Mama Where are you from?

(Social Studies Integration)

Objective: After the students read the book Mama Where are you from? students will be able to compare where they are from to where their family is from. 

Standard: 1.1.1 Compare the ways individuals in the community lived in the past with the way they live in the present

Description: The main focus of this board is to build communication between the student and their family. We want the students to describe how they live in the way Mama did  on a cut out that looks like clothes. Then they need to take a postcard home and bring it back filled out with where their parents/ adults are from. When there are several clothes and postcards students will be able to look at the clothes cutouts as a whole and the postcards as a whole and look for similarities and difference between the people of different generations. 

Material:
- Construction Paper 
- Cutouts for the clothes, little house in background, stars, letters and trees
- Coloring pencils, markers pens and pencils for writing and adding detail
- Scissors for cut out clothes and bigger house
- Roll paper for background and big clothes line rod
- Twin for clothesline and hanging the stars
- Clothespins

Exemplary Literature:


Read Aloud Video Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61NI_IEWh1Y

Read Aloud QR Code: