Environmental education aims at making students to have environmental literacy. Student with environmental literacy will be able to behave respectfully and be environmentally responsible. This study examines comprehensively about environmental literacy in the classroom learning based on Sundanese Local Wisdom through literature method. This research resulted in a basic paradigmatic view of the local wisdom of Sundanese people drawn from the concept of life of the Kanekes community. The basic ideology of the Kanekes community connects the environment with human life. "Natural balance" becomes the main pioneer in the survival of the Kanekes community. Customary local wisdom, a social and cultural condition in which the repertoire of cultural values is contained which respects and is adaptive to the surrounding environment, and is arranged in a strict order of the customs of a society. Although often considered ancient, the values they teach are still the best way to preserve the environment in post-modern times.

Sundanese culture in the care of children is known as kakawihan. Realized or not, a kakawihan which is sung by parents when caring for children is the process of introducing early literacy, especially related to literacy in the scope of Sundanese culture and language. As time goes by, the flow of globalization that infiltrated every part of life in Indonesian society slowly eroded the culture of each ethnicity, including the culture of the Sundanese people, one of which was kakawihan which was used to nurture children. In this case, the researcher conducted a study aimed at obtaining a comprehensive picture of the value of early literacy in kakawihan which is used to care for children. This study uses the content analysis method. The research techniques used are in the form of document studies, observations, and interviews. Based on the results of the study, it was found that kakawihan used to care for children contained early literacy values within the scope of Sundanese language and culture. Kakawihan is used in caring for children, besides being used by the closest people, it is also done with compassion to foster phonological awareness, knowledge of letters, and children's vocabulary in Sundanese.