This week Kindergarten and 1st Grade made major moves to a new continent: South America! First stop? BRAZIL!
How Night Came from the Sea is a classic Brazilian folktale, retold by Mary-Joan Gerson and Carla Golembe (the same pair who brought us the Nigerian tale, Why the Sky is Far Away!). It’s a fantastic way to imagine how night came to exist.
We also started talking more about our video project for Ethiopia Reads. One of our first steps before teaching the English alphabet is to learn a bit more about the Amharic alphabet. So this week we began doing the Amharic Word of the Week to see how words are formed using the different symbols.
First word? Hello! (pronounced “seu-lam” in Amharic) Here’s what it looks like if you’d like to practice at home:
