Book and Culture Week

This week, DSKI celebrated Book and Culture Week with the Theme:

"Weaving Diversity Through Reading and Culturally Responsive Learning."

Preschoolers enjoy reading during our D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) time.

They enjoyed the stories read to them by the Preschooler parent volunteers.

Darya reading a Russian Book about animals.

Eva reading a Japanese Book about whale sharks.

Oxana reading a Moldovian fairytale about the Snowdrops.

.. and the Preschoolers made their own crafts.

Celebrating our love for books and our own culture from the Perky Preschoolers!

Enjoy the Spring Break!!!

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Unit 4: Where We Are in Place and Time

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