Jenny O'Fee

Making Learning Connections

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Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding

A gallery of multilingual learning samples and ideas to promote, celebrate and explore intercultural understanding.

Celebrating Peace Day with a focus on intercultural understanding & celebrating language diversity.
Who we are – creating a multilingual book involving the students all about our community.
Student voices shared in many languages through the WriteUnite foundation.
Students creating welcome messages for new students to receive.
Creating games celebrating different holidays.
An anchor chart documenting the different languages used in a class group.
Students creating a personal language portrait and sharing these with each other.
Exploring the school community values in all languages used in a class group.
Learning about other cultural celebrations and traditions.
Adding multilingual resources to classroom libraries.
Create community books where students reflect on the languages they use, when, where & with whom.
Create an interactive pinboard of all the places community members feel at home!
Celebrate all languages with inquiries into sayings about ‘home’.
Invite the community to share why our languages are important to us.