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Our Big Home: An Earth Poem

Language: English

This book reveals a much larger concept of home – the earth, where we all share the same water, air, sun, soil, sky and more. LeVar visits the United Nations and explores ways children can help others both locally and across the world. We meet Craig Kielburger, the teenage founder of Kids Can Free the Children, a global youth group run totally by kids, and follow members of this organization on an extraordinary journey to the poorest section of Nicaragua where they build a school.

Here are activities to do after watching this episode:

My Hero

Talk with your child about who your heroes are and why. Tell them who or what influenced or inspired you to become the person you are today. Ask your child who has inspired them. Make a list of five people they know and how they have made a difference in your community.

 

Become a
Volunteer

Together with your child, find out if there is any way for you to help make your community a better place. This might include visiting nursing homes or an elderly neighbor, providing meals to a homebound person, picking up litter, volunteering at an animal shelter, collecting items for your local food bank, helping raise money for a good cause, or collecting clothes for a local shelter. Teach your child that sharing their time and talents with others is the greatest gift he or she can give.

Check out some of these books on your
next trip to the library:

  • If The World Were A Village: A Book About The World’s People by David J. Smith, illus. by Shelagh Armstrong
  • To Be A Kid by Maya Ajmera & John D. Ivanko
  • The Earth And I by Frank Asch

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