As I read This is How We Do It, the wheels in my head began spinning of the ways this book could easily be incorporated into a Social Studies unit of how children around the world do any number of things as compared to how kids in the US do those same things. In fact, I began designing a curriculum based entirely around this book (all in my head but a girl can dream!). The inclusion of photographs of the real children and their real families toward the back of the book made it all even more REAL. If you, like me, are planning to design some stellar Social Studies lessons centered around This is How We Do It, here are the overarching Big Ideas:
- Where I Live
- Who I Live With
- What I Wear to School
- What I Eat for Breakfast
- How I Go To School
- My Teacher
- How We Learn
- How I Spell My Name
- What I Eat for Lunch
- How I Play
- How I Help
- How We Eat Dinner
- What I Do In the Evening
- Where I Sleep
- My Night Sky (spoiler - it’s the same everywhere!)
So many ideas! Our kindergarten teachers, for many many years, did a unit on another country, but found over time that some parts of the unit were based more on cultural traditions but they left students with the idea that that is how those children dress every day and eat ever day and…you get the idea. I find this particular text to be current and fitting, representative of many different cultures and appropriate for children to learn more about their world. If you get a chance, check out This is How We Do It.
Title: This is How We Do It
Author: Matt Lamothe
Published 2017 by Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1-4521-5018-5
This book was sent by the publisher for review purposes.
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