Community building.
It's one of the most important things I do at the beginning of the school year.
We learn to respect and celebrate our differences. Our differences make life fun - I tell the kidlets "wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same".
And the things that are the same - aren't they the things that are at the core of our human-ness?
We have a couple of books that we read together celebrating our "same same and different".
(In Thailand, there is a saying "same same but different". I am choosing to adapt it to celebrate our sameness and our differences.)
It's one of the most important things I do at the beginning of the school year.
We learn to respect and celebrate our differences. Our differences make life fun - I tell the kidlets "wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same".
And the things that are the same - aren't they the things that are at the core of our human-ness?
We have a couple of books that we read together celebrating our "same same and different".
(In Thailand, there is a saying "same same but different". I am choosing to adapt it to celebrate our sameness and our differences.)
Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth
author/illustrator: Roberta Grobel Intrater
published: Cartwheel Book (1995)
ages 4-7