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How to Make Your Nursery Classroom Multicultural & Multilingual

As the great melting pot that is the United States continues to mingle different cultures, you may need or desire to make your nursery classroom multicultural and multilingual. In a classroom of diverse students, a multicultural classroom will make everyone feel welcome. If your classroom is not very diverse, creating a multicultural classroom is one way to expose your students to the other cultures of the world.

Instructions

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  Decorate your classroom with colorful posters that portray different countries.
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  Say "Hello," "Good morning," "How are you?" and "Goodbye" to you students in multiple languages every day.
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  Sing songs in different languages and play multicultural music.
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  Read stories from different cultures.
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  Celebrate holidays from different cultures. Decorate accordingly and bring in food dishes from the country.
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  Ask parents to send cultural items in with their children for Show and Tell.
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  Incorporate other languages into your lessons. For example, when you are teaching colors, teach the name of the color in a few languages.

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