Another book in the unique collaboration between UNICEF and DK Publishing, A School Like Mine takes us around the globe and right into the lives of other schoolchildren and peeks into their classrooms.
Wonderful color photos show us the average day of students, what their desks look like, lessons that they may have and once in a while you even get to see what they are eating for lunch! Children also share their education dreams, show us where they play at recess and what types of classes they partake in.
It is also gives us an opportunity to talk to our children about how lucky we are in North America to have access to schools, no matter the arguments of quality or classroom size that seem to plague most discussions. When reading the book one realizes how fortunate we are that not only do we have schools on almost every corner in this nation, but our children do not have to go out and work on a family farm instead of being educated or have Mother Nature intervening by wiping away our schools entirely with a flash flood or tsunami.
Not to mention I personally was transfixed by little Alexei from the Russian Federation, he spends 3 months of the year with his family, then as winter gets closer he travels by helicopter to a boarding school for 9 months. His family are reindeer-herding people of the icy north called Nenets and this is what Alexei has to do in order to receive an education. I won’t complain about the 20 minute drive to my son’s school anymore.
The book is full of stories such as his and I guarantee adults and children alike will be drawn into reading about every single child in the book.
Reading level: ages 7 – 11
Page Count: 80 pages
Publisher: DK Publishing
Publisher’s synopsis: Children from Africa to the Americas explain in their own words what school life is like for them. Find out how some things are just the same as at your school, and how others are very different.
Did you know that in Japan, children have lunch in their classrooms? Or that in Peru children say prayers in the classroom every day?
Meet kids from all over the world, visit their families, friends and teachers, see what school life is like throughout the day in each country and find out what lessons they like (and which ones they don’t!).
For more information on this book and others, you can visit DK Books at http://www.dk.com, and click the flag to choose your country.
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