{"id":92,"date":"2014-03-25T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-01-05T00:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T00:22:39","slug":"first-grade-social-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/2014\/03\/25\/first-grade-social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"First Grade Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are using children&#8217;s literature to take a virtual tour around the world. <\/p>\n<p>Mexico &#8211;<br \/>\nBravo, Tavo! \/ Brian Meunier<br \/>\nPablo&#8217;s Christmas \/ Hugo C. Martin<\/p>\n<p>Caribbean &#8211;<br \/>\nBy a blazing blue sea \/ S.T. Garne<\/p>\n<p>Yucan &#8211;<br \/>\nBerry Magic \/ Teri Sloat and Betty Huffmon<br \/>\nThe Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale \/ Lydia Dabcovich<br \/>\nWhale Snow \/ Debby Edwardson and Annie Patterson<br \/>\nBuilding an Igloo \/ Ulli Steltzer<\/p>\n<p>South America &#8211;<br \/>\nPeru &#8211; Up and down the Andes : a Peruvian festival tale \/ Laurie Krebs, Aur\u00e9lia Fronty<br \/>\nBrazil &#8211; For the love of soccer! \/ Pel\u00e9<br \/>\nThe rainforest grew all around \/ Susan K. Mitchell<br \/>\nChile &#8211; A pen pal for Max \/ Gloria Rand<\/p>\n<p>Africa &#8211;<br \/>\nSouth Africa &#8211; My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me \/ Maya Angelou and Margaret Courtney-Clarke<br \/>\nKenya &#8211; For You are a Kenyan Child \/ Kelly Cunnane and Ana Juan<br \/>\nMalawi &#8211; Galimoto \/ Karen Lynn Williams and Catherine Stock<br \/>\nMorocco &#8211; The Butter Man \/ Elizabeth Alalou, Ali Alalou, and Julie Essakalli<\/p>\n<p>Asia &#8211;<br \/>\nChina &#8211; Paper Lanterns \/  Stefan Czernecki<br \/>\nVietnam &#8211; Ten mice for Tet! \/ Pegi Deitz Shea and Cynthia Weill<br \/>\nKorea &#8211; Bee-bim bop! \/ Linda Sue Park<br \/>\nPakistan &#8211; Silly Chicken \/ Rukhsana Khan and Yunmee Kyong<br \/>\nJapan &#8211; I live in Tokyo \/ Mari Takabayashi<br \/>\nIndia &#8211; Monsoon afternoon \/ Kashmira Sheth <\/p>\n<p>Russia &#8211;<br \/>\nRechenka\u2019s Eggs \/ Patricia Polacco<\/p>\n<p>Middle East &#8211;<br \/>\nCheesecake for Shavuot \/ Allison Ofanansky<br \/>\nThe Cats on Ben Yehuda Street \/ Ann Redisch Stampler<br \/>\nFirst Rain \/ Charlotte Herman<br \/>\nHosni the dreamer : an Arabian tale \/ Ehud Ben-Ezer <\/p>\n<p>Australia &#8211;<br \/>\nBig Rain Coming \/ Katrina Germein and Bronwyn Bancroft<br \/>\nPossum Magic \/ Mem Fox and Julie Vivas<br \/>\nHome \/ Jeannie Baker<\/p>\n<p>Western Europe &#8211;<br \/>\nThe Cat Who Walked Across France \/ Kate Banks and Georg Hallensleben<br \/>\nThis is London \/ Miroslav Sasek<br \/>\nMarket Day \/ Eve Bunting<\/p>\n<p>Northern Europe &#8211;<br \/>\nThe greatest skating race : a World War II Story from the Netherlands \/ Louise Borden<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Europe &#8211;<br \/>\nHungary &#8211; A Song for Lena \/ Hilary Horder Hippely<\/p>\n<p>Mediterranean &#8211;<br \/>\nGabriella\u2019s Song \/ Candace Fleming and Giselle Potter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are using children&#8217;s literature to take a virtual tour around the world. Mexico &#8211; Bravo, Tavo! \/ Brian Meunier Pablo&#8217;s Christmas \/ Hugo C. Martin Caribbean &#8211; By a blazing blue sea \/ S.T. Garne Yucan &#8211; Berry Magic \/ Teri Sloat and Betty Huffmon The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale \/ Lydia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}