Our reading journey comes to an end

This week is our last for reading around the world. Today we visited Greece and read about the Girl Who Changed her Fate.

Ill-fated Eleni travels to the house where all the Fates live and battles to change her lot in life.

Europe: Our seventh and Final Continent

Our reading journey around the world has brought us to our seventh and final continent, Europe! We were getting a little hungry from all our travels so we decided to have a story that was about food.

A French mouse decides to earn an honest living by tasting the cheese in a cheese factory and leaving notes about its quality.

Asia: China

We read a very entertaining story set in China. If we are reading around the world it wouldn't be right not to read at least one story set in the country with the world's most people.

Asia: A true story from India

We have arrived on our sixth continent in our reading around the world journey.  This week we are reading a story set in a country that has the second largest population in the world.

The true story of Noor Nobi, a tailor from Calcutta, India, who, after the loss of his family, set about to rescue, heal, and set free thousands of illegally captured birds.

Africa

While we read around the world students are to think about the following questions:

• What does each story tell us about the continent in which they take place?
• What does the story tell us about the land and the people that live there?
• How is reading around the world getting us to know more about other places?
• Why should we learn about the different continents of the world?

A story from Ghana about how one small loan for a hen led to the creation of the biggest farm in West Africa.

A story from Kenya that made us aware that many children live in poverty because their parents became sick and die. It tells about how people from other parts of the world can help bring education and homes for children.

Australia

This week we arrived at our fourth continent in our reading journey. We have read stories so far that have been set on the continents of North America, South America and Antarctica.

We traveled all around the outside of Australia and even to Tasmania in one book. Possum Magic introduces all sorts of unique Australia foods.

Antarctica

We have finished reading books from the continents of North America and South America and are moving onto Antarctica.

Something to Tell the Grandcows is inspired by an actual expedition to Antarctica in the 1930s that brought cows to this frozen continent.