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The teacher read It’s OK To Be Different, by Todd Parr, with the class, and the children were asked to make personal connections with the story. Afterward, they talked about the similarities and differences between them and their classmates. They then created self-portraits.

We’re Different, We’re The Same, from Sesame Street and My Nose, Your Nose, by Melanie Walsh were also used as extension books.

The teacher shared with the class an Okanagan First Nation story called, “How Names Were Given”.  Students were then asked to consider how their names were chosen. The children were encouraged to find out the story behind their name(s) from their parents. The stories behind the students’ names were then compiled into a class book called The Story of Our Names.

The teacher read It’s OK To Be Different, by Todd Parr with the class, and the children were asked to make personal connections with the story. Afterward, they talked about themselves and their classmates’ similarities and differences. They then created self-portraits. We’re Different, We’re The Same, from Sesame Street and My Nose, Your Nose, by Melanie Walsh were also used as extension books.