Anti-Bias Activity

Baby Pictures

THEMES             Bodies, Families, Our Class

OBJECTIVIES     Recognize and celebrate one’s own physical features

MATERIALS       Baby photographs of each child, a photograph of each child. Glue, scissors, index cards and laminate paper.

DESCRIPTION   Collect pictures of each child as a baby. At circle time, tell the children you have  pictures of them as babies. Say, “I’m going to hold up the baby pictures, one at a time. Look at it carefully and see if you can guess who it is.” When the children make a guess, ask them to explain their reasoning. Then set out the baby photos and the current photos of the children. Invite children to match the baby and current photo. Display the baby photos and current photos side by side on a bulletin board in the classroom. If you are concerned about damaging or losing the baby photos, make a color photocopy of them and/or laminate them.

VARIATIONS     1. Include baby and current pictures of the teaching staff…a must!

                           2. Make a memory matching game by gluing a photocopy of each picture onto a  blank index card. Laminate the cards. Lay them out face down and invite children to find a match.

Answer the following questions:                                     

1.          I choose this activity because I enjoy looking at pictures from the past, pictures bring back memories. I also thought it would be cool to see how easy it would be to match up the pictures.

2.          I feel that this activity is for children that are at least three years old. I believe this because of what I read on pg. 17 and 21 in our RW book. It states on those pages that three year old “can name, identify and match people according to their physical characteristics”. I would think that children that are five to eight years old would enjoy this project a little more, get more out of it.

3.          I believe that this activity is an appropriate theme because it is an activity that helps the children see that everyone has their own physical features. Different is good and ok.

4.         The three concepts I believe relate are: Recognize, appreciate, and respect the uniqueness, beauty, value and contribution of each child, Provide children with a positive experience exploring similarities and differences, and Foster positive self-esteem and a positive self-concept in children.

I believe that this meets anti-bias goals because this is an activity that promotes differences and how everyone is different and that it is a good thing to be different.

The Two Children’s Books I chose are:

I chose these two books because I like that they have picture of really people not cartoon people. I liked that they are about "me" books. I would read the stories to the children when I introduce the activity and then I would place the books out for the children to read. The first book is about all of our body parts and it features children of many different backgrounds. The second book talks about how we are as different as night and day. And, guess what? They love it.

 

Citations:

Roots & Wings, By Stacy York, Right 2003

Handout - "Anti-Bias Activity Goals"

Film Review

I picked “The Lion King” for my Film Review. Released in 1994

I did watch this movie as a child many times. All I remember is that I watched it and I liked it.

Watching the movie now what I noticed was that Scar looked like a bad guy (stereotyping). The hyena looked and acted stupid and weak (stereotyping).

What a child might absorb from this movie is that it has a love story in it. It is funny and sad movie. A normal kid movie.

Some of the controversy could be that a brother kills a brother for power and greed. The female lions depend on the males for redemption. Scar is evil looking and Simba is beautiful, which could be seen as stereotyping.

I don’t feel that there was any blatant racism in the movie. Maybe you could talk about the hyenas and race but I don’t think so because Whoopi Goldberg was a voice of one of the hyenas and I don’t feel that she would have taken on the role if it had anything to do with racism.

The Washington Post (July 28, 1994) stated a few of the same things I did. Which was that he talked about how the female lions depend the male lions and how Simba was beautiful and Scar was not. The article also stated that the lions could not take care of themselves without Simba. They can’t help themselves. Helpless. He (Steve Twomey) also stated that he actually didn’t see any of those problems. What he did see was “a funny movie with mind-blowing animation”.  

I very much agree with him. I think the movie has many funny parts and great animation. I really don’t believe many children will see anything more than a movie that is about animals. That has sad and funny parts to it.

 

I went to the interent to read some reviews on this book. I only could find thousands of positive things posted about this book. Everyone said how this book is a very sweet loving story.  And they loved that it is based on a true story! Many people also stated how it was their kids favorite story and how they wanted the book to be read to them nighty.

The cite that I went to was www.goodreads.com>childrens>picturebook

Book Analysis

Skyler Rader                                                                
10/12/14

Children’s Book Analysis

 

The book I choose was “And Tango Makes Three”

Author by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

Illustrated by Henry Cole

Year text copyright - 2005, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data – 1963

 

This story takes place in the middle of New York City at a park called Central Park. There is a zoo at this park and there are many penguins that live there. The story starts off by talking about all the different animal families in the zoo. It stops at the penguin families to tell us of a penguin family that is different from all the other penguin families. This family had two daddies. The male penguins got to become a family because the zoo keeper gave them an abandoned egg to hatch. The male penguins did everything that the other mommy and daddy families did.  The only difference between the families is that one of the families has two daddies and the rest of the families have a mommy and a daddy.

I believe that the zoo keeper had wisdom because he is the one that gave the two male penguins an abandoned egg so that the two male penguins could have a family too. The male penguins showed many signs of wanting to become parents because every day they got their nest ready like the other penguins. The consequences of the two male penguins behaviors was positive because they were able to show the zoo keeper that they wanted to be parents and they were great parents. The language in this story was all positive. The story only talked in a positively about how there are lots of different kinds of families out there and the anything that is important is that you’re in a family full of love. I feel that this story was wrote very political correct and the pictures are very true to what the animals look like in real life. The only problem I could see with this story besides that there is two daddies (if that bothers someone) is that the author talks in “Author’s note” (back of book) about how these are the only two male penguins that have family. With that being said someone could use it in a negative way and say, see its normal for two male penguins to have a family so it’s not ok to live like that. It's wrong. I feel that there is no stereotype going on because both the male and female penguins help lay their eggs. They take turns, one of the penguins was always sitting on the egg. They are working as team to hatch the egg.

I would recommend this book because I think it is a very well written story about how all that matters is that everyone lives in a loving family environment. What doesn’t matter is how the family is made up.