Celebrating Our Communities: Celebrating All Appearances
blue owl books CELEBRATING OUR COMMUNITIES CELEBRATING ALL APPEARANCES BY ABBY COLICH
TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS Social and emotional learning SEL helps children manage emotions learn how to feel empathy create and achieve goals and make good decisions Strong lessons and support in SEL will help children establish positive habits in communication cooperation and decision-making By incorporating SEL in early reading children will learn the importance of accepting and celebrating all people in their communities BEFORE READING Talk to the reader about appearances Explain that appearance has to do with how someone looks and that everyone looks different Discuss How would you describe what you look like Why do you think people look the way they do What are some ways that people look different from one another AFTER READING Talk to the reader about ways he or she can celebrate differences with others Discuss What is one way you can accept another person’s appearance Why should we be accepting of others Why is it good for a community to celebrate all people SEL GOAL Children may have a loose understanding of acceptance They have likely heard to not make fun of or exclude others for being different but they may not understand why Talk to readers about the importance of empathy in accepting and celebrating the differences of others Ask them to imagine what it feels like to be singled out for being different or made fun of for their looks Make a list of these different feelings Then ask readers to list the feelings they have when they are included and accepted Explain that our communities are better when everyone is accepted and included
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A Look at Appearance CHAPTER 2 It Starts with You CHAPTER 3 Celebrate Differences GOALS AND TOOLS Grow with Goals Writing Reflection Glossary To Learn More Index 4 10 20 22 22 23 23 24
