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Classroom Activity: We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

Four Seasons of Celebrations!

by Alexie Basil, Hisami Aoki, and Alana Pedalino, in collaboration with Adrienne Smith of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

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Download this free four-seasons drawing activity sheet, created in collaboration with Adrienne Smith of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, to encourage your students to celebrate their family traditions—just like Traci Sorell does in We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga.

What meaningful celebrations do you and your students participate in during each of the four seasons?

Adrienne Smith—manager of the imagiNATIONS Activity Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and a citizen of the Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) Nations—helped put together this fun and simple drawing activity inspired by We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga.

To try it in your own classroom, download the free printable worksheet below.

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Teacher Tip

Interested in drawing a closer connection to the book? Review the Cherokee pronunciations of elements from the book in the chart below. Encourage your students to include some of these elements in their drawings of the seasons.

Grateful-class-activity-CUFAB3 All pronunciations and spellings are courtesy of Adrienne Smith.

For more resources on the Cherokee language, check out the Native History Association and Cherokee Nation’s websites.

How do your students celebrate summer, fall, winter, and spring? We’d love to hear from you! Please share their worksheets with us on social media using the hashtag #ScholasticBookClubs.

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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac
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A Note from Judy

Dragons are huge fans of tacos—as long as they don’t have one secret, spicy ingredient! The Book of the Week is the laugh-out-loud, fun-to-read-together picture book Dragons Love Tacos, written by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri!

Dance to an original song with the Book Boys; discover the many ways that one first grade teacher uses Dragons Love Tacos with her students in Book Talks; read an exclusive interview with Adam Rubin in Behind the Scenes; and download a free printable “Dragons Love My Tacos!” recipe activity in Cooked Up from a Book that also helps students practice sequencing.

We hope that your younger readers have a blast with Dragons Love Tacos—and remember: no salsa!

Judy Newman

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