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This year, we will spend time in each grade level discussing different disabilities and differently abled people. The goal of this monthly highlight is to generate awareness around different abilities (especially seen versus unseen) and help students understand that "disabilities" do not mean that people cannot do things. Below, you'll find information on what book each grade level will read and the accompanying activity we plan to do. We will do these lessons once throughout the year, with dates TBD.
Grade Level Lessons
Grade Level Lessons
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Book: Susan Laughs
Activity: Students will listen to the book and then create paper dolls of themselves with one thing they can do.
1st Grade
1st Grade
Book: All My Stripes
Activity: Students will listen to the book, then color in their own zebra and add four unique traits about themselves to the zebra's stripes.
2nd Grade
2nd Grade
Book: My Brother Charlie
Activity: Students will listen to the book, then write down a strength they have. They will have to find someone in the room with a different strength that would help them or teach them something new.
3rd Grade
3rd Grade
Book: Moses Goes to a Concert
Activity: Students will listen to the book and then practice a phrase in American Sign Language with a group.
4th Grade
4th Grade
Book: Wanda Hears the Stars
Activity: Students will listen to the book and then play a game where volunteers cover their eyes and guess what object is being held by another volunteer based on sound, touch, and/or smell.
5th Grade
5th Grade
Book: Rules (excerpt)
Activity: Students will read through an excerpt from the book and then build
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