Hi everyone,

I hope this post finds you well. Today in our Google Meet we talked about racism and how we can be advocates and ally's.

We watched 2 different read alouds and then had some discussion following each book and as we were reading.

Here are the two books we listened to:

A Kids Book about Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaltG5N8nE

A is for Activist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdCCKDGvF4

Below I have attached another book (we did not read this one as a group) that you may wish to watch and discuss as a family.

Something Happened in Our Town

 This book follows two families — one white, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children’s questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOhOFGcWm8


Here is a resource with a variety of different children's books that talk about race and racism. 

https://www.embracerace.org/resources/26-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-resistance

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