What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World

What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World
Written by: Maya Ajmera
Charlesbridge, 2012
32 pages
Multicultural

 

                Are you looking for a book to show your students all about how different cultures dress? Did you know that the way you dress can symbolize how we worship, where we go to school, or how we represent our heritage? What we wear expresses our individuality.  But the one thing that we all have in common is that we are all unique and beautiful.  Learn about the many different clothing’s around the world by reading What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World.

                The pictures in this story do a great job at capturing the individuality of each child in their traditional dress.  This story is a celebration in bright, beautiful photographs.  What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World inspires young children from all around the world to explore how clothing makes them feel and how it tells about them.  Each student will be encouraged to want to know more about each other’s heritages after reading this book.

                For this story I would have my students have a dress up day.  Each student will be encouraged to go home and ask their parents or grandparents about their heritage and come to school dressed in their heritages traditional clothes.  Then I would have my student write a brief description about their heritage and how it came to be about.  Then I would do a history lesson and allow my students to find their Native Heritage and tell the rest of the class about it, by showing it on a map, pictures, and facts.