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This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives if Seven Kids from around the World

By: Matt Lamothe
Reading Level: NC620L
Maturity Level: 12 and under

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This is how we learn.
INDIA: We study general awareness and value education as well as subjects like math, Hindi, and English.
JAPAN: We all wear white indoor slippers and are in charge of cleaning our classroom every day. We study ethics as well as math, science, and Japanese.
PERU: Our school is very small, so the fourteen kids in the fifth and sixth grades study in the same room.
We have different subjects each day, and our school ends at one o’clock.
RUSSIA: I study three languages: Russian, English, and Bashkir. I’m in a class with the same kids and the same teacher from first through fourth grades.
UGANDA: I study at a private school far from home, so I stay with my grandma, who has a house nearby. There are 69 boys and girls in my class, and we study math, reading, writing, and religion.
IRAN: I go to an all-boys school. We study reading and writing in Farsi, math, science, and the Quran.
ITALY: We do many activities outside the classroom,
like visit parks and forests, go to museums in other cities, and put on a musical at the end of the year. We have school from eight o’clock to four o’clock.

Comprehension Questions


1. Where do students wear indoor slippers at school?
A. India
B. Peru
C. Japan


2. Why does the student from Uganda stay with his grandmother?
A. Because he is her caretaker
B. Because the school he attends is far from his home
C. Because he is on summer vacation

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