite giveaways on MommyMaestra this year. It's for all of us who are raising world citizens (everyone, I hope!), including teachers who are nurturing a classroom full of knowledge, understanding, and inclusion.

Whoever wins this giant Multicultural Family Pack is going to be so happy!

Thank you to all the fabulous ladies who have contributed to this giveaway. Take time to visit their blogs - you probably already known them. If not, here are some links:

• For the Love of Spanish
• Kid World Citizen
• Discovering the World Through My Son's Eyes
• Spanish Playground
• Multicultural Kid Blogs

Here's what it includes:

Barefoot Books Children of the World

Discover the must-have book for all children! Barefoot Books Children of the World depicts kids of a wide range of shapes, sizes, races, abilities and lifestyles from countries and cultures all over the world. From enjoying special days to trying on silly hats, this ground-breaking picture book celebrates the big ideas and everyday moments that all children share.

Alphabet Art Flash Cards for Toddlers, Children of the World

by eeBoo

Printed on thick, high-quality cardstock, eeBoo’s Art Cards feature the artwork of acclaimed children’s book illustrators. Incredibly versatile, eeBoo’s Art Cards can hang on your wall or serve in a call and response flash-card activity, making them perfect for both play and display. Each set includes 26 7” x 9” cards to spark conversation and inspire alphabet memorization.

Cities of the World Memory Game

Sharpen your memory skills, discover some of the world's greatest buildings and boost global literacy! Match the pairs of landmarks and learn the city and country where the landmark can be found. Features gorgeous hand-painted illustrations by World Atlas artist David Dean.

Passport Booklet & Stamps Growing Bundle: Around the World Unit, Geography Fair

These passport stamps and passport booklet are absolutely amazing!!! Perfect for an around the world unit, introduction to country studies, a Geography Fair, International Night, Social Studies Units, "Read Around the World" Passports, or Christmas Around the World (or Holidays Around the World).

The passport booklet is authentic, appropriate for students in any country ("Citizen of the World") with a realistic, trilingual identification page to allow students to personalize their passport. On the "visa" pages, we have inspirational quotes from around the world about diversity, kindness, friendship, and making the world a better place.

My Multicultural Heritage Journal

by Monica Olivera

My Multicultural Heritage Journal is an opportunity for children to explore and record their own multicultural family heritage and history. Inside this journal are pages that allow kids to draw their own family tree, record and describe where in the world their family is from, paste photographs or draw images of family members, and record their favorite memories or stories. Cultural images from around the globe are scattered throughout the book. And there is even a section for writing down family recipes. This journal is meant to be a keepsake that kids can share with other family members and treasure for a long time.

Poets Around the World Activity Pack

Designed for children ages 8 – 12. This 95-page, no-prep packet includes one-page reading passages featuring 18 international poets. In addition, there is a reading comprehension quiz for each reading passage, as well as comprehension worksheets, poetry activities, and a recommended reading list for further research.

Spanish Classroom Packet

Perfect for teachers and homeschoolers alike, this packet includes a Spanish alphabet "foam puzzle", a Spanish word search book, and Spanish "center/station" signs.

The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations: 

Holiday Poems for the Whole Year in English and Spanish

by Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong

NEW and BILINGUAL! 

(This giveaway is for the STUDENT Edition of this book. A separate Teacher/Librarian Edition of this book is also available.)

Celebrate all year long with 156 poems in English and SPANISH... ideal for preK - grade 6. 

This latest book in The Poetry Friday Anthology series offers 12 poems per month plus 12 poems with the theme of “Birthdays and Baby Days.” Choose your favorite celebrations for each month!

Listening Activities and Speech Bubble Photos

Buena Gente is a video series for Spanish language learners. It is available free on YouTube. These activities accompany it.

Hispanic Culture Lesson: The Story of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo & Activity

This amazing Frida Kahlo lesson includes an authentic biography in English plus comprehension questions, a unique guided self-portrait lesson, and a beautiful coloring sheet of one of her most famous paintings.

The self-portrait activity leads the students through all of the symbolism in Frida's paintings, discussing emotions, settings, and why she has chosen certain objects. Students dive deep into her artwork and attempt to create a self-portrait that tells their own story. When they are finished, the class set of self-portraits are absolutely stunning on a bulletin board!

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Latino Americans by Ray Suarez in English & Spanish

In my last post, I shared with you the wonderful resources from PBS Learning Media centered around their remarkable documentary series: Latino Americans. But did you know that Ray Suarez wrote a book to accompany the series?

I happen to have a few copies of both the English and Spanish versions in my shop. If you are thinking about incorporating a Hispanic Studies course into your classroom or homeschool, I would highly recommend using this book as the spine and using the PBS Learning Media materials and PBS.org to supplement the reading.

PBS.org has dedicated an entire section on its website where you can watch episodes of the three-part, six-hour documentary series, and find additional materials related to the show. What's even better is that it is available in English AND Spanish.

You can even become a part of the LATINO AMERICANS project with "Mi Historia" and make a video describing what being Latino means to you.

Between these three resources - the books shown above, PBS Learning Media, and the Latino Americans website - you would have a meaty core for your Hispanic Studies course.

Those of you who are homeschooling highschoolers and who are looking for materials in English or Spanish, this is a definite gem!

So slip on over to my shop and get copies of these books while they last. I have them new in my shop for $15, but you can also find them used on Amazon here and here (aff links).

Enjoy!

Latino American Resources from PBS Learning Media

I share a lot of resources on MommyMaestra for elementary students, but this week I'm going to focus on older children. And I'm starting off with one of the online education portals that you may already be familiar with: PBS Learning Media.

A few years ago, PBS ran a special documentary series: Latino Americans. You may have watched it. If not, it is an EXCELLENT media resource for your Latino Studies lessons at home or classroom. You can find it here. (aff link)

(There's an awesome book written by Ray Suarez to accompany the series, but more about that in my next post.)

A snippet of a larger lesson plan about Latinos at the Ballot Box on PBS Learning Media

PBS Learning Media also has a fair collection of themed multimedia lesson plans for students in 4th through 12th grade to accompany the documentary. But before you ask, many of the lessons can be used independently. I love that the lesson plans include so many primary texts and well-researched historical sources, as well as downloadable materials for student use. The activities require critical thinking about each subject, some of which include:

• Who Are Latinos?
• Identity, Immigration and Economics: Involuntary Deportations of the 1930s
• Digging at the Roots of Your Family Tree
• Stereotypes vs. Statistics (grades 4 - 8) AND/OR (grades 9 - 12)
• Latinos at the Ballot Box
• Stories of Arrival
• What's In a Name?
• Students Rising
• Organizing the Farm Worker Movement
• Extranjeros & Expansion
• Puerto Rican Perspectives
• Cuban Exodus
• Journey from Mexico
• The Mexican-American War
• Spanish-American War

And there are quite a few biographies, too.

These are quality materials that should not be overlooked by teachers and parents. If you are teaching a multicultural studies class to your children or students, this is a must-have.

Those of you who must contend with Common Core and state standards, each lesson plan also has a list of the standards that are met.

TEACHER BONUS: All of these lessons are Google Classroom friendly and may be assigned directly from the lesson plans.

To take a look at all of the lesson plans they have available on this subject, click here.