Today we did a lessons and activities on Martin Luther King Jr that I found here. We read several books on him from the library (our favorite was by Rookie Read-about Holidays) and watched a movie from Holidays for Children on him and his works...
My kids were saddened by learning about segregation... They really didn't understand why it was excepted and why people wanted to do something like that... It really made my heart swell to see that they don't see color as a difference in people... It is so wonderful to hear that from little ones...
We used the example of the brown egg and the white egg and that when you crack them, the inside yolk and white is the same... (then we ate them for breakfast)...
We did several worksheets from about.com and then we made the "DREAM" mobile... We talked about the famous "I have a Dream" speech and how important it is to our society today. And then we worked on this poem for our copywork:
Wouldn't it be terrible? Wouldn't it be sad?
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was purple? Or red? Or blue? Or green?
If yellow, pink, or orange was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull the world would be
If just one single color was all that we could see?
I love what you did with the brown egg and the white egg. Your kids will never forget that. We'll have to do that next year!
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