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Picture Books about Peace/Justice/Empathy
Every month, Montessori For All selects an anti-bias, anti-racist book for our teachers to read to their communities. First we select one for 3-6 year-olds, then one for 1st-3rd graders, and finally 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. I forgot to share our books from September. In September we focused on picture books about peace/justice/empathy.
Picture Books about Peace, Justice, and Empathy: 3-6 year-olds
Peace Book By Todd Parr
Peace is making … Read More
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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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Our Children Are Watching
“Our kids are going to ask us, ‘When you had the chance to do something in 2018 when they were talking about walls and Muslim bans and the press is the enemy of the people, what did you guys do?’ And we’re going to tell them that we and the 28 million of Texas helped this country get back on track and in the right direction.” -Beto O’Rourke
It feels so, so good to have concrete actions within my control to help undo the madness Trump has caused to descend upon our country. The Beto campaign makes it really easy to volunteer. This past Friday we hosted a debate watch… Read More
