Wrapping up Camp Au Pair for Summer 2019, let’s focus on global awareness and share some cultural experiences! Most importantly, share you culture with your host family. Incorporate games, books, songs, language, foods, etc into your host family’s lives. Cooking a dish from your family is a great way to share. Discuss similar traditions and ones unique to your family or culture.
Resource –
Use the Global Awareness website for an amazing collection of resources!
- Learn about various countries
- Listen to a story in English or Spanish (preschool and lower elementary level)
- Learn about opportunities to get involved!
Let’s Create & Learn –
- Mini books from multiple countries!
- Culture through cooking! Around the world in 12 dishes!
- Check out this photo collection of how children play around the world.
Create a bilingual literacy game!- Listen to samples of various languages!
- Learn about Christmas in Australia!
- Have some Diwali fun with playdough!
- Look at the library for books on different cultures!
- Use the internet to help you share language with your host kids!
Check out –
- Tips and activities for raising global citizens!
- See what people around the world eat for breakfast!
- How about using apps to develop foreign language skills?
Photo by {Rona Proudfoot}