Social Justice Theme: Being kind to everyone, treating all people with equity, and

respecting everyones differences. We all look different, but that doesnt mean we
treat each other differently.

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between
numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.6 Identify whether the number of objects in

one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in
another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and

writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what
they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or

information presented orally or through other media by asking and
answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if
something is not understood.

Essential Questions / Learning Objectives:

What makes people different?
Do differences make you treat people differently?
Students will understand that all people are different.
Students will count the number of peers based on hair color.
Students will draw a picture of them and their classmates, using details to
represent differences.
Students will describe their pictures orally to a partner.

Book: The Skin We Live In

Activities:
1. Talk to students about differences what makes things different, what
makes them the same? Does that mean you should treat people differently?
2. Read picture book The Skin You Live In to the entire class
3. Discuss with students that we all look different hair, skin, height, eyes, etc.
but that we can all still be friends and that we need to celebrate those
differences
4. MATH: talk about how we all have different hair color (use teachers as
examples). List out the different hair colors we see in the classroom on the
board, count how many people have each hair color, list it out, talk about
more, less, same
 5. ELA: draw an example picture of us with our friends (classmates). Talk about
how we do not all have peach skin, so we shouldnt all be the peach crayon.
Draw us teachers as examples varying hair color, clothes color, skin color,
etc. Have students either write a description of their picture, or narrate their
description to us and well write it down for them (will depend on student
skill level).
6. Wrap up: talk about how we are going to treat people in our community.

Assessing Student Learning: through class discussions about how we can treat the
people around us, by the diversity in their pictures, and their ability to recognize
that we all have different skin/hair colors.

Empowering the students to be kind to one another, and to celebrate differences.