The first week of school
we will be reading and discussing
this story...
Wanda wore the same faded blue dress to school every day. It was always clean but sometimes it looked as though it had been washed and never ironed. Peggy started the game of the dresses when suddenly one day Wanda said, "I have a hundred dresses at home--all lined up in my closet." After that it was fun to stop Wanda on the way to school and ask, "How many dresses did you say you have?"
"A hundred", she would answer.
Sometimes we meet people who are very different than us.
It's easy sometimes to think that our way is the "best" way.
In this book {one of my favorites} we meet Wanda,
who is indeed different from her classmates.
She dresses differently, lives in a
rickety, run-down house, and
doesn't have a mama.
Peggy and her friends {all the "popular" girls}
make fun of Wanda.
They tease her and never really give her the
chance to show them what a wonderful girl she is.
They don't get to find out about her special
talents until it is too late.
This is a wonderful story with lessons to teach
us all about being accepting of others who might be
a little different from us.
It is a story about making friends
with classmates while you still can --
before they move on to another place
or another class.
And it is a story that reminds us about finding
the good in {all} people.
Sometimes we meet people who are very different than us.
And that is okay.
It is, in fact, what makes the world go around.
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