I am somewhat comfortable talking about race with children. Children may understand the concept of physical differences but, not race. They understand why a child looks a different way. However; however, they don’t understand why a child has a different skin tone. Race can be a tough issue to deal with in preschool. When children have circle time, they do have a preference of sitting next to a certain child. One example that Rita shares in the article is that, she has seen fair skinnedfair-skinned children change places in a circle because an African American child wants to sit down next to them. “Children not only become aware of racial differences but begin to make judgments based on that awareness” (Tenorio, 2008). Children make judgments of other people.

My favorite book that I like to read to the children is called "Same, Same but Different" by Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw. I read this book to the preschoolers a few times. theyThey like the book. After we read the book, I asked them what is similar and what is different with the children in the class. This is the only time I talked about race and skin color with children. A lot of them said, “We are the same because we are all in preschool." "We are the same because we are all in the same class." "We all have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.” Others have said, “We are different because of how we have only a mom or only a brother, or we like to play with different toys in the classroom, or some of us are boys and some of us are girls.” The children didn’t pay attention to race in this activity; however, they did pay attention to the physical aspectscharacteristics of everybody.