The Skin You Live In
Author: Michael Tyler
Illustrator: David Lee Csicsko
Grade level: K-2
Element 1: Self-Love and Knowledge
Summary
The Skin You
Live In teaches students in grades K-2 to love themselves in their own
unique skin. Throughout this book children learn their skin color does not
determine if they are better or worse, richer or poorer, or smarter or dumber.
The story shows the importance of self-love of all skin tones by identifying
activities we mutually do in our skin such as dreaming, running, playing in
rain or snow, and loving our families. The
Skin You Live In further explains how imagination and heart makes us all
beautiful inside and out.
Element 1: Self-Love and Knowledge
The Skin You Live In provides the opportunity for students to gain
knowledge not only about their skin-tones but their peers skin-tones as well.
This book shows students that we all have our own unique skin, which should be
valued and loved. The book illustrates that in our skin, we all run, jump,
love, and swim along with many other activities.
In the Classroom
To help The Skin You Live In come alive through art, I would provide my
students with small mirrors where they can view their reflections as the book
suggests. I would have my students create an ‘outside-view’ self-portrait using
their mirror reflections where they can explore with mixing paint to create
their own skin color. Using their mixed skin tone, students can paint their own
self-portraits. Once the ‘outside-view’ self-portraits are complete, students would
create an ‘inside-view’ self-portrait where they list or draw pictures of who
they are in their hearts and imaginations. I would then display student artwork
around the classroom or on the bulletin board to show we are all united and
love ourselves through our similarities and differences.
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