Lesson plans and activities for kids, based on my books
A Sea of Stars, Where am I from?, Cousins Forever, Happiness Street, Nelly’s Box, Summer with Grandpa, Sunny’s Magical Headband
My children’s books A Sea of Stars, Where am I from?, Cousins Forever, Happiness Street, Nelly’s Box, and Summer with Grandpa are available to purchase on all Amazon stores in many bilingual editions, in 50+ languages, including all 24 official EU languages!
Cousins Forever -> 50+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Happiness Street -> 45+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Nelly’s Box -> 35+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Where am I from? -> 35+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language.
Summer with Grandpa -> 35+ languages. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language. And here in Spanish!
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for resources and PDFs in Greek!
A Sea of Stars -> boy and girl editions, 10+ languages right now and 20+ in total by mid-November.
Accompanying activities will be uploaded here soon. In the meantime, you can download two coloring pages.
The books are available in the following languages:
• Afrikaans • Albanian • Arabic • Armenian • Basque • Bosnian • Bulgarian • Catalan • Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dutch • English • Estonian • Filipino / Tagalog • Finnish • French • Galician • Georgian • German • Greek • Hebrew • Hindi • Hungarian • Icelandic • Indonesian • Irish • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Latvian • Lithuanian • Luxembourgish • Macedonian • Malaysian • Maltese • Norwegian • Polish • Portuguese (PT) • Portuguese (BR) • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Slovak • Slovene • Spanish • Swedish • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Vietnamese • Welsh
Read-aloud videos of these stories in many languages, plus “Sunny’s Magical Headband” in English, can be found on PEaCH bilingualfamily.eu YouTube channel here.
Where am I from?
Educator’s guide / Lesson plan in English. Download it here.
Germaine Moran Koskina, PhD, Adjunct Professor and 2-Way Dual Language Bilingual Teacher. Click here for the post and all photos.
“My 2nd grade dual language classroom enjoyed Elisavet Arkolaki’s new book ¿De dónde soy? – Where Am I from?
This is how we read the book: We read each page in both languages to make it comprehensible. I showed it on the screen so the children could read along and notice the cognates. As we were reading, we went to Google maps to find the country mentioned in the page and look at photos of it, and then we looked up the creature mentioned on the page. We traveled around the world and learned about legends and animals close to extinction. We also learned about the art form of graffiti. Great book! I wanted to broaden students’ background knowledge using books and Google. Some may never travel out of our town but will have ‘traveled the world’ in our class and have learned all about it!“
Coloring page: You can click on the image to download it, but you will also find it included in the lesson plan above.
Passport coloring and writing activity
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Language portrait coloring activity
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How to Raise Confident Multicultural Children
Click here to read this guidebook for free and in full!
Happiness Street
I found this PDF online (unfortunately I don’t know who’s the author and what’s the source of the file) featuring three lovely activities (written in English) which are perfectly tied to the theme of this book.
Resources in Greek
Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Οδός Ευτυχίας – Happiness Street. Download it here.
Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Ξαδέρφια για πάντα – Cousins Forever. Download it here.
Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Το κουτί της Νέλλης – Nelly’s Box. Download it here.
Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Καλοκαίρι με τον παππού – Summer with Grandpa. Download it here.