Earlier this year The Park class participated in a pen pal exchange sending postcards to other preschool classrooms across the world and to local community members. This helped us learn about our own area and about other cultures.
Letters have come from across the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Australia! We received letters from a pediatric doctor, a hair stylist, a construction worker, and a librarian.
We learned about different foods and languages. We read books like “Fry Bread”, “Ways to Welcome” and “All People are Beautiful”. We sang along using American Sign Language, in Spanish using “Diez Deditos”, and “Way Up High In The Apple Tree”.
We talked about how people travel and even made our own planes! We talked about how different places are represented with a flag, and how people live in different types of homes such as Teepee’s, apartments, and houses. We built our own homes using different materials like Legos, shaving cream, and blocks or sand. We even created our own flags to represent ourselves.
Our class is its own culture and we each bring in our own pieces to add to it. To be a community we all are welcome and wanted. This is why inclusion and diversity matters. Because we all belong.
