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Pinta tu mundo con familia /

Color Your World with Family

Books to Share

• Abuelito Eats with His Fingers by Janice Levy.
• Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman.
• Fernando’s Gift / El regalo de Fernando by Douglas Keister.
• In My Family / En mi familia by Carmen Lomas Garza.
• Juan Bobo Goes to Work by Maria Montes.
• Magda’s Tortillas / Las tortillas de Magda by Becky Chavarría-Cháirez.
• Munia y la Señora Piltronera by Asun Balzola.
• Santiago by Pura Belpré.
• Where Fireflies Dance / Ahí donde bailan las luciérnagas by Lucha Corpi.

Bulletin Board

Color Your World with Family / Pinta tu mundo con familia

Cut out paper frames in assorted colors of construction paper or poster board and invite the children and their families to bring family pictures. Decorate the bulletin board with a multicultural spread.

Name Tags

Copy and cut out the frame and book patterns and give them to the children as they enter storytime.

Refreshments

Enjoy a family breakfast time or snacks! Invite storytime moms to bring breakfast tacos, or serve snacks like chips, salsa, queso, and Mexican five-layer dip.

Here’s the recipe for the dip. The first layer (bottom) is two cups of refried beans. The second layer is four ripe avocados mashed with salt, pepper and lemon juice and spread on top of the refried beans. The third layer is a mixture of one-half cup of mayonnaise, one cup of sour cream, and one packet of taco seasoning spread over the avocados. The fourth layer is a sixteen-ounce package of grated mild cheddar cheese sprinkled on top of the sour cream mixture. The fifth layer is minced onions and finely chopped tomatoes sprinkled on top of the cheese. Chill the dip for about an hour before serving.

Rhymes

Poem

Abuelita’s Lap

(“Abuelita's Lap” from the collection Confetti: Poems for Children. Text copyright © 1996 by Pat Mora. Permission arranged with LEE & LOW BOOKS Inc., New York 10016.)

I know a place where I can sit

and tell about my day,

tell every color that I saw

from green to cactus gray.

I know a place where I can sit

and hear a favorite beat,

her heart and cuentos from the past,

the rhythms honey-sweet.

I know a place where I can sit

and listen to a star,

listen to its silent song

gliding from afar.

I know a place where I can sit

and hear the wind go by,

hearing it spinning round my house,

my whirling lullaby.

Lullabies

Tongue Twisters

Pepe Pecas

Pica papas

Con un pico;

Con un pico

Pica papas

Pepe Pecas

Salas sala su salsa

Con sal de Sales.

Si sales de Sales con sal,

Sala la salsa de Sales.

Game

(Children form a circle during this song. They move like Tía Monica throughout song, and say “Ooh la la!” with each chorus.)

Craft

Family Pictures

Materials

• Tagboard
• Glue
• Pictures
• Ribbon
• Hole punch

Directions

Give each child five pieces of tagboard. Let them glue a family photo or a picture from a magazine to each per page. They then punch holes on the side of the tagboard, string ribbon through the holes, and tie it in a bow.

Audio Recordings

• “Abuelita” on Lullabies of Latin America / Canciones de cuna de latinoamerica by Maria Del Rey.
• “Piñata!” on Piñata and More: Bilingual Songs for Children by Sarah Barchas.

Videos

• My Family, Your Family. (14 minutes)
• Multicultural Peoples of North America. (30 minutes)

Texas Reading Club 2004 Programming Manual / Color Your World...Read!

Published by the Library Development Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission