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Heritage Report, Take Three

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I’m still putting off getting started on Meg’s heritage report. I keep hoping that she’ll change her mind and do Korea, but she’s resisting. She’s practicing drawing her maple leaf for the Canadian flag. I’ve been worried that she feels embarrassed about being different, but I guess I’m the one who needs to let go of worrying about what other people think. But then, I guess I’m the one who needs to let go of worrying about what other people think. I’ve written before about how I felt compelled to bring two dishes to my son and daughter’s preschool ethnic … Continue reading →

It’s Heritage Report Time for My Korean Daughter

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It’s heritage presentation time again. Time for reports, class presentations, potlucks featuring food from students’ family heritages. This year the second grade Heritage Unit and Ethnic Feast will be the time for my daughter Meg, adopted as a one-year-old, to write a report on a country from our family’s heritage, and bring a typical food to the Ethnic Feast which will be held for all second graders and their families. I’ve written a previous blog about my son’s experience with this project two years ago when, after giving the instruction to research “a country that is part of your family’s … Continue reading →