By: Alma Flor Ada
I Love Saturdays y domingos is about a little bilingual girl who spends Saturdays with her english speaking grandparents and Sundays (los domingos) with her Spanish speaking grandparents. Both house holds offer love and caring for the little girl with their traditions and culture. The little girl explains the different things that her and her grandparents do on the weekends when she spends time with them. The story ends with both families coming together to celebrate the little girls seventh birthday.
Genre/Theme
This particular children's picture book has a very appealing cover when looking at it. The illustrations in the book are very well done with bright colors. The pictures could also be independent from the text because through the out the story you can see what is going on with the main character directly through pictures. Each page shows exactly what is going or what the main character is trying to tell the reader.
Discussion Questions
1. Does anyone speak more then one language?
2. Does anyone have any family members who speak more then one language?
3. Would anyone like to learn another language?
4. Do you think it is good that both families came together to celebrate even though they are from different cultures?
Activity
After reading the book "I Love Saturdays y domingos" the children would discuss the book and share as a class their feelings about different cultures. The homework for that night would be paper that goes home for students to have their parents help them name the different ethnicities they are. When the students come back in the next day the students would get a large piece of construction paper in a color of their choice. The child would be assisted to transfer their ethnicities from their homework to the construction paper. The children would then decorate the paper with things that describe them as a person like what they like, things they like to do, things their family does that they think are special. After the children are done creating their posters we would share the posters with the class. This activity would show the students that even though they are all different ethnicities that they still are alike in other ways.
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I noticed that the other recommended books that you chose was Too Many Tamales and that was one of the books that I ended up choosing. There are many benefits to exposing children to the importance of multicultural books. This particular book portrays the differences with her grandparents and on different days she spends with them. A great activity for this book would be to create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the young girls grandparents.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book choice. We are reading this in my kindergarten internship right now. It's a great way to explore culture. And, as I am looking through your blog posts... I love them. Great job. One activity I could think of is to do a compare and contrast, depending on the grade level would depend on the detail of writing and expectations. Even pictures could be used. A Venn Diagram of what things were different and what was similar could be used.
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