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 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!
A Sea of Stars -> 25+ languages, boy and girl editions. Download the accompanying activities here and adjust them to your target language .

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for resources and PDFs in Greek!

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 on 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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We write our names on the front side, countries, and places we’ve visited on the backside. On the inside pages, we can use stamps and stickers or draw representative items from the places we’ve visited. We can add as many internal pages (blank A4) as we like.

Language portrait coloring activity

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Draw your language portrait! Using the attached human outline, children choose a number of coloring pencils that equals the number of languages they speak. Then, they are free to decorate their human outline in any way they wish, to symbolize the many languages they speak. Here’s an example from a school visit in Malta.

How to Raise Confident Multicultural Children

Click here to read this guidebook for free and in full!

Happiness Street

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.

Εκπαιδευτικό υλικό – Lesson plan, βιβλίο Μια θάλασσα από αστέρια (boy edition and girl edition). Download it here.