Passport India - Heimann (08-09)

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BC: Created by Mrs. Heimann's Class and Mrs. Polis

FC: Passport to Stories Around the World India by Mrs. Heimann's Class

1: Music Class We enjoyed these songs from India "Anilae, Anilae" ("Chipmunk, Chipmunk") "Hasta" Animals with traditional Indian music

2: *There are more than 1000 languages spoken in India.

3: *The Taj Mahal is made of marble, jewels and more than 1000 pounds of gold.

4: *India has over one billion of the six billion people living in the world.

5: *Indian people don't eat meat, they eat vegatables. *They cook with a lot of spices.

6: *India's children always wear uniforms to school. *Each class usually has about 40 to 50 students.

7: *The Kanha National Park forests offer food and shelter to leopards, deer and, most famously, tigers.

8: Books that we used to learn about India

9: The World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia | My First Atlas by Katie John Sharp

10: A-Z India by Justine and Ron Fontes

11: We used the Proquest Culture Grams - Kids Edition database & the Time for Kids website.

13: One Grain of Rice by Demi A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.

14: Here are the pictures we drew to help tell the story.

15: Matthew | Kyle

16: Alex | Charlie

17: Dylan | Ben

18: Ariel | Dan

19: Lara | Alexandra

20: Lianne | Elizabeth

21: Lily | Abigail

22: Sisi | Peter

23: Christopher