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# [All About Me](https://blog.moravianacademy.org/blog/lowerschool/all-about-me)

 Written by [Emily Anglund](https://blog.moravianacademy.org/blog/author/emily-anglund) | Sep 6, 2019 1:34:10 PM

This week, as part of the first-grade "All About Me" theme-based study unit, my students created self-portraits. After using mirrors to closely look at their facial features, the children used watercolors to mix their skin colors for their self-portraits.

<https://www.flickr.com/photos/185237502@N04/albums/72157711539620287>

While reading *All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color* by Katie Kissinger, we learned the scientific process that gives everyone their skin color. We discussed that because everyone has melanin, a pigment that forms the shades of brown, we all have skin that is a shade of brown.

At the end of the activity, students learned that skin color is only “skin deep" and that we are all more similar than we are different.

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