Teachers, I wish you could see my face at this very minute! Your responses to “January Perks” have me grinning from ear to ear! In fact, I grabbed today’s timely classroom blog topic from the fabulous list y’all are forming on Monday’s post. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So let’s chat about Martin Luther King Jr. How do you plan to recognize the doctor’s birthday in your classroom? Please share! And if by chance you’re looking for additional teaching resources, check out the links below. You know where these teaching ideas are from, right? Yeppers! MyMailbox Idea Center Gold. I LOVE that site!
Have a fabulous day!
Diane
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My 5th graders will be reading an article and creating a time line of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life. They need more practice with time lines, so this will be perfect!
Every year we read a book about him then we talk about him and about how everyone is different even if we don’t look it and that it’s a good thing. Life would be boreing if we were all the same. I work with preschoolers so we make crafts of different people. Children can make their people how ever they want (even green hair!)
I teach first grade. I saw a very interesting, concrete way to demonstrate the idea that color is only skin deep. I showed the students an egg with a brown shell and an egg with a white shell. Then, without them looking, I cracked the eggs open into separate cups. I asked them if they could tell which inside was from the brown egg and which was from the white egg. Obviously, they couldn’t differentiate, thus demonstrating that the insides are the same. My students loved it!
My first grade students have been learning about Dr. King all week. Each day, we read a book about his life and the changes that he made to our country. We also talk about differences, and how no matter what someone looks like, we should not judge them. They also have to complete a project where they must read the I have a dream speech with their parents, and then write sentences telling me a dream that they have for their family, friends, school, or country. We end the week by watching a cartoon video ” My Friend Martin”, which goes through some real life events that happened during Martin Luther King Jr. days on earth.
Out center is named for Martin Luther King, so celebrating his birth is quite natural for us! All of our children know him by sight ( we have several portraits throughout the center). Our center is actually very culturally and economically diverse, so I really feel we are living his dream. We strive to emulate him whenever we can.
This year at pick up on Friday before his “holiday” we are having a Birthday party! Cup cakes (for all) and a Birthday cake ( for Dr. King) will be in our lobby– all decked out for a b-day party. The children will bring and display their art work celebrating Dr. King’s dream and work.
So excited!!