Today the Sunshines learnt about the significant individual Rosa Parks. We started by listening to an adapted version of Tusk, Tusk by David McKee and we spoke about how it wasn't nice to treat people differently just because they were different. The Sunshines even said that the elephants in Tusk Tusk wouldn't like Elmer as he was a brightly coloured patchwork elephant! After the story we discussed how we have previously learnt about how everybody is different and that this is what makes us special and unique and just because we are all different doesn't mean we can't all be friends. We thought about how we are different those we were sat next to - we could identify could identify that some people wore glasses and some don't, some have blue eyes and some don't and that some people had long hair and other had short hair. We said that this is all okay.
We learnt that Rosa Parks lived in the past and that when she was alive people were treated differently for being different - just like the elephants. We learnt that when Rosa Parks was alive people were kept apart from each other because of their difference - we discussed how we would feel if we were kept apart from our friends for being different. We heard how Rosa Parks fought for equality and said this meant she fought for everyone to be treated the same despite their differences. We ended with the following positive thoughts using MTYT:
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