Definitely the most popular thing on my wall is my world map. My students love to look for their home countries.
I also have a huge sign saying "BIENVENIDOS A TODOS" and recently had a brand new student from Honduras join our class. By the time he got to my group, I could tell he was exhausted from a long day at a new school in an unfamiliar language, and I noticed him staring at my welcome wall for a long time. I hope it gave him some comfort to see words in his home language.
I am the ELD teacher and ALP Lead at our elementary school. I did a Donor’s Choose project that funded picture dictionaries for each new ML student as they arrive at our school. The dictionary is theirs to use throughout the school year as a vocabulary reference. At the end of the school year they have the choice to keep the dictionary and take it home, or to donate it to their classroom teacher’s reference library. Looking forward to reading your newsletter!
Marilee, I am so grateful you started this. I can’t wait to use and reference these resources :) a friend of mine who is a nurse started a research project at Intermountain to support multilingual families and cultural sustainment. I’d love to connect to hear your perspective on the issue / resources you might have. Thank you for all you do to support students and inspire educators!
Great list. This was helpful for my school library too. I'm trying to collaborate with the ELD classes this year to get language learners in the library more.
I would include a map of the US and a map of your state with indigenous tribes labeled to mark their land. I love this list!
Great idea to add and label indigenous tribes. Thanks!
Definitely the most popular thing on my wall is my world map. My students love to look for their home countries.
I also have a huge sign saying "BIENVENIDOS A TODOS" and recently had a brand new student from Honduras join our class. By the time he got to my group, I could tell he was exhausted from a long day at a new school in an unfamiliar language, and I noticed him staring at my welcome wall for a long time. I hope it gave him some comfort to see words in his home language.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s such a beautiful story of belonging.
Flags from other countries. Like the sign with welcome in every language, but it would be even better if it were in every alphabet.
Excellent idea. I think students can draw these flags and write in their languages if budgets are tight.
I am the ELD teacher and ALP Lead at our elementary school. I did a Donor’s Choose project that funded picture dictionaries for each new ML student as they arrive at our school. The dictionary is theirs to use throughout the school year as a vocabulary reference. At the end of the school year they have the choice to keep the dictionary and take it home, or to donate it to their classroom teacher’s reference library. Looking forward to reading your newsletter!
Kari Ann Stevens
Olene Walker Elementary
What a fabulous idea! Thanks for sharing and subscribing.
Fantastic list! I would love to see classrooms play music as students come in that is from other regions or native to multilingual learners.
What a wonderful idea! Students could take turns sharing music from their countries and in their home languages.
Marilee, I am so grateful you started this. I can’t wait to use and reference these resources :) a friend of mine who is a nurse started a research project at Intermountain to support multilingual families and cultural sustainment. I’d love to connect to hear your perspective on the issue / resources you might have. Thank you for all you do to support students and inspire educators!
Thank you for your comment. I love that your friend is doing this work in the health field.
Great list. This was helpful for my school library too. I'm trying to collaborate with the ELD classes this year to get language learners in the library more.
Erin--that's a fabulous idea. Feel free to share this link with other content area teachers in your school.