Books: Our Skin by, Jessica Ralli and Megan Madison Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester Don’t Touch My Hair! by, Sharee Miller Consent by, Rachel Brian

Next we asked the visitors to answer the questions. We had the student answers on one side of paper entitled ‘assumptions’ and recorded actual answers on the other side - entitled ‘facts’. We asked the guests how it felt while we made assumptions about them just by looking at them and all reported

Volunteers came from around the school, I asked the students 5 questions: How do you think this person makes a living? How old do you think this person is? Where do you think this person was born? What religion do they follow? What language/s do they speak?

K student Q: What is your race? A: Buffalo Me thinking- Maybe she’s Native…? Me: Tell me more about that A: My dad is from Buffalo, NY so I am Buffalo

One student almost in tears because couldn’t figure out how to write “white” and “black”. J: “I will share my Asian with you!” and proceeded to spell it for the other student

J, age 5

Teaching Racism to 5 year olds…..

things I don’t want to forget: Q: What is your race? A:Minecraft The next day after doing home assignment of asking family to talk about race “Ms. Stoneberg, I’m not Minecraft, I’m Asian! My brother told me!” Proceeded to flap paper like wings and sing