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We are all different
This is a conversation a pre-kinder class had about how it’s nice that each one of
us is different.
Teacher: Patty Gutiérrez
Teacher Assistant: Cynthia Gómez
Teacher: (Showing the faces children made) “What do you
think of your pictures? Are we all the same”?
Children: “NO!”
Sofia: “They are “chidas”.”
Viviana: “I think they are pretty.”
Rodrigo: “They are different.”
Paola: “That’s the way children are.”
Rodrigo: “Yes, the boys don’t have long hair and the girls do.”
Isabella: “The girls can have pony tails, like you.”
Teacher: “What do you think, are we all the same, or different?”
Children: “Different.”
Paulina: “Because God wants it like that.”
Sofia: “Yes, God wanted us to be like that.”
Isabella: “So we wouldn’t copy each other.”
Paloa: “So we can have different names.”
Santiago: “We would have the same voice.”
Sofia: “It would be confusing.”
Santiago: “We would all be Santis.”
Fernanda:“Or Fernandas.”
Santiago: “We would all be twins.”
Hector: “We would all be grandchildren.”
Teacher: “So you think we are different?
Children: “Yes!”
Pedro: “Because look, all the pictures are different.”
Sofia: “Because we have different skins,”
Teacher: “Would you like to be all the same?”
Children: “NO!”
Teacher: ”Why?
Fernanda: “If we were the same, we would all wear the same clothes.”
Rafael: “Our brains would get confused.”
Hector: “The moms would get confused and wouldn’t know who to take
home.”
Fernanda: “Because there has to be boys and girls.”
Teacher: “Why?”
Fernanda: “So we can be friends.”
Sofia: “We have different names, so we can’t be the same.”
Paulina: “We would all have the same mom and our moms are different too.”
Hector: “And that mom wouldn’t have food to feed us all.”
Fernanda: “We wouldn’t fit in one bed.”
Sofia: “The bed would break and we would break our heads.”
Isabella: “We would break all our bones.”
Rafael: “We wouldn’t get presents.”
Teacher: “So what do you think, would you like us all to be the same,
or different?
Children: “Different!”
Paulina: “If we are different, we don’t get people confused and
we don’t get confused either.”
Teacher: “Is it fun that we are all different?”
Rodrigo: “Yes, it’s good that we are different.”
Paola: “I am happy to be different.”
Dario B: “Me too. “
Hector: “It’s better if we stay different.”
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