Thank you to those who responded, and thank you to those who offered to fax me the
Library Sparks Aug./Sept. issue. Another LM_NET user offered to send me copies and
I accepted. (Thank you!)
Here is the HIT.
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Original request: I'd like to get names of books and activities that I can
do for Hispanic Heritage Month and also for the 16th of September
(Mexico's Independence Day). This would be stories and activities that
would suit elementary students from Pre-K to 5th grade. I appreciate your
help! Gracias a todos! (Thank you to all!)
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Here is the link to Hispanic Heritage Month at Librarians' Index to the
Internet
http://lii.org/search?m=p&query=hispanic+heritage&Search=SEARCH+LII.ORG&sear
chtype=keywords
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Try checking the ALA site for the list of Belpre award winners:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=68824
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I would suggest books by the following authors:
Alma Flor Ada
Matthew Gollub
Lucha Corpi
Francisco Alarcon
Pat Mora
Gary Soto
Carmen Garza Lomas
Unfortunately, I cannot get my computer to create a sendable file with
titles and so authors will have to suffice. My display will include
folklore, picture books, chapter books, country books, bilingual books,
biographies. I try to emphasize books by Hispanic authors when
possible
(thus the list I have created is mainly that with the exception of
Gollub who is bilingual and whose illustrator for his folklore tales is
Leovigildo Martinez).
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You might also want to check out scholastic.com. They usually cover
highlighted months such as these, providing resources to use.
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For one 3rd grade week, I taught students the men's part of the Mexican
Hat Dance (very easy), we made liquados (essentially fruit smoothies
Mexican style), and we did modified Mexican yarn art (instructions found
on the internet--also very easy). Another teacher had them make
pinatas with papier mache on balloons.
I have no suggestions for stories, though.
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One of the bluebonnets is a picture book about Cesar Chavez, you could
read that with the children, have them name their own heros or talk
about challenges Hispanics have faced in this country.
Another bluebonnet is The Pot That Juan Built--you could read that and
do an art project with the kids--have them make their own pottery
trying
some of his methods
We have several big books that deal with Hispanic family life--Mi
Familia/My Family is one example.
You could read Too Many Tamales and then everyone could make a Tamale
(if your cafeteria would be willing to cook them for you).
You could read El Cucey(sp?)/ The Bogeyman, or Adelita and
compare/contrast them to other ethnic fairytales.
You could have students each find a recipe from their cultural heritage
and make class cookbooks (multicultural)
You could try to get the students to name as many famous Hispanics as
they can and then have your own list
Feature a Hispanic Author each week--Pat Mora, Amada Perez, etc.
You could introduce the Pura Belpre award and use that somehow--this
months reading list, or something like that...
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I'm sorry you haven't
received
many responses to your request but very few people actually celebrate
Mexico's Independence Day besides people in El Paso. I have personally
never heard of anyone celebrating it except for El Paso. It is another
country's holiday - we don't celebrate any other country's independence
day and I'm quite sure Mexico doesn't celebrate the 4th of July! We
have
a huge Sudanese population here as well as Mexican, Central American,
Hmong, etc. We respect their cultures and do encourage studies of
other
cultures but we do not celebrate holidays from those respective
countries.
I would think that at least some places do promote Hispanic Heritage
Month although it's not widely known about since it actually covers
part
of Sept. and part of Oct. Some of our schools in south Omaha are
90-95%
Hispanic and I'm pretty sure they have activities for Hispanic Heritage
Month so, if I hear of anything they are doing, I will pass them on to
you. Maybe you could try to find a good Hispanic author/poet to come
in
and speak to the kids (Pat Mora grew up in El Paso but I don't know how
much she charges for author visits). I once had Estella Casas come in
and
talk to my class about their heritage when I lived in El Paso and she
was
SO good with the kids. Good luck!
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Have you tried searching many of
the
teacher lesson plan sites on the Internet for activities? Does your
state
have a union catalog that you could use to search for books? Do you
subscribe, or can you go to a university or other library and access
professional journals such as School Library Journal or LMC magazine?
If you
can afford it, I would recommend a subscription to Library Sparks. As
far as
I am concerned, it has the best ideas specifically for library classes.
The
Mailbox series of magazines are also another excellent source. Have you
checked the archives? Lots of good info there, even if it is not
exactly
what you are looking for you can sometimes tweak them to suit your
situation.
When we are pressed for time it is easier to post requests for lesson
plans
on the list, but when you don't get responses you need to have other
avenues
to select from. Sorry that I can't help with this particular request as
we
do not observe Hispanic Heritage Month or Mexico's Independence Day at
my
school.
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I read Radioman which is a bilingual book. I talked about why we have
bilingual books in the library, where they are located. I even had one
of my Spanish speaking students help me with the Spanish words that
were included in the English text. Maybe you could try a bilingual
book?
Also try this link to a Mexico Independence Day lesson plan for grades
3-5. You can adapt it to fit your needs.
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/
mid.html
Try this one with several lesson plan ideas on Mexico
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/K12west.html#MEXICO
Try this lesson plan for the Kindergarten crowd. It has fun stuff like
counting in Spanish, Festival AMask, Children of the World,
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/academy/k1mexico.htm
Try this one for El Grito which is the Independence Day name.
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/academy/k1mexico.htm#activity5
Adapting any of these to meet your needs should make your lesson a
success!! Good luck!
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Hi, I love to use Pat Mora's books, The Rainbow Tulip and Tomas and the
Library lady, and a beautiful book called Amelia's Road ( I'm home and
can't
remember the author).
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Go to www.librarysparks.com and poke around. Look at Web Resources and Curriculum
Connections.
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One thing that comes to mind would be daily P.A. announcements during the month (or
at least the week of Sep. 16th) where you teach the whole school a Spanish word or
phrase that has something to do with heritage. (I studied German for 5 years so I
don't have any *precise* words for you, but they should be battle cries, or last
words of a Mexican hero, or Spanish words for "hero," "culture," "tradition," etc.).
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The August/September Library Sparks magazine featured Hispanic Heritage
Month activities. It is a good magazine if you can get your hands on
it. Not
cheap though.
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Cindy Lund Moreno, Elementary Librarian
Loretto Academy Elementary
El Paso, Texas
cindy55twu@yahoo.com
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