Culture Day: Africa!

Culture Day for Hillcrest/LEADS is coming up. Each classroom at Hillcrest/LEADS chose a culture to study and teach about at our Culture Fair next week. We studied the African culture.
We started by immersing ourselves in books and videos about different African countries.

We especially loved reading the Anansi tales...stories about the trickster spider in African tales.

We also read a book about the places, people, animals, and life in Africa.

An eye-opening book was definitely The Water Princess by Susan Verde.

We realized that many people in our world do not have access to water.

Here is the story behind the book.

Here is a read aloud video of the book. 

We look forward to visiting the Culture Fair in the upper resource room next week to learn about other cultures of our world!