Teaching Diversity: It's Ok To Live On Colorful & Creative
Do you lot know Todd Parr? Oh, how I beloved him. At home, nosotros accept his majority "Underwear Dos in addition to Don't."
My twins can't learn plenty of that book. My boy is vi in addition to he loves it, but he's a vi yr sometime man child in addition to underwear is funny. The girls are nonetheless inwards diapers thus the sense of humour is lost on them, but yet they become nuts for it.
Because it is thus bold in addition to colorful.
So equally I was reading it for the 847th fourth dimension inwards a row the other black an catch popped into my head.
And the perfect lesson for today was born.
While my 3rd graders would move thrilled amongst me reading a majority well-nigh underwear, it for certain isn't "school appropriate." Luckily, I accept about other i of Todd's books at school.
It was a perfect majority for this week, but this projection would totally stone at whatever fourth dimension of year.
I wanted to practise something unlike from my typical "I accept a dream" writing project.
Today's lesson combined anti-bullying, Martin Luther King in addition to our celebration of diversity, estimator skills in addition to writing. Plus, it allowed my friends to role their fine art boxes in addition to pair of scissors in addition to glue.
And seeing them create ever makes my instructor pump happy.
If you lot are interested inwards the pages, I precisely uploaded them and you lot tin learn the parcel here.
We kicked off our biography unit amongst a report of Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday. I used Todd Parr's "It's OK to Be Different" equally my read aloud. I pointed out the agency of the illustrations, the vivid pages, the expect of the book, etc. We talked well-nigh the writing trait of arrangement in addition to how each page starts off amongst "It's Okay to..."
Some of the pages inwards the majority are serious ("It's okay to move small.") in addition to about are light-headed ("It's okay to swallow macaroni in addition to cheese inwards the bathtub"). I thus gave my students the brainstorm page in addition to had them role markers to listing things that brand them unique.
I LOVED reading their pages. They actually provided me amongst a novel perspective on my friends. It was great to read such personal snippets. They were sugariness in addition to honest in addition to personal, but fun in addition to positive equally well.
"It's okay to desire to accept your birthday political party at Chuck E. Cheese."
"It's okay to non similar pizza."
"It's okay to slumber amongst a stuffed rabbit."
"It's okay to article of apparel paw me downs."
I had them each selection i to role equally their topic. I was going to accept them practise an example (in the agency of Todd), but opted to accept them role Kid Pix in addition to practise a estimator drawing. Oh my cuteness! They colored them amongst vivid markers, cutting them out in addition to glued them to structure newspaper squares. I typed their unmarried judgement for them in addition to they colored inwards each give-and-take equally well.
Each pupil took the phrase they selected, used it equally a topic judgement in addition to composed a paragraph on the draft paper. I edited their writing in addition to they thus completed the final copy. One of my friends came upwards amongst the catch to color inwards the holes of the letters inwards the title...just similar Todd.
I displayed the artwork amongst the writing in addition to I only adore the finished product. This volition for certain move i of those projects I practise i time to a greater extent than each year.
Elementary kids learn creative amongst bullying prevention. It’s OK to Be Different is a majority past times Todd Parr that teaches lessons to kids well-nigh beingness truthful to yourself in addition to having self-confidence. These activities include reading, writing, fine art in addition to estimator skills in addition to brand a great bulletin board for first, second, third, in addition to 4th bird classrooms.
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