The Colors of Us

This week 6D listened to the story THE COLORS OF US by Karen Katz. Beautiful illustrations describe how people come in many colors. Katz used words like honey, toffee-coffee, chocolate, and french vanilla to describe skin color. After listening to this story, we created self portraits. The students began by choosing a skin color paper which they felt best represented themselves. We added eyes, a nose, a smile, and yarn for hair, and this morning we painted on a shirt (and bows for the girls). What fantastic work! Tomorrow we will finish this project by adding buttons to our shirts and bows. I am excited to display these throughout our room for the remainder of the year!