Being Home is a contemporary story of a young Cherokee girl making the move from her current house in the city back to her ancestorial lands. Life in the city is chaotic and lacks the rhythm, family and natural surroundings of “home.” The young girl is ready to return home to the land of her people and Native culture. When moving day comes, the girl joyfully tells her old home good-bye and draws out her journey to her new home where she is greeted by relatives eager to help the family settle. When the move is done, the family gathers for a feast, the children play and explore their natural surroundings and the girl comes to “love the rhythm of being home.” Continue reading
Deonna Tourtellot
Young Children Playing Their Way into Understanding the World
Join us to consider ways of creating global understandings with young children. This free workshop, sponsored by TREC and WOW, will be in-person in the Worlds of Words Center. Register on the TREC website.
Explore the ways in which young children can interact with global books through play to feel connected with global cultures and to develop open-minded perspectives about new ideas. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with new global books and examine what kinds of global books are appropriate for young children. We will also explore invitations for play that can be integrated into centers in the classroom.
Participants will receive book lists and a handout of play invitations as well as new global picturebooks to take back to their early childhood classrooms.
The workshop will be led by Kathy Short, Loren Reyes and Deonna Tourtellot.
For questions, please contact Tucson Regional Educator Collaborative.
Contact Name: Jen Kinser-Traut
Phone No: (520) 621-7511
Email Address: trecarizona@email.arizona.edu