 Today, I want to tell you how I would introduce the concept that people from all around the world May seem different, but they're also very very similar and in one way that they're similar is sometimes in a particular Food that they have in common. I want to tell you about a story called Everybody Bakes Bread. In this particular book there's a little girl who's actually from an Italian family living in a large city and It's a rainy Saturday morning and she's Stirred up. She'd much rather be outside playing and she's not happy that she has to stay in So she starts fussing with her brother while her mother's baking bread and her mother gets tired of it So her mother asks her to go Visit some neighbors that they know and ask them if they have a three-handled Rolling pin to help her finish making her bread Well, the little girl doesn't realize there's no such thing as a three-handled rolling pin But she is happy to get out of the house Even if she is just going to the neighbor's house to ask for a favor When she gets to each of the houses along the way she encounters Families from different cultural backgrounds and so Each at each stop along the way in this particular story The family is baking bread, but it's a different type of bread So she gets exposed to the foods of that culture and the kindness of those families It's about relationship building and she gets to sample some of the breads and along the way she tries out some chalas and some pocket bread and some cornbreads and chipotle some coconut bread and By the time she gets home her mother's finished with the bread that she has baked and of course, she's no longer hungry and She realizes along the way as she's asked for this three-handled unrolling pin that there is no such thing and that her mom had tricked her, but she really doesn't care at that point and She learned along the way that the neighbors that she has Are really neat people and that she made some new friends along the way So that's a great foundational starting point in your classroom to talk about differences in families and differences from other cultures an extension of the book and the activities could be to have a bread-tasting Activity in the classroom and talk about how they taste alike or different or sweet or sour what the preferences are you could graph it mathematically You could also then invite the parents from the different cultures in your classroom to bring in some breads that they like to bake and Have each of those students feel honored because they get to bring in something from home that represents their family and tell about it again, this the teaching of social studies or Family perspectives comes from storytelling and so any opportunity you get You allow the child to tell the story of their family Is the educational component of the early childhood experience? There's many different things that you can do to spin off of this, but I think it's a good starting point