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Kindergartners: 'It’s Okay To Be Different'

Wall of drawings of different people with the phrase "it's okay to be different"

In Social Studies, kindergartners are focusing on learning about Identity. The unit focused on inquiry and led students through an investigation of self by recognizing that we are each unique in our own ways and we also have some characteristics that are the same.

Miss Afman’s kindergarten class read a book called, "It’s Okay to Be Different," by Tod Parr, then looked in mirrors to see their hair color, freckles, and other unique characteristics. In the book, Parr writes, "You are special and important just because you are who you are.”

Then Afman and her students took time to celebrate their differences and created self-portraits of themselves, using diverse skin color crayons.

 

Wall of drawings of different people with the phrase "it's okay to be different"

 

Wall of drawings of different people
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