First Grade CELEBRATES Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This week in First Grade, we celebrated, honored and paid our respects to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Let me just say, the students were FASCINATED to learn about him and about the time in our history in which he lived.  During each story that I read to the children about his life, you could hear a pin drop.  They couldn't imagine a time where people weren't treated equally.  You could literally see the empathy pouring out of them when we would have discussions about what segregation was and how people were treated differently based on the color of their skin.

The picture at the top of this post is from a powerful lesson that we completed on diversity and equality.   We took a brown colored egg and a white colored egg and talked about what made them different.  Then, I cracked open both eggs to show what they looked like on the inside...which is exactly the SAME.  We related this to ourselves and learned that we may look different on the outside, but we are all the same on the inside.  Therefore, EVERYONE should be treated equally!!!

As we read and learned new facts about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we completed this anchor chart to organize our information:

Here are some of the books we used to gather our information:

As we read these books, we also learned all about the text features of a BIOGRAPHY...

The students then took the information we gathered to complete Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posters based on his important life events...

What a wonderful week we had learning all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  And, I will end this post in the powerful words of Dr. King..."Love is the key to the problems of the world."