Many preschool educators engage in activities with a multicultural theme that celebrate the customs, practices, and beliefs of other cultures. Gayle Jacobs (3) engages preschoolers in celebrating Hinamatursi Day, the Japanese ôDay of the Dolls,ö in order to ôTeach children that being ...
Diverse cultural representation in texts:When Gabriella is looking for books about the family for her preschoolers, she tries to find ones that include illustrations of people from diverse backgrounds. Multiple viewpoints:Mrs. Abrhams is aware that there are multiple different cultural understandings of...
(n = 91, 52.00%, bilingual reading activities from Age 2, longer hours of bilingual parent–child conversation); Moderate Bilingual Parenting (84, 48.00%, bilingual reading activities after Age 3, shorter hours of bilingual parent–child conversation); and (3) child's age, their preschool ...
The 8 week project entails five weekly readings of five multicultural picture books followed by five art activities, utilizing the first 3 weeks to familiarize the children with the project. The first step in the process involved reading multicultural picture books to the children, followed by ...