Our Missing Piece

Part of the Rainbow

Written & Illustrated by: Asaf Rozanes

Yazamia, 2018

52 pages

Diverse Book

Mia is so excited to start school and prepares for her first day excitedly.  As she walks to her classroom for the first time she starts to notice others who look different from her.  When she walks into her room everyone is different and she is the only one that is the color green.  She starts to feel very lonely and wants to go back home as the teacher begins to call attendance.  
What will she do when the teacher calls her name?  
Will she ever feel comfortable at school?

The pages throughout the book contain very colorful painted illustrations 
and uses every color of the rainbow.

I chose Social Studies as my content area and First Grade as my grade. 
I would incorporate this book into a lesson that taught the children about how everyone may be different but we are all important.  
I would put the children in groups then assign each child a color of the rainbow. 
They would need to work together to make a rainbow on a poster board using materials such as construction paper, tissue paper, etc. but only the child assigned that specific color could work with that color of paper.