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| Time for Kids Website - Go Places |
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| We are using the Internet to compare countries with the United States |
| Passport |
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| Collect country stamps |
Select "Go Places" and begin your journey.
Dream a Dream.....
Project
| We participated in the Dream a Dream project |
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| every year. Children from all over the world can share their dreams and tell about their lives. |
Click on the Dream a Dream logo
to visit that web site:
Click here to read more about this wonderful partnership and other projects like it.
Students in Ms. Eason's class participated in Epals
every year. They wrote ePal partners and learned about their lives.
Here are some of the partner schools throughout the years:
| Sangram School |
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| India |
| Sangram School |
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| Bhilwara, Rajasthan - India |
| Curacoa |
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| Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean |
Also students in: Taiwan
-Republic of China(Asia), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Quito, Equator; Kelatan, Mayalsia; Pitesti,
Romania; and Hungary.
Folktales and Myths
from Around the World
Every year we spent time reading and comparing folktales and myths from around
the world.
We entered our favorite stories
into a blog that our class created and students from around the world also told us their favorite Legends, Myths,
and Folk Tales.
Japan
| Click on picture of web page to learn more about |
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| JAPAN |
Author Study:
Yoshiko Uchida
The first story each year was
always from the country of Japan and was translated from Japanese to English by a Japanese-American author. We will learn
about her life as a child (born and raised in America) and how she became a prisoner in an American concentration camp after
Pearl Harbor.
Tolerance was our first vocabulary word of the
school year - in Ms. Eason class.
| Yoshiko Uchida - Japanese American |
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| She translated many Japanese Folktales into beautiful books in English - so that we could enjoy them |
Here are some quotes from this wonderful author of books
for students our age:
" I want the children to perceive me not as
a foreigner but as a human being. I celebrate our common humanity, for I feel we must never lose our sense of connection with
the human race....".
" All of us must understand our own past in order to move
ahead into the future."
"I feel children need the sense of continuity that comes
through knowing about the past."
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