Teaching Holidays Around the World, Plus Tips for Using Google Earth with Young Children
Do you teach Holidays Around the World? Here is an EASY way to teach it, and combined with the wonderful tool of Google Earth, your kids will LOVE it! My kids really did! There’s no prep, and you won’t need to go to the library or book store to try to find ten different books on ten different holiday traditions. (Those books are almost ALWAYS way too long for the children to sit through anyway!) Sound good? Keep reading! Many years ago when I was a brand new teacher, one of the teachers I worked with gave a folder with some Christmas Around the World coloring pages. There was one coloring sheet for each of six or seven different countries, and they featured a Christmas holiday tradition on each one. She told me that one of the teachers at our school had drawn these pictures for the children to color, and that what I was supposed to do was to talk to the children about each country’s holiday traditions and show them the pi...