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Lighting A Lamp
Every year in the classroom we talk about different festivals and every year I promise myself to increase my selection of simple to understand books to help learn the main events of the festivals.
This is a simple introduction to Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. The story is told in a series of double page spreads, detaining the main events of Diwali. We learn that they hear the story of Prince Ramon fighting the demon- having ... ...did actually find it easier to refer to the demon as a monster.
Children find out about Rangoli patterns and the double page spread shows the children putting the rangoli pattern on their doorstep for good luck. We learn that the little girl makes special coconut sweets to enjoy the sweetness of Diwali and that the whole family goes to the temple to offer sweets and prayers to Rama and Sita. The children drew comparisons with Christmas when they ...
danielalong 02.12.2007 (26.11.2007)
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