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Picture Books about Immigration and Refugees
Every month, Montessori For All selects an anti-bias, anti-racist book for our teachers to read to their communities. We select one for 3-6 year-olds, one for 1st-3rd graders, and one for 4th-6th graders. If you would like to subscribe to our monthly newsletter to receive links to book guides with discussion questions, vocabulary words, and extension activities to be used in the classroom or at home, you can sign up here. This month, we focused on picture books about immigration and refugees.
Picture Books about Immigration and Refugees: 3-6 year-olds
IslandBorn By Junot Diaz
Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway … Read More
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College Care Packages for the Fall: Brainstorming Ideas
I took the boys to visit my Alma Mater (Stetson University) earlier this year Unexpectedly, I’ve been thinking about college care packages for the fall lately. A friend of mine runs a local public school and told me a really sad story about one of his students. The student’s family is Jehovah Witnesses, and they don’t support higher education. The student had to choose between his family/community and going to college.
He chose college, which means that his family has disowned him. My friend helped him purchase things for college in the North and flew up there with him to get settled. But my heart goes out to … Read More
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Family Gap Year Post #2: The Planning Begins
The Google Sheet has been started Sometimes I fall madly in love with an idea but then wake up the next day with a “What was I thinking?” feeling. I’ll be honest and say there’s a little of that when it comes to the idea of a Family Gap Year. But the more we keep talking about it, the more excited I get.
I’m still trying to figure out whether it would be possible with my work. It will depend on what the priorities are for my role next year and whether those can be accomplished via video conference.
In the meantime, I’m moving forward with planning. If we … Read More