Diversity Bookbags :Third Grade
Materials List & Family Activities
Books:
- Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff
- I Love Saturdays y domingos by Alma Flor Ada
- Ians Walk: a Story about Autism by Laurie
Lears
- Jin Woo by Eve Bunting
Audio: Where I Come From: Songs and Poems from Many
Cultures
(Talking Stone Press)
Materials:
- Game Board
- 9 White Game Pieces & 9 Blue Game Pieces
- Journal
- Feedback Form
Recipe: Families may add a recipe to the ring.
- Arroz a la Mexicana (Mexico)
- Apple Charlotte Dessert (Russia)
Game: Nine Mans Morris (Egypt)
- Suggested Activities for Families:
I Love Saturdays y
Domingos
- Talk about your own family traditions. Do you have a favorite
day of the week that you spend with family members?
- What Spanish words did you recognize or learn in the story?
Make a list.
- What is the same and what is different about the time spent
with each set of grandparents in the story?
Jin Woo
- Pretend you are David and write a letter back to Jin Woo. What
would you tell him?
Black is Brown is Tan
- Black is Brown in Tan is a poem about a family and how they
are alike and different. Write a poem about your family and
how the members of your family are alike and different.
Where I Come From: Songs and Poems from Many
Cultures (audio)
- Pick your favorite song or poem to share with your
class.
Hastings & Estabrook Elementary Schools,
Lexington, Massachusetts
Supported by the Lexington Education Foundation