Diversity Bookbags: Grade 2
Materials List & Family Activities
Books:
- How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin
- The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
- Russ and the Almost Perfect Day by Janet Elizabeth
Rickert
Audio: Cassette Tape & Book: Bein With You
This Way by Lisa W. Nikola
- Other Materials:
- Photo Album & Index cards
- Blank tapes (tape recorder may be borrowed from the
library)
- 12 Red Game Pieces & 12 White Game Pieces
- Game Board
- Journal
- Feedback Form
Recipes: Families may add a recipe to the ring.
- Tiba Yoka/Baked Bananas (Africa)
- Sweet Red Pepper Soup
Game: Alquerque (Spain)
Suggested Activities for families (over):
The Other Side
Think and talk about these questions with your family:
- Do you think this story could happen in your town?
- Why do you think Clovers mother told her not to climb
over the fence?
- Pretend you are one of the characters in this story.
Who would you be and how do you think you would feel? Talk about
this with someone at home.
Russ and the Almost Perfect
Day
Think and talk about these questions with your family:
- Would you have made the same choice that Russ did?
- Think of a time when you had to make a tough decision in your
life. What was it like?
- Draw a picture and/or write a story about your almost
perfect day.
How My Family Lives in
America
- Ask your family about your own personal family
traditions.
- Try one of the recipes in the back of the book.
- Add a picture, or drawing, of your family to the family
album included in the bookbag. Use an index card to make a
caption for the picture and include that on your page as
well.
Bein with You this Way
(audio)
- Try reading the book as a rap.
- If you have a tape recorder and blank tape at home,
record your voice as you recite the rap. Then do it with a
family member! (You may borrow a tape recorder from the library if
you would like.)
Hastings & Estabrook Elementary Schools,
Lexington, Massachusetts
Supported by the Lexington Education Foundation