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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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Best Book for the First Day of School: All Are Welcome
I wrote this post before the United States was besieged with two mass shootings in one weekend, one of which was clearly motivated by hate. I’m honestly at a loss for words. Words feel so empty as this point.
The first day of school is upon us today! First of all, we live in the South where back to school comes earlier. Second, my children go to a school that starts three weeks earlier so that we get more breaks throughout the year. We get a week in October, a week for Thanksgiving, two weeks for winter, and two weeks for Spring Break. As we prepare to head back into … Read More
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Picture Books About Social Justice
My new system of keeping a special container of books right by my bed is working! It has helped me fit in more books about gender identity and expression with my children. I decided it was time to add additional picture books about social justice.
Here’s what’s in our rotation from the library right now:
Social Justice Picture Books
- ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A. A bilingual fictional story set against the backdrop of the successful janitors’ strike in Los Angeles in 2000. It tells about Carlitos, whose mother is a janitor. Every night, he sleeps while his mother cleans in one of the skyscrapers in